The Log Cabin Libertarians?

[David Horn]

(04-18-2022, 12:01 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Right Mr. Brower. Conservatives have launched an all-out attack on people who are different; trans, gay/lesbian, people of color, immigrants, the poor, the middle class; you name it. This has gone far beyond whether trans people can play women's sports. Now we are not allowed to know our history or understand people who are gay. Healthcare givers who help trans people are now threatened with long prison terms. Women are being forced back into back alleys and coathangers if they don't want to carry a child, or even use an abortion pill. The conservatives are appealing to fear and prejudice to get votes for their billionaire masters. That's all it amounts to. The Republican Party becomes more openly Nazi every day. They are a total threat to our democracy, our republic, our climate, our world.

Yes and no.  The Right has been building toward this time for decades, and now they are finally in a position to strike.  Ask yourself: how did they managed to get the lower middle class to support them, and that is beginning to include Black and Hispanic people in similar circumstance?  The answer isn't hard: the Left has marched around and waved signs but produced very little that has altered the lives of these people and taken credit for none that it has.  

The Right takes credit for all wins, shifts the blame for all failures; they never wanted to make anyone's lives better, they just wanted to make them bitter.  It's easy to play to people's fears and hates.  They added a faux honor or two: the hyper work ethic (those people are just lazy, but not you), protected gun rights and validation of their place in society above "them".

Elizabeth Warren has an op-ed in today's NY Times that is a call to arms.  She and Bernie both get it; neither is a spring chicken.  I'm afraid that we'll be waiting for another champion when the 2024 election results roll in.  Let's how that by 2028 we're still enough of a democracy for a real turnabout.  Its' not coming from Biden and, God knows, it's never coming from the GOP.