What do you think the House Democrats should do, or their leader?
Rather than joining the vote to censure people like Al Green, they should put voices like his, AOCâs and Jasmine Crockettâs up front. Look at the turnout that Bernie Sanders is getting when he delivers what is basically a 40-year old speech (because everything he has been saying all along is true). That is what people are responding to, and that is what the Democrats should be promoting.
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No offense, but Bernieâs voice and Bernieâs message is not what is going to swing any election.
ETA: He is preaching to the converted. The 2 Trump election victories did not happen because the Dem candidates werenât progressive enough.
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Iâm not sure what putting their voices out front means, but sure, though that seems like a pretty insignificant action to me. As to Bernie doing his traveling show, that seems like a great idea, especially in Republican districts.
I get this, but I wonder if he has reached beyond the Progressive base. For example, I think he went to the Omaha district and I just saw a Republican from there being seriously critical of Trumpâs actions (but not Trump himself). It was refreshing.
I wasnât suggesting that Bernie is the future of the party. Just that he is getting big crowds because his decades-old message is resonating. The message, not Bernie, is the important takeaway.
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This is what I was trying to say: put AOC, Crockett and Green out on the road as the attack dogs against this regime.
ETA: Chris Murphy is another one.
Case in point (AOC clip in the link):
Xitter has been offline significantly today, SpaceX just blew up its 8th Starship and Teslaâs sales are collapsing globally taking the stock price with it (down 50% in 3 months).
Maybe the guy overseeing all of this isnât the best person to champion government efficiency.
The entire post-election stock bump has evaporated. P/E is still over 100 so plenty of leg room left.
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When Karl Rove is pantsing the GOPâs entire argumentâŚ
âŚand giving Dems a strong talking point.
Until the Demsâ message is embracing overt racism it wonât resonate with half of the electorate. Thatâs just who we are as a country.
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⌠or giving MAGA another pretext to jail their political opponents
Dems donât lose because they are overrun by Republican voters; they lose when people canât be bothered to come out to vote for them. Trump wouldâve lost if most of the people who voted for Biden had voted for Harris. Now, there is obviously racism and misogyny involved in Harrisâ lower vote total than Bidenâs from four years ago, but Trump didnât even get more than 50% of those who did vote, and was 4 million shy of Bidenâs 2020 total.
One thing that came out after the campaign as over was that Gov. Walz - who was lighting a fire wherever he went and cutting Trump et al to the bone with the simple âtheyâre weirdâ schtick - was pulled from the trail late on. I didnât notice at the time, but when you think back, that did happen.
The scuttlebutt is that establishment Dems didnât like how he was going after the other side. I guess they thought that they were going to win anyway, and wanted to curry favor with the GOP for bipartisanship down the road. They were wrong on both counts, as they always are when they try to win GOP voters instead of going after the largest blok out there: non-voters.
If the Dems could get 1 in 10 non-voters off the couch, they win.
Hakeemâll get right on it.
Democrats lose when they act like Republicans. Progressive policies are popular. When they embrace progressive policies at the national level, they win. When they play the same game that Republicans play, they lose. When they let Republicans dictate the terms and the parameters of the debate, they lose. Thatâs why current Democratic âleadershipâ is so dangerous and so doomed to failure - they are not progressives in any sense, and they are content to play the game as defined by the Republicans. Theyâre whores, they donât care about the voters any more than the Republicans do, and the beanbag chair crowd can plainly see it through all the vape smoke.
Itâs high time for the young, progressive, and, not incidentally, largely female contingent to take control of this chicken fried shitshow.
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Mexico has a female president, and she polls at over 80% approval currently. Trumpâs approval is in the 30s somewhere. Congress as a whole remains mired in the teens.
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The path to Dem resurgence is embracing the far left even more? What what? Not stopping and reversing the hemorrhaging of the center-left? Sorry, does not compute.
The GOP covers the right and far right, and gets less than one third of eligible voters (consistently). The Dems cover the center and center left, and gets about one third of eligible voters (inconsistently).
That leaves one third who donât vote and who are not far right, right, center or center left. I wonder what they could be? Lazy is not the right answer.
I love this for him.
