Want to shake it up: elect more democrats. Throwing out what little advantage Democrats have is stupid, because so much can still be done with the slim majority, including ever important judicial confirmations.
That's all ponyo cares about, billionaires getting tax cuts, their corporations getting more tax cuts, and capital gains getting tax cuts, and also finding ways to pay people less so the corporations he is invested in can make more profits
Control the senate, control the SCOTUS and you can take care of gerrymandering.
Add Sinema to the list.
What difference does it make if the senate is captured by Mitch or captured by Manchin?
Manchin will confirm Biden's nominees.
Yayy, we only have to eat half a shit sandwich instead of a whole one, dig in boys!
Considering how much has lurched rightward because of conservative appointments to the judiciary, it seems like it's better to take this small half measure and keep pushing for more democrats to be elected/pushing on the elected ones instead of further conservative entrenchment by giving ground to conservatives.
Just like we've always done? Like every previous cycle, hoping beyond hope that it'll work this time?
I'm continually confused how it is not obvious how much better it is for Manchin to be a Democrat and in the Senate than any plausible alternative.
Manchin as a democrat = Democrats stagnating with no congressional movement = Republican wins in 2022/2024, next question?
Manchin not a democrat = republican senate majority and Mitch McConnell at the helm. That is far worse.
Describe a fix for this intractable situation.
Publicly, and loudly, decry the actions of those two, carve them out for the base, and hope it galvanizes enough support for a greater voter turnout in 2022/2024.
Elect more Democrats to the senate
Okay now do this with any plausible Manchin replacement and compare outcomes.
While I understand the idea of base mobilization as an electoral strategy the main problem with it seems to be that it’s wrong. Trump went with an all base mobilization strategy and got buried. Why would democrats be different?
Trump got buried because he's an extremist, and because there's less Republicans in America than Democrats, and because they actually showed up to the polls. A galvanized Democrat base will be an inordinate number of people, compared to a galvanized Republican base. Just gotta do it without being as extreme as Republicans, so you don't alienate too many moderates (or 'moderates').
How do you both mobilize the base and not be extreme, as the base is by definition extreme compared to moderates?
So don't mobilize against your opponent, mobilize against a greater threat (pick one, we have a few to choose from). If necessary, take jabs at your opponent for their lack of concern, but make the focus a bigger fight than red vs blue.
