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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeware of conversations about how Democrats have to do this or that to win
elections.
It will usually be a way to INSULT democrats by listing allegations of what they are doing now that they have to stop doing.
Should be easy to spot, easy to refute, and if not that easy then just remember how we GOT HERE in the first place!
For instance, I know what one could do, one could VOTE for ANY Democrat in November as if ONE'S life fucking DEPENDED on it!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,126 posts)on election day and her losing those 4 states makes no sense unless votes were flipped ON election day.
REGARDLESS we need people to VOTE as you say
Me.
(35,454 posts)KR
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)sheshe2
(83,953 posts)I saw that one, Eliot.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,126 posts)sheshe2
(83,953 posts)Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)Great Post
Eliot Rosewater
(31,126 posts)peggysue2
(10,844 posts)Even a conservative like Benjamin Wittes has said without pause that the electorate needs to vote for the Democratic candidates everywhere in November--local, county, state and Federal, right down to dogcatcher--because the Republican Party has proven itself beyond redemption or repair.
Any and every Democrat is the only way. Voting as if our lives depended on it.
Because they do!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,126 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)The Atlantic: Boycott the Republican Party https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/
We have both spent our professional careers strenuously avoiding partisanship in our writing and thinking. We have both done work that is, in different ways, ideologically eclectic, and that hasover a long period of timecast us as not merely nonpartisans but antipartisans. Temperamentally, we agree with the late Christopher Hitchens: Partisanship makes you stupid. We are the kind of voters who political scientists say barely existtrue independents who scour candidates records in order to base our votes on individual merit, not party brand.
This, then, is the article we thought we would never write: a frank statement that a certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; its the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. Were thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trumps Republican enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to do as Toren Beasley did: vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former).
... Were proposing something different. Were suggesting that in todays situation, people should vote a straight Democratic ticket even if they are not partisan, and despite their policy views. They should vote against Republicans in a spirit that is, if you will, prepartisan and prepolitical. Their attitude should be: The rule of law is a threshold value in American politics, and a party that endangers this value disqualifies itself, period. In other words, under certain peculiar and deeply regrettable circumstances, sophisticated, independent-minded voters need to act as if they were dumb-ass partisans.
For us, this represents a counsel of desperation. So allow us to step back and explain what drove us to what we call oppositional partisanship.
mcar
(42,402 posts)As we get closer to November.
Good advice.