marceline

You and I are going to disagree on this. The Bernie wing, as you put it, has completely destroyed the label "progressive." It's kind of like what the Tea Party did to the terms "patriot" and "freedom." The state of modern progressivism is something I want nothing to do with.

Yep. People underestimate the exhaustion factor. People who voted for Trump to "shake things up" didn't mean abandoning our allies to genocide or letting Ukrainian soldiers die on the field just to get dirt on Joe Biden. They also didn't mean being barraged with delusional tweets all day every day. The hardcore MAGAts will follow him into the void but he's hemorrhaging the soft support he had. Suburban women especially have abandoned him in droves. Fifty-two percent of the voters want him impeached and removed from office including many Republicans. Of course, I'm not confident that the Dems won't mess this up. If we nominate Warren, we will lose. Progressives don't want to hear it but Democrats win when we run centrists. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were both centrist Democrats. We flipped the House running centrist Democrats in swing and purple districts. We would've won 2016 were it not for foreign interference in the election.

Bernie, like all populists including Trump, tells people that there are simple answers to complex problems and that the only thing stand in the way is some enemy. For Trump that enemy is the elites and minorities, for Bernie it's the "establishment."

I actually wish Klobuchar was getting more attention. She much more representative of what the Democratic Party is than Warren or Sanders. She's also the most effective Democrat in the Senate so she actually knows how to make policy. The fact that she's not doing better is a sad commentary on the state of the Dem party right now. I really want her to be Biden's VP because she'll be ready to take over for him on day one if something happens.

It really is horrible how this monster has betrayed everything this country is supposed to stand for.

I've gone down an AMC rabbit hole tonight and here's where I ended up. Simone, Zarf, Danielle Frye, Erin Lavery....

Good Lord. It just keeps getting worse.

I blame a big piece of this on the internet. The web has made everyone an expert. Look at anti-vaxxers. They put their kids and society at risk because of the garbage they pick up on blogs and Facebook groups. Look at citizen "journalists" like James O'Keefe. The internet was supposed to be the great equalizer and perhaps it's time to admit that's not a good thing.

Anti-intellectualism and a disdain for experience has infected the left as well as the right.

That's because it's not really foreign policy, it's international organized crime.

I think the real issue is that as more whistleblowers come forward the reality of promises he made to MBS, Erdogan, and Putin are likely to be revealed. It's just so mind-boggling how the Republican party has chosen to sell out the country.

When people were screaming at Nancy Pelosi to "#IMPEACH NOW!!" I said that it would get people killed. I assumed he'd start with the kids at the border. I didn't expect him to go right to a Kurdish genocide. I know he made impeachment unavoidable with the Ukraine stunt but sometimes I think people on our side really don't realize that there are a real people whose lives are at risk around the world.

True but we should support anything that helps pry apart the Republican tribalism. Whether it's Romney, Joe Walsh, Mark Sanford, Bill Weld, Justin Amash, etc... We don't have to celebrate these people but there's no reason we shouldn't use them.

I'm waiting for one of them to claim Hillary tried to kill him. All joking aside, I'm finding it harder and harder to believe that Bernie will be able to stay in this race. I pretty much started the clock on him after that mishap with the "shower door."

He's going to destroy everything he possibly can in order to save himself. That said, let's not pretend this man is immortal or even healthy. There's plenty of reason to hope he won't even make it to 2020.

I'm of the mindset that the party being torn in half is inevitable. Black voters in the South will pick our nominee the way they have in every election since 1992. No matter how much progressives hate to hear it it, the Dem base is way more centrist and pragmatic than they want to believe.

Once impeachment starts we're pretty much in the general election. It's Trump vs. Biden now. I've seen some suggestions that they could impeach in the House and never send the case to the Senate. They would essentially spend the next few months detailing all his crimes then just let it sit there. Bottom line is I trust Pelosi and Schiff and Cummings. These aren't stupid people. Also, I think the op-ed by the seven freshman Dems with military and/or intelligence backgrounds showed how this issue is going to be framed in the swing states.

I'm not a proponent of the tactic of blocking traffic. Don't get me wrong, I've done it. I helped block a street to protest the murder of Tamir Rice but the truth is, the moment an ambulance can't get through, any message you are trying to send is lost.

I knew this was coming.

There is no bottom. Republicans don't act in good faith.

Trump has fired John Bolton. I knew someone was going to have to take the fall for Trump's insane attempt to meet with the Taliban. Good riddance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/09/10/trump-fires-john-bolton-as-national-security-adviser-saying-he-disagreed-strongly-with-many-of-his-suggestions/

At this point nothing matters any more. He's beyond reason or any rationality. I'm convinced that he's had a full blown nervous breakdown.

Right? #NaturalCauses2020!

I usually avoid watching or listening to Trump but this compare and contrast brings a smile to my face because it shows just how much he's deteriorated. Granted he always sucks at the teleprompter reading but now he can't even fake it well.

With two Senate seats up for grabs Georgia is going to be a bonfire of voter suppression. It's going to be Jim Crow on steroids.