For a decade, the loudest liberal voices turned rage into content — and accidentally built the most effective Republican turnout machine in history. This isn’t about Trump’s genius. It’s an autopsy of the disease that keeps delivering him power. If you’re ready to stop coping and start winning, read this before President Vance in 2028.
This leaves me speechless.Nothing new to add! Move to center? Won’t do it…
If raping little girls,overt racism and misogyny is accepted by voters and those same voters want Trump, it’s time to move to Canada! Or, if we could get the people who don’t vote to care enough to vote and win back the country maybe that could do it…how do you target non voters? Will they vote their pocketbook? Follow like sheep? It is worrisome that so many citizens re tolerant of such despicable behavior! I just don’t know if we will recover…keeping hope alive! But worried!
And yet we have a senate candidate in Maine, overwhelmingly popular, who has been accused of doing less than, but similar things, as Trump, Kavanaugh, Hegseth, Patel and other Republicans; and we may see the Democratic Party sideline him because of “scandals” that are obviously unimportant to most voters. Puhleeeez.
Dana… you are so right on the money with this... and what we don't see in the mainstream media and I'm trying to have guests on to give more context.. Some of the biggest rising stars in the Democratic party have been sidelined because of their refusal to participate in certain campaign Finance practices, but see you there candidates becoming very rich merry quickly by championing things that are quote unquote party values... So they are really corporate interests that have been paid for with donations to the dnc.. If the party keeps going down this road, and the people start exposing these things including getting rid of somebody that's immensely popular for tattoo and a strange comment that he supposedly made.. they will be taken less seriously by the 45% of the country that is independent… that decides elections
Thank you, Ryan! I’m not going anywhere, e cause I still have hope! I am not sure who the Trump supporters are anymore. When the Pope came out enraged at the treatment of immigrants and citizens by ICE, I assumed most in the Roman Catholic Church would stand with him. Not the case…sadly! The majority of church members still believe in Trump, so I am truly disappointed in the white population for the attitude. Fearful for their position since they are also aware he raped a 13 year old in 1994. “God will judge him” was the response I got from over 20 people I know in the LI church. Frightening. So Ryan, I fear the racism still exists. There must be a stronger message of love, kindness and equality.
I have been retired for a long time and believe in term limits and the end of Citizens United. We need legislators who are public servants,not career politicians who build up their war chests from special interest groups to whom they are beholden. I am not naive enough to think this will happen in my lifetime, but I was proud to wear the title given to me by Paul Townsend,May he rest in peace, of citizen legislator. This is what our founding fathers wanted. Clearly, major reform is needed. It’s not coming from the current system and people must be brought in and educated to make changes. Apathy is rampant, and we need more people voting for THEIR OWN GOOD, which may end up being matters of the purse.
The DCC is addicted to not rocking the boat so they refuse to lead, refuse to commit to doing what the country needs, and will “compromise” to such an extent that it truly is “capitulation”. Yes, Trump and much of the GOP are evil. But what are the Democrats? The GOP has their sheep convinced the Democrats are evil.
The DCC needs to allow progressive ideas in to create a positive, constructive, identity for Democrats. I REFUSE to contribute to the DCC — only to individual candidates.
Nope, the broligarchy and Russia caused fraud and interference thus stole 2016, tried to steal 2020, stole 2024. It’s ISNOTREAL pulling the marionette strings. Aipac and Cunts/Citzens United need to sent to Nuremberg 2.0 as well as every person that hates aipac blood money on their hands. 🐸
Just recently at state of union address. Hakeem tells reps to be silent! Good on Ilan Omar screaming at him and Rashida. Then there were two separate protests by capital. We need to stop agonizing and start organizing! And unite in some kind of cohesiveness.
I do love your frankness at calling out the Dems! You are 💯correct and it’s why Independents are becoming much more important!
I do hope you will write one on the Republicans as well? Lord knows they have their own “Outrage”.
It was the failures of both Parties that got us into this situation. And it’s the American Citizens who failed in their duties as Citizens to pay attention to what their elected representatives were doing!
WE ALL HAVE BLAME SO INSTEAD OF LOOKING OUTWARD FOR A SCAPEGOAT, WE NEED TO LOOK INWARD AT OUR OWN PART IN THIS MESS! Thanks for a great read!!
I think media is the main character in this story. Common denominator. They have been profiting the most from both Parties pay-for-play propaganda.
Fox took up the mantle for the Christian Conservatives in the early 80s.CNN did the same with elite liberals. While the clash of the 2 opposing views was entertaining, it was also extremely divisive. Made for good ratings and also why they started the 24/7 news cycle.
It’s always all about the money.
Republicans are like the dog who chases cars. When they actually catch it, they don’t know what to do with it. Reps want more than anything to be in control of the masses. But they are terrible at governing! They get drunk
I can’t believe both Parties have done nothing to check media and demand they stick to facts. But when both are profiting from the lies, of course they let it continue. The solutions are simple, it’s getting it done that’s so hard! Everyone but the politicians want term limits so no one will put forth a bill! That right there says they are not working for US.✌️🇺🇸
I know exactly what you’re saying! Most people are voting based on their parents and grandparents. They get in the booth and just vote R or D because they are too lazy to do their homework to see if that candidate even has the values the voter is aligned with. I have been guilty of it myself. But I admit it and am ashamed of it.
This is what comes from looking inward instead of pointing fingers outward. I do my best to be armed with knowledge before I step in the booth! ✌️🇺🇸
Outrage at Trump is the only thing the left can agree on. Everything else on the left is subject to some type of purity. We can only work with those who believe 100% of what we believe, which means that none of us can work together. We'll be better when we figure out that good isn't the enemy or perfect, or whatever the saying is.
So. This is a little bit off topic but it ties into this obvious need for a new identity. They call it negative partisanship when your party starts to just stand for, “the other side is bad.” most people hear it during campaigns. Politicians go negative when they can't brag about something. They tap the other one. But this is a political science term. It's never actually become the actual stance of the citizenry. That's what's so crazy about how easily the misplaced outrage actually works like a mechanism bringing all your worst fears to fruition.
Far we've come from the left versus right age or political spectrum, and really turned into power versus people.. Citizenry living in a corrupt system that's been designed to be that way.. What do you think about an independent presidential candidate? Any baby boomer will tell you that this is a suicide mission. We'll split the votes and it's lose the election. But I really feel like somebody can use the Donald Trump blueprint. Place the a****** demeanor that outrageous people, and replace it with sincere good old-fashioned democratic (not as in the blue team. Democratic as in democracy) message just like Obama and Trump shared. Middle class, and much to have a percentage of this country has had their opportunity and hope taken away. There's enough transparency that if you look, you can see the corruption with receipts. I'm going to come in and change it off. Donald Trump said he's going to train the swamp. But isn't there a single human being out there that understands that if you have enough money for the platform, you can just talk to people.
And the second part is.. the independent route isn't the way.. what about someone like Trump getting into the Republican primaries and very similarly to trump.. not a republican.. Just somebody that says he is. The DNC is much more difficult to get a nomination when you're not a party line candidate. Is there any chance that people in the left would be able to recognize this theoretical Republican candidate as the answer to all of our problems? Or are we literally going to pretend that the country is about the letter d, with the color blue or the letter r with the color red forever?
Hmm. While I agree that the moralising and sermonising by US liberals is a distinct and very unhelpful aspect of US politics, to my mind, it’s the libertarian tinged approach to organising that is gobsmacking. That, and the posture that racism/white supremacy in the US is so ever present and politically potent that to even suggest it can be organised against, is scorned as ‘not understanding the problem’.
Hey Linda. Thank you for taking time to read, and comment, on my post.
This gets at something that has always bothered me.
A problem can be real, serious, and deeply rooted while still being solvable.
Too much of modern politics has drifted toward treating social problems as permanent features of the landscape rather than challenges to be overcome.
If racism can never be organized against, reduced, or meaningfully challenged, then what exactly is the purpose of political activism?
The goal should be progress, not perpetual diagnosis. Otherwise we end up building entire political identities around managing grievances instead of solving them.
I actually wrote a post about this in my post today...
Personally I think this whole article is rubbish. I do not agree with anything you say. According to you there is nothing we have done right or can do right .
People across the spectrum of the left are too wrapped up in their judgment and "rage " to see that they're being affected and that they need to take action as a result. It would be nice to take the mic from the clueless mods and arrogant leftists and give it to the people who know they're suffering. People who have heard of Gill Scott Heron and know that the revolution won't be delivered via Prime.
This leaves me speechless.Nothing new to add! Move to center? Won’t do it…
If raping little girls,overt racism and misogyny is accepted by voters and those same voters want Trump, it’s time to move to Canada! Or, if we could get the people who don’t vote to care enough to vote and win back the country maybe that could do it…how do you target non voters? Will they vote their pocketbook? Follow like sheep? It is worrisome that so many citizens re tolerant of such despicable behavior! I just don’t know if we will recover…keeping hope alive! But worried!
And yet we have a senate candidate in Maine, overwhelmingly popular, who has been accused of doing less than, but similar things, as Trump, Kavanaugh, Hegseth, Patel and other Republicans; and we may see the Democratic Party sideline him because of “scandals” that are obviously unimportant to most voters. Puhleeeez.
Dana… you are so right on the money with this... and what we don't see in the mainstream media and I'm trying to have guests on to give more context.. Some of the biggest rising stars in the Democratic party have been sidelined because of their refusal to participate in certain campaign Finance practices, but see you there candidates becoming very rich merry quickly by championing things that are quote unquote party values... So they are really corporate interests that have been paid for with donations to the dnc.. If the party keeps going down this road, and the people start exposing these things including getting rid of somebody that's immensely popular for tattoo and a strange comment that he supposedly made.. they will be taken less seriously by the 45% of the country that is independent… that decides elections
Thank you, Ryan! I’m not going anywhere, e cause I still have hope! I am not sure who the Trump supporters are anymore. When the Pope came out enraged at the treatment of immigrants and citizens by ICE, I assumed most in the Roman Catholic Church would stand with him. Not the case…sadly! The majority of church members still believe in Trump, so I am truly disappointed in the white population for the attitude. Fearful for their position since they are also aware he raped a 13 year old in 1994. “God will judge him” was the response I got from over 20 people I know in the LI church. Frightening. So Ryan, I fear the racism still exists. There must be a stronger message of love, kindness and equality.
I have been retired for a long time and believe in term limits and the end of Citizens United. We need legislators who are public servants,not career politicians who build up their war chests from special interest groups to whom they are beholden. I am not naive enough to think this will happen in my lifetime, but I was proud to wear the title given to me by Paul Townsend,May he rest in peace, of citizen legislator. This is what our founding fathers wanted. Clearly, major reform is needed. It’s not coming from the current system and people must be brought in and educated to make changes. Apathy is rampant, and we need more people voting for THEIR OWN GOOD, which may end up being matters of the purse.
The DCC is addicted to not rocking the boat so they refuse to lead, refuse to commit to doing what the country needs, and will “compromise” to such an extent that it truly is “capitulation”. Yes, Trump and much of the GOP are evil. But what are the Democrats? The GOP has their sheep convinced the Democrats are evil.
The DCC needs to allow progressive ideas in to create a positive, constructive, identity for Democrats. I REFUSE to contribute to the DCC — only to individual candidates.
Nope, the broligarchy and Russia caused fraud and interference thus stole 2016, tried to steal 2020, stole 2024. It’s ISNOTREAL pulling the marionette strings. Aipac and Cunts/Citzens United need to sent to Nuremberg 2.0 as well as every person that hates aipac blood money on their hands. 🐸
Just recently at state of union address. Hakeem tells reps to be silent! Good on Ilan Omar screaming at him and Rashida. Then there were two separate protests by capital. We need to stop agonizing and start organizing! And unite in some kind of cohesiveness.
I do love your frankness at calling out the Dems! You are 💯correct and it’s why Independents are becoming much more important!
I do hope you will write one on the Republicans as well? Lord knows they have their own “Outrage”.
It was the failures of both Parties that got us into this situation. And it’s the American Citizens who failed in their duties as Citizens to pay attention to what their elected representatives were doing!
WE ALL HAVE BLAME SO INSTEAD OF LOOKING OUTWARD FOR A SCAPEGOAT, WE NEED TO LOOK INWARD AT OUR OWN PART IN THIS MESS! Thanks for a great read!!
I think media is the main character in this story. Common denominator. They have been profiting the most from both Parties pay-for-play propaganda.
Fox took up the mantle for the Christian Conservatives in the early 80s.CNN did the same with elite liberals. While the clash of the 2 opposing views was entertaining, it was also extremely divisive. Made for good ratings and also why they started the 24/7 news cycle.
It’s always all about the money.
Republicans are like the dog who chases cars. When they actually catch it, they don’t know what to do with it. Reps want more than anything to be in control of the masses. But they are terrible at governing! They get drunk
I’m hj
I can’t believe both Parties have done nothing to check media and demand they stick to facts. But when both are profiting from the lies, of course they let it continue. The solutions are simple, it’s getting it done that’s so hard! Everyone but the politicians want term limits so no one will put forth a bill! That right there says they are not working for US.✌️🇺🇸
I know exactly what you’re saying! Most people are voting based on their parents and grandparents. They get in the booth and just vote R or D because they are too lazy to do their homework to see if that candidate even has the values the voter is aligned with. I have been guilty of it myself. But I admit it and am ashamed of it.
This is what comes from looking inward instead of pointing fingers outward. I do my best to be armed with knowledge before I step in the booth! ✌️🇺🇸
Outrage at Trump is the only thing the left can agree on. Everything else on the left is subject to some type of purity. We can only work with those who believe 100% of what we believe, which means that none of us can work together. We'll be better when we figure out that good isn't the enemy or perfect, or whatever the saying is.
So. This is a little bit off topic but it ties into this obvious need for a new identity. They call it negative partisanship when your party starts to just stand for, “the other side is bad.” most people hear it during campaigns. Politicians go negative when they can't brag about something. They tap the other one. But this is a political science term. It's never actually become the actual stance of the citizenry. That's what's so crazy about how easily the misplaced outrage actually works like a mechanism bringing all your worst fears to fruition.
Far we've come from the left versus right age or political spectrum, and really turned into power versus people.. Citizenry living in a corrupt system that's been designed to be that way.. What do you think about an independent presidential candidate? Any baby boomer will tell you that this is a suicide mission. We'll split the votes and it's lose the election. But I really feel like somebody can use the Donald Trump blueprint. Place the a****** demeanor that outrageous people, and replace it with sincere good old-fashioned democratic (not as in the blue team. Democratic as in democracy) message just like Obama and Trump shared. Middle class, and much to have a percentage of this country has had their opportunity and hope taken away. There's enough transparency that if you look, you can see the corruption with receipts. I'm going to come in and change it off. Donald Trump said he's going to train the swamp. But isn't there a single human being out there that understands that if you have enough money for the platform, you can just talk to people.
And the second part is.. the independent route isn't the way.. what about someone like Trump getting into the Republican primaries and very similarly to trump.. not a republican.. Just somebody that says he is. The DNC is much more difficult to get a nomination when you're not a party line candidate. Is there any chance that people in the left would be able to recognize this theoretical Republican candidate as the answer to all of our problems? Or are we literally going to pretend that the country is about the letter d, with the color blue or the letter r with the color red forever?
Hmm. While I agree that the moralising and sermonising by US liberals is a distinct and very unhelpful aspect of US politics, to my mind, it’s the libertarian tinged approach to organising that is gobsmacking. That, and the posture that racism/white supremacy in the US is so ever present and politically potent that to even suggest it can be organised against, is scorned as ‘not understanding the problem’.
Hey Linda. Thank you for taking time to read, and comment, on my post.
This gets at something that has always bothered me.
A problem can be real, serious, and deeply rooted while still being solvable.
Too much of modern politics has drifted toward treating social problems as permanent features of the landscape rather than challenges to be overcome.
If racism can never be organized against, reduced, or meaningfully challenged, then what exactly is the purpose of political activism?
The goal should be progress, not perpetual diagnosis. Otherwise we end up building entire political identities around managing grievances instead of solving them.
I actually wrote a post about this in my post today...
Personally I think this whole article is rubbish. I do not agree with anything you say. According to you there is nothing we have done right or can do right .
People across the spectrum of the left are too wrapped up in their judgment and "rage " to see that they're being affected and that they need to take action as a result. It would be nice to take the mic from the clueless mods and arrogant leftists and give it to the people who know they're suffering. People who have heard of Gill Scott Heron and know that the revolution won't be delivered via Prime.
You sound like a “self hating” commie!!! Come in from the cold.