Another new low for Democrats

Discussion in 'Politics' started by harami, Oct 31, 2017.

  1. UsualName

    UsualName

    Great. You just admitted to purposefully convoluting the discussion and focusing on attacking any detail my statements and admitting you are a troll.

    If that’s your goal then that’s your goal.

    Looking around I see other people sharing valid arguments and thoughtful ideas. You’re the only not.

    I see this will be a never ending thing with you so let me do is both a favor and ignore you.
     
    #141     Nov 2, 2017

  2. Hopefully, you are saying that you are putting me on Ignore. I suspect though you will resurface in a reply to one of my posts, like a fly on your potato salad at the picnic that keeps returning after you were thinking he was gone.

    BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
     
    #142     Nov 2, 2017
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  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    If you say something stupid, it's not my fault - just for future reference. Ignore me and do us both a favor!

    I win.
     
    #143     Nov 2, 2017
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  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I think he was telling me that. But don't worry, keep pointing out the inconsistencies in his commentary and you'll be there soon enough.
     
    #144     Nov 2, 2017
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    How the Democrats Are Failing the Resistance
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/how-the-democrats-are-failing-the-resistance.html

    There was a giddiness in D.C. this week, as the fantasy of removing Trump by impeachment seemed marginally less fantastic. I do not begrudge this excitement for a millisecond. God knows we could do with some cheer. Hope also came from the latest polls, which show Trump sliding ever more deeply in public esteem. FiveThirtyEight’s poll of polls now shows Trump near record lows: 38.0 percent approval with 56.4 percent disapproval. Gallup now has his disapproval around 60 percent. The possibility that the various hoodlums, sleaze merchants, and swamp creatures involved in Trump’s campaign might have witlessly talked to a wired Papadopoulos for the last few months is straight out of House of Cards. In D.C., we cannot get enough of this.

    But on Fox, none of this was happening at all. And next Tuesday, we will get a dose of outside-the-bubble political reality. Ed Gillespie and Ralph Northam will be duking it out in the Virginia governor’s race in an evenly balanced, but Democratic-trending, state. It has morphed into a real-life test of how strong Trumpism will be in 2018, how effective the Democrats are as an alternative, and the future of the country. I don’t know what the result will be. But it is not looking good — for the Democrats or the country as a whole.

    .........................

    This is not a good omen. If Gillespie wins, or the result is close, it means the Trump-transformed GOP is electorally viable in every swing district in 2018. That it could win in the state where actual white supremacists marched this past summer and when the president is 20 points underwater is a sobering reminder of the actual state of play in our politics. I can only hope it’s a wake-up call to the Dems. In 2017, they are either useless or actively counterproductive in the struggle to resist right-authoritarianism. They have learned nothing from 2016. Their intelligentsia seems determined to ensure that no midwestern whites ever vote for the party again. Their public faces are still Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi. They still believe that something other than electoral politics — the courts, the press, the special counsel — will propel them back to power. They can’t seem to grasp the nettle of left-populism. And they remain obsessed with a Russia scandal that most swing voters don’t give a damn about.

    They think they are “woke.” They are, in fact, in a political coma.

    (Center portion of the article at above url)
     
    #145     Nov 5, 2017
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