11-14-2016, 02:40 PM
(11-14-2016, 02:26 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-14-2016, 02:38 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Democratic voters are the majority in this country, yet we have no voice in the federal government and not much voice at the state level either. The Republicans are able to routinely now win the electoral college despite our majority, and squeeze us out.
The Republicans don't represent the people, but only the wealthy and powerful, as they:
1. Declare war on the environment, emasculate or shut down the EPA and unleash more global warming during the only time left for averting disaster.
2. Unleash trickle-down economics on a massive scale with huge tax cuts for the wealthy, massive repeal of business regulations, and massive cuts to social programs, possibly including medicare and social security as well as health care reform, and huge new debt; even after two previous administrations in which this program was tried and failed.
3. Provide a voice or an excuse for prejudice or violence against non-white, non-Christian Americans and women, and possible deportations of immigrants who may have committed no crime, and curtailing voting rights, the free press, the right to protest, and other rights important to these and other groups and all people.
4. Waste billions on an un-needed military and nuclear weapons expansion, thus providing new military toys to put at the hands of an unstable and tempermental (and perhaps treasonous) reality-TV star commander in chief who thinks he can get away with anything.
5. And lots more; what else have I forgot?
The demonstrations that Galen ridicules are in fact means of helping to organize this opposition, and a new DNC chair will lead it. This effort starting now was broadcast on the news concerning a huge demonstration tonight as people joined hands around Lake Merritt in Oakland. It's happening. I think those of us who agree need to join in. Democrats and Democratic voters need to organize the resistance to the Republican takeover now, and for years to come. We will need to write to Democratic legislators to man-up and resist Trump's Court nominees, and oppose all the Republican plans, unless they are consistent with the goals of progressive Democrats.
What is happening where you live?
There are plenty of Republicans and independent people who lean Right, who don't want to screw the environment, who don't feel right about income inequality, and, who are gravely concerned about the possibility of NATO falling apart. The way to stop Trump is a coalition of concerned Americans, who set party aside for a greater cause.
There are NO such Republicans, except perhaps a few in blue states like CA. We need to rev up partisanship. The Republicans are the ones doing all this. They want to do all this. Observe and remember who the Republicans are, and what they did over the past decades. The Democrats need to re-organize to become militant progressives, willing to stop the Repugs by any means necessary. The Democrats need to make it clear that they are the party that supports working people, not Trump. Trump is a fraud and must be stopped and debunked at every opportunity.
Some Republicans may be concerned about NATO, that's true. But I don't care anymore, because as long as we don't have a United States, we don't really have a NATO either. And we DON'T have a United States of America anymore; it's GONE!