I wonder if we are both talking about the political usefulness of it in getting us into the White House and winning the down ticket races and state elections and getting the next couple of Supreme Court appointments.
And you talk about it as if it going to be cure, getting someone into office with the right alphabetical character in parenthesis after their their name. Some people think we should keep compromising on things to get those kinds of people into office.
We say all these things to each other, and to our candidates:
Don't talk about abortion. It is a losing issue.
Don't talk about homosexual or transgender issues.
Don't pick on corrupt politicians like Biden, it turns people off.
Don't talk about illegal immigration. It makes us sound harsh and they won't vote for us.
All so we can get "someone" into office. But we can't talk about that either, the corruption of the voting process. That makes us sound unreasonable and we'll drive people away.
Seems to me that is what got us to this point in time in the history of this country, the kicking of the can of societal problems down the four-year road, accepting that it is more important to get the right character in parenthesis after their name into office.
We think "We'll get it fixed this time." Yeah. We will, if they actually allow it, which they won't.
Did you notice they just threw the election primary system out the window and nobody said "boo" about it? You think that isn't a precedent? How long will it be before both parties dispense with the now Kabuki Dance of primary elections, and just choose our candidates who we will be allowed to vote for?
And while we discuss these genteel things, what shouldn't we say, and to whom, in order to avoid alienating them, our enemies, both foreign and domestic just lie outright with purpose, say they are for closing the border to precious "undecideds" while they have both hands firmly on the spigot to keep the border open, and have people like Marc Elias ensuring our election process is so corrupt with one hand while their other hand assures us the election will be a fair one.
And they have (and will} use the full power of the government to silence anyone who disagrees with them that elections are free and fair, all in the name of "protecting democracy".
Our government sounds more and more like a Communist Five-Year Plan with each passing election, continuing resolutions now the legislative and bugetary process combined.
Change is what is needed, not getting someone into the White House with the right character in parenthesis after their name.