Who needs a right wing plot when progressives are busy eating themselves alive!

[Austin Ellen]

Nom,nom,nom,nom,nom........... ..





Jon Gabriel
Sat, June 18, 2022, 9:00 AM·3 min read
Pro-choice groups like NARAL Pro Choice America are locked in a knock-down, drag-out fight, according to reporting in The Intercept..
As the midterms approach and discussions about Roe v. Wade and gun control dominate the news, progressive nonprofits should be busier than ever. Now’s the time to organize activists, knock on doors and create viral social media campaigns.

The good news for Democrats is that these nonprofits are very busy.

The bad news: They’re busy fighting against themselves.

Ryan Grim, a progressive reporter for The Intercept, reported on these miniature civil wars in a 10,000-word piece titled “Elephants in the Zoom.” Instead of moving the electorate to the left, many staff members are preoccupied with purging executives and co-workers who they don’t think are liberal enough.



Pro-choice groups are locked in a battle royale
The premier research organization for abortion rights, the Guttmacher Institute, has been sidelined for two years with mutual recriminations stemming from what was considered by some a half-hearted effort to promote Black Lives Matter.

“If your reproductive justice organization isn’t Black and brown it’s white supremacy in heels co-opting a WOC movement,” blared one dissent in an Instagram story. The release of the Alito draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade hasn’t distracted Guttmacher employees from their internal purge.



According to Grim, “Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and other reproductive health organizations had similarly been locked in knock-down, drag-out fights between competing factions of their organizations.”

It’s not just pro-choice groups, but also the Sierra Club, ACLU, Movement for Black Lives and Human Rights Campaign, among others. It’s a nonprofit pandemic.

One organization leader finally quit but still kept his quotes anonymous. “My last nine months, I was spending 90 to 95 percent of my time on internal strife,” he told Grim. “It’s been huge, particularly over the last year and a half or so, the ability for groups to focus on their mission, whether it’s reproductive justice, or jobs, or fighting climate change.”

Groups on both sides go through this purge
None of this is new, of course. The French Revolution was launched by disaffected aristocrats wanting to reform their stodgy monarchy. Soon, a group of the bourgeoisie decided those modest goals weren’t sufficient, so they formed the Jacobin Club to steer France further to the left.

Some of the Jacobins then decided the club wasn’t progressive enough, brought in the lower classes, and formed the Montagnards to steer the movement even further afield. They empowered Maximilien Robespierre to launch the Reign of Terror … before a group of Montagnards decided he was still too wishy-washy and formed the Hébertists.



Like the mythical Ouroboros, the snake keeps munching away on its own tail, never glancing around to see its party’s fortunes evaporate. The Trump years unified the left into a sort of resistance fever. It’s a grand time sticking it to The Man until the moment when The Man is you.

'We are incredibly good at doing ourselves in'
In Grim’s piece, one senior progressive congressional staffer (anonymous, of course) couldn’t hide his frustration. “There are wins to be had between now and the next couple months that could change the country forever, and folks are focused on stuff that has no theory of change for even getting to the House floor for a vote.”

“I’m not saying it’s a right-wing plot,” another executive chimed in, “because we are incredibly good at doing ourselves in, but – if you tried – you couldn’t conceive of a better right-wing plot to paralyze progressive leaders.”

The midterms are less than five months away and Democrats have a lot of ground to make up. But progressives are too busy rolling tumbrels through their cubicles and admiring their own tails.

If November goes as expected, the left won’t need to worry about new legislation distracting them from their main job: eating themselves alive.

[Yssup Rider]

Where did you get this story?

Don't know why you're surprised by this? Only in a totalitarian government is there no room for debate, discord and disagreement.

You know, like when one guy is calling all the shots.

BTW - Nice avatar. (5...4...3...2...1...)

[eccieuser9500]

https://theintercept.com/

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

The midterms are less than five months away and Democrats have a lot of ground to make up. But progressives are too busy rolling tumbrels through their cubicles and admiring their own tails.

If November goes as expected, the left won’t need to worry about new legislation distracting them from their main job: eating themselves alive.

Desperate to distract from the GOP melt down. MAGA psychos calling in threats to sitting Republican members of Congress? What's next? An assassination attempt on a GOP member by a MAGA acolyte?

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

BTW - Nice avatar. (5...4...3...2...1...)

It has a Biden overlay.

[1blackman1]

https://nypost.com/2022/06/20/gop-se...g-permits/amp/

This won’t lead to any violence by MAGA idiots.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

https://nypost.com/2022/06/20/gop-se...g-permits/amp/

This won’t lead to any violence by MAGA idiots.

That's what I'm saying sir.

[matchingmole]

[QUOTE=Austin Ellen;1062881845]Nom,nom,nom,nom,nom........... ..





Pro-choice groups are locked in a battle royalenization for abortion rights, the Guttmacher Institute, ha

[Austin Ellen]

***eyeroll*** What does this have to do with progressives eating each other - which is the title of this thread. If you want to start another subject - you can start a another thread,ya know. Damn, I have to explane everything. Well, enough of this fun. I'm off to Vegas to play some high stakes poker and will be off line for a couple of days so carry on.

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

https://nypost.com/2022/06/20/gop-se...g-permits/amp/

This won’t lead to any violence by MAGA idiots.

[matchingmole]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

***eyeroll*** What does this have to do with progressives eating each other - which is the title of this thread. If you want to start another subject - you can start a another thread,ya know. Damn, I have to explane everything. Well, enough of this fun. I'm off to Vegas to play some high stakes poker and will be off line for a couple of days so carry on.

[eccieuser9500]

There is a certain measure of bullshit we have to eat with the retired hussy's dumbass threads. This was actually a good fire starter.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

***eyeroll*** What does this have to do with progressives eating each other - which is the title of this thread. If you want to start another subject - you can start a another thread,ya know. Damn, I have to explane everything. Well, enough of this fun. I'm off to Vegas to play some high stakes poker and will be off line for a couple of days so carry on.

You see? She doesn't get it. Now she's running off having started a stupid thread now jettisoned. But this was actually fun. To fire back.

[Yssup Rider]

[1blackman1]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

***eyeroll*** What does this have to do with progressives eating each other - which is the title of this thread. If you want to start another subject - you can start a another thread,ya know. Damn, I have to explane everything. Well, enough of this fun. I'm off to Vegas to play some high stakes poker and will be off line for a couple of days so carry on.

Explane it dumb whore.

I sent you a video of exactly what you claimed. Nutty Trump Magatards inciting violence against real republicans.

[eccieuser9500]

She's abandoned the thread. She's smart enough to realize how stupid the thread she started was.

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

***eyeroll*** What does this have to do with progressives eating each other - which is the title of this thread. If you want to start another subject - you can start a another thread,ya know. Damn, I have to explane everything. Well, enough of this fun. I'm off to Vegas to play some high stakes poker and will be off line for a couple of days so carry on.

... That's what they do here, pretty-bird.

They gotta hi-jack your thread - surely try to
change the direction of the conversation.

They understand the Dems are in trouble.
And they loathe to admit it.

### Salty