I could go with reptiles…I always hated the snake house at the zoo.
Yeah, and talking about not having Obama’s back, think about 2010 when so many on our team decided that Obama had “sold us out” by not turning America into progressive paradise in 18 months. Most of our problems today date right back to that horrible year.
If the Obama voters had turned out that year to vote for Democrats, what a different world we would be living in today. For one thing, Hillary Clinton would be president. The main reason she is not is because we ceded the House to the Republicans, who then used their investigative power to bring her down. Without the Republican House, there would have been no e-mail “scandal,” no Comey letter.
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LOL Yes, that good old “economic anxiety” that tends to flare up mostly around minorities. It’s like a bum knee on a rainy day.
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YES! Every last word of this post.
I’d also add that because of the “sold us out” coalition that stayed home several Republicans won governorships in key states. Those governors then began implementing one voter disenfranchisement law after another. How many votes in MI, PA, WI, NC, FL, and OH were lost due to those efforts alone? It really all began with 2010, and the gains made in 2012 were not enough to undo the enormous damage of that year.
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Yes, and 2010 was also the election that handed Republicans the opportunity to gerrymander the hell out of the congressional districts.
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What’s Obama’s approval rating now?
That’s the thing - Democrats have to embrace the negativity. These people are terrible, objectively. Behave accordingly. Measured words are ineffective and unnecessary at this point.
Just look at the early indicators: Maddow is rivaling O’Reilly in TV ratings. WTF? The Colbert-Report-Enhanced is beating Fallon. SNL, Bill Maher, Seth Meyers, all having crazy years. Trump is so awful that he is waking people up - this is the time to resist.
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“Immigrants and poor people will always get the blame when capitalism fails.”
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Yes and I am late to the party on this but it has occurred to me recently that the health-care debate is really a I hate-the-black-guy debate. That is why repeal-and-replace is such a popular idea: it is not that the people do not want Health Care they just want it from a white guy. And yes it is expensive and that is upsetting people but really is upsetting them is that it is the expense comes from the initiative of a man with the horrible black skin! He should be washing their cars and doing some chores and getting yelled at, not sending them a bill! That is where the repeal part comes from, otherwise you just fix it!
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I remember arguing with those people at the time here, with amazement. They thought it was so cool to abandon the President because they did not get a multi-colored Pony right away like they wanted it. They were really proud of their obnoxiousness! The tea party was the result and most of them forgive themselves also over that!
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And their demonic followers. They crave proper troll credit.
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She may have been in an impossible situation, but by playing coy with who she voted for for President I can assure you she depressed the enthusiasm and turnout of African American voters and other parts of the base. And she likely gained exactly zero Republican or swing votes for it.
Third Way Strategery.
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The Af-Am vote in KY is pretty small, but I’ll grant you that turn out in the predominately black, West End of Louisville was abysmal, so there very well may be something to that. At the same time though, I think black folk understand even better than our white friends just how deeply racism runs and I think we tend not to be as put off by the stuff our white friends have to do to placate others as one might think.
The thing is Democrats hold a large registration advantage here just as they do (did?) in WV. Until Bevin’s election, there’d only been one Republican governor in KY since the 60s and that guy got run out on a rail (I’ve got a funny story about being hungover on a business trip and seeing him at breakfast at the Hampton Inn mere months after he left office).
Still, I think most true Democrats here understood the predicament she was in. There was just no good answer. None. If she says she voted for Obama then she’d have been playing into the “rubber stamp for Obama” narrative. If she said she hadn’t, she really would’ve pissed off Democrats. Dammed if ya do or don’t.
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Amen, brother.
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Plucky,
This was not directed at you. This stupid comment system. It was directed at the article in general.
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Didn’t have to wait long, reading the comments, for a sniveling righteous puritopian to pop in!
#FEELTHEBERNDUDEBROWEIGHSIN
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Fox News, tomorrow!
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Thanks for the insights, Plucky.
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As should we all be concerned. Trump is a highly destructive personality. He does harm to everyone and everything assocaited with him, including, to himself. Of course, the D.C.dysfunction has mostly to do with the dysfunction of the right in general, which has become a corrupt unpatriotic entity/racket. Their problem is not simply Trump, as the Nunes (who still has the support of Speaker Ryan and the GOP caucus) escapade reinforces. The GOP has been irresponsibly laying the groundwork for someone like Trump to rise to power. Trump and the greater GOP, including their voting base, are neither patriotic nor conservative. I still don’t get the sense that the press or the political establishment fully recognizes the existential danger in which the GOP has placed the entire nation.
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Except for the Russians and their Republican partners.
If you are not concerned, you’ve not been paying attention.