Time only moves in one direction — forward. You can take this stance, invite defeat after defeat, and allow yourself to be bulldozed by time. Or, perhaps preferably, you can get your fucking head right and acknowledge that human dignity has always been a winning position
In this election, Americans have made their voice clear: Democrats need to focus more on issues Americans care about, like wages and benefits, and less on being politically correct. Moderate White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, union, non-union, and other voters fear that the world we live in and the values we live by are under threat, and Democrats have been too intimidated to speak up for the same values that many of us hold dear — the American Dream, public safety and a common sense of right and wrong among them.
Many Americans are simply afraid of "the Left" more than they are afraid of what President Trump will do. While some Democrats effectively responded to Republican's claims of chaos at the Southern border, we still ceded too much ground to the Republicans on an issue we could have won. And we failed as a party to respond to the Republican weaponization of anarchy on college campuses, defund the police, biological boys playing in girls' sports, and a general attack on traditional values.
Going forward, we need to make the case every day that we will fight to give everyone a fair shake and that America is for everybody. We cannot get wrapped around the axle by our base and resistance politics.
Harris campaign has really underscored for me that there’s a group of DC Dem insiders/strategists that can just curdle any candidate that starts listening to them and the party is probably unsalvageable without them getting the boot. Just playing the same bad playbook back
I do think there’s an issue that a number of conservatives voters legitimately do think they’re voting against a radical left wing by voting against the Dems while most people slightly left seem to find them very milquetoast. No “pivot to center” ever seems to avoid this so you
i made a mistake in softening my criticism of dillon, et al. but it turns out that harris really, really, really should have cleaned house because every single one of the campaign's major decisions appears to have flopped hard.
Can’t believe I forgot about my favorite New York electoral tradition where I get to “vote for any seven” judicial candidates and then there are exactly seven candidates who were picked by local corrupt party leaders in the back room of a lobster restaurant
Strangely enough, I think it's The Goonies.
A kids movie where the kids go off alone and face dangerous criminals? I don't think a studio would do it now, they don't like showing kids in peril.
Shout out to @Tubi for having a large selection of random horror movies that used to be at the video store growing up, but I was never allowed to rent.