Can we just agree that the only way democracy will be saved is if we all vote Democrat in next
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Anonymous
You don't seem to be able to separate local from state from Federal elections. I usually vote R locally but I'll vote D nationally because I don't understand how anybody could vote for a lying crook like Trump or a lying performer like DeSantis. |
Anonymous
Yup. This is how it’s going to have to be to crush the fascists. The Democrats have to win by such a ridiculous margin that they have room to maneuver. And preferably with fangs and claws. |
Anonymous
NP. Google Biden’s numerous attempts to force states to let trans-identifying men into women’s sports, bathrooms, prisons, and refer to biological males as “she.” Google Lia Thomas. Then Google the two female inmates pregnant at a NJ *women’s* prison because the Democratic lunatics there are letting men who claim they think they’re women go to women’s prisons. It’s a goddamn sh-t show. I don’t know how anyone who maintains a studious ignorance of the wreckage Democrats are making of women’s rights can consider themselves an informed voter. Wake the hell up. |
Anonymous
Ds are not interested in defunding the police. That is Fox News propaganda. Rs are interested in criminalizing homosexuality, contraception and abortion though. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. "Anyone who doesn't agree with me 100% = fascist." Good luck to you. You'll need it. |
Anonymous
Major left leaning news papers like NYT published editorials endorsing defund. And yeah an editorial is just another way of endorsing something but with some plausible deniability. |
Anonymous
We will. Unfortunately, if Rs control House and Senate, they will pass a national abortion ban. I am going to do whatever it takes to fight that. |
Anonymous
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html Yeah total Fox News fabrication right? |
Anonymous
DP. You know exactly what that means. You simply choose to ignore it, and all the other issues PP laid out. She is absolutely right, on all counts. |
Anonymous
Democrats let things get to this point in order to exploit the situation for votes. Let that sink in. |
Anonymous
You are a Republican and you think you support women's rights because you're mad about a transgender athlete? I'm not in favor of trans women competing against women personally but I'm not going to make that my hill to die on when Rs have banned abortion with no exception for rape, incest or health of mother in a number of red states, and more to come. Stop gaslighting. |
Anonymous
Sure, whatever you say. |
Anonymous
I dont think the pp telling you their opinion is "gaslighting." |
Anonymous
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The Vanishing Moderate Democrat
The bigger, more consequential question — not just for the moderates but for all Democrats — is whether this projected midterm wipeout is merely a cyclical occurrence or the manifestation of a much deeper and more intractable problem. Over the last decade, the Democratic Party has moved significantly to the left on almost every salient political issue. On social, cultural and religious issues, particularly those related to criminal justice, race, abortion and gender identity, the Democrats have taken up ideological stances that many of the party’s base cheer but the rest of the electorate does not. “The Democratic Party moved left,” says Will Marshall, the president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, a moderate Democratic think tank, “but the country as a whole hasn’t.” “There’s a sense among voters that Democrats are too focused on social issues,” says Brian Stryker, a Democratic pollster, “and those are more left-wing social issues that people think they’re too focused on.” In May, CNN asked 1,007 American voters for their opinions on the country’s two major political parties. After four years of Trump in the White House, an insurrection and unsuccessful attempt to overturn a presidential election and now a Republican Party that can be fairly described as a cult of personality and is moving further right on many of the same social issues, 46 percent of those surveyed considered the G.O.P. to be “too extreme.” But 48 percent of them viewed the Democratic Party the same way. “There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Democratic Party has a problem as a toxic brand,” says Max Rose, a moderate New York Democrat who lost re-election to his House seat in Staten Island in 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/magazine/moderate-democrat.html |
Anonymous
Wrong. Plenty of states will vote in favor of abortion rights. DP |