Since the election of the Orange Man from Florida the DNC has been struggling with their message…..is it possible they could find it before the next election?
With an election coming soon I have been looking that the Dems and their party in the coming years.
Their biggest problem is they are mostly old farts….
A generational clash is intensifying within the Democratic Party, as younger politicians challenge a leadership class that some say refuses to cede power and risks alienating voters. Veteran lawmakers such as 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s delegate to the House of Representatives since 1991, and senators in their 70s and 80s remain fixtures in Congress—even as millennials and Generation Z members now outnumber baby boomers in the adult population but hold far fewer seats, reports Rebecca Traister for the Intelligencer. The article describes incidents such as lawmakers physically struggling to navigate the Capitol or missing votes due to illness, but then running again anyway. One former member tells of an older colleague who, when asked why he doesn’t retire, simply asked, “Well, what would I do?” The power struggle is playing out in races across the country.
In Maine, 77-year-old Gov. Janet Mills, hopes to become the oldest freshman ever elected to the Senate in her primary campaign against 41-year-old oyster farmer Graham Platner. In Massachusetts, Seth Moulton, 47, is challenging Sen. Ed Markey, 79, while in New York City, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani ran against and defeated 67-year-old Andrew Cuomo and 71-year-old Curtis Sliwa for mayor. While some of the older Democrats are stepping aside—for example, ex-New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster and Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith—many aren’t. And some, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are seen as actively working to keep younger candidates from gaining power. “While the olds may think they are saving us by sticking around, what they are often doing is denying the future itself just when Americans most keenly long to be reminded that there is one ahead of us,” Traister writes.
So new ideas are in short supply.
Plus since the 1990s Dems have been corporate controlled….
This time analysts are saying that the Dems, who have been struggling with messaging, have found the hook they need…..and that message is economics.
Democrats say: “They’re spineless,” Cathia Krehbiel, 48, of Indianola, Iowa, said of her party’s leaders. “I just feel like there’s so much recently that’s just going abhorrently wrong. And they speak up a little bit and they roll right over.” Overall, roughly one-third of Democrats described their party negatively in the open-ended question. About 15% described it using words like weak, or apathetic, while an additional 10% believe it is broadly ineffective or disorganized. Only about 2 in 10 Democrats described their party positively, with roughly 1 in 10 saying it is empathetic or inclusive. An additional 1 in 10 used more general positive descriptors. Jim Williams, a 78-year-old retiree from Harper Woods, Michigan said he typically supports Democrats but is disappointed with the party and its murky message. He feels much worse about the Republican Party, which he said “has lost it” under Trump’s leadership. “All he does is bully and call names. They’ve got no morals, no ethics. And the more they back him, the less I like them,” the self-described independent, said of Trump.
Trump was furious. “In just 6 months, I cut costs, especially Energy and Taxes, Tremendously. Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren, on CNBC, said costs have gone up,” he wrote on Truth Social, using his long-standing offensive nickname for the senator. “She is just angry that I blew up her terrible Presidential Campaign. Call her out!!!”
Trump’s wrong. Prices are going up on just about everything. “Government data, including from the Commerce Department this week, show that prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances,” The New York Timesreported over the weekend. That’s Trump’s Commerce Department. He may be trying to cook the books in other areas—notably by firing the federal official tasked with collecting (recently disappointing) jobs data—but he can’t hide the fact that the economy is getting worse.
In the coming 2026 midterms and the economy the way it is there should be an open door for a Dem win…..but is it?
The 2026 midterm elections should, by all rights, be good for Democrats.
That’s because midterms are almost always good for the party that doesn’t hold the presidency; that party has gained House seats in all but four midterms since the Civil War.
However, there is a sizeable “but” that comes along with that right now.
It’s looking like Democrats could squander at least some of that opportunity, if they don’t do something about their brand, which is historically awful right now.
That doesn’t mean they’ll lose the midterms. But it could mean they won’t take full advantage and grow their numbers as much as they could.
Me? I think if anybody can find a way to lose then the Dems are that entity….their messaging for decades has been sub-par for decades….a lot can happen between now and the election and if a way can be found then the Dems will have their asses handed to them…..yet again.
Why?
Well the top Dem senator candidates are just a repeat of the past….old farts with heavy corporate ties….so much for looking for new blood.
That is why Dems are running scared because of the rise of the Progressives…..
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Democratic party leaders havebeenaccusedof a wave of poor performances that go back far beyond last year’s chastening presidential defeat.
The party elite’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, have turnedvoters and donorsaway from the party. As have other incidents. In Illinois, Democratic US representative Chuy García’s plan to handpick his own successor upon his retirement next year, circumventing an open election, drew howls of criticism from all sides of the political divide.
Rightwing media outlets have gone after Democrats’ low favorability ratings and the party’s apparent refusal to integrateyounger members into its leadership, at a time when the Republican party made JD Vance a vice-presidential candidate last year at the age of 40.
Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’
However, observers say that the Democratic party’s failure to secure the continuation of federal subsidies for health insurance for millions of Americans last month, a move that ended the 43-day government shutdown, could have the most lasting negative effect on the party going forward.
With the mildly successful voting in the past election the Dems seem to have found their political legs to defeat the Donny machine….or have they?
They were successful in NYC, Virginia and New Jersey but will that translate to the mid-terms?
Many people are delighted at the voting outcome….but will it translate?
To answer my question….past track record suggest they probably have not.
History is not on their side….
Democrats enabled Donald Trump to become president twice because of repetition compulsions that still propel the party’s leaders – undermining the party’s potential to end the real-life nightmare of Maga control over the federal government. Scrutinizing how this century’s Democratic leaders set the stage for Trump’s electoral triumphs is crucial not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a vital focus on how such failures can be avoided in the future.
Elites did quite well after Barack Obama took back the presidency for Democrats in January 2009, amid the Great Recession. He bailed out big banks while a huge number of people lost their homes. By the time Obama was most of the way through his presidency, he had facilitated “the dispossession of at least 5.2 million US homeowner families, the explosion of inequality, and the largest ruination of middle-class wealth in nearly a century”, the journalist David Dayen pointed out.
Obama’s last year as president was supposed to lead to Hillary Clinton’s first. She was the party establishment’s favorite. “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center,” Clinton told a Women for Hillary audience in 2015. “I plead guilty.” The Democratic National Committee and corporate media provided major assists as she withstood the strong progressive campaign of Bernie Sanders. But after winning the nomination, Clinton never got traction with younger voters, who had gone overwhelmingly for Sanders during the primaries.
After Trump defeated Clinton in November 2016, Democratic party leaders could hardly blame themselves or their “moderate and center” nominee. Criticizing her coziness with Wall Street wouldn’t do. Neither would critiquing her thinly veiled contempt for the progressive wing of the party. Instead, the swift response from prominent Clinton campaigners was to blame Russia, launching a prolonged fixation on “Russiagate” that let the corporate-friendly leaders of the party off the hook.
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continued to evade scrutiny. As Sanders told a reporter in 2017: “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Today there a few elections that could point to what will happen next year in the midterms…..will we see a break in this silliness of Donny?
This is a breakdown of what we can expect with these votes….
Another Election Day has arrived in America, the first major one in President Trump’s second term. Some of the big races that readers of political tea leaves will be watching:
New York City mayor: Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner, is trying to fend off former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent. Trump dislikes Mamdani so much he has endorsed Cuomo over Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, How Mamdani fares—including his margin of victory, should he win—could have big repercussions for other progressive politicians in the US, reports the New York Times.
New Jersey governor: Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill has a narrow lead in the polls over former GOP state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli. A CNN analysis sees this as perhaps the night’s most telling race in regard to Trump because Sherrill has put him front and center. “He’ll do whatever Trump tells him to do,” she says of her opponent, “and I will fight anybody to work for you.” Ciattarelli, meanwhile, is a strong backer of Trump’s policies and has the president’s endorsement.
Virginia governor: Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman, leads the GOP candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. Trump has not specifically endorsed Earle-Sears, notes NBC News. Spanberger is seen as a moderate, and a win could help refute the notion that Democrats need to move aggressively to the left to be successful, per the Deseret News. (The state’s attorney general race is also interesting, after violent texts sent years ago by Democratic candidate Jay Jones surfaced.)
California redistricting: Californians will vote on Proposition 50 to determine if the state will adopt a new congressional map seen as more favorable to Democrats, per ABC News. It’s a key battle in the ongoing redistricting wars in multiple states. “Prop 50 will have a big impact on the midterms,” says Christian Grose, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California. “The US House margin right now is so narrow that every seat in every state could make a difference for which party controls Congress.”
Anyone care to venture a prediction on how all this will turn out?
This will be a telling election I think…..and I will be watching….
I am a ‘Baby Boomer’ born in 1947 and I grew up in a time that history, if it is allowed to be taught in the future, will tell the tale of a country coming to terms with itself.
Across the board people seem to be losing their confidence in Donny with the exception of one group…..Boomers.
A new poll shows a slight uptick in President Donald Trump‘s approval rating among Baby Boomers following a significant dip earlier this summer.
What Happened: The InsiderAdvantage polling data revealed that Trump’s approval rating among voters aged 65 and above was at 45% in May and fell to 38% in June. However, the August survey indicates a slight recovery, with his approval rating climbing back to 40%.
The poll analysis notes that Boomers were instrumental in Trump’s 2024 election win, with 51% of voters in this age group casting their votes for him.
The recent uptick in approval seems to align with Trump’s attempts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Despite these efforts, Trump’s approval ratings on foreign policy have seen a dip in several recent polls. However, his net approval rating on foreign policy among baby boomers has remained relatively stable.
As I stated many of the people I know that are my age voted for Donny and I still have a hard time grasping what made Boomers turn against the very things that made us a great generation.
They all seem to believe all the misinformation that is spread by MSM and all those social media sites….but why has this come about?
We will have to do one of my favorite things….take a look at history….
Boomers seem to not be capable of fact checking the outrageous BS spread by politicians….why is that?
They never had to learn to fact check, thanks to the Mayflower and Fairness Doctrine. Not only did they not need to fact check news sources, they didn’t have to critically think about the information that was presented to them when it came from places of authority. This isn’t because they were blindly trusting. It’s because the information provided by news stations or radio broadcasts no matter how controversial were not allowed to contain any bias or misinformation. They could literally trust everything a newscaster said.
That type of fair and unbiased news reporting was the result of an FCC ruling called the Mayflower Decision (also known as the Mayflower Doctrine) that preceded the Fairness Doctrine. In 1938 a former Yankee’s employee Lawrence J. Flynn accused two radio stations of airing one-sided political views, editorials and attacks against politicians the owner of the network didn’t like.
According to the 1948 Columbia Law Review, due to this kerfuffle, the FCC announced a rule in 1941 that “the radio broadcaster and his station should be allowed neither to editorialize nor take a stand on any controversial matter. This policy appeared as a concomitant to the previously announced position of the Commission that whenever controversial issues were presented they were to be treated impartially and objectively.”
In 1949, three years after the first boomers were born, The Fairness Doctrine was passed building from the FCC’s guidance on the Mayflower Doctrine. This legislation was meant to break up the monopoly of audience control by ABC, NBC, and CBS with concerns that the news stations could promote extreme bias. It required news outlets, which included radio stations, to provide equal airtime to opposing views. The information needed to be factual in nature without editorializing.
Doesn’t that sound lovely? In a world where every other headline is written to scare the bejesus out of you and news pieces feel more editorialized than factual, having policy in place to tamper it would probably be beneficial. So what happened? Boomers spent all of their childhood, teen years and early adult years never having to question the factuality rating of their news. Then after more than 40 years of television and radio stations having guardrails in place, Ronald Reagan’s administration started rolling it back.
So we can blame Reagan for the beginning of the laziness in politics.
Then it became more lazy with Bubba Clinton….and his Telecommunications Act of 1996….which allowed corporations to own the news….and the stage is set for the dolt in the White House today.
The negative impact of the law cannot be overstated. The law, which was the first major reform of telecommunications policy since 1934, according to media scholar Robert McChesney, “is widely considered to be one of the three or four most important federal laws of this generation.” The act dramatically reduced important Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on cross ownership, and allowed giant corporations to buy up thousands of media outlets across the country, increasing their monopoly on the flow of information in the United States and around the world.
I can say without flinching that I have held true to my ideals from the 1960s….I have not wavered and I am sorry that my generation is leading the pack on the destruction of a system that worked well for years.
As the 2026 election approaches we should start seeing more and more political ads after this Labor Day, the unofficial start of campaign season.
Many have said that the coming Midterms could be the most important election in this nation’s history….we either save our democracy or we allow it to slip away…..for good.
In what must sound like a broken record to Americans who aren’t paying a whole lot of attention to what is going on in their country, election integrity experts, historians, and political scientists have been saying for a decade now (with the exception of the 2022 midterms) that the next election is the most important in recent US history.
Contrary to what people who aren’t paying any attention and know nothing about history may think, they are not crying wolf.
It’s kinda like playing Russian Roulette. The next pull of the trigger is always the most consequential. And that is really an apt analogy, because Americans have been gambling with their country’s future.
In 2016, they got their first opportunity to stop a wannabe authoritarian from taking power. Thanks in no small part to an inept Democratic Party, the Electoral College, and some Russian interference, they wasted it.
There were other reasons, of course. The mainstream media had no idea how to deal with a compulsive liar at the top of a presidential ticket and decided to just let him do his thing because that was good for business.
It also helped that a right-wing propaganda machine had managed to create a post-truth reality for conservatives.
Two years later, voters got it right and handed Democrats control of the House of Representatives in an effort to curb the power of Donald Trump.
In 2020, Americans really knocked it out of the park. In response to Trump killing tens of thousands of them by bungling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic (and all other kinds of craziness and chaos), they sent him packing. One result was an unsuccessful coup attempt and a violent attack on Congress.
Then, in 2022, there was a respite from the “most important election in our lifetime” talk… and voters responded by giving control of the House to a bunch of MAGA yahoos who proceeded to do little more than investigate Hunter Biden and fight among themselves.
A poll says that voters are not happy with Democrtas….
A greater share of voters view the Democratic Party unfavorably than at any point in the past 35 years of Wall Street Journal polling—63%. The Journal‘s latest poll, conducted this month, found that 33% of respondents hold a favorable view of the party. The other side also is in negative territory, though the results were better, with a majority of voters viewing President Trump unfavorably by a 7-point margin and the Republican Party coming in 11 points under the break-even point. Even when respondents disagree with Trump on issues, they have more faith in the GOP to resolve them in Congress than in Democrats, per the Hill.
Democrats have planned town halls during the House recess to build opposition to Trump, with an eye toward winning big in next year’s midterm elections as they did in his first term. The Journal suggests its poll indicates possible problems with that strategy. More voters identified as Democrats than Republicans at that time. That’s flipped since, though the GOP lead is only 1 percentage point in the new poll. Democrats still have a 3-point advantage when voters are asked if, should the election be held today, how they’d vote in a congressional race. But in 2017, Democrats led on that question by 8 percentage points.
So will this just be another election where ‘anybody but Trump’ and we get another feckless leader?
What do you think?
Will we continue on this path of destruction or will rationality return to our political system?
Can we save this republic or is it too late already?
The battle for redistricting has arisen yet again many years before it should Texas and now California are playing the game using gerrymandering as the weapon in a the ideological battle.
This whole system is so screwed up….it allows a party to pick its voters not the voters to pick the party….time to flush this crap down the toilet where it belongs.
But how do we fix this cancerous practice?
Partisan gerrymandering makes it harder for voters to hold their representatives accountable. Congressional district elections become uncompetitive. With reelection in the general assured, candidates are focused on catering to their own party base, which tends to be a more extreme subset of their constituents. Through this process, partisan gerrymandering often reduces effective representation in Congress and can play a role in crowding out moderate and independent voters.
But here’s a twist: President Trump’s new wave of extreme gerrymandering may actually backfire, paving the way for electoral reform. Partisan gerrymandering is unpopular with voters, as we’ve seen repeatedly in recent years. Voters in states such as Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, and New Jersey, have supported nonpartisan redistricting commissions.
In 2021, Democrats tried and failed to pass the For the People Act, a bill that would have limited partisan gerrymandering nationwide and implemented non-partisan redistricting commissions in every state. But Republican senators blocked the bill.
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One proposed solution is bipartisan redistricting commissions. These can fail when the parties cannot agree on a map. For instance, the Virginia commission deadlocked in 2022, leaving the courts to draw the maps. Then there are more radical solutions that effectively blow up the current electoral system as we know it, such as multi-member districts or aproportional representation. But we think it is unrealistic to get rid of a system that has been in place for two hundred and fifty years.
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Our approach, which we call the “Define-Combine Procedure,” splits the map drawing process into two simple stages. First, one party divides the state into twice the number of needed districts—for example, 20 sub-districts for a state that needs 10 congressional seats. Then, the second party pairs those sub-districts into the final 10 districts. The result is a fairer map than either party would have drawn on its own. Instead of mutually assured gerrymandering, this approach leads to mutually assured representation.
The only way to fix this problem is to get rid of it altogether…..and one way would be to do away with political parties (will cover this at a later post) then there is no need to go in search of party loyalists.
I think their solution will just morph into more problems if enacted.
That was the answer Donny gave when asked if he would run again….it is sweet music to the ear and mind but is probably all BS.
President Trump didn’t rule out running for a third term in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC‘s Squawk Box on Tuesday. He boasted that he had received the “highest vote in the history of Texas, a record that they say won’t be beaten unless I run again,” prompting the question, “Are you going to run again?” He replied “Probably not,” adding, with a laugh, “Probably not, I’d like to.” Trump has repeatedly mentioned the possibility of running for a third term since he started his second term in January, though doing so would require a constitutional amendment supported by two-thirds of the House and Senate and ratified by three-quarters of the states, USA Today reports.
“I’d like to run. I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” Trump said. “You know why? Because people love the tariffs.” Squawk Box‘s Joe Kernen pushed back against Trump’s poll numbers claim, saying, “Overall poll numbers, you don’t have the best you ever had in overall poll numbers.” Trump replied that he was at 71% overall and “94% and 95%” among Republicans. When Kernan countered that some polls had his approval rating down in the 30s, Trump said, “But they’re fake polls, Joe, I had a lot of fake polls.” It’s not clear where Trump got the 71% number, Mediaite reports. Even the pollsters friendliest to Trump haven’t put him above 50% recently. The RealClearPolitics poll tracker puts Trump’s approval rating at average of 45.9%.
He has the ‘best poll numbers he ever has”?
What a delusional POS.
But let’s say he holds true to the lie and does not run again….that would open the door for that massive gasbag Vance…..then the question will be asked who (for now) would be his opponent?
So, what are the results? Well, the Emerson College June poll suggests that Vice President JD Vance is currently the leading contender to succeed President Trump as the Republican nominee in the 2028 presidential election.
Vance is currently backed by 46% of Republican voters — leaving other high-profile names like Marco Rubio at 12% and Ron DeSantis at 9% trailing far behind.
And July’s national poll – conducted by Emerson College between July 21 and 22 – surveyed 1,400 registered voters, and pitted Vance against three possible Democratic candidates: former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
In a hypothetical matchup with Buttigieg, Vance holds a narrow edge with 44% of support to Buttigieg’s 43%, while 13% of voters remain undecided.
Against Ocasio-Cortez, Vance leads 44% to 41%, with 15% undecided. The widest gap emerges in a potential race against Newsom, with Vance garnering 45% of the vote to Newsom’s 42%, and 13% still undecided.
“A key takeaway from the ballot tests is that about 13% of the electorate remains persuadable, while the other 87% have already settled on a party preference,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said.
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87% have already made up their minds on their choices…..that should freak you out because we are 3+ years away from the election in question and already people have decided….I know it is early and things can change on the ground…..but to already have made up your mind this early illustrates to me just how lazy and uninformed the public must be.
Do I have a choice at this early stage? No I do not….I am not really impressed with anyone mentioned.
I have been a third party voter since 1984….I was a Dem in 1976 and 1980 but then I could not vote for the nominees in good conscience……so I looked for an alternative and have continued that search every since…..why? I believe the two party system has f*cked up American democracy to the point if may not be repaired.
The popular thing to do is blame Trump for this decline….although he has not helped American pursuit of democracy the slow death is not all his fault.
Fivethirtyeight can explain it much better than me….
As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous election audits, aspiring candidates embrace the fiction of a stolen 2020 election, and a majority of GOP voters still believe Trump is the “true president,” the obvious questions follow: Where is this all headed? And is there any way out?
In one telling, the Republican Party will eventually come back to its senses and move past former President Donald Trump and Trumpist grievance politics, especially if Republicans lose a few elections in a row and realize that it’s a losing strategy. But there’s another possible outcome: More contested elections, more violence and, ultimately, a collapse into competitive authoritarianism enabled by electoral advantages that tilt in one party’s favor.
Trump and his particular style of party leadership are easy and obvious targets to blame for the decline of American democracy, as well as the Republican Party’s increasing illiberalism. But if Trump was transformative, the more important question is: Why was he able to succeed in the first place?
The most compelling theory based on historical patterns of democratic decline is that hyper-polarization cracked the foundations of American democracy, creating the conditions under which a party could break democratic norms with impunity, because winning in the short term became more important than maintaining democracy for the long term.
This is basically about the elections past and present where one issue politics has ruled the day…..to my way of thinking it basically began in earnest with Reagan.
1980 was when religion was allowed to control the dialog….1980 was when people on welfare became the bad guy…..on and on….it has just gotten worse with each passing election.
Comparing Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan has become the key trope of the Republican Party’s decline. Trumpism is typically cast as a drastic deviation from the golden standard of US conservatism set by Reagan. But according to Olga Thierbach-McLean, Reagan’s political legacy is the disease rather than the cure
In the ongoing identity crisis of US conservatism, anti-Trump Republicans have been caught between partisan battle lines. They find themselves aligning with Democrats in opposition to Trumpism. But they have also been under pressure to produce an alternative both to liberal and MAGA (Make America Great Again) agendas.
So far, they have failed to put forth a fresh conservative vision. Instead, they have reverted to political nostalgia centred around the towering figure of Ronald Reagan.
Most conservative Trump critics have explicitly framed their opposition in terms of restoring ‘the party of Ronald Reagan’
According to a common refrain, Trump is the direct antithesis to Reagan’s ‘intellectual depth and philosophical consistency, respect for ideas and elevated rhetoric, civility and personal grace’. In fact, most conservative Trump critics have explicitly framed their opposition in terms of restoring ‘the party of Ronald Reagan’.
Is the Reagan myth really where the GOP wants to be?
Ever since the faith based voter has embraced the hypocrisy of the GOP they have been basically ignored especially after the voting….
On Oct. 30, 1975, after then-President Gerald Ford declared that he would veto any bill calling for “a federal bailout of New York City,” the New York Daily News ran a story with the now-famous headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”
For years now, many conservatives and people of faith have felt that the entrenched Republican establishment and GOP “leadership” continually conveys the same message when it comes to the party following up on campaign promises made to those voting blocs.
Once reelected, and often because of conservative and faith-based voters, those establishment Republicans and their leadership would stab those constituencies in the back as they cozied up to corporate America, lobbying firms, Big Tech, the mainstream media, and any special interests who might fund their campaigns or hire them once they left Congress.
Sorry but this is what they get when single issues are all they are capable of handling at one time.
Expand your mental endeavors and maybe you can find people that will do your bidding.
Then there is the distorted definition of the GOP’s version of ‘freedom’…..
Queer people in America are not feeling “freedom,” particularly after the most recent deadly attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs. As if to amplify the Republican message of hate and fear against this vulnerable group of our fellow Americans, it happened on Trans Remembrance Day, when we honor the memory of trans people who’ve been the victims of hate and violence.
Nonetheless, Republicans continue to peddle LGBTQ+ hate as part of their “freedom agenda,” with Ron DeSantis saying he’s “saving” children from evil Florida teachers bent on “sexualizing children in kindergarten” and Gov. Kristi Noem proclaiming: “In South Dakota, only girls play girls’ sports.”
Mike Pence, no friend to queer people or women, announced his very own “Freedom Agenda,” telling reporters, “It really is an effort to put in one place the agenda that I think carried us to the White House in 2016, carried two Bush presidencies to the White House and carried Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.”
Republicans, however, have a weird definition of what it means to be “free.”
All the bigotry and hatred has divided this country into opposing units…..former Repubs and Dems have decided to try and form a third party……
Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America’s dysfunctional two-party system.
The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.
The new party is being formed by a merger of three political groups that have emerged in recent years as a reaction to America’s increasingly polarized and gridlocked political system. The leaders cited a Gallup poll last year showing a record two-thirds of Americans believe a third party is needed.
The merger involves the Renew America Movement, formed in 2021 by dozens of former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump; the Forward Party, founded by Yang, who left the Democratic Party in 2021 and became an independent; and the Serve America Movement, a group of Democrats, Republicans and independents whose executive director is former Republican congressman David Jolly.
My thoughts…Yang is a techie and is a business man….this new party will be a big business party….we already have two of those we do not need another.
I will give them the benefit of the doubt and wait for an official platform before I go full monty on them.
This is NOTHING new……anyone remember Unity08 or AmericansElect2012….both we a team up of GOPers and Dems….they were con jobs….read what I wrote back then….
Please tell me the Yang is not doing this just to keep his hat in the ring…..I mean he lost the NYC race….
I believe we definitely need a good third party apart from the crap of the corrupt two we have now….but right now I do not think this is it…..we need a true Progressive party…..a Bull Moose Party…..(i wrote about this in 2010…will you listen now?)
