I don't think Sommer is
blaming at all. I think he's sizing up the situation simply in terms of its
dynamics, with questions of blame out of the picture.
(I have a RL acquaintance who is always 1) blaming people for things that I don't think require an assignment of blame at all and 2) extremely quick to think I am blaming, when I feel like all I'm doing is dispassionately describing. It's made me aware that I have a much wider range of "s*** just happens" than this person does. For lots of situations, I can just see and say how they have or will play out without having to assign blame to any party for their playing out. Is gravity to blame for a glass breaking? Is even the person who dropped it?)
The test will be if this nightmare scenario plays out, I believe you will nowhere on this forum hear him say, "well it's progressives not voting for Biden who are to blame for our having to endure another Trump term."
For whatever it may be worth, I myself regard Sommer as
the single most "responsible" poster on this site.
But I think there are forum limits about how much we're supposed to talk about another poster, when he's fully capable of making his own voice heard.
I'm thinking of this from the forum rules
In the forums, we expect everyone to treat other posters equally and fairly. As such, threads that suggest that some members are better, funnier, more popular etc, and threads that discuss specific forum members, either positively or negatively are not allowed.
It says "threads." Maybe the occasional
post is okay.
I'll just bring it back to myself. It comes back to why O'Donnell's thesis resonates with me. It resonates in
psychological terms. Why would we
not expect people who believe in change, who like change, who think that one the whole change tends to be positive, who desperately need society to change in particular ways to be more disappointed with politicians who fail to deliver on their promised changes than people who don't like change, tend to think change is a negative, etc. are when the people they elect fail to deliver on their promises? It almost feels to me like a no-brainer. So I'm not going to
blame someone for seeing things in a way that is a direct result of who they are as a person (let alone when it is the basic way I myself view things, so I share the perspective in my own degree). But one can, from a detached position,
predict how those psychological dynamics may well play out.