I never said that Voters should not engage and fight back at the theocratic and authoritarian partisan public policy moves being handed down by Conservatives who have gained the power to control their state governments. Don’t blame Democrats. All you apathetic, “When they gonna stand up for us” voters need to stop admiring your reflections in the mirror, look beyond the makeup and hair styles and get real about what you’ve become and stop blaming the Democrats for your failures.
You failed Obama in 2010, again 2014, his legacy in 2016 and you’re threatening to do it again in 2022. You damn near lost the House Majority in 2020, and if you understood basic civics it would have dawned on you that you need more than a 50-50 Senate and to move transformative legislation forward. Instead you simply looked at the most basic math, but you didn’t bother to learn a damn thing about the unique Senate rules that jammed up Obama’s Judicial nominations for years. But now its “The Democrats don’t fight hard enough.”
Democrats have been fighting loud and hard for years. But somehow you believe that you’re just suppose to vote for the Presidency and then go back to sleep for another four years and they will take care of things. When you wake up and find things all fucked up, it’s the Democrat’s fault. That is pure uncut unfiltered bullshit!. You go to work, when its payday do you trust someone else to handle your money, use it to pay your bills, and bring you back the rest to handle your banking and other life needs? Oh that is assuming that you have a banking relationship and you’re not using one of those check cashing places.
But no its the Democrats who are to blame. Its not the Conservative think tanks that get millions from wealthy donors of the top 1% to develop policies that further secure their economic interests at our expense. No, its not the Churches in this country that control over $1.4 trillion dollars, pay no taxes, but can access policy makers to adopt positions that ignore the desires of the majority of the citizens.. The article I included today says we have been knowing that SCOTUS was going to overturn ‘Abortion Rights’ since the Conservatives obtained a 5 to 4 majority.
People have been telling you that the President and the Senate majority matters since SCOTUS handed Bush the Presidency in 2000. However somehow you, the member of the non-voting electorate believes it’s Democrats who are responsible for exciting you to vote your own interest.
Here is the bottom line truth about the whole thing. Republicans, are passionate about voting their two key interests, money and White entitlement.. Oh Yeah and religion plays a key role in maintaining the status quo there. Look at the people of color who support the GOP public policy myths because they have been persuaded that somehow these policies are ordained by some higher power. In Ferguson, MO only 12% of eligible blacks were voting until Michael Brown was killed. Later we discovered that over70% of traffic tickets and court fines handed out by the majority White police force and judges were to Black motorists.
Imagine my shock to discover that over 60% of the largely Hispanic town of Uvalde, Tx voted for DJT and Greg Abbott. People ignore their own interest on public policy issues but it’s the Democrats fault for not getting you enthusiastic enough to look out for yourselves. You want Democrats to do more? Then stop whining and get involved, Make some calls, Help organize educational outlets, help keep people informed. Informed voting is your obligations and responsibility.
Democrats don’t need to marshal their anger. Voters who don’t like what they are seeing going on with this move towards theocratic White Nationalism need to marshal our anger and hold the corrupt and corruptible accountable to the laws they have violated. Here is a passage from and a link to the article that inspired my message today….
…”Have today’s Democrats forgotten how to fight? Or are they refusing to do so because too many of them are beholden to the same moneyed interests that also back the Republican-fascists and the “conservative” movement? Whatever the explanation, at a moment when America desperately needs spirited defenders of democracy, the Democratic Party’s leaders are acting demoralized, with little fighting spirit.
In a recent essay at Medium, Dr. Mark Goulston, a leading psychiatrist, former FBI hostage negotiation trainer and the author of the bestsellers “Just Listen” and “Talking to ‘Crazy,’” offers a provocative explanation for the Democratic Party’s weakness. He argues that Democrats are “highly conflict avoidant” and that such a temperament has made them “mincemeat to the vast majority of the GOP who is allegiant to Donald Trump.”
In my recent conversation with Goulston, he expanded on this analysis, arguing that Democrats keep losing to the Republicans because they refuse to speak passionately, clearly and in declarative terms to the American people. He warns that Republicans, especially Trump loyalists, are bullies who embrace and welcome conflict, and that Democrats do not fight back effectively because they refuse to acknowledge the reality that bullies must be confronted and cannot be negotiated with or defeated with rational arguments. Goulston further explains that Trump’s followers remain loyal to him precisely because of his antisocial and anti-human behavior, not despite it.
Goulston also explains that many members of America’s political class and the news media are naive or in denial about the nature of human evil, and therefore continue to express shock and surprise at each new revelation about the obvious crimes of the Trump regime. At the end of this conversation Goulston shares the advice he would give to Biden and other Democratic leaders about how to break their pattern of self-defeating behavior and formulate a winning plan to defeat the Republicans and preserve American democracy.
American society is experiencing multiple crises at once. Democracy is in crisis, and fascism is in the ascendancy. The pandemic has killed more than a million people in this country. There is extreme social inequality. There are mass shootings. The country is in a state of perennial grief and mourning but with no real catharsis or reckoning. It feels like America is on the verge of self-destruction, a form of societal and political suicide. How are you making sense of all this?
What you are describing is not just one moment of “suicidality.” There are actually several moments or a prolonged period of time where people who feel suicidal form psychological adhesions to death as a way to take away their pain. It’s not a psychological attachment, because a person can reason through that. A psychological adhesion is different: A person tucks that in their back pocket, so to speak. When you get slightly past the impulse, you reassure everybody: “I’m fine.” But in your back pocket is this option, this exit strategy, this permanent solution to a temporary problem that you can always exercise if things get really bad. People don’t talk about it because they don’t want to scare others.””
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A Reasonable Point of View 