2018 is supposed to be the year the Democratic Party wins back control of
the Congress.
Operative words being “supposed to be”.
I know the liberals will tell you that things are going great for them
and they can’t wait until November for their much-needed victories in the
mid-term election scam. They believe
that Americans are pissed off enough with the orange-skinned narcissist in the
White House and with the GOP and their sociopathic games that they are hungry
for change. They dance with glee with
every stupid Twitter-tantrum Donald Trump throws, and with every screwjob his
White House gang enact, and with every embarrassing moment that goes on in the
White House with Trump’s “best people”.
And yet... there is a very good chance that they will fail to accomplish
this. There is a very good chance that
come November, the mid-term election scam will leave the Dems exactly where
they are now, powerless and impotent.
And, if they do, they will have nobody to blame for their failure but
themselves.
There are many reasons why the Democratic Party have been on the losing
side of politics of late. One of the
chief reasons is the fact that their chief spokeswoman, House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, is so despised by everyone outside of her district that the GOP actually
use her as a straw candidate to campaign against in other areas… and win…
frequently. But rather than to throw her
out on her ass, or at least convince her to gracefully retire like
so many GOP legislators have of late, the Dems keep on trotting her out in
front of the cameras for all to see and cringe.
Another reason is the lack of a coherent alternative for whatever issue
is up for discussion. Everything of late
has been simply a “Never Trump” campaign.
Whatever Trump proposes, they’re against it. But they don’t come up with a better
alternative. Trump’s plans and those of
the GOP may suck, and they may even be outright kleptocratic in nature, but if
all you’re doing is giving a Grump Cat “no” to those plans without an actual
alternative, people cannot consider the Dems to be a good alternative to the
GOP.
Remember that the biggest allure to Trump in the eyes of the voters is
that he supposedly would be an agent for change. When you have a system like healthcare that
is severely flawed, that is still screwing people over, and one side says they
can change that, and the other side says to stay the course no matter what,
which side do you think the people being screwed over will take?
But perhaps the biggest failing of the Democrats rests with three simple
words:
“The next election.”
Everything that they do or don’t do is focused on “the next
election”. Opportunities to stand up and
stand out are missed because the Democrats are fixated on that “next election”
that keeps coming up. It seems as if
they have stopped caring about how to properly govern and instead are focused on
that “next election”.
It’s been established that many of Trump’s choices for department
leadership are people who are the most un-qualified for the position. Either they don’t have the comparable
experience, or they’ve been on record saying that the very position they’re
nominated for should be abolished. But
when such a nomination is offered for confirmation, rather than make a public
stand against them, the Dems seem to sit on their hands and keep their mouths
shut and let the confirmation go through.
Why? Because they feel they can
use that in that “next election”.
Now I can understand when the Dems keep quiet because the GOP are openly sabotaging
their own efforts. The recent budget
shutdown is a great example of the GOP’s self-sabotage. When you have one GOP senator throwing
a temper-tantrum and shutting down the government overnight in defiance of
both Trump and party, it would be stupid for the Dems to jump in on that. But afterwards, they were pretty silent about
it. They failed to use the opportunity
after the shutdown was over to point out that it was GOP that sabotaged itself,
or to point out that the GOP are the only party that have used shutdowns as
political tools for the past twenty years.
That should have been a key point made in Sunday morning shows and the
late-night “comedy” shows. But it
wasn’t.
That’s what I mean by failed opportunities.
Another failed opportunity was the tax plan that Trump and the GOP
managed to get through. Yes, the fact
that they did manage to get their act together and pass one of Trump’s key
points did come as a surprise even to this commentator. We all got so used to the gang that couldn’t
legislate that we just took it for granted that the GOP would continually let
Trump down.
But here’s where the Democrats failed on it... first, they put Nancy
Pelosi’s nasty face in front and complain about “crumbs”, which allowed Vice President
Pence to school her on criticism and make the phony promise that it would be
“Christmas”. (I’ve talked
about this previously when it came to those so-called “$1000 bonuses”.) Then they failed to point out that this
much-promised “Christmas” would not be the
$4000 income increase that Trump and the GOP originally promised. Not only that, but House Speaker Paul Ryan,
aka “Mister Budget”, actually stepped in the mess by telling one struggling
American that she
should be proud of her meager $1.50 increase because it would supposedly
pay for her Costco membership. Of
course, “Mister Budget” quickly retreated on that and deleted his own
Twitter-twit post, but, again, nothing from the Democrats to follow through. Just another failed opportunity.
Let’s get brutally honest here… the Democratic Party have gotten so used
to being the fallback party for when the GOP screw up that they just presume
that the voters will automatically flock to them at some point. If not for this election, then for that
infamous “next election”. So why should
they do anything to get the voters to support them?
Unfortunately for America, the lazy complacency of the Democrats is
costing them in ways they are not yet aware of.
The orchestrated insurgency of the GOP during Obama’s two terms in
office resulted in numerous judicial vacancies.
Vacancies that are now being filled by the GOP in record speed with
their judges. That’s not something you
can fix come “the next election”.
With every department head filled by a Trump appointee, previous policies
that protected Americans are being dismantled.
The Federal Communications Commission, now under the control of a Trump
appointee, dismantled common-sense Net Neutrality regulations in favor of big
corporations and their parasitic philosophy of plunder at all costs. Protections that cannot be simply walked back
into place come “the next election”.
There was a very good reason why the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
was created, and that was because of the rampant parasitic greed that was
present during the Great Recession. But
now that Trump
has neutered that agency and turned it from protecting Americans to protecting
corporations, Big Corporate is free to prey on Americans with impunity again. That, too, cannot be simply walked back come “the
next election”.
In short, the damage may already be done thanks to the GOP. Imagine if the Dems do take majority control
of the Congress and they somehow manage to neuter the GOP minority from their
insurrectionist ways and they start walking back all of those Trump
changes. How many of those will be
blocked in the new conservative-leaning judiciary thanks to all of those
newly-appointed judges? And, again, they
can’t walk those back with an election. Let’s
also not forget that the justices in the Supreme Court are not getting any
younger. The moderate and
liberal-leaning justices will either start retiring soon or else they’ll pass
away on the bench. The pool of available
nominees is no longer as “progressive” as it used to be.
This is why I and several others have argued that
the Democratic Party needs to die in order for America to survive. They have become lazy and complacent,
thinking that everything will go just fine and all they have to do is wait until
that “next election”. They don’t have to
sell an alternative. They just say that
the GOP’s programs won’t work. That is
not leadership. That is the mentality of
a slacker.
There are really four choices in every election, despite the lies of the media
and paid political “experts”. There is
the GOP, the Democrats, an independent or third-party or write-in candidate, or
not voting at all. As long as the media and
the paid whores who call themselves “political experts” continue to spread the Orwellian
lie that there are no independent alternatives, the voters will either choose
between the fascistic and sociopathic GOP, a slacker party of losers, or else
they will not vote at all. Unless the
Dems clean up their act, or else they end their party and allow another to take
its place, the pissed-off voters will choose to not vote at all, and thus
cement the GOP’s virtual one-party rule.
And that is something that cannot be fixed come “the next election”.
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