14th November 2018, 8:38 AM
Just because it's likely doesn't mean it isn't a bad outcome to not have the senate. Yes, we knew it was very likely coming, but let's not fool ourselves here. The reason it was likely is because there's still a LOT of republican loyalists out there, thinking things, choosing things, wanting Trump to "win". If you paint this as "let's stop being anxious", whatever momentum we've gained here will ebb away.
I've said before that this is the first presidency that is going to make the rest of the nation age 20 years instead of the president, but that's not a bad thing. You BETTER still be anxious, what happened here is NOT at all a guarantee that Trump will lose the next election. Do not rest, and don't you dare put out the notion that others should. This is why the dems always manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And also, democrats need to stop declaring victory before elections. All it does, time and again and again and again, is get people to stay home because "oh well, if it's certain what's the point in going there anyway?".
And what do the dems do whenever they say they've "learned their lesson?" They declare their "new" policy by just restating the old strategy again. "This time, WE ARE GOING TO REACH ACROSS THE ISLE AND APPEAL TO MIDWESTERN AMERICA!" You know, code for "We're going to pretend we're republicans and say words like "Heartland" and "folks" over and over again while hiding what we really are after", the same strategy that fails again and again.
There are consequences to undeserved pride and dishonestly representing yourself ABF, and there is a very real chance that Trump will win reelection. The democrats NEED TO ACT ACCORDINGLY, but I'm not seeing that at all from them, so yes, I am still ridden with anxiety.
I've said before that this is the first presidency that is going to make the rest of the nation age 20 years instead of the president, but that's not a bad thing. You BETTER still be anxious, what happened here is NOT at all a guarantee that Trump will lose the next election. Do not rest, and don't you dare put out the notion that others should. This is why the dems always manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And also, democrats need to stop declaring victory before elections. All it does, time and again and again and again, is get people to stay home because "oh well, if it's certain what's the point in going there anyway?".
And what do the dems do whenever they say they've "learned their lesson?" They declare their "new" policy by just restating the old strategy again. "This time, WE ARE GOING TO REACH ACROSS THE ISLE AND APPEAL TO MIDWESTERN AMERICA!" You know, code for "We're going to pretend we're republicans and say words like "Heartland" and "folks" over and over again while hiding what we really are after", the same strategy that fails again and again.
There are consequences to undeserved pride and dishonestly representing yourself ABF, and there is a very real chance that Trump will win reelection. The democrats NEED TO ACT ACCORDINGLY, but I'm not seeing that at all from them, so yes, I am still ridden with anxiety.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)