Why the republicans are destined to fail

[thomasdixon]

Today the Republican party offers nothing constructive. No new ideas, no positive comments, just attack, attack, attack, while offering no constructive ideas.

The Republican’s will lose the midterms and the General Election because they are following a one liner going nowhere.

I here and now ask any Republican here to wake up, if you have any common sense, this is the time to user it. Wake up, be an American and not a Republicon,

If the Republicans win this time around our experiment in a democratic republic will be doomed.

[historia]

The Republican’s will lose the midterms and the General Election because they are following a one liner going nowhere.

This strikes me as nothing more than wishful thinking. At this point, most political forecasts predict that Republicans will easily retake the House -- and have a good shot at the Senate -- in the midterms.

[thomasdixon]

This strikes me as nothing more than wishful thinking. At this point, most political forecasts predict that Republicans will easily retake the House -- and have a good shot at the Senate -- in the midterms.

Dump is a con artist and only the dumb and ignorant follow his odor.

[historia]

This strikes me as nothing more than wishful thinking. At this point, most political forecasts predict that Republicans will easily retake the House -- and have a good shot at the Senate -- in the midterms.

Dump is a con artist and only the dumb and ignorant follow his odor.

Okay, but that doesn't tell us who is likely to win the midterm elections.

Analysis like this does.

[thomasdixon]

This strikes me as nothing more than wishful thinking. At this point, most political forecasts predict that Republicans will easily retake the House -- and have a good shot at the Senate -- in the midterms.

It is that kind of talk that gets the Democrats out and voting in mass.

[amortalman]

Reply to thomasdixon:

I think your crystal ball has failed you, sir. You might want to get one without an ass stamped on it. Elephants are in vogue.

[Athetotheist]

Reply to thomasdixon:

I think your crystal ball has failed you, sir. You might want to get one without an ass stamped on it. Elephants are in vogue.

Elephants are not in vogue. People hate what the GOP is doing: no covid relief, no affordable health care, no renewable energy investment, no limit on who can buy an assault weapon, tolerance of a violent insurrection......across the board, the elephants' positions are deeply unpopular. What makes the donkeys worse is that they enable the elephants at every turn with their refusal to function as an opposition party. The two major parties are the stars of the corporate snake oil show and no one will get anything worthwhile out of either of them. The sooner the nation abandons the two-party toxic waste dump and creates a healthy political structure, the better.

[amortalman]

Reply to thomasdixon:

I think your crystal ball has failed you, sir. You might want to get one without an ass stamped on it. Elephants are in vogue.

Elephants are not in vogue. People hate what the GOP is doing: no covid relief, no affordable health care, no renewable energy investment, no limit on who can buy an assault weapon, tolerance of a violent insurrection......across the board, the elephants' positions are deeply unpopular. What makes the donkeys worse is that they enable the elephants at every turn with their refusal to function as an opposition party. The two major parties are the stars of the corporate snake oil show and no one will get anything worthwhile out of either of them. The sooner the nation abandons the two-party toxic waste dump and creates a healthy political structure, the better.

What I meant by "elephants are in vogue" is that this president's rating has slipped off the cliff because his policies are hurting people and the whole country as well. Elephants are in vogue because by all indications come midterms donkeys (and I like donkeys) will get a beat-down. If this holds true, your all-inclusive statement that "people hate what the GOP is doing" is blatantly wrong.
It amazes me how politically divided and blind this country is that the left and right are continually at each other's throats and can't imagine anything beneficial from the other side. Before we can work together we have to stop hating one another. I disagree that we should abandon the two-party system that has worked quite well for over 200 years. IMHO, the far-left socialist radicals are systematically trying to dismantle our beloved democracy and they have gotten very vicious about it.

[JoeyKnothead]

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IMHO, the far-left socialist radicals are systematically trying to dismantle our beloved democracy and they have gotten very vicious about it.

I hear ya!

Dang trying to improve the lives of millions!

Let em eat bootstraps!

Antifa did Jan 6!

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to amortalman in post #17

What I meant by "elephants are in vogue" is that this president's rating has slipped off the cliff because his policies are hurting people and the whole country as well.

His policy has been hurting the country because his policy has been to let the elephants run amok with their policies. That is why his approval ratings have dropped.

It amazes me how politically divided and blind this country is that the left and right are continually at each other's throats and can't imagine anything beneficial from the other side.

I don't for a minute believe that the divisions between us are any accident. I firmly believe that they're a divide-and-conquer campaign orchestrated from the top so the rest of us won't unite to take people power back.

IMHO, the far-left socialist radicals are systematically trying to dismantle our beloved democracy and they have gotten very vicious about it.

If there are far-left socialist radicals in this country, they don't do anything "systematically". They're too busy attacking each other over whose idea is best to do much of anything at all. And if you think that "far-left socialist radicals" are any more vicious than window-breaking, police-assaulting, vice-president-threatening "patriots", then you should be paying more attention.

[Inquirer]

Reply to thomasdixon:

I think your crystal ball has failed you, sir. You might want to get one without an ass stamped on it. Elephants are in vogue.

Elephants are not in vogue. People hate what the GOP is doing: no covid relief, no affordable health care, no renewable energy investment, no limit on who can buy an assault weapon, tolerance of a violent insurrection......across the board, the elephants' positions are deeply unpopular. What makes the donkeys worse is that they enable the elephants at every turn with their refusal to function as an opposition party. The two major parties are the stars of the corporate snake oil show and no one will get anything worthwhile out of either of them. The sooner the nation abandons the two-party toxic waste dump and creates a healthy political structure, the better.

What I meant by "elephants are in vogue" is that this president's rating has slipped off the cliff because his policies are hurting people and the whole country as well. Elephants are in vogue because by all indications come midterms donkeys (and I like donkeys) will get a beat-down. If this holds true, your all-inclusive statement that "people hate what the GOP is doing" is blatantly wrong.
It amazes me how politically divided and blind this country is that the left and right are continually at each other's throats and can't imagine anything beneficial from the other side. Before we can work together we have to stop hating one another. I disagree that we should abandon the two-party system that has worked quite well for over 200 years. IMHO, the far-left socialist radicals are systematically trying to dismantle our beloved democracy and they have gotten very vicious about it.

Politics in the US is portrayed much like a sport and serious political discourse is all but absent from our TVs, the general public largely excluded from the discussions.

The political ads on TV recently make this clear, most of the ads are embarrassing to watch with their juvenile character attacks and staged images.

The fact that socialism is to all intents and purposes an expression of democracy, where the benefits to the majority not the minority are what counts, is pretty much unknown to most.

Nor do we hear Republicans complain much about the welfare state for the rich, even many Democrats don't complain much here with exceptions like Sanders.

Trump tried to illegally overthrow this democracy yet you write "far-left socialist radicals are systematically trying to dismantle our beloved democracy" it seems facts don't matter any more!

The US is becoming a population starved of truth, perhaps the most brainwashed nation on earth, the people are just pawns to the powerful who are artificially labelled "left" and "right" to maintain a pretense of difference when in many ways they stand for the same thing.

The clown Trump is partly attributable to this, by starving the people of honest factual analysis and promoting pettiness it created an opportunity for someone like Trump a master of pettiness, sarcasm, abuse, name calling, lies to outdo the rest of them, if people are conditioned to see politics in a shallow and superficial manner then we must prepare for more Trumps.

Really this BS about "socialism" and "the left" is absurd in the face of long standing traditions like school buses and police. I mean should people need Law Enforcement Insurance before they can expect their lives to be protected against danger?

Should a person's 911 call begin with handing over policy and coverage details before dispatching officers?

I've never heard any Republican argue that yet why not when they decry offering a nationalized health system to the people? Some will cry that the costs of developing drugs is high and so on, yet some 40% of the costs of new drugs is actually public money, again, welfare for the rich.