This "fight" has been a long time coming

[senseandsensibility]

I say get it all out there. Schumer's stance is clear and so is Jeffries' and most other D Senators, including Adam Schiff. He's pretty isolated. No one is wishy washy or avoiding the topic.

It will be obvious fairly soon who was right. And the voters will be able to assess the results long before the midterms.

It's a shakeup and the results are uncertain. But it seems inevitable and it may lead to progress.

Or am I being too optimistic?

[The Blue Flower]

1. "Let all the poisons that live in the mud hatch out."

Emperor Claudius' final pronouncement at the end of the BBC series "I, Claudius." Meaning that the best revenge would be to let the people have all the sh-- they were clamoring for. It would do them and the republic good to have to live through it. I consider it the best response to all of this nonsense and mess.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Thank you for your very literate reply

I am in awe.

[Big Blue Marble]

6. One of my very favorite quotes

from one of my very favorite series and very much matches the moment.

[Efilroft Sul]

3. If I could modify just one word in your OP, this reckoning has been a long time coming.

We're staring down the barrel of 45 years of Republican policies and what more than a few of us knew would be the end result of keeping powder dry for the sake of comity. It's a reckoning.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. All you need to do is listen to Reagan/Republicans speeches way back.

They were always blathering about cutting the Dept of Education, privatizing Social Security and other programs/departments.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. I heard them when I was a teenager. I knew then they were trouble.

Democrats were able to turn the tide on Monkey Bush's Social Security privatization talk in 2005. I don't think Schumer and his fellow members of the bipartisanship unicorn hunters club have the stomach to stand up to fascism. The fight is going to have to come from the people, not these "leaders."

[CrispyQ]

7. Back in the 80s they focused on filling boards of education across the country

while our side was running from the word liberal because Reagan poked fun at it. They've been salivating over social security at least that long, maybe longer.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." -Karl Rove