democrats at risk

[rdking647]

I was talking to my brother yesterday. hes a democratic leaning independent. thinks trump was the biggest disaster every.

hes fed up with the democrats and doesnt see a reason to vote for them again.
his rationale?

the dems have been in power for 7 months. and have basically done squat. we all know that he trump family is a criminal enterprise but after 7 months has any of them face federal indictment? not one of them

the GOP is pushing voting restrictions and the dems have done nothing to stop it. in his words you can blame manchin et al all you want but the fact is the dems havent done anything to stop it.
the afghan pullout has been bungled
and with all these problem the senate rather than workign went on recess.

he blames the democratic leadership. . the top dems talk a good game but you are judged of the results. and there havent rally been much in the way of concrete results.

in his view why vote for dems or anyone for that matter if nothing is going to get done

[leftstreet]

1. He sure follows politics closely

Most people in the real world couldn't tell you who Manchin is, or that GOPers are pushing voting restrictions

[uponit7771]

2. "...have basically done squat..." sounds objective 🙄🙄🙄. Yeah Trump handed Biden a 4.6 unemploymen

... unemployment and an economy on the upswing and some other good shit ... in another demension.

I wonder were some democrats are getting their information from outside of bookFace

[brooklynite]

3. The flaw in learning about criminal justice by watching LAW & ORDER.

[treestar]

4. He is only one person

And he appears to be rather uninformed and quite unreasonable.

[rdking647]

11. and thats the type of attitude that loses elections

actually his attitude is VERY prevalent among the middle ground.

[treestar]

20. based on what?

Is there a poll? Or just one person?

[LenaBaby61]

18. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Silent3]

5. Nothing personal, but your brother is an idiot. A very typical kind of idiot, however.

One that Republicans rely upon, with good reason.

A huge segment of the American public seems quite ready to forgive Republicans, either by voting for them again, or not bothering to vote against them, when Republicans create enormous messes and Democrats can't fix it all immediately when they get one brief, impatiently observed moment to try to fix those messes.

Feel free to share this post with your brother, by the way.

[rdking647]

7. calling people idiots becasue they havent seen progress is counterproductive

thats not exactly the way to encourage them to support you.

its not that they are willing to forgive the GOP,it more that they dont see a reason to support the Dems. TFG was an easy target to vote against. people like abbott,desantis and the ilk arent the lightning rods he was. they know how to talk without throwing out one liners that piss off huge numbers. so rather than voting against an obvious evil they just stay home.

[Silent3]

16. This has nothing to do with strategy for gaining support

Such people are idiots nevertheless, whether telling them so helps or doesn't help. Compared to the wreckage caused by Trump and the Republicans, people should be delirious simply for the rate of damage to our country decreasing.

If a façade of patient sympathy worked, that's another mask I'd gladly wear. I haven't seen a great deal of Democratic support gained yet, however, by coddling idiots and "trying to understand their concerns".

So fuck 'em.

[treestar]

24. Efforts are better aimed at

the larger number of reasonable people, rather than trying hard to get the small number who will never be happy.

[mcar]

6. The Recovery Act? Getting this many Americans vaccinated?

The economy?

Sounds like he wants a reason to not vote Democratic.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. Lol.

Your brother’s a fool. Democrats passed the biggest economic justice law since the Johnson administration. It cut child poverty in half among other things. That’s a huge accomplishment by itself. And a bill that will surpass that one will be passed in the months ahead that will be the biggest thing since the New Deal.

[rdking647]

10. my brother is very mainstream

and its not just him that thinks like that. the lack of dem action is going to create an environment for the GOP to win big in 2022. and possible 2024.

[Elessar Zappa]

13. No, that's not what most mainstream Dems are thinking.

Most know that Dems have accomplished a lot. Every family with children will have gotten a $3000 check per child.

[Marius25]

15. Republicans are going to win from gerrymandering

and voter restriction laws. And that will be the end of Democracy.

[betsuni]

12. "doesn't see a reason to vote for them again": how Jackpineradicals.com.

LOL Talking points to make people not vote for Democrats:

Democrats have total power and haven't done anything, therefore they don't WANT to do anything. BOTH SIDES.

Democrats are ignoring voting restrictions, therefore they don't care. Why don't Democrats stop all the bad things Republicans do? Because they don't want to! BOTH SIDES.

Afghanistan BUNGLED, therefore BOTH SIDES.

Democrats are all on swanky vacations in the Bahamas and don't care about anything. BOTH SIDES.

Democratic leadership are old status quo establishment elites. Need new faces, new blood, inexperience.

BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES DON'T VOTE DON'T VOTE DON'T VOTE

This isn't fooling anyone.

[mcar]

19. That's what I was thinking of

but couldn't remember the name of that clown site.

That's what it was all about in Obama's first midterms - some types still insist he had "complete control" of Congress and "did nothing."

[betsuni]

29. It was very popular to discourage voting for Democrats to "send them a message."

Whatever the hell that meant.

[treestar]

25. +1

[CrispyQ]

14. Send him this.

Also remind him that if he doesn't vote, you don't want to hear him complain.

[Initech]

17. Also I quote the late, great Frank Zappa:

"If you don't vote, other people may decide to do it for you!"

[Wounded Bear]

21. The desire for instant gratification is a big reason presidents lose their congressional majorities

cycle after cycle.

Americans don't really do patience well, especially dems, who seem to think we can clean up decades of RW bullshit in a few short weeks/months. It is far easier to block shit from happening in gov't than to get things done.

[lillypaddle]

22. Your brother is an idiot

just saying.

[Mad_Machine76]

23. Some people need to learn

that there is no instant gratification in politics. Republicans vote for Republican in every election even if they don't get everything (or even most of) what they want enacted but they keep winning and have the power to at least enact some of their economic policies and frustrate Democratic efforts.

[CrispyQ]

26. Copy the text from this post & send it to him.

https://democraticunderground.com/100215776415

[Kingofalldems]

27. So he'll vote republican now?

[CrackityJones75]

28. Good thing

Good thing you shared all of your brothers propaganda here.