The only path forward I see is to severely punish everyone involved in the insurrection attempt, and the criminals in Trump's admin, especially Trump himself and his family, and I do not see that happening before 2022. As ludicrous as it sounds, Americans are just itching to vote against Democrats if they do not make this happen now.
I've never seen any evidence for the idea that Americans are itching to vote against Democrats. After all, they get the most votes the large majority of the time! The issue isn't that Americans don't like the Democrats, because they do, the issue is the system is rigged against them.
We got the low-grade conflict on January 6th. We'll have to see how that plays out but punishing only those who participated while letting the powerful people behind it skate isn't going to accomplish enough.
I don't know that I'll ever agree here. Very few people like Democrats. They get votes because rational people understand they are way better than the alternative, but so many Americans are super impatient. We know the GOP is blocking progress, but most people will blame Democrats for not getting shit done whether or not it is their fault, because they don't understand anything. For so many, the thought process is as simple as "Democrats have had full control for two years and nothing has changed, might as well try the other guys."
Informed, rational people don't do this, and there are a lot of us for sure, but we are obviously not enough to overcome the system rigged in their favor. What do you think our chances are of fixing the system? I think our chances are very low. Until the system is fixed, Democrats need more than just rational people. They need to appeal to the jackasses in the "middle."
I sure did, haha! I was very confident about the short term results of this most recent election, and I was right, but I have been a long term pessimist about the US for a long time now.
Right though, but that's my point. The rigging is the problem, not this idea that America secretly hates the political party it gives the most votes to almost all the time.
Sure, and you know I know the rigging is the problem but Democrats don't seem capable of fixing it, while the GOP is plenty capable of and successfully making it worse. I don't see Democrats maintaining control in 2022 without at least one huge domestic accomplishment that Americans actually feel before the election.
I agree with you on that, but I don't think prosecution of Trump will accomplish that. All they can do is keep passing bills that really help people?
I think prosecution of Trump and criminal GOP politicians will make it vastly harder for them to get votes across the board. Send a message loud and clear that they have crossed the line from politicians to criminals. Give regular Americans lots of ammunition to show GOP supporters that they are supporting demonstrable criminal behavior.
It's not fixable because it's ingrained in the Constitution. Not only does the Senate give the less populous states extra representation, the Electoral College goes even further and uses this unequal representation to pick the highest office in the land. But since the GOP can barely win a rigged game fairly, they go way beyond that with outright voter suppression layered on gerrymandering. And now because a Supreme Court justice was stolen by Moscow Mitch, we're likely to lose the SC for a generation.
I think so too, I just don't get what his fuckinf deal is trying to move it down.
It's kind of obvious. He's a Democratic Senator of a deeply red state. Since he's a politician, he enjoys wielding so much power as one single legislator, and ultimately getting reelected to continue to wield that power. Arguably, he's the most important Congressman outside of the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader.
