You all MUST get over the fictional doomsday narrative that voting rights legislation has to pass right this second or we're all dead. That's nonsense. Back in the real world, voting rights doesn't have to pass any time soon. It just has to pass before the midterms – and it will.
I could get ten times as many likes, retweets, followers, and page views if I were willing to push the doomsday hyperbole that voting rights legislation must happen right this second or ALL HOPE IS LOST. But I refuse to push that crap, because it's false. And counter productive.
Most liberal pundits only exist to sell you this doomsday hyperbole, so you'll give them likes and retweets, and so you'll believe they're smarter and fiercer than the Democratic Party leadership. Your job is to not fall for this sky is falling nonsense. It'll paralyze you.
People who are paralyzed with fear can't fight and win. All they can do is sit there and stare at their screen and consume even more paralyzing doomsday hyperbole. Which of course is the whole point, because it drives ratings. But it deeply harms activism.
"But what is Schumer DOING?"
He's following the long and winding path that's required to pass this kind of legislation under these circumstances.
Schumer isn't some damsel in distress. You have to stop taking people seriously who claim he is, because it's obviously bullshit.
"But red states are passing voter suppression laws NOW!"
And federal voting rights legislation will wipe them all out. That's the entire point. All we have to do is pass it in time for the next election. Which is in late 2022. This is still mid 2021. Do the math.
"But our Democracy is going to die NOW unless the Democrats DO SOMETHING!"
Really? Is election day tomorrow, and somebody forgot to tell me?
It's crucial that we pass voting rights legislation before the midterms. But in spite of the pundit hysteria, it's not a rush job.
Pick one:
1) Try to ram through a voting rights bill right now, that's weak and has a good chance of not passing anyway.
2) Take the time to do the process right, on a voting rights bill that's strong and actually gets passed.
It's #2. So stop with the "do something NOW" crap.
Doomsday hysteria ALWAYS reduces your odds of success. Always.
Try to think of any scenario where panicked hysteria and defeatism will increase the odds of achieving your goal or having things work out well for you. There isn't one. Not in politics or any other walk of life.
The pundits who feed you the doomsday hysteria know exactly how politics works, but they want to pander to the fact that you don't know how politics works. They yell simplistic nonsense. They demand things that aren't even real. It's a con artist game. STOP FALLING FOR IT.
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McConnell had full control for two years, and he really only managed to pass one major piece of partisan legislation (tax bill).
Democrats have only had four months. They've already passed the relief bill. Working on two more major bills. Way ahead of McConnell's snail pace.
You have to get past the fictional narrative that Trump and McConnell were magically and instantly doing everything they wanted. That just flat out never happened. They got very, very little of their own stated agenda accomplished. It's just how it goes – even with full control.
Also, Biden is on pace to confirm far more judges, far more quickly, than McConnell did. You may not know that, since the media is giving zero coverage to the onslaught of judge confirmations the the Senate has scheduled for this month. But it's true.
The biggest piece of fiction in all of politics is that Mitch McConnell had some kind of magic wand control over his caucus. He did not. He spent forever wrestling with Collins, Murkowski, etc, on every bill. It was an ugly, slow, tortured process. Always that way on both sides.
The problem is that the media spent four years pretending McConnell was instantly getting everything he wanted without any difficulty. Even though your eyes kept showing you that this was never remotely true, the media has convinced you to believe it anyway.
So now that you believe a fictional previous four years where McConnell magically got everything in an instant, you’re outraged that Schumer isn’t able to pull off the same magic. Except in reality McConnell was constantly plagued by exactly what Schumer is plagued with.
1) Those of you calling for Chuck Schumer to step down as Majority Leader are being really stupid. We don't know what's currently going on behind the scenes, which is where 95% of politics takes place. We don't know what results Schumer will get on a voting rights bill.
2) We do know that by calling for Schumer's head in the middle of a legislative battle, YOU'RE giving up on the voting rights bill, while Schumer and the Democrats are still fighting to win. That makes YOU the problem. YOU are sabotaging your own side, just to fulfill your rage.
3) Do you really think Chuck Schumer is just refusing to wave a magic wand, and that some other Democratic Senator would step in as Majority Leader right now and wave that magic wand? Is that really your childlike simplistic perception of how politics works?
I've said all along that Trump would lose the election (which he did) and then he'd go to prison (he's currently being indicted). So I was right all along.
Now these trolls are pretending that I was always saying Trump would go to prison THAT SAME DAY. Bunch of silly clowns 🤡
Yeah that's it, I was really predicting that Trump would going to be dragged out of the White House and arrested the same day as my tweet 😆 No one is stupid enough to believe that's what I meant, right? Please tell me no one has a negative IQ like that 🤪 The stupid just burns.
Why was I saying all along that Trump would end up in prison? Because the Manhattan DA has been in the process of criminally indicting for financial crimes him since late 2019 (widely documented). So it was always a given that if he lost the election, New York would arrest him.
1) Manchin and Murkowski both need voting rights legislation to pass in order to get reelected in their red states (Murkowski will be primaried from the right). It’s why voting rights legislation will ultimately pass. But neither wants to be seen as rigging their own reelection.
2) What I mean by that is they’ll each face a far right reelection opponent who will accuse them of having “rigged” their own reelection by supporting voting rights legislation. And a lot of red state voters will fall for this line of crap.
3) So yeah, Manchin is doing everything he can to give the appearance that he’s against voting rights legislation, because that helps him in his reelection bid. But he’ll have to pass voting rights legislation, because that also helps him in his reelection bid.
When politicians (of either party) speak publicly, it’s just posturing.
You can’t take what they say as fact.
Political pundits never acknowledge this.
So most people have a fictional understanding of the political process.
The Democrats really are fighting to the death for you. The republicans really are fighting to the death for themselves. No, the two parties are not conspiring with each other. Don’t misunderstand my tweet. But almost NONE of politics takes place in public. Doesn’t work that way.
Accordingly, political battles are basically never won by stomping your feet, speaking in absolutes, or immediately making the “boldest” move you can think of. That stuff is actually how you lose a political battle.