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Election 2022 is shaping up to be the most consequential election since 2020! Democrats fear the loss of rights and our very democracy. The stakes are quite high. For Republicans, they have only their old tropes to stir up fear and angst with. Which will turn out the base?
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What ails the Democratic Party in the run up to the 22 elections? Can it be diagnosed? Can it be cured? Yes, Yes, and YES! Will they? Who knows? Ye Olde Blogge does!
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The first of a two-part series on examining the reasons Americans don’t vote for politicians that support the issues they tell pollsters they support. Abortion is a good case study. Part two looks at the psychological reasons people don’t.
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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
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Suburban white voters once again powered a GQP victory seduced by the sweet Siren song of racist dog whistling. Maybe we really should just divide ourselves into red and blue countries and dissolve the United States.
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The fight to preserve voting rights and our democracy feels more desperate by the day.. If our current leadership is being less than inspiring, let us take our inspiration from each other and from the most trying time in American history: the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address, and President Lincoln.
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How likely is it that the Dems are going to hold on to the majorities in Congress? There are lots of reasons to be optimistic that the 2022 election will defy history and leave the Democratic party in charge of Congress, the most prominent one being that Trump isn’t running but he’ll be trying to help the GQP campaigns.
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The GQP is suppressing the vote of it’s OWN VOTERS!!1! The fools! Is it really? How has the GQP traditionally won? With low turnout. Their core voters will find away to vote, will ours?
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We are fighting for our democracy! One of the best things you can do is call your MoC’s to support HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and call your state legislators and governor to oppose laws restricting voting access! Here’s how!
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We are in desperate times! The darkest days of the #COVID19 pandemic are still ahead of us and our democracy remains under attack by the Republican Party. We must contact our MoC to express our support for Biden’s #COVID19 Rescue Plan and HR 1 – For the People Act of 2021.
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The circular firing squad is back on as progressive and moderate Dems argue over who snatched a squeaker from the jaws of a landslide in 2020. Of course, we can’t just celebrate having won one, right? Much of the debate turns on the role of “Defund the Police.” Unfortunately, the cognitive psychology of it points the finger squarely at it.
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The crucible of the COVID19 crisis and the Wisconsin election has laid bare the GOP effort to destroy our democracy. They will stop at nothing to suppress the vote including causing the suffering and deaths of thousands.
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In times of psychological distress — and boy are we all distressed — we become risk averse and start looking for safe bets. No matter how you slice it, Ol’ Handsome Joe comes up as the safest bet on the Democratic side.
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Ever wonder where the flock of voters is going to go to next? Why we all seem to gather round the politician du jour? What’s behind the Buttmentum? Well, it is no more difficult than realizing that thinking is hard.
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We’ve all heard the dire news of millions being removed from voting roles by the Repubes in an effort to suppress the vote and rig the election in 2020. Now’s your chance to do something about it!
Spend your time volunteering for a GOTV campaign in a swing state near you! I give you the contact information to get you started!
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The deliberate flaunting of democracy and the open destruction of it by the GOP just pisses me off. They are so sure that the electorate either cannot or will not hold them accountable that they aren’t even bothering to hide it. If we let them get away with it in November. If we don’t vote Trump and the Senate majority out in November, then we really are the United Fucking States of Fucking Stupid.
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We’ve all heard the dire news of millions being removed from voting roles by the Repubes in an effort to suppress the vote and rig the election in 2020. Now’s your chance to do something about it!
Spend your time volunteering for a GOTV campaign in a swing state near you! I give you the contact information to get you started!
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It looks like your Sunday long read! It is worth it since we go over some of the best polling concerning who “won” the third debate. There are a few surprises and a few confirmations of our impressions. Let me know what you think of the findings in comments! Have a good Sunday, y’all!
Let me explain to you how the second Democratic presidential primary debate, day 2 is a microcosm for all that is wrong in America today. No really. You’ll want to read this one. It’s good. I make predictions and everything.
Day 1 of the second Democratic Primary Debate is a wrap. It was spicy and feisty, but substantial. There were lines — I wrote the damn bill! Why do people run for president to say what we can’t do?
Here is my blow by blow. I’ll be writing up impressions in a separate post.
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