Please register online if you aren’t already. Check your registration and your friends. Lots of people don’t have much time left to register! Don’t wait until the last minute!
I am so tired of this question, because anyone who is paying attention and isn’t deliberately deceiving themselves knows the answer is nothing.
He is Kim Jong Il, and the 37ish percent of Americans who stand by him are the brainwashed people of North Korea who are suffering because of him, and worship him, anyway.
His fans – his cultists – will never turn on him, and it’s time to stop treating this small number of people like they are rational people, acting on good faith. They are racists, they are authoritarians, they are slavish followers of his cult of personality.
And they are barely 4 in 10 people, so maybe instead of being so fucking focused on them, focus on the nearly 7 in 10 people who are disgusted by him, want him out of office, and are willing to do something about it.
American Evangelical Christians used to be the most likely to drop their support for a candidate if he showed moral failing.
A survey that the BBC reported on last night (19th August 2018) shows that they are now the least likely to drop a candidate if he shows moral failing. This is entirely in response to and caused by Trump.
They give no fucks about what he does, all they care about is what he lets them do, which is threaten trans children, deny gay people their civil rights, harass immigrants, turn women back into property and murder black people.
Don’t work on changing their minds, they’re a lost cause. Get others out to vote. And then abolish the electoral college.
Enough of this stuff. Stand up in the light of day and tell your
stories. All of them, right from the beginning. Admit that what you’re
confronting now is the end result of 40 years of conservative politics
and all the government-is-the-problem malfeasance you’ve been imbibing
since you were wingnuts in swaddling. The fire’s licking at your ankles
at last. Come out of the cupboards, you boys and girls. None of you are
heroes.
Hearings are starting even though Republicans refuse to release the documents from his time in the executive Branch for review. Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical.
The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.
Why do ya’ll look for a reason not to support people?
“Now there’s this about cynicism, Sergeant. It’s the universe’s most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If there’s nothing that can be done, then you’re not a shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink yourself in perfect peace.”
Quotes aside, I really… really kind of feel the need to remind people of a few pieces of perspective:
I don’t particularly care about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s nowhere near my neck of the woods and it’s unlikely I’ll ever run across her on a voting ballot, nor that her positions will have much effect on where I live. That’s really not the point.
What IS the point is that the reason the Democratic party, specifically, and American left, generally, are flopping around like worms cut in half for the last two years while an increasingly hostile fascist force occupies our offices of government is because every time, every time, every goddamn time anyone raises their head an inch above the crowd and begins to look even slightly like they might become some sort of the leader for the Left, this. Shit. Happens.
The smear machine will stop at nothing, they’ll go back twenty years or five thousand miles or pull one sentence out of War and Peace to present out of context or just flat out make shit up to present the would-be leader as a Failure and a Sellout and a Traitor To The Cause. And every one of y’all that goes along with it and declares that people like Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris or whatever is “cancelled,” every one of you is part of the problem.
I don’t know whether the OP is a genuine leftist purity zealot or a Russian dissent monger, but either way, they’re doing the Right’s work for them.
though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita.
Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.
“Why should the coast’s vote count more?” BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY A DEMOCRACY.
1. Don’t use the president’s surname. Refer to it as the GOP Administration.
2. Remember this is a regime. He is not acting alone.
3. Do not argue with those who support him. It doesn’t work.
4. Focus on his policies, not his orange-ness or mental state.
5. Keep your message positive. They want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their policies grow.
6. No more helpless or hopeless talk.
7. Support artists and the arts.
8. Be careful not to spread fake news – check it out first before sharing or posting.
9. Take care of yourselves.
10. RESIST.
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Re: Number 8 – I saw something very helpful the other day that says, “Any headline that gives you a strong burst of emotion, take five minutes to fact-check it before you pass it on.”
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