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TheKentuckian

(26,314 posts)
44. The thing that is missed is the platform is of little utility
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 12:27 AM
Nov 2024

if there is little to no confidence in making the shit happen.

Everytime we win we waste the first Congress bullshitting with bought partisanship, reaching across the aisle, and pretending to "teach the Republicans to govern" then cry obstruction when we really obstruct our fool selves.

It rings hollow to run on a child tax credit when we allowed the one we finally got in place to instantly sunset just one example.

We lost people FOREVER that we worked so fucking hard to get off the couch when the ACA came out of the grinder as nothing even resembling the first steps toward a public health system.
Was it an improvement? Sure.

Is it some patches on the existing boondoggle that massaged the pain just a bit but in actuality left us in essentially the same place in systems, outcomes, percentage of the economy, inflation, and total cost? Fuckin' A, Bubba.

Kamala's economic message fell flat.
Not because folks didn't cotton to the ideas but because they had no reason to take it seriously because we weren't passing any of that shit and everyone knew it not even if we had both houses of Congress because sixty isn't happening and we prove over and over that we aren't going to get shit done without permission from the Republicans so why bother with a middle man?

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As far away from tRump as they can get. marybourg Nov 2024 #1
Scorched Earth... EarthFirst Nov 2024 #2
Doesn't really matter. Elessar Zappa Nov 2024 #3
100 percent BannonsLiver Nov 2024 #22
Loading us Faux pas Nov 2024 #4
Organize locally Blue Owl Nov 2024 #5
Go back a decade or so... be Democrats. WarGamer Nov 2024 #6
Right, but ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #7
Start by telling Liz Cheney and Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt to find their own political "home" WarGamer Nov 2024 #9
Well, I don't see how a party that's allegedly on the left ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #10
Darn strait. Enough of these ex-GOPers. Raven123 Nov 2024 #15
Venn Diagrams Mistermike Nov 2024 #30
Why are they alienated ? Keepthesoulalive Nov 2024 #18
Easy. Sit back and watch the rethugs implode. JohnSJ Nov 2024 #8
It is not sustainable to wait for a short respite to have the honor TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #36
I happen to be in California, and Newsom is meeting with 17 Governors from blue state for a plan to counter any JohnSJ Nov 2024 #40
Grand. That has zero to do with my response to sit back and wait for them TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #41
After the shock of our loss subsides, I think we will realize that after another Trump walkingman Nov 2024 #11
Oh the Establishment is definitely out of touch ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #14
Shit, we are so stone cold out of touch that we had the brass TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #42
Maybe find out what nonvoters, no longer voters, new voters want? leftstreet Nov 2024 #12
Moving to center is the same as moving to the right standingtall Nov 2024 #13
I agree, and in my OP, when I say "right" I really mean "far right." ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #21
FDR left LearnedHand Nov 2024 #16
All the GOP has proven in the past 40 years is that there was a good reason for the New Deal tenderfoot Nov 2024 #20
Support the same progressive policies the majority of Americans want Fiendish Thingy Nov 2024 #17
oh, you need to make it pellucidly clear. Nimble_Idea Nov 2024 #24
The thing that is missed is the platform is of little utility TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #44
Play the game using maggat rules. OLDMDDEM Nov 2024 #19
I don't know. alarimer Nov 2024 #23
We need to lie, steal their accomplishments as ours, insult people, Greybnk48 Nov 2024 #25
If you have to ask that question then the party has no soul HelpImSurrounded Nov 2024 #26
Well said. cachukis Nov 2024 #32
Stay left Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #27
Pure unadulterated moral courage ColinC Nov 2024 #28
Move to the center people will just join the republican party. Emile Nov 2024 #29
True. n/t Greybnk48 Nov 2024 #31
Maybe we don't need to move anywhere. Just hit him with BUYER'S REMORSE. EarlG Nov 2024 #33
Tend to agree Rstrstx Nov 2024 #38
Stop thinking left right center. Start thinking about what kind of country we should be. Nanjeanne Nov 2024 #34
Time for some obstructionism Mistermike Nov 2024 #35
Let's die on the hill of 'circumcision yes or no!' Fullduplexxx Nov 2024 #37
Figure out how to communicate with the non college majority. TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #39
May have been the right campaign against too many headwinds RoeVWade Nov 2024 #43
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