General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Unbelievable! That an Obama employee said he/she didn't know about the Caucus Room Conspiracy until [View all]Akamai
(1,779 posts)Who fund their candidacies. Their big fear in the red states is not the general election--the states are so gerrymandered that they know that a Republican will win--but the big fear is that in the primaries, people will accuse them of being progressive and knocked them out of the race. And we have a Supreme Court that seems utterly unconcerned about this.
We also have voter suppression with Crosscheck and voter ID laws, we have a Supreme Court that enables corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited sums of money, we have a mainstream media that pretends that Trump's allies and misdoings are not disqualifying to someone running for the office of the President. The incessant nattering on about Hillary's emails, about Benghazi (those deaths caused by the Republican House's slashing of security funds--almost never was that brought up), and we had lie after lie after lie about Obama--about the unemployment rate, about the "failure" of Obama care, about the need for austerity spending (funny how they didn't mention that when Bush and Reagan were in office), etc.
I remembered one point during the 2004 race when on the stage once Sen. Kerry said to Sen. Edwards, "These guys will lie about anything." And I cheered that statement. Sen. Kerry never said it again. I always thought that his refusal to repeat such ideas helped lead to his loss.
I really like Alan Grayson's pugnacious "in-your-face" style of taking on the Republicans. At one point during Obama care debates in the house, he started to name how many people from the different Republican districts were dead as a result of not having Obama care and the speaker the house then for bid him to continue with such statements, and I think his words were "taken down"--that is, erased from the record.
Just my two cents.