Articles of Distraction

[Angrboda]

Democrats Have One Brutal Path to Survival if the Supreme Court Kills the Voting Rights Act

As a US voter, would you accept that trade off - few minority Congresspersons for a (potential) Democratic majority?

Boru

There's an awful lot of talk this past year that Democrats need to adopt the same dirty tactics that have been successful for Republicans. Effectively this amounts to ceding the high ground. It's a bit of a lose-lose situation. If you adopt their tactics, you become no better than them and lose what actually made progressive political ideals worthwhile, the notion of transforming the world into a better place. On the other hand, if you don't, you are at a systematic disadvantage against those who choose to game the system, cheat, and otherwise engage in bad-faith politics. I don't know what the solution is. I suspect it probably doesn't matter because as a society, we seem to be doing little more than spinning our wheels, alternately electing progressive and regressive leaders as a consequence of the general reactionary behavior of the generally poorly informed masses.