The Democrats are as helpless as the Democrats want to be in my opinion. I think we're going to see over the next year how many of them want to fight, and how many of them want to be helpless, and how helpless they'd like to be.
And if you don't think there are elected Democrats, many of them senior and highly placed, who would much rather be helpless, and would be happy to see Mitch McConnell retain control of the Senate ... well. You see things very differently than me.
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What does “unity” mean, if before unity, you are terrorized by racist cops, and after unity, you are still terrorized by racist cops?
If you want unity, work for universal health care, universal education, shelter for all, livable wages for all, and police who are accountable to their communities. End food insecurity. Clean people’s water. Build mass transportation and sustainable energy.
I'll admit this one benefits from pretty low expectations on my part. It's not clever, but it does the pose it does as well as such a thing can be done.
Ryan Reynolds was born to the part, which I mean as both a compliment and an insult.
Anyway I enjoyed it mostly and I laughed a few times and I really liked seeing a crazy pairing like Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead and I might someday watch the sequel and I never will feel compelled to see it again. So there you go.
Compromise is an agreement between two or more entities who are working on the same goal but disagree on how to achieve it.
Concessions are a sometimes-necessary part of a strategy involving contention against one or more entities who are working for a totally different goal.
Compromise isn't how you achieve unity. It is the fruit of unity.
Trying to achieve unity through compromise isn't just a bad idea. It's impossible.
Making unity your end goal will only result in full concession of any other goal—which those w/different goals will appreciate.
Yesterday was the deadliest in U.S. history, a situation created by Republican leadership, who continue to actively fight against any remedy, while our media covers the president's unlawful attempts to overturn an election as a "gambit"
I see the cause of our "political divide."
The idea astonishes, that there still exist opinion pieces suggesting those directly responsible for a rolling series of the deadliest days in U.S. history should face no consequence. The belief that a few people matter and the rest do not has never been more nakedly exposed.
Killing people because you want them dead is divisive.
Abandoning them to a virus when you could save them is divisive.
Making them die of cancer when you could give treatment is divisive.
Making them starve when you have food is divisive.