A sad truth, but you have to play the game with the rules and tools in front of you.
Fund raising disguised as polling , was pioneered by the Republic party and it worked. Democrats have no choice but to imitate the Republicans.
It was during Reagan's 1980 Campaign that my mail box overflowed with mailers seeking money, most of them from Jerry Falwells, Moral Majority, and they were effective.
In fact the Republicans have been very effective at producing mass mailers and disseminating propaganda. The essence of which was to stoke fear. Fear of atheistic communism, fear of "feminazi's" fear of queers, fear of this, fear of that
Democrats don't play on fears, and Democrats lose. This is evident in the culture war being waged in our country from community level on up, be it Mom's for Liberty or the Heritage foundation.
We are at war, period. If you aren't on the offense, if you allow the other to put you on the defense, you will lose., period.
I don't agree that the priority of the Democratic party is to grab power and not govern.
I do think that when they do have power, they are afraid to govern. Afraid to piss off the donor class, afraid to piss off the other side.
The way to rectify that is to put on pressure to appoint street fighters in control of the party. Schumer is not one, neither is Pelosi.
All of those 1,500 Federalist Judges, the three Right wing Catholic supreme court judges, handing our country to the theocrats, the fascists sit in their seats because of Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate.
Not one of them could have been seated if the Democratic Senators had objected. Not one of them.
Now that the horse has fled the barn, Schumer wants to close the barn door.
There was 21 or 22 days in the last congress where the Democrats could have passed a lot of legislation, but didn't. They did pass the Respect for Marriage Act, but they could have passed an act that legalized abortion in all states, but didn't, there were other legislation that could have been passed, including reigning in the Supreme Court, but they didn't..
After the 2016 Election the Democrats had a chance to reform the DNC, but they hunkered down and selected a loyal party hack, Tom Perez, as head of DNC.
And here I am again, with no choice, and this time facing an existential threat from the Right to be defeated at the polls, if I wish to remain a free person.
"Democrats don't play on fears, and Democrats lose. This is evident in the culture war being waged in our country from community level on up, be it Mom's for Liberty or the Heritage foundation.
We are at war, period. If you aren't on the offense, if you allow the other to put you on the defense, you will lose., period.
I don't agree that the priority of the Democratic party is to grab power and not govern.
I do think that when they do have power, they are afraid to govern. Afraid to piss off the donor class, afraid to piss off the other side."
Fear is not governance, and bedwetters too afraid to govern offer the same outcome as a group trying to stay in power without governing. A Democratic Party designed by operatives like Perez to serve a ruling wealthy class without any serious platform to communicate what they are FOR on behalf of the governed offers nothing but being against Republican operatives that are doing the same.
Staying committed to that kind of "war" brings no "win" unless you consider the citizens losing as a "win." Yes. Avoiding Trump is an essential battle to win, but it does not bring a "win" to a war of a nation trying to emerge from rule by oligarchy, not democracy. We need a changed system that busts the two cartel party monopoly and replaces it with several parties and proportional representation. Enough living in LaLa land with all its myths created about "the founders."
We need a lot of things Ed. And if wishes were horses and all of that stuff.
But we are forced to deal with the reality that is in our face and we have a stark choice. A fascist theocracy or some semblance of a secular democracy, whether it is genuine or not.
Me I prefer the latter. At least we can work on improving it, but if Trump wins, that's the end of the story...period.
A sad truth, but you have to play the game with the rules and tools in front of you.
Fund raising disguised as polling , was pioneered by the Republic party and it worked. Democrats have no choice but to imitate the Republicans.
It was during Reagan's 1980 Campaign that my mail box overflowed with mailers seeking money, most of them from Jerry Falwells, Moral Majority, and they were effective.
In fact the Republicans have been very effective at producing mass mailers and disseminating propaganda. The essence of which was to stoke fear. Fear of atheistic communism, fear of "feminazi's" fear of queers, fear of this, fear of that
Democrats don't play on fears, and Democrats lose. This is evident in the culture war being waged in our country from community level on up, be it Mom's for Liberty or the Heritage foundation.
We are at war, period. If you aren't on the offense, if you allow the other to put you on the defense, you will lose., period.
I don't agree that the priority of the Democratic party is to grab power and not govern.
I do think that when they do have power, they are afraid to govern. Afraid to piss off the donor class, afraid to piss off the other side.
The way to rectify that is to put on pressure to appoint street fighters in control of the party. Schumer is not one, neither is Pelosi.
All of those 1,500 Federalist Judges, the three Right wing Catholic supreme court judges, handing our country to the theocrats, the fascists sit in their seats because of Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate.
Not one of them could have been seated if the Democratic Senators had objected. Not one of them.
Now that the horse has fled the barn, Schumer wants to close the barn door.
There was 21 or 22 days in the last congress where the Democrats could have passed a lot of legislation, but didn't. They did pass the Respect for Marriage Act, but they could have passed an act that legalized abortion in all states, but didn't, there were other legislation that could have been passed, including reigning in the Supreme Court, but they didn't..
After the 2016 Election the Democrats had a chance to reform the DNC, but they hunkered down and selected a loyal party hack, Tom Perez, as head of DNC.
And here I am again, with no choice, and this time facing an existential threat from the Right to be defeated at the polls, if I wish to remain a free person.
"Democrats don't play on fears, and Democrats lose. This is evident in the culture war being waged in our country from community level on up, be it Mom's for Liberty or the Heritage foundation.
We are at war, period. If you aren't on the offense, if you allow the other to put you on the defense, you will lose., period.
I don't agree that the priority of the Democratic party is to grab power and not govern.
I do think that when they do have power, they are afraid to govern. Afraid to piss off the donor class, afraid to piss off the other side."
Fear is not governance, and bedwetters too afraid to govern offer the same outcome as a group trying to stay in power without governing. A Democratic Party designed by operatives like Perez to serve a ruling wealthy class without any serious platform to communicate what they are FOR on behalf of the governed offers nothing but being against Republican operatives that are doing the same.
Staying committed to that kind of "war" brings no "win" unless you consider the citizens losing as a "win." Yes. Avoiding Trump is an essential battle to win, but it does not bring a "win" to a war of a nation trying to emerge from rule by oligarchy, not democracy. We need a changed system that busts the two cartel party monopoly and replaces it with several parties and proportional representation. Enough living in LaLa land with all its myths created about "the founders."
We need a lot of things Ed. And if wishes were horses and all of that stuff.
But we are forced to deal with the reality that is in our face and we have a stark choice. A fascist theocracy or some semblance of a secular democracy, whether it is genuine or not.
Me I prefer the latter. At least we can work on improving it, but if Trump wins, that's the end of the story...period.
Your choice.
You are now shooting at your own troops, and I am done putting up with it.
Really Ed, what troops am I shooting at?