The left media ecosystem

The debate over whether Congressional progressives should use their leverage to force votes on their key issues has devolved into blaming left media. Curiously one of the criticisms is that this media is all about celebrity and money, not about having any impact on the issues. One of those singled out is David Sirota, and Krystal easily destroys the criticism by showing the significant impact he is already having. She goes on the make the case that online strength is pretty much all progressives have to influence people to pressure legislators. Just relying on progressives in Congress has proven ineffective against the establishment majority, a most recent example being the stimulus and pandemic bills. 

Whereas when a firebrand like AOC gets on Twitter she riles up the progressive base so that we don't just share her posts but are motivated in droves to let our legislators know what we want. And if we don't get it a primary challenge is coming and we're going to replace them. We don't just whine about it on Facebook; we take the actions necessary to do something about it. The evidence is in the progressive caucus, which grows with each election due in large part to our passionate support.

So all this blaming of progressive media is really an establishment attempt to thwart the progressive challenge instead of addressing our real concerns and criticisms. And unfortunately, too many purported progressives are being fooled by that strategy and themselves shooting the messengers rather than the addressing the legitimate message. Progressive media is doing the necessary and effective job of fighting for the very polices that we the people want. And we will continue to support them in this fight to take back our government. If that means we must also fight the hoodwinked naysayers in our own caucus then so be it.