L L wrote:
nonequals wrote:
I do wonder if the Democrats REALLY understand the threat as they should? Critique:
If they really did, it seems to me that they'd put Priority #1 as governing in such a way as to minimize the chances of the Rs taking back either chamber in 2022.
Are you kidding?
They are politicians.
Pelosi and Schumer have been there a hundred years each.
All they do is prioritize how to get themselves re-elected.
Hate to say it but governing well doesn't win elections.
What wins elections is scaring the hell out of people about what might happen if the other side wins.
In other words, campaigning.
(We really need term limits)
Ironically, I suppose, I guess that I'm suggesting that winning elections against Rs SHOULD be their biggest priority between now and at least the 2022 elections. And I presume that, generally speaking, pushing to the left isn't the way to go. It's variable by member, of course, but at the D leadership level, not giving the Rs too much ammo for their tax-and-spend criticisms (or other common anti-liberal criticisms) would seem the way to go.
In other words, in "normal times," you'd seize the day and try to get your x-trillion bill and push your socially liberal cause. But you'd hold back on that, in the interest in getting as many Ds elected as possible.
As a politician, you're happy that you and your clan are still in power. And I as an American are pleased that the anti-democratic (and anti-honesty, and anti-science, and anti-rule-of-law, and .....) Rs aren't in power.
