Wednesday the 6th will be Trump-driven shitshow in D.C. when Republicans in Congress will turn a mere formality with the Electoral College certification process into a clown show. Thanks to an initial “toe-in-the-water” by senator and 2024 hopeful Josh Hawle
WOW ... Rachel, I listened as soon as the email arrived. Enlightening to say the least. I heard the same message that I've been saying ... "Democrats are TOO nice!" and we are the ones who lose seats since we don't have a message. Hoping all of us working with you can gain seats during the midterm which is normally not the case, but what is normal today? Certainly hope the results in the Georgia run-offs favor the Dems. We can only hope and pray VOTERS show up today!
Rachel, everything you say is music to my ears! These voters remind me of folks I knew growing up in the deep South. Many Dems do not truly understand the complex fabric of rural southern culture and its counterparts in the rest of rural America, and the working class in general. A culture that is rooted in the old Cavalier image. At the bottom of it is a desire to be LEFT ALONE to live without the Federal Government telling them what to believe, and what to do, and what to say. Those are the "interests" they are voting for. I realize many fellow Democrats find it puzzling that hard-core Trump supporters can call themselves patriots while parading around with a Confederate battle flag. But it makes perfect sense to those of us who grew up in the belly of the beast. As the old saying goes - American by birth, Southern by the grace of God! Over the next two years we must find ways to convince as many of these voters as possible to realize that they have been bamboozled by the modern GOP while also bringing the hammer down on the radical anti-democratic radicals. We must constantly tell them we are not taking away their guns, or their religion, or their sense of honor but we are focusing on policies that benefit all Americans. That we are patriots in the original sense of the word. And this might rattle some of my fellow Democrats, but we should present arguments for social welfare policies as being rooted in New Testament values as well as the General Welfare clause. I hate mixing religion with politics, especially after watching the GOP co-opt the Evangelical movement for their own cynical political gains, but we must speak to these voters in a language they understand. It's time to destroy the modern GOP's ability to win elections, and then they will finally clean house of the crazies within. Here endeth the rant.
WOW ... Rachel, I listened as soon as the email arrived. Enlightening to say the least. I heard the same message that I've been saying ... "Democrats are TOO nice!" and we are the ones who lose seats since we don't have a message. Hoping all of us working with you can gain seats during the midterm which is normally not the case, but what is normal today? Certainly hope the results in the Georgia run-offs favor the Dems. We can only hope and pray VOTERS show up today!
Rachel, everything you say is music to my ears! These voters remind me of folks I knew growing up in the deep South. Many Dems do not truly understand the complex fabric of rural southern culture and its counterparts in the rest of rural America, and the working class in general. A culture that is rooted in the old Cavalier image. At the bottom of it is a desire to be LEFT ALONE to live without the Federal Government telling them what to believe, and what to do, and what to say. Those are the "interests" they are voting for. I realize many fellow Democrats find it puzzling that hard-core Trump supporters can call themselves patriots while parading around with a Confederate battle flag. But it makes perfect sense to those of us who grew up in the belly of the beast. As the old saying goes - American by birth, Southern by the grace of God! Over the next two years we must find ways to convince as many of these voters as possible to realize that they have been bamboozled by the modern GOP while also bringing the hammer down on the radical anti-democratic radicals. We must constantly tell them we are not taking away their guns, or their religion, or their sense of honor but we are focusing on policies that benefit all Americans. That we are patriots in the original sense of the word. And this might rattle some of my fellow Democrats, but we should present arguments for social welfare policies as being rooted in New Testament values as well as the General Welfare clause. I hate mixing religion with politics, especially after watching the GOP co-opt the Evangelical movement for their own cynical political gains, but we must speak to these voters in a language they understand. It's time to destroy the modern GOP's ability to win elections, and then they will finally clean house of the crazies within. Here endeth the rant.
Good stuff. Wanted to hear what he had to say about Kansas, but I guess now I’ll just have to read the book... :)
Good stuff, Rachel. But please--get the services of a proof-reader! Too many run-ons, fragmented phrases, etc.
Al