Time is arguably the single most precious resource because no one can replace it once it's gone. I've greatly resisted the urge to criticize Merrick Garland, not that he didn't deserve it, but adding to the din seemed unhelpful. But now we know the results. Between:
1. Garland wasting time initiating the investigation, and 2. SCOTUS enabling and encouraging Trump to stall, delay and waste as much time as possible, they're the two biggest reasons that so many folks believe justice wasn't served and why there's so little trust in the "system."
For the people who believe in hell, many of then undoubtedly believe that there is a special place waiting for Garland's and The SCOTUS conservatives' arrival for aiding and abetting a high criminal and arch enemy of the state.
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Thanks for responding. Despite it's brevity, there's a lot in your response to unpack. I suspect that you're making an overgeneralization and perhaps some oversimplification, too. You're equating diverse voters with "progressive" when they're not necessarily the same thing.👇🏿
Furthermore, that progressive voters are younger/irregular voters are "veering right" is anecdotal at best. The wave elections of 2018 and 2020 contradict your claim and, at this juncture, 2024 looks more like a point in time rather than a trend.👇🏿
And you are conflating the policies of progressivism with the political emotional mood of some people in the country, specifically some on the left. The policies haven't changed, but the attitudes of some people have regardless of the policies.👇🏿
Former democratic voters who voted for Trump will come back as soon as Reagan democrats did: NEVER. Democrats who spent 30 years chasing them are like Chalie Brown with Lucy and the football: SUCKERS. Let's tell the truth for a change? If it wasn't Trump, it'd be someone else.
Yes, it may be the economy, stupid. But their view of the economy is inextricably, indelibly, and permanently tied to race, hate, and resentment. Yet whenever the democrats achieved success, it came directly from expanding the electorate, not by perpetually looking backwards.
As long as democrats continue to look back in hopes achieving a pipe dream of prodical democrats returning to the fold, they will continue to dissuade the changing, diversifying, growing voting population that has been the secret to their success, and diminish their own fortunes.
Folks are angry about election theft and the apparent lack of will of party leadership to do anything about it. That must be addressed. But for folks to deny that Biden being dislodged by big donors caused confusion didn't also contribute is just denial and must addressed, too.👇🏿
Democrats have always prided ourselves on being able to walk and chew gum. Now is not them time for tunnel vision refusing to examine ourselves because we're mad. Separate and apart from any election theft, party need to take a good, hard look at itself.👇🏿
All of the possible factors contributing to the loss must be addressed or we're just pretending, and we can forget about winning again any time in the near future. We can't be thin skinned or defensive about it.
FACT: Debt service - paying the interest on borrowing from Social Security or from other foreign governments - is the biggest component of the government budget. Not the military. Not social security.
Why?👇🏿
Because republicans refuse to raise taxes on the rich, insist ooncutting the revenue stream to pay for tax cuts for the rich, and have been robbing Social Security for decades to pay for their pet proects - like the Iraq War - without paying back.👇🏿
Now they want to eliminate Social Security while simply writing it all off and washing away their responsibilities. Republicans are the biggest thieves, deadbeats, and scofflaws in the history of the world.
Don't listen to the propaganda, and don't fall for the okiedoke.
A big of the reason that Social Security was etablished in the first place is that employers have never paid a wage suffieient for employees to save for retirement, particularly those who do not have employer pension funds.👇🏿
Consequently, many retirees and ttheir survivors wound up destitute. Thus normative economics in a just society required a solution: Social Security.👇🏿
Employers still don't pay a living wage, and employer pension fund have become far more scarce. Some pension funds have become bankrupt with employees losing their employee paid share.👇🏿
The democrats have a problem. It's not a Joe Biden problem or a Kamala Harris problem. It's an identity problem. Cornell Belcher (@cornellbelcher) provided one of the most insightful analyses of the Democratic party that I've heard in a long time on @NicolleDWallace today.👇🏿
I know that many of my friends have sworn off mainstream media and have specific and intense ire and invective towards MSNBC (so do I.) That's fine, but that's not the point or concern here. If you have the chance to watch that segment, it may be valuable.👇🏿
Cornell talked about how both Howard Dean and Obama advocated for and promoted growth of the democratic party by inviting in people who were never before in the party as a result of demographic change. While Dean lost in 2004, by 2008, Obama could never have won otherwise.👇🏿