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If that's the case, well that's awkward as fuck. The Democratic tendency to pretend their constituents only exist during election season is what got America is, and it's not getting America out of it.
Your election season is 2 years long and is somehow measured by how much money is spent reaching voters.
It is absolutely normal when not campaigning to work with people who can actually effect change, particularly if the masses seem more intent on vying for virality of their protest sign selfies and not upsetting anyone rather than actually resisting fascism.
Half the time I think when American liberals say they want to "resist fascism" I think they understand that to mean that they're fighting the urge to actively take part in it.
Their election season, I'm watching from the other side of the world and find this as absurd as you do.
The only thing the Democrats can do in America's Republican-controlled government is stall and obstruct, and they've clearly proven they don't intend to do even that. Are you even keeping up with this stuff? The only antifascist actor with the ability to effect change here is the people, so by your own logic he should be working with civil society and grassroots resistance organizations, not the ineffectual beyond help Democrat leadership. And in the first place America is in the middle of a fascist takeover—what makes you think anything about this situation is normal?
This holds true even more for the Democrat leadership than it does for the rank and file. In the immortal words of Democratic consultant James Carville: "it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead."
If the masses are more intent on vying for virality of their protest sign selfies, the DNC is flat out not doing anything. American liberals' ineffectuality was inherited from their leadership, not the other way around. If the leaders change, enough rank and file will follow to maybe get something done. I mean hell, the Democrats were out there condemning "protestor violence" during the LA protests and supporting the exact "peaceful protest" that you're saying doesn't accomplish shit. These guys are hopeless; at least the masses can be radicalized with the right influence and events, influence such as the words of Barack fucking Obama. I mean don't get me wrong all my criticism of the Democratic leadership also applies to Obama so I wasn't expecting him to get off his ass or anything, but it should be remembered that he's not acting not because he can't or there's a better play, but because he doesn't want to.