RE: Can progressives learn anything from Republicans?
August 1, 2018 at 8:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2018 at 8:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 1, 2018 at 8:50 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(August 1, 2018 at 8:20 pm)TaraJo Wrote: And whatever the method to the madness is, can democrats harness that for their good ideas?
I'd say no. Those tools may be great at capturing seats, but that doesn't make them great tools to advance a good idea (or, indeed, the common good).
Not capturing seats would seem to be an even worse tool for advancing good ideas.
(August 1, 2018 at 8:20 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Right about now, Trump and the Koch brothers and the rest of the Republican party have me disgusted. The way they're governing is going to leave a scar across the world that will last long after they're gone. And to me and a lot of other intelligent, educated people, we see Trump is an orange skinned windbag with no redeaming qualities as president. Not only that, but Republicans haven't had a decent president since before I was born.
But there's one big question: why do they keep winning?
I mean, serious, they've had a habit of nominating complete morons as president and those morons win. How? I had hoped after the disaster that was the Dubya presidency, we would have learned our lesson and not voted for idiots. Then Trump came along and we threw that lesson right out the window. I would have hoped after the mess they left the economy, we would know better than to believe that tax cuts for the plutocrat class are going to help anyone else. But those same people are cheering on Trumps tax cuts, the ones that are mostly paying out to the people who benefited from the Bush bailouts.
I guess my question is, why do republicans keep winning with such bad ideas? And whatever the method to the madness is, can democrats harness that for their good ideas?
Yes. Don’t assume if you let others live, they willl let you live. When the side is the republicans, the only political good one can ever do must start by knocking the other side to the ground politically, and then kicking them to death, and then kicking them some more.