Politics The Donkey in the room...the Democrats today

How can the Dems quit playing nice, and be the adults in the room?

 

Wally, how come grownups are mean ?

Well Beve, sometimes it seems like they're all mean but they've already done a bunch of dumb stuff and just want you to avoid that.

But how can I learn if I don't do some dumb stuff too ?

Your just supposed to listen to their stories and believe them.

Yeah, I spose Wally. But I still think if I do dumb stuff I learn a little better.

Ya know Beve, that's true, it's like saving money for a new baseball glove instead of dad just buying it for you.
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I'm not super worried about Biden. Mostly he seems coherent. Barring tragic health events I think he can hang on.
The opposition, I know is fully off the rails, disconnected to reality, with a mountain of evil intent and, with a cadre of idiots and opportunistic grifters and evil doers following him.
I also feel like the majority of the voting public is still preceptive enough to know this.
It often dosn't seem like it but it's always people making the most noise that gets air time.

Worry and hand wringing is reasonable considering we're in the biggest cult/mass delusion event we've seen in a long while. Nobody alive has actual experience with the last mass psychogenic psychosis disorder.

https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/9...ple lose,regardless of data proving otherwise.

Stress opens a door to poor judgement. There's a lot of real stress going on and a lot of false invented stressors being yelled about on the news channel with the most viewership.

Real stressors like loosing some practical use of mega dollar coastline realestate, more than usual catastrophic weather events across the states etc. may help focus turn from the invented ones which usually drive people together like a bucket brigade to a barn fire.

Stories about "that Mexican or, that LGBTQ at the food bank took some extra time to help me get formula for my baby/ find my family space at a shelter/ help me haul a truck of trash away from my hurricane destroyed house, maybe they ain't so bad."
Maybe Ted Cruze who took a flight out of the country actually dosn't care about me after all ??? Why did I vote for him ? Oh yeah he cooked bacon on the heat shield of an AR-15 haha, that was cool.
More stories like that could turn the tide a little here and there.
So maybe actual reality based tragedy without help from GOP leaders will change some minds.

But yeah, on paper and in the previous election it seems we should be ok.

If we see economic tragedy it'll be harder to turn minds because financial stuff is always a lot easier to muddy up reality over.

Stress leads to desperate solutions. Like that crazy JFK conspiracy guy who just died on a motocross track. He had some financial problems and looked to clickbate gold coins, which had links to banking system failures, then (probably) illuminati bullshit and bang ! You're on Alex Jones site and one click away from a Christian nationalist site reading about pizzagate and furniture being a placeholder in a catalog for human trafficking of babys. Pulling up anchor on reality and floating off to the the shit show.

The majority of voters I think will be more pragmatic. Most can't and won't leave their jobs and go all militia rioting.
Most have jobs and families and will put that first and as we move towards the next election. The increasing looniness of maga should tire people out. If you have a family your already invested in the normalcy of day to day living and not total upheaval of known functioning society with no solid picture of what the goal even looks like.

Taylor Swift and Barbie could help.

 

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The news media definitely magnifies the squeaky wheel by giving it too much coverage...because excitement sells.

OTOH I'm pretty sure there are plenty of dedicated magatards willing to take up arms. 06 JAN 2021 is a good example. I can see people trying to block the motorcade transporting NPD Trump to prison (if he ever actually goes to prison).

I seriously hope our government doesn't try to play nice with our domestic terrorists.

 

There's more than I had thought prior to t's admin but I don't think enough to really overthrow the country now. Some say j6 was a rehearsal but if that's true it was a rehearsal and preview for the Dems too. I think we will be more ready-ish going forward.

Obviously we have, probably an inevitable bundle of folks who spend their time "investigating" bullshit year round now. That will probably be a constant background noise as a normal thing like flat earthers.

I still have a hard time thinking they'll be a real upheaval like "national divorce" civil war.

Excitement sells like gas sells. We all want it so we can't totally blame the media anymore than oil companies if we keep buying gas powered cars.

 

The Repubs overplayed the Abortion Card when trying to appeal to the MAGA base.

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