President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I agree with many of her thoughts; disagree on her timeline. “Build now to change things in 2026,” is wildly over optimistic. It will take a generation of folks willing to run and get trounced 70-30 over and over before the needle begins to shift. (Some places here it would look more like 80-20.)

If I knocked on every door in my town and announced I was a Democrat, more than half would assume on the spot I’m a pedophile and devil worshiper. How do you start gaining traction against that? Now you are no longer asking people to risk defeat, but to risk getting their skulls cracked open.

But she is absolutely right that the consultant class is the sorriest bunch of would-be helpers known to what’s about to be left of the republic.

 

And the upshot is what? OK, believe the worst. What action then?

 

Cancel culture

Editor-in-chief of Scientific American steps down after anti-Trump comments

 

The servitude is the point

 

In the posts, Helmuth apologized to younger voters, bemoaning that her Generation X was full of “***king fascists.”

“Solidarity to everyone whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f*** them to the moon and back,” Helmuth wrote.