when the histories are written they will show that Twitter killed the Democratic Party USA its lifeblood was the residual idea that, warts and all, it was still basically The Good Guys, and that mythology could not survive a high information availability environment
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the party has no idea what happened and is still just standing there like a deer in the headlights because why the fuck would something have changed, it's the same backstabbing they've been doing since McGovern, if anything it was a little milder than usual
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they don't realize that it wasn't that nobody cared, it's that before, if you weren't personally involved it was something happening far away, heard about in snippets, and there was always a parsimonious explanation available: "this person complaining might just be a sore loser"
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this time there were not dozens or hundreds but tens of millions of people for whom, for all practical purposes, it was all happening right in front of them in realtime and shit is never going to be the same
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