Took less than 5 months for DU to go 95% Negative

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97. If 95% "negativism" means only 5% Denialism, I'm good with that.

Across the nation, state by state, democracy is being dismantled.

With the filibuster intact, Dems won’t be able to “Keep Delivering for the American People”, and without HR1, Dems not only won’t “sweep the elections in 2022”, they will lose their majorities for a decade or more. (But don’t take my word for it, ask Schiff, Schumer, Klobuchar, Merkley, Clyburn, Warren, etc. They know.)

With the current anti-democracy movement in the Republican Party, the traditional, familiar, comfort zone paradigm of “we’ll work really, really hard, get out the vote, and win BIG in the next election cycle!” will no longer apply.

When state legislatures give themselves the power to overturn or block certification of election results, the focus of everyone’s limited energy and resources cannot be on an election 18 months from now, it must be on direct action, in the streets, NOW.

When the AA community was denied the vote, often through violence, in the 50’s and 60’s, did they pat each other on the back and say “stay positive! If we work really, really hard, and convince enough white people to vote in our favour, we just might win BIG in the next election!”, or did they go to Woolworth’s and sit at the segregated lunch counter? Did they boycott buses for months? Or did they March across that bridge in Selma? Yes, I know there were voter registration efforts that were met with violence, but that was an adjunct to the direct action in the streets.

If “negativism” means revealing the cold, stark political reality we find ourselves in, after an exhausting four years of Trump and the pandemic, I say bring on the negativism!

Denying that cold reality is a dangerous form of complacency.