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In reply to the discussion: Other than Katie Porter & a couple others, the Democratic Party STILL doesn't know how to fight back [View all]wnylib
(21,146 posts)It's being channeled into energy to call voters in Georgia and make sure we have the power to shut down Moscow Mitch. It's all over social media, from political leaders to ordinary citizens. It's in the donations to the Georgia campaigns. It's in interviews with citizens and politicians.
Benghazi bullshit - Is that the kind of thing you think we should be doing? Seriously? We should become like the people we detest? When we do that, we will have lost both the battles and the war because then we will be helping magas create the kind of country and politics they want.
Remember what a sore winner Trump was in 2016 when he complained about the popular vote? We won the presidential election. Trump does not have a snowball's chance in hell of overturning it. We have a decent chance of winning the Senate. Should we become sore winners, too?
If we gain the Senate, we will still have battles ahead of us to prevent the fascist BS from growing and spreading. We will need to push for investigations and accountability. There is a lot of corruption to clean up.
If we do not win the Senate, we will still have to push for accountability and clean up of corruption. We will have to work hard to hold our own against the 2022 midterms. We should work to increase our numbers in 2022.
What we want and need is the power positions to carry out the accountability, clean up, and new direction that the country needs.
I would not underestimate the value of the contrast that Biden and his chosen cabinet make to Trump's incompetence. Their leadership and professionalism expose the Trump phoniness and set the tone and direction that we need. 81 million people chose them to do that.
Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and many others exposed the attempted Trump smear campaign. Despite how it looked, with subpoenas being ignored and the Senate refusing to hold a trial, we won because the scam was exposed, allowing Biden to run successfully and unseat Trump and his whole gang. Appearances are not everything. Results are what matter. The result of the election is that Biden keeps going, full steam ahead, despite Trump's attention-seeking sideshow.
Trump's multiple losses and constant whining look weak and childish in comparison. Substance wins over appearances, and actually changes appearances.