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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Joe Scarborough just suggest
that the Democratic Party is the "Battered Wife"
in American politics?
PCIntern
(25,341 posts)Village Fucking RW Idiot.
Zoonart
(11,747 posts)in the context that we are always walking on egg shells mourn our aggressor. No matter what damage the GOP does Dems sue for peace and fairness.
The fact that "we go high", has no effect on their behavior. They view it as weak.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Zoonart
(11,747 posts)Th arc of the universe is indeed long, but this is the moment that it is bending toward justice.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)otherwise we would have seen Sargent of Arms sent to collect those who refused the subpoenas from the get go.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Cartaphelius
(868 posts)all of the money. Doughnuts & coffee is all we are "authorized"
to purchase in any great quantity.
As usual.....
keepthemhonestO
(252 posts)I don't agree with Joe on many things he says but I do think we behave this way. We have to be the ones to mend the fence when they trumpers bulldozed it over. There are to many examples to give. We do need to learn to get on the offensive with our messages. The Ossoff messages down here in Georgia they are winning with he's a socialist and attached to Nancy at the hip. I barely see any messages about the corrupt Loeffler and Perdue and all the things they've done.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)His constructive criticism might be hard for some people here to take, but he certainly is on our side, not theirs.
It's also clear that he wants the Republican Party to die because he always goes on and on how they will suffer for the way they've been acting during the Trump administration.
llashram
(6,265 posts)he pushed trump down the throat of the American people. I will never trust this infotainment caster of BS nor Mika either.
doc03
(35,143 posts)hitting back. He is right about us winning the presidency but losing the the down ballot tickets. People voted against
Trump but things like de-fund the police and socialism aren't winners. People voted against Trump
but the Democrat Brand has been spoiled by one a socialist Bernie and another person in particular who I will not name.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)and other socialist nightmares.
doc03
(35,143 posts)help. Most people think we fought WWII over socialism.
Ask them what Hitler or Musilini were.
CanisCrocinus
(109 posts)It took a bunch of (ex)Republicans to create the series of powerful and effective Lincoln Project ads.
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,057 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Theyre gonna try to convince us that we dont really like Joe Biden. They will say we really wanted Obama, but since we couldnt have him, we settled for Joe.
They are attempting to subvert his popularity, before he even takes office. I expect this tactic will be aimed squarely at black voters once we get really close to the runoff elections in Georgia.
Dont let them. We got your six, Joe!
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)Textbook battered wife syndrome, and the GOP is the gleefully, gaslighting abuser. People don;t get how much Trump has rekindled PTSD for many of us who have been in abusive relationships. Especially that one rant he gave recently -- I shook for hours afterwards, and I'm not the only one.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,057 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)claiming their viciously obedient spreading of a deadly virus makes them "freedom fighters."
Here's another, far more insightful way of comparing our tactics to the increasingly authoritarian GOP's. The data are for 2018, when over 600 international political scientists who study over 2000 political parties found:
The Republican Party in the U.S. has retreated from upholding democratic norms in recent years, said Anna Lührmann, a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a former member of the German parliament. Its rhetoric is closer to authoritarian parties, such as AKP in Turkey and Fidesz in Hungary. ... Lührmann points out that the Republican Party score started to edge downward during the Obama administration but fell off a cliff in 2016 with the ascent of Trump.
We know the GOP has become far more dangerous since. The 2020 report is not out yet, but analysis reportedly now rates the GOP's authoritarianism as extreme as Hungary's fascist party that, lead by Viktor Orban, destroyed democracy in that nation. Be sure to note the graphs for the fascistic tactics of viciously demonizing opponents and for inciting violence and violent thinking.
And in every one, note the Democrats' strong, unwavering blue line of commitment to democracy. Also note that WE are currently winning, as we have every decade since our nation was founded. "Battered wives" my democratically empowered ass!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=691
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=691
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=691
lame54
(35,130 posts)The party of wife-beaters
tavernier
(12,322 posts)they are the Neanderthals with big clubs.
They will be extinct someday.