Democrats, let's seize this moment and make it work for us! Do Something!

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/democrats-lets-seize-this-moment-and.html

We're being cautious, and I get that. We are fighting against a media that is, for the most part, owned by and controlled by corporate interests who think they will benefit from a second Trump Presidency. And let's be honest, we're giving inordinate attention and credibility to a plethora of polling data that is largely being interpreted, and in some cases manipulated, by the media that uses them to support their own contentions.

Let's let that go for just a minute. We just went on a political roller coaster ride of unprecedented proportions. We went from three weeks of seeing the Democratic party split up into factions over whether or not the President should stop his campaign and let someone else "more electable" be the nominee, or whether he should stand firm and keep going. And along with that, the ideas being floated around of a quick, "brokered convention," mini-primaries and the basic nullification of 15 million primary voters who followed the rules and supported their candidate, or whether there was a "next in line" candidate capable of beating Trump.

I'm going to say this here because it needs to be said. The fact that there's any doubt at all about whether or not Trump can be beaten is a sad, sad commentary on the state of American politics and evidence that we have some real hard work to do to clean up what is a gigantic mess and a disparity of wealth distribution that makes it seem impossible to clean it up. That a man who, by all political standards, was an absolute failure at politics but continues to be supported by Republican leadership, who is an immoral, worldly, antichrist who continues to be supported by conservative Evangelicals who call themselves "Christian," can still be in a position to get enough votes out of our outdated election system to win the highest office in the country is a damning problem for this country that reveals an inherent weakness because we've failed in our responsibility to educate our electorate.

OK, rant over.

But what I want to celebrate, and where I want to focus attention, is on what has transpired from the moment President Biden ended his re-election campaign, and endorsed Kamala Harris. The "brokered convention" talk died down almost immediately. Almost overnight, the party coalesced around her potential candidacy. There was a collective sigh of relief, and a collective burst of energy that has only increased in its scope. If those polls we were so intently watching before the President ended his campaign were as accurate as some of us seem to believe, and we are looking at the data and the trends that have formed since then. we have seen an unprecedented political shift in this election campaign.

The approach taken by the campaign and the party, which was on display at the convention, is working. Republicans, by their reactions, are telling us that this worked. We need to come out of the shell just a bit, enjoy the atmosphere, don't get overconfident, but help keep pushing this along because it is working!