Democrats have an impossible job ahead of them.

[kentuck]

Our country is under threat from within and half the country doesn't want to hear about it. They are under the spell of a cult of personality. Nothing short of waterboarding can get their attention.

How do the Democrats break the spell? What can they say or do to shake the Republicans out of their zombie state?

Is the election of 2020 the only option that is left?

[sandensea]

1. It seems to be the only option left, sure.

We certainly can't count on Roberts or (least of all) Senate Rethugs.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Our salvation hangs on the fact that it isn't "half" of the country...

it's more like a third. In the past it was "half" of those who voted, but if we can keep the '18 Blue Wave going we can overcome this episode.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Democracy dies in a well-lit room, by a vote of 53-47. NT

[saidsimplesimon]

4. My brother

is a die hard Republican. He may not vote this year. I'm hoping that's a trend. Election 2020, Get Out the Vote.

PS: He managed a wind farm and rumpie lost him with his "windmills kill eagles" nonsense.

[WheelWalker]

5. "We shall go on to the end.

“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

“And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving,” Churchill said. “Then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”