Posted on 11/05/2018 6:18:13 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Just remember, it’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you. In this case, though, it’s likelier to be paranoia than prophecy. The Daily Beast reports on the existential angst facing progressives if they come up short in their bid to win the House:
"Nearly two years of organizing, marching, candidate recruitment and unprecedented fundraising has led the Democratic party to a critical moment. On Tuesday, it can either reassert itself politically or fall short, prompting an utter and complete psychological meltdown.
Most in the party believe that the path they will go down will be the former; that they will gain a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since former President Barack Obama’s first term. But paranoia is part of the Democratic DNA, especially after the shock of the 2016 election. And in the final stretch of the midterm campaign, a scenario in which the party is unable to flip the requisite 23 House seats looms in the dark recesses of the mind.
“It will be paralyzing for a while, it will,” said Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress. “Candidly, I think there will be a fair amount of soul searching and people will feel back on their heels… We will have to rebuild. But the resistance is built on opposition to [Donald] Trump’s extremism. And the more extreme he is, the more we will have.”
Or, as veteran Democratic strategist Paul Begala put it: “After all this work, all these volunteers, it would be absolutely shattering.” "
Let’s say they do lose this opportunity. It might be “shattering” for progressives like Tanden the CPA because of their insistence that Democrats had to embrace a hard-Left agenda to become competitive. It would spell the end of Nancy Pelosi’s career, one of their House champions, and it might force her entire slate of leadership to give way to more moderate leaders from the Midwest and Rust Belt, where Democrats have had trouble competing. They might need to rethink their DNC leadership too, but Democrats won’t be “paralyzed” any more than Republicans were after losing in 2006 and 2008.
ETC...
We still have more “certain” voters left compared to Dems especially in AZ and FL (according to the data analysts). We will see if this pans out. But honestly I would rather be in our position than theirs right now.
We still have more “certain” voters left compared to Dems especially in AZ and FL (according to the data analysts). We will see if this pans out. But honestly I would rather be in our position than theirs right now.
Looks better at this point in time than 2016 in FL. We will see how election day goes.
All politics are local. In my opinion, way more important because that’s where rats hone their “hiding who I really am” skills.
Long line this morning here in Indiana.
I'm surprised that republicans are able to win any race considering that:
Except for Fox, all major TV networks campaign for democrats 24x7 and demonize republicans 24x7; For decades the majority of teachers from grade school through college have indoctrinated our children with liberal ideals and anti-conservative bias; Billionaires like Soros, Bezos, Steyer, Oprah, Buffett, Gates etc., pour hundreds of millions into democrat coffers. There are virtually no TV series or shows that elevate conservative or Christian values - they are all mouthpieces for liberalism and the democrat party.
The democrats and their allies have a great teacher.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels
Unless conservatives and Christians can figure out how to "be the head and not the tail" in TV, education and business - we will continue struggling in elections that should be slam-dunks for us.
It will happen, today!
God willing!
My little podunk poll was packed at 4 which is not known as a busy time.
People here go after work.
Happily had to wait in line.
The Democrat candidates in Red/Purple districts are NOT running on a "progressive" agenda. Like in 2006 they are all busy lying about being a "new kind of Democrat" who is not like those Nasty DC Democrats and running on their Law Enforcement/Military backgrounds!
Even if the Democrat "win" they did it by lying to the voters, not by "embracing the Progressive agenda".
The candidates who darkened my door in my red bit of Upstate NY were flaming socialists and bragged about it. They were honest about that, though little else.
Well that is the exception not the norm. In all the “toss up” districts the Dem candidate is pure GOP lite.
The majority is finally saying, "enough, no more." No amount of resistance whining will change that.
-PJ
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