The American people have no choice.

[kentuck]

If they wish to keep their democracy, they must wait and remove the Republicans from Congress in the next election.

If we survive until the next election? These same Republicans have put all of us into a hell of a dilemma.

But, this is a message that should be sent out to the American people, in my opinion. If they haven't realized what is at stake, then they had better learn very quickly.

It is easy to laugh it off and pretend it is just "politics". But, it is as serious as a heart attack. It doesn't matter what Party you belong to. You are going to lose.

These traitors must be removed.

I hope the word gets out to enough people to make the changes we must make in order to survive as a nation.

That is, if they are permitted to vote?

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Yes. You are right.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Many of The Founders were Deists

Enlightenment principles ruled the Age. They were astute learned men schooled in history from Ancient to Rome to English to Europe. They profoundly studied human nature. They mistrusted power and its concentration. They had fled oppression. But they trusted that our leaders by and large would be patriots, that mob rule - rule by the stupidity and fickleness of the masses - would be restrained by the Constitution.

Patriots are rarer now. The masses have been enabled by defanging the Constitution's indirect election of Senators by Amendment 12. Ironically the stupidity has been enabled by those they trusted most - male voters, and older supposedly wise voters.

But they lived in the Enlightenment. We live in the Age of Deception. Deception by technology, mass marketing, PR machines, monied influence, lies, vanity, psychological delusion, often led by paid influencers of mass deception - the psychological/political/legal professions of one specialty or another.

Find the hope in there. I'm almost out of gas.

[kentuck]

3. There are a lot of obstacles that our Founders did not have, I agree.

But we have been given the experience and knowledge of history in order to deal with it, in my opinion.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Absolutely true.

Prior to literacy and mass communication, history was just a collection of events. Today, patterns are known, recorded, analyzed, universally available. It's always asked, how did the German people not realize what was happening? Not enough of them knew. We have no such excuse.

[kentuck]

5. "Divide and conquer".

Trump rules by division and emotion. There is no reason or rationality.

[biocube]

6. Democrats need to abandon the idea that the political center...

...is center-right on economics and center-left on social issues. It's the exact opposite of that. And also no, you don't have to throw LGBTQ people under the bus to win, either.

[dutch777]

7. This was clearly at stake in the last election and yet the statistics on participation were sad....

Of all folks eligible to vote in the US, only 67% are registered. Of the registered, only 77% voted in the 2024 general election. That means just slightly above 51% of eligible citizens voted. And the stat that really frosts me, 25% of registered Dems didn't vote. Short of cattle prods I am beginning to wonder what it will take to get folks to pay attention and engage?