Link to article: http://www.salon.com/2017/05/27/wake-up-liberals-there-will-be-no-2018-blue-wave-no-democratic-majority-and-no-impeachment/
Buried amongst the snark and condescension, this guy has a few good points. Which means he will be demonized and ignored by the left, because Russia is not even mentioned once.
If the Republican Establishment doesn’t quit sabotaging Pres. Trump’s agenda there will be a bloodbath in 2018 but it will be the Republicans who are the victims.
I don’t expect any impeachment, but as far as a Blue Wave occurring, we’ll have to see. Anything could happen to create blips and sudden trends. War with North Korea, heavy terror within the US, a Katrina-Like weather scene.
OR *Very low unemployment throughout the states, *Replacing O-Care with something that is both functional and very easy to explain. Send out a team of qualified informed experts to explain. Have them coordinate and be unified in their descriptions.* Have The President STOP contradicting his own policy teams while in public, thus confusing and annoying everyone.
*Slicing corporate taxes, and doing this while reducing or eliminating certain federal spending in equal or greater amounts. *Beginning construction of The Wall in earnest, not just in theory.
*Protecting Christian and Jews from lawsuits over trivial retailer policies (i.e. Cakes).
*Leaving the Battle of the Bathrooms up to local government, but helping to pay for a third ‘one occupant’ restroom for business that need or want one.
*Taming the EPA to retreat from fining private property owners over making minor changes to their own property.
*Removing Landmark Status and Re-opening some federal lands to the public, mainly for new housing and business construction.
Eight years of democratic majority it was the highest failure rate ever and the expect to regain power they don’t have that many cell phones.
There could be a “blue wave” in 2018 if the balless, clueless Republicans in congress dont get their act together and repeal 0bamacare, reform taxes and build the wall. Trumps base will not turn out for them if they continue to obstruct.
the extreme and ingenious gerrymandering of congressional districts locked in by Republican state legislators after the 2010 census virtually guarantees a GOP House majority until the next census and at least the 2022 midterms. Yes, the widely-hated health care law might put a few Republican seats in play that weren’t before. But the number of genuine “swing” districts is vanishingly small, and it would require a Democratic wave of truly historic dimensions to overcome the baked-in GOP advantage.
That's right, we had greater control over redistricting in 2010 to majorities were it greatly mattered, after the 2010 census
We need even more majorities in 2018 and 2020 to ensure we re-draw disctrict maps after the 2020 census.
This will ensure Republican domination for a decade and the Dems will wail and commit further acts of violence that will be a turnoff for a good many of the older generation, pushing them more and more toward Republican representation.
Dominating 2018 and 2020 ensures we also get another four years of Trump/Pence thus, taking over the Supreme Court with a 3 more SCOTUS judges , after Gorsuch and a fair amount of the Federal Judiciary
Reagan and Clinton had the highest number of federal judicial appointments at almost 400 over their two terms and I look for Trump to break that record with a party that has no numericaly significant opposition.
So, let your friends on the left whine, gloat or whatever the hell it is they do, as it a childish fantasy on one part to engage in the hyperbolic fantasies of impeachment and a lack of the ability to understand the politics of it all on a map and using 3rd grade math
For my part, I encourage their simplistic focus on something that isn't there and can't be fabricated out of anything solid, while helping them understand they needn't despair.
The Republic, after all , has withstood many evolutions over our history and except for a terrible time in the 1860's we had no real prospects for a revolution and I ask them "Do you forsee a unifying point of disagreement in an error of the humanities of America that would unite two sides to actually go to war with each other and would you enjoy seeing that if you could elucidate the problem?"
I always get nothing back and encourage them to maybe concentrate an areas where they really can win, most of the time or take up a more satisfying hobby and watch the politics over the next decade as an observer, because your vote, in most of America, no longer matters
Oh! And you might find something else to ban, like more plastic, because time after time, your views on banning guns is part of an ever shrinking minority and laws in each of the states continue to expand gun rights and with a majority federal judiciary and eventually SCOTUS, even California is going to be rolled back.
'Ave nice day - - - Das Vi Danya...
We need to EDUCATE folks that the Conservative path is the path to prosperity for all.
Don’t waste time with the Red-Diaper baby next door.
There are lots of other folks who can be persuaded away from the Dark Side of Oba-won & Her Thighness.
But, YOU need to persuade them.
Just think, if we each could persuade just 3 people . . .
There are so many gems of quotes by posters on Salon but this one, for some reason, stood out against all the silly uncritical thinking I read so far:
Paul Anderson · Works at Freelance Researcher
The Trumpies think 51%, a 7% margin, was a decisive victory, a wide margin. But they are fools and liars.
Democrats who agree with them are worse. This is not to say that taking the House in 2018 will not require work and money; it will. But if we had put work and money into the Montana campaign, we would probably have won. (Quist was outspent 2 to 1, and got no money from out-of-state; a few radio ads, at the very end, when most of Montana had voted, is not the same.)
Paul Anderson is like most of the Dems and just can’t do the math.
It isn’t personal or politics it is simple math.
You aren’t going to have 25 seats up for vote on your side and opponent only and believe you are going to win all your seats, a majority of your seats and some significant number of your opponents.
Mathematical probabilities don’t allow that, the same as you cannot honestly challenge the laws of gravity, thermo dymanics or motion.
There will be zero inertia for Dems in 2018 or 2020.
It’s the math...
Another Delusion:
“If the Democrats/Left would put identity politics and social justice issues on the backburner and focus on economic populism for a couple of election cycles, they would sweep the 2018 midterms and the 2020 general elections.”
I say delusion not as a derogatory term but, a recognition they are dealing in “Other Worldy” hopes...
Let ‘em sleep so their nightmare continues.
Both the article and the comments are simply delicious.
I was speaking with a liberal friend last evening who pointed out that the Dems at a national level have responded to the Bernie wave by making fresh, new, exciting faces the spokespeople and standard-bearers of their party: Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Tom Perez, and Nancy Pelosi. I didn’t have the heart to mention Chelsea because I think he would have slugged me...
Personally, I hope the Democrats stay asleep, with restless fever dreams making them lash out while screaming hateful things and sounding deranged.
SSSSHHHHHH!!!! Let them keep doing what they’ve been doing!!!