The polls are bad. The floor is sticky. The rug isn't coming back. The Dude has done the math, man, and your Republican reckoning isn't showing up — not now, not at 32%, not ever.
It’s going to take more than just one or two electoral drubbings for the lesson and the learning to stick
Same can be same for the Democrats, for whatever *that* is worth
Governance doesn’t run on vibes or grievances
It runs on people from both sides working from common ground (however narrow and unstable that ground is), and working for things that work for everyone, not just their own Base
I’ve said this before and will continue to say it until people stop screaming their respective talking points and listen:
We have the government we’ve voted for, across the board
All the shame, all the corruption, all the spinelessness on both sides
All the gerrymandering, all the wars (internal and external)
We all, collectively, created that by voting our feelz rather than actual policy and true governance. The political parties just followed our lead
Hard agree. Whenever I mention "this is who we are" I get dog-piled about how *they* aren't, and because they didn't vote for the Tangerine Tyrant, their consciences are clean.
Bullshit. We are here because as a society, this is who we are. The Dems have - since the fucking early 1980's - been shifting Right, and guzzling major donor cash, all with the mantra that "we need to do this to win".
I am not at the "uniparty" stage, but there isn't enough space between them, and the Dems handed the working classes and rural voters to the Republicans to focus on the suburban, educated voters that used to be the strength of the Republicans prior to their merging with the Evangelicals, well, this is the end result.
Just drubbing the Republicans isn't enough to fix this, the Dem consultant classes needs to be spanked hard.
Trump is a symptom. Albeit, a fatal civilizational collapse kind of symptom, the natural end to America’s slide into illegitimacy for decades.
It’s going to take more than just one or two electoral drubbings for the lesson and the learning to stick
Same can be same for the Democrats, for whatever *that* is worth
Governance doesn’t run on vibes or grievances
It runs on people from both sides working from common ground (however narrow and unstable that ground is), and working for things that work for everyone, not just their own Base
I’ve said this before and will continue to say it until people stop screaming their respective talking points and listen:
We have the government we’ve voted for, across the board
All the shame, all the corruption, all the spinelessness on both sides
All the gerrymandering, all the wars (internal and external)
We all, collectively, created that by voting our feelz rather than actual policy and true governance. The political parties just followed our lead
/rant
Hard agree. Whenever I mention "this is who we are" I get dog-piled about how *they* aren't, and because they didn't vote for the Tangerine Tyrant, their consciences are clean.
Bullshit. We are here because as a society, this is who we are. The Dems have - since the fucking early 1980's - been shifting Right, and guzzling major donor cash, all with the mantra that "we need to do this to win".
I am not at the "uniparty" stage, but there isn't enough space between them, and the Dems handed the working classes and rural voters to the Republicans to focus on the suburban, educated voters that used to be the strength of the Republicans prior to their merging with the Evangelicals, well, this is the end result.
Just drubbing the Republicans isn't enough to fix this, the Dem consultant classes needs to be spanked hard.
Thanks for reading!
What a shame. "That rug really tied the room together."
It really did!