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Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:35 PM Jan 2018

Here's a Good Omen. 2018 is the Chinese New Year of the Dog. Let's make that Yellow

Seriously. If I was an artist I would draw a cartoon of a yellow dog surfing a blue tsunami. Why yellow? Because the only thing that really matters this year is that Democrats win big and that Republicans lose big, not who the Democrats actually are. The 2018 elections have become a critical referendum on the future of our nation. It now is totally binary: Blue or Red. For one day, election day 2018, every Democrat is good and every Republican is bad with virtually no exceptions. The only hedge is if someone like David Duke manages to land the Democratic line in some election, a very unlikely occurrence.

What it means for me personally is I that am suspending all disbelief in Democrats and those running with at least the tacit blessing of the Democrats (in the case of some Independents). Let me put that in terms of extreme cases. If Joe Lieberman came back and ran as the Democrat against a Republican I would want Joe Lieberman to win. If Dennis Kucinich somehow wins a primary and runs against the Republican, I would want Dennis Kucinich to win. I don't care is someone was a founding member of the DLC or of the Democratic Socialists of America. If they are representing the Democratic side against a Republican I will celebrate each and every victory we rack up on election day.

I am even thinking of making regular contributions to the DNC, and to the Senate and House Democratic Funds. Seriously, this is very abnormal behavior I am contemplating. I washed my hand of blind contributions to the Democratics years ago and have instead targeted my donations. But this year is different. This year we need a sea of blue on election day. Shades don't matter. We can sort all that out later, after we save the nation from the Trump Regime and his enablers in Congress. The Republicans have to go down so hard this year that every bone is their political body must be shattered. To sweep Trumpism into the ash bin of history, historic numbers of Republicans must be swept out of office.

That is our assignment. That is what each of us can commit to making happen, in 2018: The Year of the Yellow Dog.

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