6 reasons for Dems to be hopeful about the 2022 midterms

[The_Trouvere]

Abortion rights, the Republicans, and the Democrats

The Roe vs Wade decision of 1973 was good for the Republicans. Overturning Roe will be good for the Democrats.

A libertarian can be described as a Republican who likes pornography and non marital sex, and who dislikes going to church. Roe convinced these people that they could safely dispose of their nuisance pregnancies, and vote for tax cuts, which is the reason they like the GOP.

Evangelicals are usually lower middle class people. Before Roe many of them voted Democrat because they know that they benefit from middle class entitlements, like Social Security, Medicare, minimum wage legislation, unemployment compensation, and so on. Nevertheless, they are conservative on sexual issues. The Roe decision caused them to become a Republican constituency.

In 1980 Jerry Falwell convinced these people that they should abandon the most sincerely Christian president the United States has probably ever had, and vote for a product of Hollywood, who seldom attended church.

In short, the Roe decision caused millions of Evangelicals and libertarians to vote Republican, who would otherwise have voted Democrat, or not voted at all.

Overturning Roe will have the opposite effect. Abortion rights will again become a legislative issue. Most states will legalize abortion. Some states will legalize abortion by name in their constitutions. Christian conservatives will realize that they do not belong to a "moral majority," but to a shrinking minority. They will become demoralized. Many will retreat from politics and resume their passive wait for the Second Coming of Christ.

 

[Rightguide]

Every single one of those is a lot smarter than you, and not even Bernie is a Comsymp, and Kamala and Joe are VP and POTUS respectively, so they ain't exactly failures.

I doubt it. Every one of those is defrauding the American taxpayer, gaslighting them daily, and serving their own personal interest. Nobody voted for a Bernie Sanders shadow government with a brainless puppet as its figurehead.

 

[oggbashan]

8. More Republicans than Democrats are dying or in hospital from Covid, and it is the Republican activists who are suffering most.

as for 7 above - The Democrats didn't cheat. Biden won fairly.

 

[pecksniff]

The long hot summers of the 1960's continued until the inauguration of Richard Nixon. They started in Harlem in 1964, and got worse every year, culminating with 1968. Black criminals loot and burn stores when they think they can get away with it.

It ain't the '60s no more.

 

[pecksniff]

. . . a Bernie Sanders shadow government . . .

Yep, they're all smarter than you, all right.

 

[oggbashan]

Elections are decided by the uncommitted, the swing voters.

At present Republicans still supporting Trump look the less sensible alternative.

Shouting about stolen elections and that Jan 6th was nothing aren't convincing.

 

[butters]

strong job market, the rising wages particularly for the typically poorest paid jobs, improvements in roads/rail/internet, this administration's efforts to lessen effects of covid (despite anti-vax propaganda aimed at sabotaging success in this endeavor), strengthened relationships with allies, growth in manufacturing and production industries, acknowledgement of the importance of union jobs and promotion of these.... lots of stuff

 

[pecksniff]

Elections are decided by the uncommitted, the swing voters.

Not all of whom are in the middle.

 

[oggbashan]

Not all of whom are in the middle.

And many former Republican voters are irritated with the party's support of the lying loser 45.

 

[GothTalk]

strong job market, the rising wages particularly for the typically poorest paid jobs, improvements in roads/rail/internet, this administration's efforts to lessen effects of covid (despite anti-vax propaganda aimed at sabotaging success in this endeavor), strengthened relationships with allies, growth in manufacturing and production industries, acknowledgement of the importance of union jobs and promotion of these.... lots of stuff

The detachment from reality necessary to believe really any of this is truly impressive.

 

[YDB95]

The detachment from reality necessary to believe really any of this is truly impressive.

Feel free to show us what he got wrong.

 

[The_Trouvere]

It ain't the '60s no more.

Liberals seem intent on making the same mistakes they made during the 1960's. As a result crime rates are increasing.

 

[YDB95]

As a result crime rates are increasing.

Guess again: https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...nced-crime-is-rising-in-the-u-s-theyre-wrong/

 

[GothTalk]

Feel free to show us what he got wrong.

Her, and the parts in bold.

strong job market, the rising wages particularly for the typically poorest paid jobs, improvements in roads/rail/internet, this administration's efforts to lessen effects of covid (despite anti-vax propaganda aimed at sabotaging success in this endeavor), strengthened relationships with allies, growth in manufacturing and production industries, acknowledgement of the importance of union jobs and promotion of these.... lots of stuff

Recovering from the damage the left deliberately incurred on the excuse of covid isn't is hardly "growth". You guys are the abusers who beat the poor economy nearly to death and you want a cookie because it's still got a pulse

Ain't shit getting fixed, that money is gone and in 3 years all the roads and bridges are still going to be crumbling away.

Anti-mandate/lockdowns/concentration camps aren't anti-vax.

Strengthened relationships with allies?? That's fucking hysterical....more like back to being bullied by people who sneer, wave their fingers and look down their nose at us but (D)'eez just love.

Unions are fucking trash that's why they're dying and need to be taken out back and put down mercifully.

 

[YDB95]

Her, and the parts in bold.



Recovering from the damage the left deliberately incurred on the excuse of covid isn't is hardly "growth". You guys are the abusers who beat the poor economy nearly to death and you want a cookie because it's still got a pulse

Ain't shit getting fixed, that money is gone and in 3 years all the roads and bridges are still going to be crumbling away.

Anti-mandate/lockdowns/concentration camps aren't anti-vax.

Strengthened relationships with allies?? That's fucking hysterical....more like back to being bullied by people who sneer, wave their fingers and look down their nose at us but (D)'eez just love.

Unions are fucking trash that's why they're dying and need to be taken out back and put down mercifully.

All of the above is nothing but your opinion. Show us what was factually wrong with the statement you objected to. Or at least, recognize that is not what you have done here.

 

[pecksniff]

Anti-mandate/lockdowns/concentration camps aren't anti-vax.

There are no concentration camps but those for immigrants.

 

[Champakian]

Are we up to 10 reasons to be hopeful yet?


You'd think they wouldn't have got stuck of six...

That would be Republican-level stupidity.

 

[bellisarius]

The article is actually funny in a bizarre way. It borders on throwing a wine bottle cork to a drowning man.

 

[GothTalk]

All of the above is nothing but your opinion.

Prove it...... otherwise this is nothing but your opinion.

Except for the prediction that the government infrastructure spending will go like every other government spend-A-thon and do fuck all but set money on fire, everything I stated was a fact.

 

[Champakian]

Wouldn't you think that the President's overwhelming popularity would have made the list?

The Kamala effect too.

 

[bellisarius]

Prove it...... otherwise this is nothing but your opinion.

Except for the prediction that the government infrastructure spending will go like every other government spend-A-thon and do fuck all but set money on fire, everything I stated was a fact.

Where will the money go?

Well first of all there's the preliminary studies (Yes, multiple studies). That will be followed by the detailed plan. The detailed plan is then given over to another group to do the 'environmental impact' study. The release of the impact study will be followed by a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and other 'interested' groups. These lawsuits will require even more detailed studies to defend against the lawsuits.

Eventually they'll get down to issuing the RFQ's to get the work done only to find out that all of the studies and lawsuits ate up 90% of the allocated funds and they can't afford to actually get the work done.

 

[JohnnySavage]

And add 25% for Davis Bacon wages.

 

[bellisarius]

And add 25% for Davis Bacon wages.

You mean piling insult on top of injury.

 

[YDB95]

Wouldn't you think that the President's overwhelming popularity would have made the list?

The Kamala effect too.

Well, that's easy. We have no way of knowing how popular Biden will be ten months from now. His ratings are highly unlikely to remain just where they are throughout this year, no matter how desperately you want that to happen.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Scant credentials? He's originally from Scranton. You can't get any more working class than that.

Just because you're from a city that is perceived as primarily working class doesn't mean you (or your family) was working class.

Joe Biden was born in 1942 in Scranton, PA. During the war years they lived in Boston, then moved back to Scranton, then in 1953 the moved to Clayton, DE. So Joe only lived in Scranton until his was 11. He went to a private high school in Delaware, then into the University of Delaware and on through law school, graduating from law school in 1968.

During this time frame there is only one record of employment for him - he was a summer lifeguard for one summer (so a few months of work). After law school he joined a corporate law firm briefly (about a year) and then took a job as a public defender (about a year), and then ran for elected office in 1970 (county commissioner) and won the election as Senator in 1972. So, his entire work history is as a lawyer and politician - hardly working class.

So, the President is many things, but working class isn't one of them. Though his father did fall on hard times after the war - his career was extensively in management, along with several failed business ventures (entrepenurial efforts) - Joe was born into a wealthy family, on both sides of the family and for most of his life they were wealthy. Through college his peers remember him as always being well-dressed and driving a new car (his love of cars was shared with his father - who was providng him with the new cars). His mother's family was in the oil business in Pennsylvania. They never saw themselves as "working class", most of that is an invention of "Biden the Politician".

(I voted for the President, but not because of his "working class" background - he was never working class and many of the stories he's told as a politician are not verifiable - or outright disproven.)