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Honeycombe8

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7. People should take care not to confuse voting for Democrats w/voting for a "movement."
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 03:40 PM
Sep 2018

If there is a blue wave, we all know why. It's a reaction to Trump, rather than a vote FOR the movement in the other party.

To confuse the two would be a mistake, IMO. We won't know until polls are taken for reasons for votes, and until the next elections, after the 2018 mid-terms, to see what people are willing to vote FOR. That is...would they vote FOR a different Republican candidate in 2020? Or will they go with a Democratic Party candidate, whoever s/he is? Or will they vote for a specific Dem Party candidate, depending on his/her ideology and policy stances?

For the mid-terms, if there is a blue wave, it's because they are voting against what we have now...the chaos, the corruption, the spineless Republicans in Congress, the environmental damage, the lies, the authoritarianism, the corruption.

To get into power and run with an agenda that the party isn't sure the people voted for is a mistake, IMO, and would result in a red wave backlash in the future. Make sure we know why they voted the way they voted.

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