Thank you for the Wisconsin ray of hope; it is an encouraging story. But please don't say "most of the country lurched right." It simply isn't true. Trump didn't get 50% of the popular vote. That fact gives me hope as well.
We absolutely need to concentrate our efforts at the local, city and state levels and build up from there. I live in MO (sigh) but I love what Jess Piper is doing in the state. She started Dirt Road Democrats and advocates for the rural areas of the state, including getting Democrats to run for office in these areas since Republican candidates are often unopposed. We need a lot more of these types of efforts if we're going to turn the tide.
It is a positive story, although I have put my worrying on hold. A lot of people I know would like to see Ben Wikler as chair of the DNC. Everyone I know is talking about having a more working class platform. Not upper middle class, but poor and lower middle class, people who live pay check to paycheck or not even, and not because they have a vacation home, send their kids to elite private schools, and colleges, and have their children taking lessons up the wazoo! Those who pay house, medical, dental, transportation, utilities, food and some other things and cannot save, and one accident, one lost job, one illness has them losing everything.
I am living in Germany. People here are insured up the wazoo. Everyone has medical insurance that includes dental and long term disability care. If you own a home you have several types of insurance, people have millions of dollars of personal liability insurance, people have personal insurance for work so if you have a long term illness or burn out, or lose your job you will have income. People have legal insurance so that it will pay legal bills. There are many more kinds of insurances, everyone has them, so they don't cost so much per person but people live more protected lives. The US needs to destroy the current insurance industry model and get with the European insurance program. You won't find any articles about this, because since the US does not have it, no one is comparing this.
Agreed: The Democrats response to the 2024 election was overboard (guilty as charged). I think it was America’s fear of electing a woman … and one of color, too.
But I also think that once America realizes that it was hoodwinked by Trump, it will wake up. Protest against the War in Vietnam didn’t really take hold until the bodybags returned to rural America.
If the best we can do is Tim Walz, many states will always toggle between Republicans and Democrats because they are too similar.
(Yes, he's not outwardly a criminal, but he supports a genocide. It's disorienting, makes trust impossible.)
It's *very* important that in spite of all that work, Wisconsin wouldn't break for Harris/Walz, also showing that Walz's accomplishments and some of his attitudes are missing an important segment of the state -- good but not enough, too far short of what's needed.
People don't want to"free school lunches," they want to make enough to comfortably feed their OWN kids.
Touting some of these accomplishments is tone-deaf.
Thank you for the Wisconsin ray of hope; it is an encouraging story. But please don't say "most of the country lurched right." It simply isn't true. Trump didn't get 50% of the popular vote. That fact gives me hope as well.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidential-election-popular-vote-trump-kamala-harris
We absolutely need to concentrate our efforts at the local, city and state levels and build up from there. I live in MO (sigh) but I love what Jess Piper is doing in the state. She started Dirt Road Democrats and advocates for the rural areas of the state, including getting Democrats to run for office in these areas since Republican candidates are often unopposed. We need a lot more of these types of efforts if we're going to turn the tide.
It is a positive story, although I have put my worrying on hold. A lot of people I know would like to see Ben Wikler as chair of the DNC. Everyone I know is talking about having a more working class platform. Not upper middle class, but poor and lower middle class, people who live pay check to paycheck or not even, and not because they have a vacation home, send their kids to elite private schools, and colleges, and have their children taking lessons up the wazoo! Those who pay house, medical, dental, transportation, utilities, food and some other things and cannot save, and one accident, one lost job, one illness has them losing everything.
I am living in Germany. People here are insured up the wazoo. Everyone has medical insurance that includes dental and long term disability care. If you own a home you have several types of insurance, people have millions of dollars of personal liability insurance, people have personal insurance for work so if you have a long term illness or burn out, or lose your job you will have income. People have legal insurance so that it will pay legal bills. There are many more kinds of insurances, everyone has them, so they don't cost so much per person but people live more protected lives. The US needs to destroy the current insurance industry model and get with the European insurance program. You won't find any articles about this, because since the US does not have it, no one is comparing this.
Agreed: The Democrats response to the 2024 election was overboard (guilty as charged). I think it was America’s fear of electing a woman … and one of color, too.
But I also think that once America realizes that it was hoodwinked by Trump, it will wake up. Protest against the War in Vietnam didn’t really take hold until the bodybags returned to rural America.
If the best we can do is Tim Walz, many states will always toggle between Republicans and Democrats because they are too similar.
(Yes, he's not outwardly a criminal, but he supports a genocide. It's disorienting, makes trust impossible.)
It's *very* important that in spite of all that work, Wisconsin wouldn't break for Harris/Walz, also showing that Walz's accomplishments and some of his attitudes are missing an important segment of the state -- good but not enough, too far short of what's needed.
People don't want to"free school lunches," they want to make enough to comfortably feed their OWN kids.
Touting some of these accomplishments is tone-deaf.
(Applause emoji here)
Schumer gave TN’s Supreme Court seat to Rs in a deal two weeks ago. National Dems are not serious.