Sridhar

This is going to be a bit of a meandering wall of text but hopefully at least one person understands my point, adapts it and passes it on. I understand the frustration of fellow DMKians but there a few things we need to understand first. First of all, online and offline, Vijay as a star has a reach that DMK IT wing will never be able to replicate. So it's pointless to get enraged at them for that. Then we have to consider the voters that the DMK IT wing has to engage. Vijay voters are an amalgam. It's made up of: 1) Vijay cultists 2) Apolitical people, 3) Right wing/Bjp supporters and their eco system 4) Anti-DMK leftists & fake Dalit influencers/activists. 5) People who have no idea about politics & vote according to whatever the latest influence/trend is. 6) Non-partisan voters who switch parties almost every election because they get pissed off at the ruling govt due to a few bad headlines in the news. 7) Admk voters. A lot of Admk voters right now are just anti-DMK people and didn't vote for Vijay in 2026 only because they thought he wouldn't win. But now that they know he can win, they'll switch to Vijay, as recent by-elections have proven. Off these, only 5 & 6 can be convinced to vote for DMK with a bit of an effort. But the 7th kind... oh boy... They can also be convinced but we cannot do that without knowing if they are anti-DMK primarily or MGR/Jaya admirers. Here is the problem for DMK IT wing. Without knowing how the party is going to appeal to Admk voters, they cannot craft a coherent message that appeals to that Admk voter base. And we need at least a portion of them. And let me add fuel to that chaotic fire. I think DMK can appeal to Admk voters but MUST NOT absorb or merge with ADMK. Because Admk has a lot of baggage and is in fact, one of the primary reason Tvk won. (More on that later.) DMK cannot think that merging Admk with DMK will bring in their voters. This is not that kind of era. If we do that, Admk voters will be easily manipulated by Tvk into voting for Vijay. So without knowing who we are appealing to, DMK IT wing can only make troll memes/vids. But I guarantee that it will not help DMK win. If you don't believe me, just take a look at NTK. For more than a decade, from 2009, Ntk dominated Tamil online space with anti-DMK propaganda. They barely touched Admk. Almost every 90s, 2k kids hate for DMK was due to Ntk's hard work. (But a considerable portion of that 90s and some 2k kids have shifted to DMK now.) Ask those people why they hate(d) DMK & you'll immediately see all the talking points are straight out of Ntk. But all Ntk did was basically collect decades of anti-DMK lies and misconceptions by various entities, from brahmanical media to Admk broker handles and distribute them through their online, neutral masked meme & troll pages and channels. But all that meme-troll work didn't benefit them and ended up helping Admk. Right now it's helping Tvk. Because Ntk spared Admk from it's vitriol and due to Seeman's own inconsistent clownish flip flops, they couldn't offer an alternate path. So DMK IT wing cannot merely rely on memes and troll to help DMK win. It'll only help whoever Bjp places as anti-Vijay next. DMK has to offer DMK as the only path out of the current nightmarish, delusional hellhole TN is stuck in. So, DMK & it's IT wing has 3 things to do: 1) Calling out the utter failures of Vijay's inept govt in a way that appeals to the current zeitgeist. 2) Craft a message that appeals to Admk & even Ntk voters. (TN cannot survive inept Vijay & his puppet masters.) 3) Spread DMK's achievements, pointing out that despite media's attempt to equate Admk to DMK, it was DMK's hard work that has made TN stand out & stand up. Not an easy task. But here is the thing: DMK or its IT Wing cannot do it alone. It needs politically aware people to engage with it and speak for it as well. After trump's 2024 win, I see a huge wave of just regular Americans, not just Democratic party followers, rise up against Trump. Everybody is doing what they can at their own levels. I see a lot liberal/leftist leaning youngsters, who do not agree with the Dem party on everything, picking debates with Republicans/right wingers. Their debating skills are exceptional. I envy them. But I do not see that here. A lot of liberal/left leaning political people here still want to appear non-partisan/aloof because they want to be see as the too-cool-for-party-politics person. Worst, even when they are forced to explain their vote for DMK, they still use the "vote for the least evil party" nonsensical platitude. If one party stands for executing all minorities in a country and other party stands for just imprisoning them, then you can use the "vote for the least evil". Here DMK's ideology or it's work over decades is not the issue/evil (unless you're a sanghi). So your criticism of DMK should be that it sometimes falters and screws up in standing up for their own ideology. So I have no hope of every seeing our liberals/leftists standing up for DMK because their own critical thinking skills are questionable. They're happy to ape the western woke fights with no thoughts about the ground reality here. They do no want to educate but just woke-scold others for not being as woke as them & for not becoming woke at the same time they became woke. Even DMKians who are fiercely active here, do not talk about politics in their personal spaces. So... if DMKians think DMK upper echelon's political civility is the problem or changing IT wing head will solve the problem, I'm sorry to say that they are not the problem. And the solutions are not that simple.