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Get out of the way, then.
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Not that DEI and the environment aren’t critical issues that have to be addressed. But we can’t address everything that needs to be addressed every time we address anything. Focus on the point of whatever rule or legislation we’re talking about.
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Getting shit done when they are in office would be nice. They’ve tied themselves in knots with process and procedure in an effort to address all concerns with everything they do. So getting rapid transportation gets caught up in proposals that have to address everything from DEI to the environment.
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If we want popular support, we’ve got to run populist candidates. Blue-no-matter-who dems focus on campaigns. As a consequence, they push “viable,” and that translates into not alienating the donor class, which in turn means excluding progressive populists.
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Except, per polling, everyone knew already, but the party nonetheless "persevered," in campaign mode. DNC leadership is about organizing and campaigning, rather than leading. They had their product, and rather than looking at the quality of that product, focused on marketing it.
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When will reporters ask Mike Johnson how his professed christianity informs his desire to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable.
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Dem loyalists are up in arms about this and pushing back by misconstruing the issue. The issue isn't Biden. It's the DNC, & the fact they appear to have put loyalty ahead of defeating Trump, yet again. That bears on their fitness to resist Trump now. THE DNC NEEDS FRESH BLOOD.
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You're not arguing against anything I have said. It's not about Biden. He's done. I have repeatedly stated that. Reread what I wrote. We're on the same side, but you think your arguing against me.
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Defending the status quo isn't effective opposition. Pressuring leadership to change change course or get out of the way, instead of defending the approach that got us here, that's the first step to effective opposition. We, the opposition, have to be the focus. We can't be the status quo. It lost.
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Defending the status quo isn't rebuilding the party.
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I don't think this has to with Biden but with the people who enabled & misrepresented him. He had ceased to be up to the task. That's no slight on him. Getting old is a bitch. But the fact people covered for him as opposed to intervening, that's the issue. It's about them.
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"Integrity doesn't matter as long as they are on our side."
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The focus isn't on Biden, but on the failings of DNC leadership. I agree this is an era of opportunity for new leadership.
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It's not a question of how they handle Biden, but whether they are circling the wagons around leadership or leading. If they can't be honest about their failings, they'll continue to fail in the same way. That's how life works. If you can't recognize your failings, you repeat them.
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As a measure of leadership.
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"There are much better ways to gauge those." You're not taking issue with the accuracy of the gauge being used, or you'd offer an alternative. You're just taking a tool off the table. We do have a four alarm fire, & how we should fight that fire, and who should lead is certainly relevant.
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Read what I wrote. It's not about him. It's about them, specifically, their veracity and effectiveness as leadership.
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No. Blind blue no matter who loyalty is a guaranteed loss in 2028. The Biden issue is just a "litmus test" for that.
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You've misframed the issue. It's the honesty and effectiveness of the DNC leadership that is at issue with this "litmus test." It's not Biden. The Biden issue is just the litmus paper. Are they going to be real with us, or double down on the subterfuge.
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This misconstrues the issue. It's the veracity & effectiveness of DNC leadership that is at issue. They gas lit the party's rank & file by hiding his mental issues & ignoring the polling. Business as usual was supporting the incumbent, & that's what they did. Facts be damned. We need regime change.
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So, you'd be ok with forcing indigenous kids to be forced to attend government schools as long as they were secular school? Public schools are forced assimilation.