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In reply to the discussion: It is fucking relentless. [View all]SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Democrats have been trying to do too much for too many, for too long, while republicans have had a narrow, meanspirited agenda that they relentlessly have pursued at the local levels as they worked their way into higher offices...all across the country.
They got their "biggie" issue when they consolidated the south against civil rights, and their cancerous agenda spread throughout the midwest (blighted farmlands/small towns), and into the rust belt (blighted manufacturing towns).. They learned that when you control the state legislatures and are willing to sabotage the national government, you can "win".
Democrats have always been BIG ideas people and unfortunately for us, that translated into the presidency every 4 years, and not much else inbetween.
I had so hoped that the GW experience would have changed things for us, and the Trumpster fire we are in may be our last wake up call..