Please people, let's keep blame where it belongs

[Just_Vote_Dem]

REPUBLICANS

REPUBLICANS

REPUBLICANS

[Scrivener7]

1. And Democrats who didn't support Hillary. That's the truth.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Thank you

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. Now is not the time to divide us n/t

[nycbos]

6. The truth hurts?

[Scrivener7]

7. Wrong. 2016 was not the time to divide us. Now is when those

chickens come home to roost.

[BlackSkimmer]

15. This.

Spot on.

[Zambero]

31. As if Nader torpedoing Gore wasn't enough

Republicans could never enact their EVIL agenda or steal national elections without certain "progressives" providing them with the means to do so.

[electric_blue68]

56. And That

[sheshe2]

54. Yep.

We are now screwed.

Thanks, Nina. Sue. Jill and others I will not name.

[sheshe2]

26. They divided us in 2016.

That was the time for unity.

Women have lost everything now.

[SunSeeker]

47. Bingo. nt

[sheshe2]

53. XO

[Starry Messenger]

60. Who is "us?"

My us is people who tried to save our asses when it meant something

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[JohnSJ]

13. THIS!!! It didn't take much either. In those critical swing states Hillary lost by less than 1%,

while Jill Stein received 1% of the vote in those critical swing states

[sheshe2]

21. Correct.

[GoCubsGo]

23. Yup.

And, those who don't vote down ticket for Democrats in state and local races And, those who stay home during the midterms...

[mcar]

25. Yep

[electric_blue68]

55. This

[Patton French]

61. Yep.

But they clearly don’t like to be reminded. Lessons not learned can lead to mistakes repeated.

[Me.]

4. Susan Collins

[Just_Vote_Dem]

9. THANK YOU n/t

[Zambero]

24. Susan "Settled" Collins!

[CrackityJones75]

5. OH HELL NO WE AREN'T PLAYING THAT GAME!

Absolutely blame the republicans but we ALL knew what they would do. But it was certain “progressives” that really screwed us.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. But hey, it's gonna bring the Revolution!

And Susan Sarandon will be laughing it up in her French estate…

[Just_Vote_Dem]

12. Keep dividing us.

Just what we need right now.

Feel good?

[CrackityJones75]

16. Oh yeah it was me that said "I just can't vote for her"

if you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.

EVERY DAMNED ELECTION it should be mandatory reading material before a non republican votes just what the fuck went down in 2016. Precisely so that we are NOT DIVIDED AGAIN!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

14. I'm not playing any goddamned game pal n/t

[CrackityJones75]

19. Uh huh.

The republicans most certainly are NOT the only ones to blame as until we drill that into head of people that listen to the likes of a sarandon, cenk, turner, and well you know. Then we will continue fighting against ourselves.

[BlackSkimmer]

63. Yep. nt

[Initech]

8. Fox News

[Cuthbert Allgood]

18. Thank you.

I am a hard-core progressive. I voted for Clinton. I personally know hundreds of others that did, too.

This is the result of a decades long plan by the Republicans.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

20. Correct, thank you

And so did I. I can't believe some of the stuff I'm reading tonight.

[luv2fly]

35. Absolutely

Today or ten years from now, this has been their plan for decades. Blaming either side of the Democratic party just continues to piss off and alienate some of our own.

[Initech]

45. The Southern Strategy was the single biggest mistake we made as a country.

Giving a rise to these dipshits over 5 decades is what got us here. Now how to undo it?

[electric_blue68]

57. but not enough! Republicans take the major share of blame since they started rebuilding post Barry..

Goldwater

[boston bean]

22. There is a lot to go around and we must not ignore one facet of it.

[dchill]

27. Party Unity My Ass. Remember?

[Big Blue Marble]

28. To all those looking backward.

Stop! Start looking forward and strategizing what we are going to do. Just today there was a thread
with progressives throwing moderates under the bus. Let's come together.

It is time to know where the real threat is. Republicans spent over 40 years to "achieve". to this result.
This is not a surprise. What exactly are we going to do now? Nothing from the past matters.
Just get moving.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

29. Thanks. If we keep blaming each other, THEY WIN n/t

[TheRealNorth]

33. Some workers would rather kick the dog....

Then stand up against the company.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

34. True.

And some are washing socks fer sure

[JudyM]

49. This is a sorely needed comment in many threads here tonight.

[Scrivener7]

30. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216649053

[Demsrule86]

37. I would agree with you except I see the same sort of thing now...the idea that in order to

get the 'progressive wing of the party to vote in a midterm...they must get this or that. Same old, Same old. So it is not unreasonable to point out that they need to STOP. I am a progressive and yet I would vote for any Democrat in a general, I don't have to be excited or have some particular thing done for me. I am not nor ever was a one-issue voter. I realize that what went on starting with Gore's loss and ending with Hillary's loss in 16 had all but destroyed this country and student loans, BBB, family leave ETC will not matter in a country that overturns elections and denies women the right to choose...priorities folks.

[Big Blue Marble]

40. I could not agree with you more.

I, too, am a progressive. Just today I was arguing with progressives whose sense of entitlement
showed a lock of understanding of what is at risk, our self-determination, as well as our very democracy.
They had better wake up fast!

[betsuni]

58. +1

[G_j]

39. yes

please don’t waste your energy in a crisis.
It’s time to move and act.

[Initech]

46. The real blame lies with the Murdochs. The Bushes. The Reagans.

The Christian right. Rush Limbaugh. Alex Jones. Billy Graham. All this bullshit.

[Big Blue Marble]

52. Yes and all the political opportunists

who rode to power on this single voter issue. Political operatives demagogued the issue
to the Evangelical Right who fell for the rights of fetuses and embryos or the rights of women.
And tragically it worked. It, guns, and racism have given the Right the SC and much of the power
to destroy our democracy. It is time to wake up and take our country back.

[drmeow]

32. Mitch McConnell

f**king treasonous fascist that he is - I hope he dies alone and in agonizing, unrelenting pain.

[leftstreet]

36. Congress can just codify Roe v Wade into law

end the filibuster, 50 votes, be done with it

[Mister Ed]

38. Sadly, a future GOP-dominted congress can then...

...just as easily reverse that law.

[uponit7771]

43. There wont be a future GOP if they have this on the ballot, period.

[Big Blue Marble]

41. Even if they did, the SC would just overturn the law as unconstitutional.

We need a constitutional amendment, not likely in the current political environment.
All that is left is toexpand the court soon.

[leftstreet]

42. Yes, court expansion will be the topic again

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=xFOwY4aEs1VJkO_zZCkBSg

[BlueCheeseAgain]

44. Everyone who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton is to blame.

And I mean everyone.

[Tarc]

48. Those who leaned a certain way in the 2016...

...are also culpable.

Wonder how well Susan Sarandon is sleeping tonight....

[betsuni]

59. All sleeping peacefully. Everything's the Democratic Establishment's fault, don't you know.

They didn't stop Republicans because they didn't want to! Same sides! See, sleeping peacefully, dreaming of that ridiculous fantasy populist revolution they thought would happen because they don't understand the U.S. at all.

[yaesu]

50. Fascists Fascists Fascists nt

[rockfordfile]

51. I agree

[aocommunalpunch]

62. Lol do you know this place?

That dead horse ain’t gonna flog itself. When there aren’t actual conservatives to go after, many turn to whoever they can vent at. It happens again and again and again. So many beatings. So much morale.