Rx for the Democrats

[JoeB131]

They don't see it. They're the mature, logical, reasonable adults in the room.

The fact is, there are no adults in the room right now.

But nothing will change their mind.

We're just not all as smart as you are, Stormy Mac.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Democrats cannot do any of that. I predict that they will slide even more to the progressive left. Get ready for the loons to try their damnedest to out loony each other.

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This is what the loony bins are for.


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[dblack]

We're just not all as smart as you are, Stormy Mac.

Well you're not very smart, but I don't think that's the problem. With partisans, reason and logic take a back seat to tribe loyalty. All that matters is fighting for your team. And, sadly, your team isn't the country - it's your party.

 

[JimH52]

You calling anyone a fruit loop breaks the irony meter.

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The orange fruit loop is slowing destroying the Constitution.

 

[sartre play]

Unfortunately while it should be easy, it also should have been easy well before they suffered this humiliation. So nothing's changed, really. On both sides of the aisle, the few reasonable minds left in the game are drowned out by the magnitudes of loud mouthed idiots. It's the masses of loud mouthed idiots who have the power. They control the finances, they control the social media engagement rate, they control "lulz" that constitute public opinion in this artificial reality we call the modern day world. The real challenge for Democrats is figuring out the internal politics of trying to herd the idiots among their ranks away from idiotic ideas.

Just because they're lying in a steaming puddle of goo doesn't mean that up is the only place left to go. They can still permeate laterally. And that is, after all, more indicative of their strategic thinking for many years now. So as absurd as it is, we probably shouldn't be surprised to see that they're still looking to the left and to the right, expecting to find a new path "forward". Democrats are going to have to be hard baked dry into a thin, flaky film before they run out of self destructive options. As it is, we shouldn't be surprised if Democrats continue to lay in a goo for the foreseeable future, surviving off of nothing more than the occasional rain that rehydrates them just enough to think they might stand one more chance.

I'm hoping--hoping, though not necessarily expecting--a fracture may yet occur, and that what sensible Democrats are left might look for a merger with anti-maga Republicans to stake out a new centrist party.

Both party's stink. Why can you see it!
Few work for us, the working Americans who keep the whole thing running.
And yes the Republicans have gone nuts! want the debt celling raised by FIVE TRILLION.