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James Carville is right. Whenever our side has a less than perfect day, or Trump says boo, our instinct is to hide under our bed. Our fatalism is our own biggest liability. We're winning big, and it's okay to admit we're winning big. We harm ourselves by pretending we're losing.
This whole "we have to pretend we're losing" thing isn't a strategy. It's a superstition. It's an excuse to sit on our hands and fail to put in the work required to win, because "we're going to lose anyway." This totally fucked up mindset is the ONLY thing that can make us lose.
Of course you keep putting in the work, no matter how far ahead you are. No one is complacent about anything. We just have these dumbasses who yell "stop admitting we're winning" whenever we acknowledge the fact that we're winning. These idiots are screwing us over.
Step one in any winning strategy is to start by accurately assessing where you're at. If we pretend we're losing when we're actually way ahead, then we're insisting on working with imaginary data. That means we can't even target the right states, or the right kinds of voters.
Besides, you can only pick up the bandwagon voters if they know you're winning to begin with. As much time as our side spends telling anyone who will listen that Biden is somehow losing, it's a wonder we haven't chased away all the bandwagon voters by now.
Things that did NOT cause Trump to win in 2016:
- complacency
- admitting we were ahead
Things that caused Trump to win in 2016
- Comey's last minute letter
It was a fucked up fluke, nothing more.
- complacency
- admitting we were ahead
Things that caused Trump to win in 2016
- Comey's last minute letter
It was a fucked up fluke, nothing more.
Could another fluke happen? Sure. That's why you have to work hard and run up the score, so a fluke won't change the outcome.
But when you're winning, running around falsely yelling "we're losing" doesn't protect you against a fluke. It makes you MORE vulnerable to a fluke.
But when you're winning, running around falsely yelling "we're losing" doesn't protect you against a fluke. It makes you MORE vulnerable to a fluke.
When you're up by three touchdowns in the fourth quarter, you keep working hard. But you base your play calling and strategy around the fact that you're way ahead. If you convince yourself you're somehow behind, you'll run the wrong plays, and you'll cost yourself the game.
Pretending we're behind when we're ahead isn't a strategy. It's a superstition. No one ever won an election by relying on superstition. Elections are won by voter registration and turnout. If you're worried we're going to lose, either go volunteer, or kindly shut the hell up :-)
The fatalists insist the only way we can win is if we all go around hanging our heads, convincing ourselves we're going to lose no matter what, and demotivating ourselves to the point that we don't bother to put in the work. They're disturbed in the head. Don't listen to them.
Put another way: would you rather be up 10 points like Biden, or down 10 points like Trump? The fatalists genuinely believe Trump is in the better position because he's losing. For whatever reason, their brains are broken when it comes to this stuff. They're our biggest threat.
There a lot of fatalists on our side who are clinically depressed and subconsciously want Trump to win, so they can say "I told you so." These people are unbelievably dangerous. Yet for some reason we give them reverence when they insist that we adhere to their superstitions.
Trump is crippled, broken, bleeding on the pavement, watching his future slip away, sabotaging himself, and completely falling apart. I'll be damned if I'm going to let up on him, simply because some Eeyore is telling me that I now have to start pretending we're losing.
Name ONE FUCKING ELECTION that was ever won by sitting around cowering, pretending your side is losing, fretting, and twiddling your thumbs. That's not a strategy, it's insanity. If you're ahead, step one in a winning strategy is to acknowledge that you're ahead. Period.
For the record, “sitting around and cowering” is why we lose half the elections we’re supposed to win.
Would you rather win, or would you rather mope? Because if you’d rather mope than win this election, I say this with all sincerity: fuck you.
Would you rather win, or would you rather mope? Because if you’d rather mope than win this election, I say this with all sincerity: fuck you.
