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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all the republicans bashing on this forum (of which most is well deserved), why are Democrats so stupid? Do they want us to lose to the republicans? It seems that we are handing them a fat W with all this insanely progressive BS that most of us don’t want. [/quote]

It's about power.   Many progressive politicians are capitalizing on the movement to be seen as anti-racist, gender inclusive, etc.  But they are doing it to further their own careers, rather than to truly help the people they talk about.

And we feel good about that.   It feels much better to vote for the antiracist than the anti-everything on the right.  We are all on the correct side of history, right?

Except they make everything worse with rapid and horrific policy.   Rather than sit down with experts, and methodically work through the nuts and bolts of good changes.  Good change takes longer, but nobody has the patience for that anymore. [/quote]

This. Same with education policy reform as well.[/quote]

Honestly, what’s the use. What is the use getting upset. This is what the city voters want.

DC is made up of poor voters in ward 7 and 8.  Then some rich idealistic urbanites in row homes in ward 6 (also a mix of poor voters there) . The you’ve got your richer folks up in NW. I guess there are pockets of haves and have nots all over the city. The fact is what you won’t find here is enough conservative voters to sway any local elections. None. No one have the backbone anymore to just call for tough on crime policy. It’s too third rail in this era of attributing all ills to the police and decrying jail as an inhumane punishment. I wonder if it’ll get bad enough in 10 years where maybe the pendulum will swing the other way, but I’m not hopeful. For now, and because of this policy, we’ll see more teens beating up ladies on busses or car jackings at gas stations, more atv riding on U street without consequence, more erosion of quality of life. I guess the voters just feel you can’t make an omelette without cracking some eggs.[/quote]

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