Just a thought on the upcoming election, less than a year away now

[ThomWV]

Sometimes you just hope your intuition is right, its all you can do. It is difficult to immagine that this nation's conscious response to political polarization - and an election can be called nothing less than a conscious response - will be to increase that polarization. To say it more plainly its hard to see us electing more Republicans so that they can be more effective at blocking popular governance.

I'm hoping its nonsense that we will lose seats but I believe that if we'd stand up for progressive issues we'd gain seats and I don't think its to late to do it.

Put in a good health care system.
End a war.
Regulate the banks.
Tax the rich.
Pass trade legislation that returns jobs to the US
Deal with immigration openly and fairly

If Democrats did these things or even had a single public face for each of these issues and could show progress do you think we'd lose seats? I think not.

It is disarray and ineffectiveness that loses seats. We've got nearly a year to show the country that we can be both cohesive and effective -or else.

[secondwind]

1. thanks for posting....K&R

[Kansas Wyatt]

2. If they did that, they would GAIN seats.

How could people who claim to be so educated and intelligent, not understand the obvious?

[tom_paine]

3. Maybe because it's not in their own personal best interests not to understand.

Or maybe it's because the system, with it's deep reliance on advertising, marketing and statistical psychology, has been so distorted by wealth inequality and the resurgence of the medeval mind (after all, psychology has pretty much proven conclusively that the medeval mind, illogical, emotional, and rationalizing-after-the-fact, IS the natural condition of the human mind) that to attempt to "understand" let alone implement said understanding, would result in their own personal destruction (career-wise, power-wise, sometimes literal destruction) to no good effect, so why bother?

See "The Prisoner's Dilemna" (Google it)

It doesn't matter, the Democratic Party has operated in such a way now for almost all our lives (except those over 50 or 60 years old), losing even when we win, that same question could be applied almost every day and no answer is forthcoming.

To my mind, it no longer matters WHY they do it, only that they do it.