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Bernardo de La Paz

(48,955 posts)
26. It will heal & come together, but it will take FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE & marginalizing of polar extremes.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 05:05 PM
Nov 2020

The extremes, and most especially hard right wing extremes, will have to be goaded to become even more extreme and thus less attractive. For example, tRump's cult must be (rightly) tarred with racist and QAnon labels whenever possible.

The Republican Party must be always referred to as tRump's party. Honest and responsible conservatives must be made to feel they have no home there. They must be forced to create their own party, egged on in the process by Democrats. Such a party would rise to replace the tRump-Republicon (Greed Over People) party and that is the right wing that can come together with the Democratic Party to heal the nation.

While the right wing is undergoing schizms and agonizing convulsions as it reforms, the Democratic Party will have power for a time to make big important fair reforms to the electoral system to kill voter suppression, kill gerrymandering, and kill dirty tricks. Reforms to make polarization much harder.

Make the center much more attractive than the right wing, especially the hard right. Use media and Internet to make a universal sense of revulsion come over people when tRump-Republiconism is mentioned: "eww, shitty racist QAnons".

Make the left of the center very attractive. (The center of the Democratic Party.)

*** Biden can do it. ***


Harris' personal task must be to avoid being "Hillary'ed". Harris has to move to the center, perhaps a little right of center on law and order, to prevent that angle of attack, and a little left of Biden on climate. If Harris makes common cause with Warren and consults meaningfully with AOC and Sanders, then she can pull it off. Especially since it seems Biden is inclined to move on green deals of various kinds.

"Healing and coming together" may honestly be more destructive than a degree of division right now ck4829 Nov 2020 #1
Agreed! pandr32 Nov 2020 #2
+1 Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #3
AGREE! bluestarone Nov 2020 #4
Agree! Newest Reality Nov 2020 #5
That's precisely why the right is having to make stuff up out of thin air. BComplex Nov 2020 #6
THIS! bluestarone Nov 2020 #12
K&R Turin_C3PO Nov 2020 #7
I'm not really hoping for a "healing or coming together". I will never agree with the principles walkingman Nov 2020 #8
It won't happen overnight, or ever be complete frazzled Nov 2020 #9
There is too much money in sowing division and promoting hatred... DSandra Nov 2020 #10
simply, it can't take place. peacebuzzard Nov 2020 #11
America is an experiment that is now finished kimbutgar Nov 2020 #13
We have to do whatever it takes to shut that shit down. If it means boycotting networks, products, 58Sunliner Nov 2020 #14
F theses people dustyscamp Nov 2020 #15
What nerve ABC had giving these lunkheads a platform! They_Live Nov 2020 #21
Sorry bdamomma Nov 2020 #29
Tons of trucks driving around my county today, still flying Trump flags. North Central Florida. dameatball Nov 2020 #16
Divide and conquer Mr. Ected Nov 2020 #17
Well said... +1,000,000 world wide wally Nov 2020 #18
It has taken 40 years of nonstop propaganda for the Republican Party to create this division. Lonestarblue Nov 2020 #19
I'd like to recommend your post. blue neen Nov 2020 #28
Good-paying jobs could do it Auggie Nov 2020 #20
Agree. "False Equivalency" They ARE racists. We are not. We like others. They clearly do not. Evolve Dammit Nov 2020 #22
The Country has been far more divided in the past JustAnotherGen Nov 2020 #23
this will never happen as long as 70 million amerKans are fascist and the fascist party is still yaesu Nov 2020 #24
I'm not interested in healing and coming together. Six117 Nov 2020 #25
It will heal & come together, but it will take FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE & marginalizing of polar extremes. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2020 #26
Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance Warpy Nov 2020 #27
The Division will get worse. The GOP sees the trend Roc2020 Nov 2020 #30
We're way beyond that budkin Nov 2020 #31
Agreed! We must drill them, stomp them, out vote them, minimize them and do far more.... machoneman Nov 2020 #32
I hate to have to agree, but I agree. The hate is to high, the damage is huge Escurumbele Nov 2020 #33
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