Trudeau decided to go ahead with retaliatory tariffs even though Trump’s order includes a mechanism to escalate the rates if Canada retaliates against the U.S.
Sigh. It’s not like most of us don’t already know all this. That’s a great plan, why don’t you work to make it happen? Get a third party that is not a joke and not a set of useful idiots for someone like Putin. Build from the ground up, too, not run once every four years. Start winning local elections and building a party that isn’t captured by corporations, and actually is out there fighting for labor and for the middle class and can tell owner-donors to get bent when they try to send in the lobbyists. Try to get ranked order voting passed, etc.
Many of us would LOVE that. However, I don’t see anyone seriously doing that. I’d love to see a million Bernies bloom, running as whatever party they unite under. That’d probably bring tears to my eyes.
All I tend to see is useless lectures on how it should be, and how voting for Democrats is “just as bad” as voting for monsters on the right, so we should all just stay home and pout and pontificate about a perfect system while the world burns under donvict. I also see a hell of a lot of single issue voters further splintering the Democratic Party on fringe identity politics stuff and demanding that others should follow them on the way out the door if the Democratic Party doesn’t capitulate on some rather fringe stuff.
We only had TWO viable choices last fall. That’s it. All the wishcasting in the world was not going to change that.
Sigh. It’s not like most of us don’t already know all this. That’s a great plan, why don’t you work to make it happen? Get a third party that is not a joke and not a set of useful idiots for someone like Putin. Build from the ground up, too, not run once every four years. Start winning local elections and building a party that isn’t captured by corporations, and actually is out there fighting for labor and for the middle class and can tell owner-donors to get bent when they try to send in the lobbyists. Try to get ranked order voting passed, etc.
Many of us would LOVE that. However, I don’t see anyone seriously doing that. I’d love to see a million Bernies bloom, running as whatever party they unite under. That’d probably bring tears to my eyes.
All I tend to see is useless lectures on how it should be, and how voting for Democrats is “just as bad” as voting for monsters on the right, so we should all just stay home and pout and pontificate about a perfect system while the world burns under donvict. I also see a hell of a lot of single issue voters further splintering the Democratic Party on fringe identity politics stuff and demanding that others should follow them on the way out the door if the Democratic Party doesn’t capitulate on some rather fringe stuff.
We only had TWO viable choices last fall. That’s it. All the wishcasting in the world was not going to change that.