09-06-2019, 05:26 PM
(09-05-2019, 11:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-12-2018, 09:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Democrats are going to have to get radical like the Republicans were in the 1860s to get past this new cold (or hot) civil war, and be just as ruthless as the Republicans have been in such things as shoving two conservatives onto the Court. They will have to suspend the filibuster for some years with a time limit on it, and stack the courts, and then be willing to use that power to change this country.
I don't think it would wise to do a bunch stuff that pisses off/ alienates 60 some million Americans who are as ruthless or more ruthless than the Republicans. The Democrats would be better off sticking to controlling, skewing things more in their own favor and mainly screwing with/ screwing up the lives and messing with/removing the rights of the folks within Democratic areas.
No, it is up to Democrats to try to convince people in places that now seem to vote on autopilot for Republicans that the ideology of the GOP hurts them. Trump has been doing much to inflict pain in places and among constituencies that never supported him to begin with in ways that no other President has done before.
To take from non-supporters what one then gives to supporters as a form of patronage is what the late Robert Mugabe (he just died) did in Zimbabwe -- and by doing so he ravaged the economy of Zimbabwe.
Good, wise politics is not a matter of turning the screws on the 'right people' for the supposed benefit of others. God, wise politics is the diametrical opposite of such.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.