Anarchist here. Sorry, not a democrat. I was in the streets literally fighting for them and others. Nice try though. Anyways, I have people to go feed. Good luck with this useless bullshit.

The point is not “how dare they betray people who were already failing them.” The point is that, in trying to save themselves through a desperate gamble, they still made a choice that helped hand more power to someone whose openly stated agenda threatened a whole lot of other vulnerable people, including many who had nothing to do with their abandonment.

You can understand why someone makes a desperate choice without pretending the consequences disappear. Those are two different things.

So yes, the Democratic Party absolutely deserves blame for abandoning them, lying to them, and treating their lives as disposable. But that does not magically erase the fact that voting for Trump meant accepting the risk, or certainty, that immigrants, queer people, women, leftists, and plenty of others would be crushed harder too.

Here’s an alternative perspective on that alternative perspective.

Their Hail Mary as you described it relied on a known factor of persecution of immigrants of all types, the LGBTQ+ community, the entirety of anyone who is (or is perceived to be) a “leftist”, and women as a whole.

So, they were willing to sell out all those people to be thrown in known horrors that were only going to ratchet up even further for their Hail Mary.

Sure it’s a Sophie’s Choice situation maybe I guess but also. Fuck em.

They gambled with the future of so many people. Including their own.

Don’t worry I still blame the base of American voters who we all know are the ride or die’s for this bullshit but there’s enough blame to go around to look at those margins that pushed it past the tipping point.

Yeah, I “get it”.

But, as someone who’s in a few of those above categories it’s not something I’ll soon be forgiving nor forgetting.

You don’t get to tell people who are harmed, oppressed, and marginalized that they have to play nice with their oppressors. If you choose to take that task upon yourself, that’s fine and noble but you don’t tell a rape victim that they have to speak to their rapist after they realize they might have done something wrong. That’s not how this works. That person wanted LGBTQ people harmed. Point blank. You don’t tell LGBTQ people to play nice with them now.

Yes, I understand the political calculus at play. Yes, I’m an activist and organizer with over 20 years of experience in this. Yes, I know what’s at stake.

Too bad. That’s now how it works. My advice, keep people like her clear of people who will call her stupid (and worse), not the other way around.

And when she ACTUALLY understands why she’s a horrid person, maybe then others will be willing to not attack her.

Until then, she’s unrepentant, unreformed, and a repugnant human being and many will rightfully tell her that in no uncertain terms.