Tuesday Open Thread

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1. Rose-colored glasses to be sure, but this story points out that Ds could've retaken the House with just 7,309 total votes among 3 congressional districts – one of them our good ol' CO-8. Gotta gettit done in two years!!!

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2. Watching the Democratic Party flail about since Trump's election win last month has been both disconcerting and discouraging. Schumer and Durbin give up on the appeals court nominees without any apparent effort to wrangle the votes from members of their own party, sympathetic words from Fetterman for nutty Trump nominees are heard, criticism of Trump is largely muted, and, today, a 74-year old cancer patient is given the minority gavel on House Oversight instead of a young, dynamic, capable, talented woman.

   Here in Colorado I saw Polis' absurd circular saw stunt in his office with the old executive orders. What, exactly, was the point of that bit of theatrics, which does nothing to indicate that he is going to prepare this state to address the decimation of environmental standards Trump and his people will no doubt push. And, of course, Polis has actively tried to kiss up to Trump, both during his first term and, lately, by saying nice things about that idiot RFK, Jr.

   The other executive branch officials here are little better. Griswold seems less capable than I had thought, Weiser is secretive and, as near as I can tell, is generally unwilling to use his position to advance or safeguard environmental protection as he said he would, and who even knows what Dave Young does. 

   I've reached my limit of patience with the Democrats. Today, after 43 years as a registered Democrat, I changed my registration to "unaffiliated." I have no confidence that Democrats will protect us from fascism or authoritarianism, which Trump is going to try to impose. 

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   1. So, unaffiliateds are going to protect us from fascism and authoritarianism? I'm seriously interested in how that's going to work, with no organization, no platform, no fundraising, no coherent identity.

      BTW – I probably share some of your concerns about the actual people you mentioned here, but must say I'd rather have a treasurer who's not in the news than a treasurer who is in the news.

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      1. No, but the hope would be that as the Democratic party loses membership to Unaffiliated that they would wake the hell up. I'm not holding my breath, as they seem much more interested in courting republicans that don't like them, but that would be the hope.

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         1. I hear you burly, I just think it's too early to give up hope. Ds picked up 41 House seats in the 1st Tr*mp-era mid-term, 2018. It's quite normal for the party in power to lose seats in the mid-term. For that reason alone, I don't want to see people pull support from the Ds and make it easier for Rs to prosper, and I know I'm a broken record here but the Democratic Party is still the only organized and sizeable force in existence able to go toe to toe with the Rs right now, warts and all. Harris only lost by 1.5% in the popular vote, and picking up 3 seats would flip the House.

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      2. I am tired of investing money (thousands of dollars over the years) and hope in a party that consistently proves itself utterly clueless about how to meet the needs of voters, how to respond to voter desires, and how to respond to Republican BS.

         I've seen this movie over and over since Reagan days. And the reruns are old.

         Being unaffiliated does not mean that I disavow all or even any Democratic policy goals. It means I no longer want to be identified as an official member of that party or any other. Just like the other 40% or so of Coloradoans who have made the same choice.

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   2. It was a miter saw. All I could think is what a shitty thing to do to the cleaning staff. But people like that are invisible to billionaires.

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