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Batty Cat's avatar

I'm not discounting what your saying. At all. I agree with your original diagnosis of the issues and the sentiment that something needs to be done. And I'm grateful to you for your hard work in Georgia and in Alabama.

What I am saying is this: Given the nature of this man, his administration, given the cruelty, the immortality, the glaring incompetence, the work should never have to be this hard. Given who Doug Jones was running against, he should have been able to conduct that election alone from his cell phone on a beach in St Vincent's and still win by 40 points. Roy Moore should have never been anywhere near that nomination. Decent people voting their consciences and safeguarding their own interests wouldn't let that happen. But desperate people who think they're in a life and death struggle with a soulless enemy might.

And republicans don't only exist in rural areas. We have them here, too. I know tons of them. I call one of them, "Mom." And they all have several different motivations for their conservatism.

But nearly every one of them believes the best way to save ourselves is to get the government out of their lives. Out of their paychecks, their schools, their places of worship. A lot of it doesn't make a damned lick of sense and god knows many of them demand the government take control of the bedrooms all across the land.

I'm glad the GOP's numbers were cut into where you were fighting. But that doesn't change the fact that one of the worst people to ever hold high office ANYWHERE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD increased his numbers this time around and helped the GOP gain seats in the House and maybe hold the Senate. That he's running at 55% in rural Georgia isn't and argument against what I'm saying. It's my whole thesis.

There is something out there that isn't about revitalization or reaching out or uppity Democrats.

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A couple of additional points. I'm a 28 year recovering lawyer. Any good lawyer knows both sides of an argument.

Whether I was arguing before a judge(s) or jury in person or in writing I always laid out the opposing side's arguments then burned them to the ground before they had a chance to make those arguments and before I made my own.

Of course Republicans are going to throw out the smear that Democrats are for big government, tax & spend and socialism.

Democrats are terrible at messaging and counter arguing. If I were a Democratic politician I'd say something like, "here we go with the big government, tax & spend and socialism bogeyman scare tactics. Republicans use those scare tactics to cover up how their trickle down free market is robbing you blind and free trade is shipping your job overseas". "Just so you know I'm not going to sic big government on you, raise your taxes and I doubt a Republican even knows what socialism is".

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