How To Defeat The GOP While Still Criticizing Democrats

Is it possible to be FOR defeating Republicans while still criticizing Democrats? Farron Cousins discusses this.

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How can G o p fascists be defeated when progressives like you trash Democrats? Thank you very much Deborah. A interesting question, right? It's me not to quote the Taylor Swift song, but I guess it's me. Hi. I'm the problem, right? No, um, here's the thing, and you may not like this answer, but when a Democrat does something bad, I'm gonna call it out. When a Democrat says something stupid, I'm gonna call it out. If I need to call them stupid, I'll call stupid. When they're corrupt, I'm gonna call them corrupt. I am a registered Democrat, have been since I turned 18 years old more than 20 years ago, and I continue to be a registered Democrat. I vote in every Democratic primary here in the state of Florida and I will continue to do so. I have no intention of switching my party affiliation because out of the major parties out there, I identify most with the Democrats.

That is who I am. But I'm also not so tribal that I feel the need to just bury any bad thing Democrats do and say, oh no, no, we can't talk about that. Can't tell people the truth that that's idiotic. If you ever find somebody not willing to criticize when their own people do wrong, then you have found yourself a cult member. That's what you're looking at. I am not about to turn this into blue MAGA hour here at Ring of Fire. Hell no, never have. Never will. And it's also funny, like you attack Democrats. If you go through the content on the Ring of Fire YouTube channel, 99% of it is me calling out Republicans and talking about how stupid they are, how bad their policies they, uh, are, how bad corporations are every now and then. Yeah, I gotta call out the Democrats cuz they've done something stupid and, and you're gonna sit there and say, I'm the problem.

We can't defeat the Republican fascist because you only talk them 99% of the time. Farrin, I'm sorry, that's not good enough for you. And in case you haven't wondered folks, yeah, questions like this do me off, not because it undermines my work. I don't feel like it does. But because this is tribalism and that's not cool, if you're unwilling to criticize when your people screw up, then you may as well be the same as those MAGA hat wearing freaks out there because they'll never criticize Trump. They believe everything he does is right and everything the other side does is wrong. You can be like that if you want, but I

Will be and I will never respect people who are so, I'm sorry Deborah, if that is how you feel. But I'm gonna continue speaking truth to power regardless of what political party that power comes from.