The Democrats have a real opportunity to radically change the perceived political wisdom of the Republicans being good economic managers and tax cuts are always a good thing. I wish I could be confident that they will successfully grasp it.
Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, the notion that Republicans are "good economic managers" persists. What administration crashed the economy in 2007–2008, after all? I've come to believe that Republican voters tell pollsters that they're voting for economic expertise because they won't come out and say that they're voting to put people of color and uppity women of all colors in their place. The economic angle is that they think "welfare" benefits primarily people of color, which isn't the case. They don't consider farm subsidies "welfare" either.
The trouble is the deep rootedness of "the American Dream", according to which everyone can become Elon Musk, or at least accumulate an 8 digit wealth, and all the poor are freeloading and taking from the rich.
The one campaign slogan of the Dems should read: "President Trump wants $5,000 from every American, every year, for his wars. That includes your babies."
After nigh-on fifty years of immiseration of the middle and lower classes, what remains is a population numbed to the point of apathy, evidenced by stats around voter participation.
No one is coming to save us, D or, especially, R. The lumpen masses, anaethtisized by culture and propaganda, have been reduced to proles in a 1984 dystopia. In that book is a passage where Winston, from the tryst room window, looks upon a stout washerwoman hanging clothes on a line. In a romanticized manner, he wistfully imagines that she represents an indomitable force that the Party cannot subdue indefinitely. That is what we are tiptoeing around in this moment, only the lumpen masses in this country vote and their will has spoken. Only if the third of the population that doesn't vote makes its voice heard, will we know whether the boot will descend in its finality.
With this kind of action and subsequent mindset since Reagan, it’s a stunning shame that any Republican has gotten elected to any office since the 80’s! Shame on the MSM for not covering this 40-year smear of the middle class and smash and grab GOP. The press is supposed to ‘inform the public’ - good grief.
A real service. The gop dream, though, is decades older than 45 years. K Marx was credited/accused of saying that 'religion is the opiate of the masses'. More accurately, 'the minimum monthly payment' is the opiate of American voters...mixed into a stew of racism, hatreds, myths, propaganda, and lies.
So, I thought that Trump was the Great Negotiator … Master of the Art of the Deal … didn’t realize that surprise attacks and carpet bombing were tools of the trade.
I thought the federal government had several essential functions: ""We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
I doubt anyone in MAGA ever reads anything except the snippet "We the People", which they willfully misconstrue as "I the People."
Since the R side of the American electorate only works on vibes and feelings, its going to be on the D's to punch this message through, or we'll all be wringing our hands in frustration once again after November. There's not much that's more important to the future of American democracy between now and then, but I despair whether the D's can do that, or coordinate any significant opposition.
Hope tomorrow is the day I wake up to his obituary
It would break the cult of trump.
One can hope that that would be enough.
But…
Would congress stand up to JD Vance?
Or do we trade one psychopath for another?
I want a tough president. One that stands up for average Americans like Donny stands for Iranians and Israelis.
At least they can blame the Jews more openly.
The Democrats have a real opportunity to radically change the perceived political wisdom of the Republicans being good economic managers and tax cuts are always a good thing. I wish I could be confident that they will successfully grasp it.
Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, the notion that Republicans are "good economic managers" persists. What administration crashed the economy in 2007–2008, after all? I've come to believe that Republican voters tell pollsters that they're voting for economic expertise because they won't come out and say that they're voting to put people of color and uppity women of all colors in their place. The economic angle is that they think "welfare" benefits primarily people of color, which isn't the case. They don't consider farm subsidies "welfare" either.
The trouble is the deep rootedness of "the American Dream", according to which everyone can become Elon Musk, or at least accumulate an 8 digit wealth, and all the poor are freeloading and taking from the rich.
Very hard to break that perception.
The one campaign slogan of the Dems should read: "President Trump wants $5,000 from every American, every year, for his wars. That includes your babies."
After nigh-on fifty years of immiseration of the middle and lower classes, what remains is a population numbed to the point of apathy, evidenced by stats around voter participation.
No one is coming to save us, D or, especially, R. The lumpen masses, anaethtisized by culture and propaganda, have been reduced to proles in a 1984 dystopia. In that book is a passage where Winston, from the tryst room window, looks upon a stout washerwoman hanging clothes on a line. In a romanticized manner, he wistfully imagines that she represents an indomitable force that the Party cannot subdue indefinitely. That is what we are tiptoeing around in this moment, only the lumpen masses in this country vote and their will has spoken. Only if the third of the population that doesn't vote makes its voice heard, will we know whether the boot will descend in its finality.
I guess we’re all to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, while Trump beams and Hegseth issues crusades from the Pentagon makeup boudoir.
With this kind of action and subsequent mindset since Reagan, it’s a stunning shame that any Republican has gotten elected to any office since the 80’s! Shame on the MSM for not covering this 40-year smear of the middle class and smash and grab GOP. The press is supposed to ‘inform the public’ - good grief.
A real service. The gop dream, though, is decades older than 45 years. K Marx was credited/accused of saying that 'religion is the opiate of the masses'. More accurately, 'the minimum monthly payment' is the opiate of American voters...mixed into a stew of racism, hatreds, myths, propaganda, and lies.
So, I thought that Trump was the Great Negotiator … Master of the Art of the Deal … didn’t realize that surprise attacks and carpet bombing were tools of the trade.
Get him the fuck out of there! We can't take three more years of this!
I thought the federal government had several essential functions: ""We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
I doubt anyone in MAGA ever reads anything except the snippet "We the People", which they willfully misconstrue as "I the People."
These Republicans might be beaten if ALL Democrats and Independents VOTE!!!!!
HOUSE: NV:OPEN-02, KY:(R)Andy Barr-06, WI:(R)Tom Tiffany-07, IA: (R) Randy Freensyra-04,
MN: (R) Brad Finstad-01, SC:(R) Nancy Mace-01, GA: (R) Buddy Carter-01,
UT: (R) Burgess Owens-04, NE: OPEN-02, NT:(R) John Rose-06,
MI: (R) John James-10, LA: (R) Juil Letloe-05, WY:(R) Harriet Hageman,
AL: (R) Barry Morre-01, CA:(R) Kevin Kiley-03
Since the R side of the American electorate only works on vibes and feelings, its going to be on the D's to punch this message through, or we'll all be wringing our hands in frustration once again after November. There's not much that's more important to the future of American democracy between now and then, but I despair whether the D's can do that, or coordinate any significant opposition.
Hasn’t it been determined that the Golden Dome spark an arms race?