Did you know that the Daily Kos-founded Netroots Nation had their annual conference earlier this month?
If not, that’s OK. Evidently neither did anyone else.
Netroots Nation bills itself as “the largest annual conference for progressives.” This year’s conference was plagued with nearly empty events, racial incitement and wild radicalism far outside of the American mainstream, including items for sale with threats of violence.
This year’s conference just wrapped in New Orleans.
Wait a minute, how do you throw an under-attended conference in New Orleans? I mean, it’s in New Orleans.
Of course, the dwindling ranks of Netroot Nation are probably packed with dour feminists and vegetarians, so perhaps New Orleans offers less of an appeal to them than you might think.
Keynote addresses were delivered at Netroots Nation by Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Cynthia Nixon, and self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. These speakers, and the conference’s legion of panelists, pushed an unrelenting new era of racially-focused activism and organizing.
The problem was, much of the time there was nobody there to hear it.
The conference was plagued by nearly empty events. “This is What Democracy Should Look Like” was a panel featuring Atima Omara, A’shanti Gholar, and Carol McDonald. With seating for more than 200 at the event, barely 20 Netroots attendees came to hear.
Also this:
“Among the topics at Netroots Nation were race, mobilization, race, voting rights, race, and cultural oppression by the dominant patriarchy.”
Media reports claim Netroots Nation got its usual 3,000 attendees, but I’m not seeing it in these tweeted photos:
Another brand-new #NoFossilFuelMoney pledge signer live from #NetrootsNation – David Garcia @dg4az, progressive running to be the next Governor of Arizona! #NN18 #AZGov pic.twitter.com/KMa1qokBDH
— No Fossil Fuel Money (@NoFossilMoney) August 4, 2018
And here’s Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, supposedly a serious Presidential candidate, speaking to what appears to be a half-full luncheon:
"I REJECT the normalcy in America of big polluters buying our politicians & targeting our environmental protections!"@CoryBooker w/ fiery speech at #NetrootsNation 2018 taking on Big Oil & fossil fuel execs. #NoFossilFuelMoney pic.twitter.com/22YY4vfQMl
— Collin Rees (@collinrees) August 3, 2018
(Speaking of Booker, he claimed that he had no idea this sign he was holding had anything do do with Israel:
Which means Cory Booker is either a liar or an idiot…)
I would think that if they had anywhere close to three thousand people, there would be at least one picture from the event that showed at least a thousand people in one room, and I’m not seeing one anywhere online.
My impression is that far-left organizations like Netroots Nation suffer from one of the same problems plaguing the libertarians: All chiefs and no indians.
(Hat tip: NiceDeb.)
Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Cory Booker, Cynthia Nixon, Daily Kos, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Netroots Nation, Social Justice Warriors
Mass immigration has turned this former nation into an empire, and our government into a colonial government. What we’re seeing isn’t so much radicalization as racialization, with the various groups scrambling to get the colonial government to rob more capable groups and people for their own benefit. Ocasio-Cortez is less a socialist than a Puerto Rican and Hispanic, whose people are basically incapable of building and maintaining an advanced society and must, if they want to live well, take from those who can. When parasites outnumber the productive this is the sort of politics you get. The parasites will never become capable, they will always take, and when they have enough numbers to control the government they will take until there is no more left to take, and the nation will collapse. Our fate is biological and inevitable. The emergence of naked racial robbery politics is ugly and a turn off even to most self-loathing leftists, who will increasingly become the enemy no matter how much they grovel.
[…] “Sen. Elizabeth Warren stole the show at Netroots Nation’s presidential forum, if only for the fact that she was the lone top-tier presidential candidate who showed up.” Gillibrand, Inslee and Castro also showed up. That so many other candidates felt safe in skipping it (including Booker, who attended last year) is a sign of the conference’s continuing decline in importance. […]