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When you survey the entire political situation nationally you wonder how it can get worse. But the GOP finds a way to make things worse. Things are bubbling up everywhere wherever the GOP has control. Whether it comes to anti reproductive laws, cutting services, screwing workers, taking away health care. etc etc etc they pass some kind of onerous legislation or take some kind of terrible action. It seems to be never ending.
The truth is that THEY ARE KILLING PEOPLE with their policies for Christ's sake. And they must be stopped and pushed back every where. They are fomenting racial hatred and unrest at every opportunity. They are using the police to and their version of the law repress minorities. They are targeting vulnerable groups.
We must fight back some way and rebrand these murderers, rapists, pillagers, predators et al. We have to make them uncomfortable, uneasy even fearful in some way. We must trash talk back, trash them back publicly and personally for being the amoral bastards they are. And we cannot spare our language. We have to go for the rhetorical throat.
Playing nice, pulling punches, softening our rhetoric, negotiating or compromising is a losing proposition. We have to country attack their every move vigorously. We must understand that we are at war with these people who plan to crush any effort to resist their corrupt and deadly ways.
We have to be willing to brawl and fist fight with them. Sure taking the high road is honorable, but we are in a brass knuckles street fight. They are at war with the left and make it very clear they plan to eliminate us.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)So discouraging. I have upped my anti-depressant, seriously. It's horrible.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)We must be willing to give them a bloody nose rhetorically at least and never apologize for being partisan. Admit we are for good reason and go after them with a vengeance.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)And need a med update as well.....
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)can only do so much. And brass knuckle campaign ads can be dangerous on the left. Most of the right may love them, but most of the left gets quickly disgusted--with itself.
We lost in 2016 because 40% of the electorate didn't bother to vote, a larger proportion of them from the left and because that created a situation where a tiny but critical number of people influenced by anti-Democratic propaganda threw the election to the Republicans by voting third-party.
We need a big sign on our mental walls: IT'S MY VOTE, STUPID!
For those who want to attack aggressively, how about targeting acquaintances who say they don't vote? Make getting them to the polls a project.