In today’s political news - Part 5

The voters don't "suck" at voting. In fact, the Republicans have mastered the art of voting for a handful principles that you can count on any conservative politician supporting--abortion, tax cuts, anti-LGBTQ, forcing Christianity on the masses. Therefore, they do not have to think about whether or not they will vote for the Republican candidate. They will vote simply because they are Republican, and as the Blues Brothers so famously said, they are "on a mission from God."

On the other hand, Democrats want to be known as the big tent party. They embrace every identity and try to have something for everyone in the party, and there are too many competing voices to sound like one unified group.

Businesses fail when they try to expand into areas that are outside their core business. The Republicans are good at knowing what they do well and doing it consistently. It is just unfortunate that what they do well is really bad for our country. 

Democrats, on the other hand, are like a successful grocery chain that decides to start a hardware store, then a car dealership, then a travel agency, etc. Pretty soon, the grocery company finds out that these other enterprises don't really work well with the grocery store concept, and there is no benefit to offering these goods and services. Eventually, the whole company goes belly up. Meanwhile, the competitor that just continued to sell groceries is thriving.

The Democrats need to find focus. Instead, they are fractured and working against each other. If they cannot get their sh*t together in the next few months, we are headed for disaster once DeSantis (or whoever wins the Republican primary) is sworn in January 2025. They need to find the three or four things that ALL people need right now and focus on those issues. 

Of course.  However...

Did you stop and think that perhaps it’s the Democrats in power who are failing? They can make as many promises as they wish, but if they don’t deliver, they’re not getting the votes. No need to tell me a lot of Rs are deranged fascists because by now, it’s axiomatic. But one doesn’t win by merely screaming the other side is composed of dangerous lunatics who will burn down this country. It’s not enough to scream, “Well, the other side doesn’t have solutions or plans.” One wins by showing a record of actually delivering to the voters what the voters want.

Stop and think if we delivered on any of these stated promises: protect voting rights; provide Medicare option to those under 65; codify Roe; pass robust climate legislation; implement large-scale student debt cancellation; provide means-tested tuition-free public college; increase federal minimum wage to $15 (not just for federal workers); lower costs of prescription drugs; and I’ve forgotten the others by now. They didn’t even do anything about the expanded child tax credit which would have been of tremendous help to tens of millions of families who are struggling!

Every single bloody thing has been a fight between moderates and progressives. Just asking for a freakin’ carve-out of the filibuster on specific issues like voting rights has been impossible. Everybody talks about Manchin and Sinema when the truth is they’re not the only ones standing in the way—about seven or eight Ds, including your own senator, are standing in the way because their allegiance to the filibuster is greater than their desire to deliver to the voters what the voters want.

And our party wants people to vote D because democracy is at stake? What would make voters think Ds can protect democracy when they can’t even deliver on voting rights? What would make young voters come out in droves and vote D? What have Ds done for them?

This is why we’re losing people—black and Latino voters most especially. It’s not that they’ll necessarily vote R; it’s that they’ll likely not vote at all. We lose those voting blocs and we’re done for.

Roe and Casey overturn—one would think this should be an animating factor in Nov. Ds will ensure right to choose will be protected exactly how? Read the reactions of those in power—is there anything there that tells anyone this is indeed going to be done by Ds? They don’t even want to pack the SC via legislation, which is a heck of a lot easier to do than a constitutional amendment for term limits that requires 3/4 states’ ratification! And yet, SC reform is part of their plank. What reform?

Voters aren’t naïve—they know when they’re being sold a bill of goods.

If there were open borders they would have WALKED across the border!!

Gracious, I am SO tired of having to ask every single day, "What the heck is wrong with people?"