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Rational Democrats Need to Stand Up to the Crazies
Old School Media ^ | 3/20/25 | Patrick Rooney

Posted on 03/20/2025 10:28:36 AM PDT by rebuildus

I know many would object to my even using the terms “rational” and “Democrats” in the same sentence. Honestly, for the most part, I’m with them.

Two Supreme Court cases had a major, negative impact on our culture: The first was in 1962, when the Court ruled in Engel v. Vitale that public school teachers or administrators, as employees of the federal government, could not recite prayers, effectively removing prayer in public schools, or at least severely hampering its practice.

The second is Roe v. Wade in 1973, which essentially legalized abortion in the U.S. (the right to kill an unborn child in the womb).

And so the Democratic Party largely embraced these huge cultural shifts, and thus began its movement away from the much more traditional and even patriotic Party my parents were part of: the Party of Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy.

Today, one can barely find a Democrat in elected office at the national level who promotes prayer in schools or the sanctity of life. That’s a tragedy.

Nevertheless, I have no doubt that there are many “rational” Democrats in our great country. Many Democrats like to tell Republicans that we need to “stand up to Trump.” I agree with them, and you’ll find many examples of me doing just that on this site… When I believe it’s necessary–not just to do it. And I’m far from the only one.

But what’s good for the goose is also good for the gander, as they say (or at least USED to in the old days!). In short, Democrats who expect Republicans to “man up” (or “person” up for the politically correct) need to do the same with “their own”...

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To: rebuildus

Good luck. In general if you’re a dem male, you are a beta; and if you’re a woman, you want to be a man.


21 posted on 03/20/2025 10:56:29 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: rebuildus

The split in the democrat party that should take place in 2028, is Newsom vs a Bernie Sanders type insurgent.

The ‘money’ will be backing Gavin, hoping to replay the Slick Willie Days, the heart & soul of the party will be backing an “AOC type.”

“Should be Fun.”


22 posted on 03/20/2025 10:58:44 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: rebuildus

The rational Democrats in large part voted for Trump. It is hard to imagine any rational person supporting a party that is fighting to keep violent illegal aliens from being deported, allows six foot male hulks to compete in women’s athletics and share lockers with them, agrees with sending millions of our tax dollars overseas to support things like free condoms in Gaza and transgender comic books in Peru and openly sympathizes with terrorists like Hamas. The Democratic Party has become the party of kooks, crazies and the bizarre. The vanguard of the New Democrats are people like AOC and the squad, lying hypocrites like Gavin Newsom or the just plain weird like Tampon Tim Walz.
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23 posted on 03/20/2025 10:59:20 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: rebuildus

Is Shumer a rational democrat?


24 posted on 03/20/2025 11:04:25 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: cableguymn

Obama and the Clintons ran off all the decent democrats.


25 posted on 03/20/2025 11:05:05 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: rebuildus
There is an easier solution...


26 posted on 03/20/2025 11:09:47 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: rebuildus

**Rational Democrats Need to Stand Up to the Crazies**
No they don’t-lol.

I’ll bet most of the Tesla owners are country club lefties.


27 posted on 03/20/2025 11:21:45 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rebuildus

The only rational democrat is a former democrat.


28 posted on 03/20/2025 11:23:55 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: rebuildus

Patrick is assuming that rational Democrats actually exist?


29 posted on 03/20/2025 11:35:30 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: rebuildus

“Rational Democrats Need to Stand Up to the Crazies”

that’s not gonna work for the simple reason that the crazies have already driven the “Rational Democrats” out of the Party ...


30 posted on 03/20/2025 11:55:03 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: rebuildus

Isn’t “rational Democrat” an oxymoron?


31 posted on 03/20/2025 12:03:33 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: rebuildus

Rational Democrats = Oxymoron

Never was never will be rational


32 posted on 03/20/2025 12:04:22 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rebuildus

Well only reasonable Democrats would be the Blue Dog Democrats who are considered Conservatives but there are only 14 in the Democrat party.


33 posted on 03/20/2025 12:11:14 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: rebuildus

They’re outnumbered. Does the name “Custer” ring a bell?

wy69


34 posted on 03/20/2025 12:39:11 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: dpetty121263
Well only reasonable Democrats would be the Blue Dog Democrats who are considered Conservatives but there are only 14 in the Democrat party.

Many Blue Dog Democrats are now MAGA.

So it's unlikely for the Democratic Party to reform itself at this point.

35 posted on 03/20/2025 12:43:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Referring to Congress..


36 posted on 03/20/2025 1:11:20 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

Who are these 14 “blue dog” Democrats?

Have they ever voted against the trans lobby?

Have they ever voted against illegal immigration?

Have they ever voted against DEI?

Have they ever voted against crippling the economy with “climate change” garbage regulations?


37 posted on 03/20/2025 1:14:35 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: rebuildus

The Establishment Republicans were told to stand up to Tea Party extremists. That worked out well for them. The populist movement forming on the left is nothing like the Tea Party and it will never evolve into what MAGA became.


38 posted on 03/20/2025 1:31:36 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: cgbg

I would have to go back and look as it was couple weeks ago I was researching it.


39 posted on 03/20/2025 1:38:41 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: rebuildus

“Rational Democrats”. THE ULTIMATE OXYMORON!
That said, there have been exceptions: JFK, Bobby Kennedy and a handful of others like RFK, Jr. (Hope RFK, Jr. has adequate security!
Just sayin’!!


40 posted on 03/20/2025 1:40:43 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=)
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