2016 Postmortem

If your strategy is to passively wait until the day that things are fair, I've got terrible news for you. There are no fair fights. The only things you can do are prepare for all the unfair shit the world throws your way and know that there will be no end to it. How many actually important struggles were won through people bitching and crying about unfairness?

Zero. They all took actual work, which included a hell of a lot of self-doubt and improvement to fix the flaw or fix the doubt.

You prepare as best you can and go face it toe-to-toe. The Clinton campaign failed because it was preoccupied with shooting holes in its own feet or hiding out at fundraisers. The party keeps failing because so far the response to every loss is to (1) double down on feel-good bullshit about how awesome we all are, (2) punch down at third party candidates and young voters, and (3) abandon the base, like we did when ACORN was under bullshit attack from the republicans.

So, no, I did not assume fairness.