Many pundits, looking to history, fall back on the political tradition of the President’s party routinely losing midterm elections.
However, those pundits are not taking fully into account the lunacy and fringe behavior that currently engulfs the former party of Lincoln (the Republican Party for those that need clarification.)
This is the political party where most of its members have said no to science, COVID vaccinations, Democracy, the right to vote, real history education, Universal Pre K, lower prescription drugs, infrastructure improvements, combatting climate change, and mothers getting formula for their babies.
This is a political party, whose members in the last several years that have said yes to treason and domestic terrorism, racism, the Big Lie on the 2020 election, the cult of Trump, discrimination against the LGBTQ community, banning Romeo and Juliet in schools, plans to reduce inflation, a society resembling A Hand Maids Tale and Gone with the Wind, and it is okay for a woman to carry her rapists or fathers child.Â
While most midterm elections do yield losses to the President’s party, 2022 can be (thanks in part to President Biden being a likable figure, Republican far right positions and Supreme Court decisions on a woman’s rights,) like 1998 and 2002, the electoral exception to the that rule if Democrats do not blow it.
Democrats have an opportunity with the many stellar candidates they have to craft an agenda that will appeal to both the center (even a little right of it) and left that could crush the Trumpist Republicans at the ballot box and chart a new course forward.
They need to get their act together and do it.
There are only 134 days to go.
This is not rocket science and should not be difficult.
I’m not the only one saying this, but maybe hold off on supporting the Dems for a minute.
Maybe empty bank accounts and large quiet empty rallies and town halls will get the message through.
Maybe not rewarding them for just saying “hey, we’re not as bad as MAGA”.
If I work hard and my company does well I get a bonus.
I don’t get a bonus for just saying I’ll do some work.
Let’s all save up a big pile of money and let them know they can have it after they codify Roe, end the filibuster, and pack the courts.
A bonus! People love getting bonuses.
Sending fundraising emails this week asking for support to protect things they could have protected anytime over the last 50 years is a very bad look.
I know this sounds extreme, but it’s really not.
We have a SCOTUS who believes you don’t need workplace safety rules.
Climate change is fake.
Corporations have more rights than you.
America needs gawd but only the gawd they choose.
in a few years we can look forward to starting our workday with a prayer (unpaid time, of course).
Possibly dying from an unsafe workplace, and not even getting a “oops, sorry” from the corporation let alone compensation.
If you do get through the day, you can return to a home, assuming it didn’t get washed away in a flood or hurricane, that’s uninhabitable because there’s no power because your power company doesn’t get paid enough to hand out CEO bonuses and upgrade the grid and the climate in your town is now too hot or cold.
And your children will grow up in a world of biblical law, where the punishment for rape is the rapist is forced to marry the victim.
That’s in the book.
Not that your children will be able to read after they get rid of the department of education.
None of this is hypothetical, the liars on the SCOTUS have all expressed these views in speeches and rulings.
The Dems need to put up or shut up, this has already gone on too long.
Not extreme at all Sharpie, more an accurate reflection of reality. The feudal society the Repugs want to impose on the nation is well on it’s way. And sadly, the geriatric Democratic Party leaders can’t or refuse to see it & react accordingly.
This is all the same stuff we complained about in 2016 with HRC and the DNC.
They’ll run Biden again and he’ll get creamed by DeSantis.
The DNC is a society dedicated to the re-election of its members.
Everything else is just slogans.
The GQP is dedicated to the acquisition of power no matter how low they need to go or what kind of swamp lizard they need to run.
On social media I see people, especially younger people, saying the same things I’m saying.
These old Dems have done some great work, but they’ve been dropping the ball since the ACA passed.
The harm these MAGA freaks are doing will take a decade to undo because legal challenges take forever.
FDR beat the court into submission by threatening to pack it, Biden says he won’t consider it.
You need bold leadership to protect America from fascism.
We don’t have much of that.