The beauty of yesterday's election was that racism worked against racists for once. The runoff/50%+1 laws were originally made to prevent minorities from winning by adding a stopgap in an election they could possibly win. That law allowed Ossoff, a Jewish man, to take a seat that Purdue, a good ol boy, had won in the general election. Knowing that just made yesterday so much more special for me.
Now that we are going to blue for at least 2 years, we need to focus on both ridding the country of far right extremist rule, and building a new moral and responsible conservative party. I know you guys are very strong progressives, and I am as well on most things, but if there isn't a counterbalace, the left can go off the rails in the future just as easily as the right did.
@mas1581 I feel this hard.
As a country, no matter who is in charge, we are not our best when we're locked in perpetual gridlock, nor are we our best when only one side is blazing the path. Think about something like Medicare for all - It would be wonderful - a game changer -- but we're also late to the game - the discussion on cost is often something we jump to the conclusion of vilifying opponents of it on. It's a valid concern. So let's do what we've done countless times in our history and recognize a problem, recognize we need a solution, and work together to find the palatable option for the good of the many.
No one can say the palatable option for the good of the many is what we have right now - at least, no one can say it with a straight face. Even the lobbyists responsible for the public opinion on public insurance have come out and said they lied and they were wrong.
That will NOT be happening in the first 100 days. ?? I would also like to see the Democrats play a little harder ball, but not to the point of becoming what we just got rid of. History is a better judge of whether the moral high ground was the right path to take than the people who are living that history - and while it resulted in losses and some dark years, I still relish that we're not the nasty we fought against.
Lets put the Q-Anons out to pasture and welcome and work with the ones who either never lost sight of what was happening to their party, or the ones who started down a path they turned back from toward the light.
Ossoff has been declared the winner! Democrats now control both Senate and House, and the Presidency.
We will rebuild what is asunder, I have no doubt.
Today was a really low day in our nation's history but it was also the death knell of far right extremism and Trumpism. No one can continue to be complicit without risk of legal retribution anymore. No senator or representative can indirectly support this any longer. Today clearly defined sides-either with Trump and anarchy or against it. There is no longer any gray area political slugs can hide in.
Also Garland is going to be on the warpath as AG cleaning up this mess. He wont carry any ill will from the SC debacle, but he will do his job correctly and independantly. Mitch's political career is over. He might last a little while as minority leader but he wont stay long without any real power. Biden will not have any obstruction to his moves to protect against this happening again. It will be seen as the day that changed the US for the better.
@mas1581 Trump's presidency was a sign of change the US needed to change for the better. I feel that COVID was the nail in the coffin for people to stand up to the government. Why am I getting that Biden's presidency will have positive effects for the US and the world?
I know you guys are very strong progressives, and I am as well on most things, but if there isn't a counterbalace, the left can go off the rails in the future just as easily as the right did.
Mas, there is no chance of the left going off the rails in the USA. All my life i hear people talk about the "pendulum" that swings back and forth, between the right and left. Unfortunately, the American pendulum appears to be broken- it never actually swings to the left. After years of right-wing oppression, it may swing timidly to the middle, only to meet a swift and ugly backlash to the right again. The middle only *seems* to be leftish in comparison.