This district has been heavily red for the last 60 years
One of the focal points of the campaign from the dem who won was opposition to musk
This district has been heavily red for the last 60 years
One of the focal points of the campaign from the dem who won was opposition to musk
Good! If Democrats can KEEP UP The Moment then they Might be able to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING when they Win a HUGE MARGIN OF VICTORY in the Midterms!
Dems are pressurable. Republicans are lot harder to pressure
Elections decide who you have to work with
They alone won’t fully fix things, but they can set the stage for progress
It’s going to take both voting and directed pressure to change things
Republicans caved to the Tea Party and a catch phrase. They are ridiculously easy to pressure.
The Democrats have been fighting against their own constituency for decades, pushing Hillary over Obama in 2008, Hillary over Bernie in 2016, and whatever you want to call that clusterfuck last year.
Hopefully, we can finally get a Guillotine Party to do to the Democrats what the Tea Party did to the GOP.
Republicans got the Tea Party. Democrats are getting the Guillotine Party.
Under what proof are Democrats pressurable?
Like, actually.
One party seems to be have actually adjusted its party to match the citizens requests and has an average age of their house leaders over 20 years younger.
Not for the better but change happened. Where is that present in the DNC?
Schumer is proof they are pressurable!
Very true. His donors apply pressure all the time!
get out here with that defeatist bs.
Look, Pennsylvanians know a thing or two about election a representative, that representative having a personality changing life event, and then that representative going on to fix absolutely nothing and in fact make things measurably worse.
But even still they did the math, calculated the risk:reward of their vote, held their nose and cast their ballots.
Just as I have for every election my whole life.
You want real, meaningful change? Support progressive candidates at the local level who will be in a position to get rid of first past the post voting. The two party system that enables the Democrats’ laziness is a direct, organic result of FPTP. Thankfully how voting works is legislated at the local level, meaning if we can get some form of Rank Choice then suddenly Democrats are going to have to care A LOT because it’ll be easier to vote them out without simultaneously voting a Republican in.
But until we can fix the source of the problem (FPTP) damage mitigation will continue to be the name of the game, and it’ll be a game we will eventually, inevitably lose.
We CAN fix it, but we need less cynicism* and apathy.
*I didn’t say “no cynicism” that’d be terrible, I don’t think I could get through the day without a cup or two… But everything in moderation, ya know?
We did that locally, then the dems teamed up with the GOP to defeat all of that, and then helped elected GOP county seats.
FPTP allows it, but FPTP is not the cause. We have had progressive politics in this country before, even with FPTP.
The cause is party leadership that is completely out of touch with reality.