I am fed up with certain posters on this site. Enough to consider leaving? No. I don’t have to leave, I don’t have to post, I don’t have to do anything. But I am seeing outright defeatism about everything, from the filibuster to 2022 to 2024. First, if the Republicans do control the House and Senate in 2024, after the elections, the Republican candidate will likely have won anyway. In case you didn’t notice, the general election percentages for President and House have matched almost exactly since 2000.
Second in the event our nominee wins and after the new Congress is sworn in in 2025, that Congress is still Republican, our nominee will still become President. Of this I have no doubt, but this is because of the Senate. We will talk about that later on.
Third some of you mean well, but absolutely have no clue about the workings of real politics.
If goobers go around saying “Manchin and Sinema” until you grow corn stalks out of their ears, even though it takes 51 votes to get rid of it, who do you think will be blamed for it? Why do you think Manchin is so emphatic? You could easily say the same about Shaneen of Feinstein or other moderates, but no, you keep putting the spotlight on two vulnerable incumbents.
You are guaranteeing ads political progressive purity can’t overcome. Ads like “Left wing Manchin betrays West Virginia, opens door to radical socialist agenda.”
Don’t put the spotlight on people who don’t want it. Sinema and Manchin don’t want it, and it doesn’t help them or us.
And if you knew politics, then you would understand that the Senate is what prevents legislation from becoming a zero sum game. That said there are options, I suppose they will be utilized and some progress will be made. Enough to suit the impatient? Doubtful.
But this incessant doom, the constant drumbeat of “This better happen or else” is having the opposite effect of presumably, what you are hoping to achieve. It is depressing, it is nauseating, it is infuriating. Most worryingly, is is disengaging.
You want what you want right now. I want Kos to make changes to this site. I want outright doomism flaggable. Will I get that wish? Who knows? And if I don’t so what? I can move on. No big thing. A lot of good people post on this site, but a lot of people talk about things they don’t understand, and vent their paranoia making certain issues worse. I am not here for what we can’t do.
Tell me what we can do, and whatever it is, sell it to the electorate like an electric razor to a man with tissue all over his face.
Shaving will always suck, but it doesn’t have to make you bleed.
Politics, especially in America, is much the same way.
But some of you continue to post with dull blades, when a perfectly good, if not great, electric shaver is within our grasp.
Plug it in.