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EndlessWire

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17. I don't need to show you scientific proof.
Tue Nov 2, 2021, 03:39 AM
Nov 2021

I don't mind broadening the argument; this is interesting. However, how can I say this, this is not helping. WE ARE AT WAR WITH REPUBS. If you don't think so, think of this as their way of taking territory that we can't even fight over. Each state has to fight for their space. If they are not encouraged to do so, then, of course they will lose what they have. If they don't figure it out, then we will all be lost.

You think of it as an equation. But, depressed v. complacent isn't exactly a sound argument. Those are both negative values. My point is that we need energy to get where we want to go, and there is more energy in being positive than there is in being negative. People have to storm the Hill feeling like they can get to the top. No one gets motivated by some Captain saying, "Troops, you are going to die." No football quarterback ever motivated his team by saying, "Sure, we are too far behind to win now, but let's go out and get hurt anyway!" You always emphasize the possibility that you actually can win SOMETHING.

I'm concerned about the trending [View all] EndlessWire Nov 2021 OP
Right. elleng Nov 2021 #1
Stop Republicans Or Democracy Dies DanieRains Nov 2021 #2
It's All About Accountability SoCalDavidS Nov 2021 #3
But, we don't have to be headed that way. EndlessWire Nov 2021 #19
Bingo!!! BadgerMom Nov 2021 #4
We need more picker uppers like you just did. Thanks riversedge Nov 2021 #5
its all designed MFM008 Nov 2021 #6
Bull fucking shit Silent3 Nov 2021 #10
+1000! markpkessinger Nov 2021 #13
I don't need to show you scientific proof. EndlessWire Nov 2021 #17
You need to show something factual then, anecdotes get us bent too many times uponit7771 Nov 2021 #23
No, I don't. EndlessWire Nov 2021 #24
+1 uponit7771 Nov 2021 #22
If we don't pass voter protection it might be difficult to impossible outdo vote suppression Silent3 Nov 2021 #7
Well, I understand EndlessWire Nov 2021 #16
Agreed Nokillmessanger Nov 2021 #8
welcome to DU Celerity Nov 2021 #11
If we're bombarded with bullshit "disappointed" "I'm not inspired" "teach Democrats a lesson" betsuni Nov 2021 #9
"Our best weapons are our votes" - Out best weapon was protecting the vote NullTuples Nov 2021 #12
Oh, okay. ShazzieB Nov 2021 #14
"Where there's a will, there's a way." EndlessWire Nov 2021 #15
"We lost that, there's no longer time" is an EXAMPLE of what the OP and I are against! Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #20
I think you mistake my anger & frustration for resignation. NullTuples Nov 2021 #21
Thank you for expressing yourself much more clearly Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #26
Stomp on defeatist nihilistic talk when you see it here. Support realistic concerns, Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #18
The defeatism has been thick for this past year Mad_Machine76 Nov 2021 #25
If the midterms were today we'd lose 50 seats Polybius Nov 2021 #27
I'm not saying EndlessWire Nov 2021 #28
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