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gab13by13

(26,889 posts)
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 07:22 AM Sep 2024

I'm Not Going To Stop being Positively Optimistic

Kamala Harris will win the popular vote by 10 million votes. Saying that will not deter Democrats from voting.

Kamala Harris will win the Electoral College comfortably. Saying that will not deter Democrats from voting.

Florida is in play. Saying that will not deter Democrats from voting.

Texas is in play, especially Colin Allred over Ted Cruz. Saying that will not deter Democrats from voting.

I do not understand how being positive will deter Democrats from voting. People love to back winners, it's why they switch sporting teams.

Sorry but I will not stop being positive. I will not stop donating money. I will not stop helping in any way.

The Taylor Swift endorsement was a BFD, do not underestimate what that brave lady did, and FUCK YOU Putin puppet "Leon" Musk. TSF thinks his name is Leon.

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I'm Not Going To Stop being Positively Optimistic (Original Post) gab13by13 Sep 2024 OP
I agree, I hope we can turn this roll we're on... Think. Again. Sep 2024 #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover Sep 2024 #2
I'm with you; that said, it won't hurt us to act like we're losing. NNadir Sep 2024 #3
I am a huge proponent of momentum - we have it, let's not lose it. NoMoreRepugs Sep 2024 #4
Yes, the momentum will carry us to a huge victory PatSeg Sep 2024 #10
Word(s) Gaytano70 Sep 2024 #5
It's also a good way to keep the narrative on our side. gab13by13 Sep 2024 #6
I'd like to see us reminding voters "If you're voting Harris/Walz" KS Toronado Sep 2024 #7
We are the choir anyway get the red out Sep 2024 #8
Our Primary Must Do GOAL is Get out the VOTE! FarPoint Sep 2024 #9
I think it's also good to talk about how excited you are to actually vote JI7 Sep 2024 #11
Agreed completely, except for the switching sports teams part... paleotn Sep 2024 #12
I am glad to see you positive about something! BumRushDaShow Sep 2024 #13
The dumbest thing I ever hear is to "act like we're 10 points down" Wanderlust988 Sep 2024 #14
I am cautiously optimistic. BMW2020RT Sep 2024 #15
we are going to win bigly et tu Sep 2024 #16
Correct is right malaise Sep 2024 #17
Thoughts are not limited to staying inside your head while you live snd being Karadeniz Sep 2024 #18
I like this comment. I really do. PatrickforB Sep 2024 #20
You Eternal Self, R. Craig Hogan, is a compilation of research into Mind. Karadeniz Sep 2024 #23
I too think it will be a blue tsunami. A juggernaut of joy and freedom. PatrickforB Sep 2024 #19
Dems need to register and turn out the vote IronLionZion Sep 2024 #21
Beats the faux expert perpetually concerned motif I've seen from some folks. BannonsLiver Sep 2024 #22

Think. Again.

(21,612 posts)
1. I agree, I hope we can turn this roll we're on...
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 07:30 AM
Sep 2024

...toward strengthening the House and Senate races we'll need for a true trifecta.

After all we've suffered through these past years, President Harris will set this country on a phenomenally positive path if we can get the full Power of Congress behind her.

PatSeg

(49,929 posts)
10. Yes, the momentum will carry us to a huge victory
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:49 AM
Sep 2024

I anticipate landslides for Democrats.

gab13by13

(26,889 posts)
6. It's also a good way to keep the narrative on our side.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:15 AM
Sep 2024

Who controls the narrative is important.

KS Toronado

(20,963 posts)
7. I'd like to see us reminding voters "If you're voting Harris/Walz"
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:31 AM
Sep 2024

"Give them a House & Senate that will work with them"

get the red out

(13,692 posts)
8. We are the choir anyway
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:42 AM
Sep 2024

I don't believe talking about that does anything but get people more excited to vote for the winning team. But stuff discussed here is just "Preaching to the Choir" either way. Obama didn't win twice by people being careful not to express their optimism.

FarPoint

(13,867 posts)
9. Our Primary Must Do GOAL is Get out the VOTE!
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:42 AM
Sep 2024

Taylor just gave us a great big kick-start for voter registration and motivation...We must pick up the duties of getting folks registered and to the polls! I suggest getting in touch with ones local Democratic Headquarters to see how we can all help ....We can only win with massive voter turn out....

Now it is " we the peoples" turn at activism in the war for democracy...

JI7

(91,504 posts)
11. I think it's also good to talk about how excited you are to actually vote
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:03 AM
Sep 2024

and show off the "i voted" sticker. If you have social media post on there.

paleotn

(20,054 posts)
12. Agreed completely, except for the switching sports teams part...
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:10 AM
Sep 2024

I support my old home town school. Have since I became aware of such things, when Roy Skinner, Bill Pace and Steve Sloan coached its teams. In athletics, they're the epitome of mediocrity, and outright futility on the gridiron. But I ain't switching.

BumRushDaShow

(148,594 posts)
13. I am glad to see you positive about something!
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:14 AM
Sep 2024


I am hoping we can pick up some more seats in the state House and state Senate (the ultimate would be to flip the state Senate where almost all of our Democratic-lead House bills go to die)!

Wanderlust988

(612 posts)
14. The dumbest thing I ever hear is to "act like we're 10 points down"
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:19 AM
Sep 2024

No, if we act like we're 10 points down, then we're depressed, despondent, etc. People want to vote for winners not losers. People may not even turn out if they think it's a waste of time.

BMW2020RT

(146 posts)
15. I am cautiously optimistic.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:20 AM
Sep 2024

Optimism - I think the numbers are on our side.

Caution - I am not certain the votes will be
accurately counted and/or respected
by the losers.

et tu

(2,013 posts)
16. we are going to win bigly
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:46 AM
Sep 2024

not goin back and happily, merrily skippin forward!
don't rain on our freedom parade

Karadeniz

(23,937 posts)
18. Thoughts are not limited to staying inside your head while you live snd being
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 10:00 AM
Sep 2024

energy,, they live after the mortal death. Just being happy and hopeful right now can affect the "universe." Let me join you !!!!!

PatrickforB

(15,177 posts)
20. I like this comment. I really do.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 10:22 AM
Sep 2024

Because you are right. We have feelings, thoughts, words and deeds, and all create ripples in the collective human consciousness.

Our mission is to raise human consciousness - we can easily list dozens of instances where these billionaire think tanks are promoting policies that dumb us down - attacks on K-12, banning books, going into college campuses and so on. Not to mention media reporting biased to maximize shareholder profits.

Honestly, we've been subject to the tyranny of the bronze Wall Street bull, which seems to be our national idol. And Trump is the chaos candidate, with the 4chans, incels, militias and nazis as the night owls screeching in desolate places.

I always think about a number of things when contemplating the immense power of human intent:
1. Masaru Emoto's work with how feelings, thoughts and words influence freezing patterns in water.
2. David Hawkins and his logarithmic scale of human consciousness (Power vs Force his intial work).
3. Nisha Manek's book, Bridging Science and Spirit. She's an MD who knew the great physicist William A Tiller, who proved conclusively in rigorous experimental settings, which have been replicated many times, that human intent can indeed affect matter.

There is even an international organization called the Institute of Noetic Sciences that promotes the collective raising up of human consciousness.

I do not believe it is a coincidence that we have joy, love, peace and light faced off against chaos, tyranny and individual isolation. Not at all.

Remember what Zep said: The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.

Or of you prefer Shakespeare: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Cheers!

PatrickforB

(15,177 posts)
19. I too think it will be a blue tsunami. A juggernaut of joy and freedom.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 10:05 AM
Sep 2024

But, I ran across an 'undecided' voter at my workplace yesterday.

Seriously. I was making conversation on the way into the building and asked her if she had watched the debate. She said she had watched 'parts of it,' and was still 'undecided' and still researching.

I told her Harris had downloaded her policy proposals on her website and to check that out.

I was kind of gobsmacked because here in my state, which is pretty blue in urban areas, here's this lady, otherwise pretty bright in working with a complex system, who is undecided. We have another employee who 'votes on the economy' and a third who once told me that if Trump was president, everything would be OK.

Seriously. Sigh.

Funny, if our media was more interested in TRUTH in news reporting than shareholder PROFITS, maybe people wouldn't be this ignorant. Because these three can tell you all about their favorite sports teams, including sophisticated analysis of nuance - injured players, coaching, stats - the whole bit.

Just like that quote from Orwell's 1984 - beer, gambling and football, and people are easy to control.

BannonsLiver

(18,912 posts)
22. Beats the faux expert perpetually concerned motif I've seen from some folks.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 10:34 AM
Sep 2024

Too much of that around lately.

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