The republican brand has been exposed for its sniveling despicable cowering to the wealthy and the radical right in our nation. That is the base of the republican party, the wealthy and the racists! So we Democrats have an opportunity to change the political majorities in the House and even the Senate. We cannot do anything through this 2018 election to remove trump from the presidency and if somehow he survives the Mueller investigation and prosecutions we can however change his ability to legislate without a buttress. By possibly securing majorities in both chambers of Congress we the Democratic party can put an end to trumps democracy destroying agenda the current Republican majorities are working feverishly to bring to fruition.
There is only one path for us to accomplish this. We must unify our liberal voters into a common cause to end the Republican representation where we can and we must get our vote out and vote. I say it again here like a broken record, 46.9% of the voting electorate did not bother to vote in the 2016 election. That is almost criminal in my mind but it is what it is and the only way we can make this turnaround come about is to get those 46.9% back into their duty to vote. One silver lining about trump is that his and the Republican agenda is so egregious that many who voted for trump or didn't vote at all are appalled by what is currently happening. So they are prime for steering toward the Democratic alternative but we must give them a purpose.
Unifying is the first step toward that purpose. Those of us who wish for greater liberal/progressive policies must learn to accept that change is often slow and methodical, much like it took 300 years to finally end slavery in America, another 100 years for us to crawl out of the segregated Jim Crow laws and another 50 years before we finally elected a half black/half white president. We must be vigilant in our march forward into the future often accepting the smaller steps while always preparing for the larger ones. We can do this Democratic party members with the help of the more swayable Independents and the now many disaffected moderate Republicans.
There is only one path for us to accomplish this. We must unify our liberal voters into a common cause to end the Republican representation where we can and we must get our vote out and vote. I say it again here like a broken record, 46.9% of the voting electorate did not bother to vote in the 2016 election. That is almost criminal in my mind but it is what it is and the only way we can make this turnaround come about is to get those 46.9% back into their duty to vote. One silver lining about trump is that his and the Republican agenda is so egregious that many who voted for trump or didn't vote at all are appalled by what is currently happening. So they are prime for steering toward the Democratic alternative but we must give them a purpose.
Unifying is the first step toward that purpose. Those of us who wish for greater liberal/progressive policies must learn to accept that change is often slow and methodical, much like it took 300 years to finally end slavery in America, another 100 years for us to crawl out of the segregated Jim Crow laws and another 50 years before we finally elected a half black/half white president. We must be vigilant in our march forward into the future often accepting the smaller steps while always preparing for the larger ones. We can do this Democratic party members with the help of the more swayable Independents and the now many disaffected moderate Republicans.
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