Democrats...let's move on

[Svartalf]

Robin Hood is spinning in his grave!

Find that grave and solve Britain's energy needs forevah

[Svartalf]

Do you think we'll ever see an end to this trickle down bullshit? Short of a revolution.

you see the trickle down every time you pee, whether you want to be under the stream when musk pees is your option, but me I'll pass.

[Tero]

My other generalization about voters is that policy is nothing. Price of eggs something. Past those things, the alpha male gets 50-55%. Harris was not the alpha male, Biden also not. Hillary possibly a match to Trump. But her emails. Crooked Hillary worked. Not enough for a popular vote.

[Sean Hayden]

The picture would probably be clearer if everyone was required to vote.

[JimC]

The picture would probably be clearer if everyone was required to vote.

As in Australia...

[Tero]

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/ar ... ek/681144/

[Tero]

Elsewhere. Democrats accused of lack of outrage. When there was LOUD outrage in Harris Las Vegas rally. With Beyonce. Complaint: It did not work because Beyonce did not sing.

DrDeth responds

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Except in real life, the present situation is the result of decades of the Democrats trying to bend over backwards to be conciliatory toward the Right and avoid calling them out on how awful they are.

Not in the slightest.

[Tero]

"What we’re not hearing is your anger. We’re not hearing your outrage. We’re wondering whether or not you actually hear us."
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/ ... -lawmakers

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe what they need is to be running a race to find a leader. But who? I like Elizabeth Warren, but she's probably not the one. Seriously, maybe we should be putting everyone and their dog out there to see who rises to the top, and get behind that leader, and get them competing with Trump and the Republicans, like yesterday. (note the use of "we" to mean people other than myself )

[Tero]

Beaten to submission

Gone is the fevered energy of 2017, when Trump’s first ascent to power galvanized a resurgent left wing and encouraged elected Democrats to obstruct the new president’s destructive agenda with aggressive media, legal, and procedural strategies. Now, the Democrats seem less like a resistance than an acquiescence. They are not mounting any meaningful opposition to Trump’s aggressive, sadistic mission. Instead they’re rolling over, like a submissive dog showing its belly, and alternately casting this posture as either a principled commitment to constitutional order or as an unfortunate inevitability for which they can’t be blamed.

More than anything, what Democrats seem to wish for, at the outset of the second Trump presidency, is for it to be 2012 again. They want the Obama coalition back; they want the niceties of former norms and institutional procedures; they want bipartisanship to be a virtue, and they want to be seen as reasonable, pragmatic, and dispassionate.

But if the Republicans are seeking to reverse the 20th century, the Democrats seem to wish to simply ignore the 21st. Their strategies and impulses, their vision of how American politics works, no longer function in the present. Instead of adapting to the future, they seem to be sticking their heads in the sand, and waiting for the return of the past.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... tion-trump

My take is that the last hope they had of immediate action went with the Trump supreme court. After that there is nothing to do but wait. If we are lucky Trump will last 2 years. He only had a 1-2% win.