Thank god I graduated college just as this sh*t was starting to take off. I prophesized that the backlash would reach full swing after the election was over and these complete idiots weren't needed anymore and the Democrats could fess up to being revolted by them, we'll see whether that plays out.
The cancer in the Democratic party isn't as malignant and metastasized as in the Republican party, but they have the same problem of greedy, amoral media outlets preying on the fears and egos of an easily-misled young base to profit off of political outrage, compounded by a ridiculous number of activist organizations that take advantage of these fools to gain personal fame and fortune. Black Lives Matter is the Democratic Party's Tea Party movement... a core of irrational, angry people behaving terribly and pushing an agenda that, while it has some sensible tentposts, is ultimately ridiculous and based on, again, a small kernel of truth buried by a bushel of inflammatory lies; the whole party has been bullied into latching onto it and agreeing with everything the movement says because of the political blackmail it wields, and it's starting to suck up more and more of the base and shuttle them through the stages of indoctrination until they reach the most extreme depths, and then work their way backward from there until they find a degree of radicalism that they can be comfortable with.
All the liberals on here will surely say I'm a horrible, Trumpian racist for posting this and whine on the worst posts thread and AAD, but deep down you know I'm right. Something is very wrong in the Democratic Party when these kinds of people are flourishing, and the fact that they're now abandoning the party for third parties or Bernie-inspired revolutionary stubbornness is only a symptom of a problem the party has allowed to blossom within itself for years. American politics needs to have a reckoning with this new media that saturates our lives, appealing to our basest instincts to guide us down the path of self-delusion, outrage and irrationality. Trump has already been a blaring, loud wake-up call for the Republicans, and we're already seeing editorials trying to figure out what went wrong. I hate to think about what the wake-up call for the Democrats will be.
I would disagree. Black Lives Matter has not attempted to take over the Democratic party or even force it to follow its principles. They are an activist movement with very valid grievances against the system. They had sporadic protests against both Sanders and Clinton but never attempted to drown out others.
In fact despite being historically underprivileged, African Americans went for the moderate choice in the primaries instead of barn burners like their republican blue collar white counterparts who have far more social capital and yet seem to suffer from "economic angst"
If you are looking for the counterpart of the Tea Party, it's the idealistic milleniall wing of the party which spread the false equivalence between HRC and Trump during the primaries. This holdout group is so impatient for change that they are willing to con themselves into disregarding economic realities and checks/balances on executive power.
