re: The democrat party officially died today

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HAD to say something but OMB

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You do realize these people have a group of 20 somethings running their social media, non of them are involved in Tweeting.

Half of them are so old they probably can't even get online .

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Their platform is
1. Pro murder
2. Pro illegal
3. Pro child mutilation
4. Anti Christian
5. Anti white people

“Trump just solidified himself as the greatest leader in world history.” -
Not hyperbole

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They will look back at covid as the last major gasp they took before falling into hopeless obscurity.

What's remarkable about the whole thing is that they took it so far, they destroyed themselves. Just having a little power and using it in a subtle way wasn't good enough. Instead, they took the presidency and congress and wielded it like a fringe-issues sledgehammer until they scared the American electorate to death. Keeping the party culturally centered while occasionally getting a "trans issues" win here, or a redrawn district there, it would have been one thing. Like the Obama admin went hard on the ACA and was able to mold it into a win. Instead, they're up here putting military officers in dresses, canceling everyone left and right with twitter and all the social media, and finally sealing the assured future self-defeat with all the lawfare. That was the chef's kiss.

Congrats to all that had a hand in it. You'll eventually rebuild but not until you come back to the center to try and rope up the American middle ground. They'll follow you but not if you make yourselves unfollowable.

Depends on who is writing the books.

Dems were up shite creek from about 1860 to 1912, bar Grover Cleveland’s two terms, but the books written after Wilson and FDR gloss over shite because they were written by Dems.

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to replace with something that gets read before it’s voted on

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What is it you would like for them do replace it with?

I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious.

I see the health care issue as one in which there is no "fix." There are choices, and some choices are definitely better than others (and I agree that the ACA is one of the worst possible), but there is no solution that doesn't have some downside in some way.

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They will look back at covid as the last major gasp they took before falling into hopeless obscurity.

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This is also a pipe dream.

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that Democrats will never win an election again in my lifetime I'd be flush.

Trump's approval rating is low right now and this won't do anything to raise it.

Populism has won. People do not care about facts or reality or principles anymore. Only conspiracies and fantasies and emotions. This goes for the right and the left.

Every election will still be a battle and we'll lose some of them. Thinking otherwise is going to be disappointing for you.

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At most, we are probably in the beginning of the beginning of a lasting peace.there’s a lot more to be accomplished, and it won’t be easy.
That said, I do congratulate the parties for at least creating a good starting point with a ceasefire and hostage release…

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I'll pray for you to be able to live with this.

6. Pro men in women's sports
7. Anti science

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I’m not the person to ask. But, this system stinks, the Democrats solution stinks and the Canadium system stinks.

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But this is the problem.

People seem to think there's some easy fix that could be employed, but that the politicians just refuse to enact it.

Just like they do with mass shootings. "If we would just enact 'common sense gun control' then they would stop."

If you understand anything about guns you know that there's literally nothing that can be done to stop mass shootings in America, except maybe ban the manufacture and sale of ammunition. Even then people would find a way to get it or make their own, so even that wouldn't stop it, although it might curtail it by some significant degree.

But at what cost?

The healthcare issue is like that. There's no "fix." Anything we do is going to have a downside. It's a "pick your poison" issue.

I agree that the ACA is the worst of all possible worlds. But now that people have had the bennies and been able to get insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions, etc. for over 10 years now, I don't think you're going to be able to take them away. No politician is going to do it...not without having a plan in place to replace it. That's why the Republicans won't do it. Everybody says they want it repealed, but half of this board would be ready to storm Washington with pitchforks and torches if they actually did it; just like they all complain about spending, yet none of them want to cut SS/Medicare.

In this case, it's because they have forgotten what it was like before the ACA.

Before the ACA, your insurance company could (and often did) simply drop your coverage if they deemed that you had become too expensive. So you were one bad car accident that required extensive surgery and rehab away from losing your coverage, and you would be unable to replace it with anything else because you would then have had a "pre-existing condition."

People forget that.

The ACA did artificially raise prices for health insurance and increased taxes on top of any other considerations, that's true. But a whole lot of the increase was also due to no longer allowing those two things above. Dropping coverage and denying it based on PECs.

Gun control freaks often make the mistake of shouting, "DO SOMETHING. ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN THIS!"

That's fallacious, dangerous thinking.

This is similar. "I don't know what they ought to do, but I do know they should repeal what we have now!"

Nah. We better think it through first and have a definite plan. And with the understanding that any plan anybody imagines is going to have downsides. Depending on which way they go, the downside might be higher taxes, it might be reduced quality of care, it might be that insurance companies can drop you for being to expensive again and deny you for PECs, it might be that we go back to a significant percentage of the country not having health insurance again, it might be that we expand Medicaid/Medicare, which causes our debt problem to grow, but it will be something negative.

I'd like to see it become a Ross Perot-style issue with long-form debates and charts and graphs and such. And candidates taking positions and promoting specific plans and someone breaking down the pros and cons of each. Very educational. We need to know what we're getting into—on that you and I agree completely.

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Find me a Southern baw Irish Catholic who will vote Lefty... I'll wait

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Thousands in Orleans, Metairie, St. Bernard, St. Tammany and Baton Rouge.