I heard that the DNC was helping extreme candidates win because they thought voters would not vote for them: a risky strategy. We have Trumpy candidates running all over NY who are more extreme than ever before. America has gone mad. I am writing postcards to send out. I hope it helps.
Well, maybe the Democrats shouldn’t have spent money trying to make sure that this horde of crazies won their respective primaries. They were all-in for Trump to run against HRC and look how that turned out. I agree that they needed to be defeated but part of that is to avoid spending millions upon millions of dollars to help them win primaries.
I simply cannot comprehend the mentality of these Election Deniers regurgitating Trump’s lies to curry favor from the disgraced 45th President. Republicans must lose the November General Election. Democrats, disaffected Republicans should join the Democrats and vote these dipturd s out of office for good. We need stability in this country, NOT the kind of daily chaos we had from Trump’s single term. We Americans must learn not to allow bankrupted candidates from the Private Sector who have personality disorders and a history of evading taxes to ever become the official Party candidate. It is despicable and revolting.
Expanding upon my entry from “Office Hours,” I would note, absent any federal voter protection safeguards, barring the severely gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act, that we underplay, at our peril, the ongoing unilateral passage of both voter restriction and voter nullification provisions by GOP controlled State Legislatures.
In my view, we can manage voter suppression by engaging in the numerous turbo-charged voter turnout initiatives underway at the federal, state, and local levels. Conversely, wherein GOP State Legislatures are changing state election rules to change who can be in charge, how votes are counted, and how they’re certified, one understandably worries whether any amount of organizing is going to get us around these obstacles. I find it helpful, while engaged both in combatting voter suppression and voter nullification, repeatedly to recall U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who once wrote, “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” Here I would add, in my experience, that only in retrospect is the true value of persistence in the face of difficulty revealed.
Frankly, I am not surprised or newly alarmed. The insurrectionist/autocratic party nominates insurrectionists and anti democratic candidates? Who would have thunk? What is alarming is if we let them win these elected positions.
Fascists have realized that false equivalency reporting is the cheat code to beat democracy. bothSidesism is journalism 101 objective reporting — I called out that to my journalism professor in 1984. Media sells out democracy for clicks & is entertainment. #EdRMorrowTurnedOver - it’s being framed to support trumpian autocracy
At 65 I'm a senior cit. Been around a while . NYC metro thug . That ANYONE has EVER so blatantly and adamantly questioned an election to this degree, boggles my mind . Not to mention the obviously baseless premise on which those questions are built ! And again, heir trump und zer nazi-fest CPAC ? YOU ARE KIDDING ME, RITE ! ? Civilization indeed crumbles.....
It's pretty interesting that Wisconsin Republican's would like to restore the authority to the Secretary of State to oversee elections, since they are the party that stripped the current Secretary of State, Doug La Follete - yes, related to 'Fighting' Bob LaFollete - of those responsibilities. I assume they will only like to restore those responsibilities if their "big lie" supporter wins in November.
The fact that these are all election deniers (among their other unsavory features) can work in the Democrats' favor. I've heard a couple of recent talks by Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network, who notes that there have been dramatic shifts in the polls since Dobbs, Uvalde, etc., and probably Mar-A-Lago. The Democrats have to go on the offensive in two ways. First, we have to overwhelm voters with the good news about jobs, unemployment, CHIPS, PACT, IRA, etc. Biden is keeping his promises, and millions of Americans will benefit. Second, we have to call out the Republicans who voted against all these good things, who live in a fantasy world, in thrall to a narcissistic psychopath. (Probably just enough to call him a nut job who thinks he's above the law.)
The young vote is crucial. First time voters are crucial. Work with your high schools -registration days. Under 35 MUST understand this midterm decides their futures for years.
The Republican Party is already well on it's way to turning the U.S. into a one party authoritarian state. The Democrats have been asleep for way to long on the GP's movement towards the extreme right. Does Dr. Reich not remember the Tea Party who never thought of President Obama as a legitimate president. Neither did most of the Republicans in Congress.
Republicans now control the SCOTUS and over a third of the lower federal courts as well as control of 23 states governorships and legislatures. Authoritarianism 101, first take over the courts then work to dismantle the administrative state nationally and locally.
We are well on our way to losing our democratic republic.
One of many great Hannah Arendt quotes seems relevant:
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
your simplified voting guide these days: Let's see...assault weapons, climate change, healthcare, fairer taxation, anti-voter suppression, pro-choice, pro-social support for families forced to birth kids they cannot afford to raise....as an independent, I can conclude...don't vote for any Rs other than Liz Cheney, Murkowski. The GOP has gone crazy.
I'm 72 and a life long democrat, however, I'm losing faith in it. Well, that's not exactly true; I haven't had much faith in the party for a long time. Recently, in TX, the "party," including Pelosi, backed the anti-choice Cuellar over pro-choice Jessica Cisneros. So called "leadership" pumped $ into anti-"Squad" candidates, which has fallen flat on its face. I won't go into the "supporting the 'trumpest' republican candisidates. To these corporate democrats, it's about keeping their power rather than helping people. They have no "message" to stay on. Look at the "concessions" they had to give to get Manchin and Siema to get them to support the recent legislation. However, they try to put roadblocks in the way of progressing measures. I'm often reminded of the words of Will Rogers: "I don't belong to an organized political party - I'm a Democrat."
"Karamo has called the 2020 election “fixed” and claimed without evidence that Dominion voting machine software flipped votes to Biden."
"without evidence" Gods, how I hate that euphemism! Why are Democrats and liberals so afraid of calling Republicans on their shit? Even those, like our esteemed host, who have been clear about their recognizing the threat, stop short of calling lies lies.
"Karamo has called the 2020 election “fixed” and *LIED* that Dominion voting machine software flipped votes to Biden."
I heard that the DNC was helping extreme candidates win because they thought voters would not vote for them: a risky strategy. We have Trumpy candidates running all over NY who are more extreme than ever before. America has gone mad. I am writing postcards to send out. I hope it helps.
Well, maybe the Democrats shouldn’t have spent money trying to make sure that this horde of crazies won their respective primaries. They were all-in for Trump to run against HRC and look how that turned out. I agree that they needed to be defeated but part of that is to avoid spending millions upon millions of dollars to help them win primaries.
I simply cannot comprehend the mentality of these Election Deniers regurgitating Trump’s lies to curry favor from the disgraced 45th President. Republicans must lose the November General Election. Democrats, disaffected Republicans should join the Democrats and vote these dipturd s out of office for good. We need stability in this country, NOT the kind of daily chaos we had from Trump’s single term. We Americans must learn not to allow bankrupted candidates from the Private Sector who have personality disorders and a history of evading taxes to ever become the official Party candidate. It is despicable and revolting.
Expanding upon my entry from “Office Hours,” I would note, absent any federal voter protection safeguards, barring the severely gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act, that we underplay, at our peril, the ongoing unilateral passage of both voter restriction and voter nullification provisions by GOP controlled State Legislatures.
In my view, we can manage voter suppression by engaging in the numerous turbo-charged voter turnout initiatives underway at the federal, state, and local levels. Conversely, wherein GOP State Legislatures are changing state election rules to change who can be in charge, how votes are counted, and how they’re certified, one understandably worries whether any amount of organizing is going to get us around these obstacles. I find it helpful, while engaged both in combatting voter suppression and voter nullification, repeatedly to recall U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who once wrote, “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” Here I would add, in my experience, that only in retrospect is the true value of persistence in the face of difficulty revealed.
Frankly, I am not surprised or newly alarmed. The insurrectionist/autocratic party nominates insurrectionists and anti democratic candidates? Who would have thunk? What is alarming is if we let them win these elected positions.
Fascists have realized that false equivalency reporting is the cheat code to beat democracy. bothSidesism is journalism 101 objective reporting — I called out that to my journalism professor in 1984. Media sells out democracy for clicks & is entertainment. #EdRMorrowTurnedOver - it’s being framed to support trumpian autocracy
At 65 I'm a senior cit. Been around a while . NYC metro thug . That ANYONE has EVER so blatantly and adamantly questioned an election to this degree, boggles my mind . Not to mention the obviously baseless premise on which those questions are built ! And again, heir trump und zer nazi-fest CPAC ? YOU ARE KIDDING ME, RITE ! ? Civilization indeed crumbles.....
It's pretty interesting that Wisconsin Republican's would like to restore the authority to the Secretary of State to oversee elections, since they are the party that stripped the current Secretary of State, Doug La Follete - yes, related to 'Fighting' Bob LaFollete - of those responsibilities. I assume they will only like to restore those responsibilities if their "big lie" supporter wins in November.
The fact that these are all election deniers (among their other unsavory features) can work in the Democrats' favor. I've heard a couple of recent talks by Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network, who notes that there have been dramatic shifts in the polls since Dobbs, Uvalde, etc., and probably Mar-A-Lago. The Democrats have to go on the offensive in two ways. First, we have to overwhelm voters with the good news about jobs, unemployment, CHIPS, PACT, IRA, etc. Biden is keeping his promises, and millions of Americans will benefit. Second, we have to call out the Republicans who voted against all these good things, who live in a fantasy world, in thrall to a narcissistic psychopath. (Probably just enough to call him a nut job who thinks he's above the law.)
The young vote is crucial. First time voters are crucial. Work with your high schools -registration days. Under 35 MUST understand this midterm decides their futures for years.
The Republican Party is already well on it's way to turning the U.S. into a one party authoritarian state. The Democrats have been asleep for way to long on the GP's movement towards the extreme right. Does Dr. Reich not remember the Tea Party who never thought of President Obama as a legitimate president. Neither did most of the Republicans in Congress.
Republicans now control the SCOTUS and over a third of the lower federal courts as well as control of 23 states governorships and legislatures. Authoritarianism 101, first take over the courts then work to dismantle the administrative state nationally and locally.
We are well on our way to losing our democratic republic.
DCCC is playing a dangerous game supporting Extremists.
Run on Democratic Values, accomplishments and vision forward.
Vote Blue 22
Down Ballot
One of many great Hannah Arendt quotes seems relevant:
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
--Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
your simplified voting guide these days: Let's see...assault weapons, climate change, healthcare, fairer taxation, anti-voter suppression, pro-choice, pro-social support for families forced to birth kids they cannot afford to raise....as an independent, I can conclude...don't vote for any Rs other than Liz Cheney, Murkowski. The GOP has gone crazy.
I'm 72 and a life long democrat, however, I'm losing faith in it. Well, that's not exactly true; I haven't had much faith in the party for a long time. Recently, in TX, the "party," including Pelosi, backed the anti-choice Cuellar over pro-choice Jessica Cisneros. So called "leadership" pumped $ into anti-"Squad" candidates, which has fallen flat on its face. I won't go into the "supporting the 'trumpest' republican candisidates. To these corporate democrats, it's about keeping their power rather than helping people. They have no "message" to stay on. Look at the "concessions" they had to give to get Manchin and Siema to get them to support the recent legislation. However, they try to put roadblocks in the way of progressing measures. I'm often reminded of the words of Will Rogers: "I don't belong to an organized political party - I'm a Democrat."
"Karamo has called the 2020 election “fixed” and claimed without evidence that Dominion voting machine software flipped votes to Biden."
"without evidence" Gods, how I hate that euphemism! Why are Democrats and liberals so afraid of calling Republicans on their shit? Even those, like our esteemed host, who have been clear about their recognizing the threat, stop short of calling lies lies.
"Karamo has called the 2020 election “fixed” and *LIED* that Dominion voting machine software flipped votes to Biden."
Is that really so hard?