Maine is a politically funny state, in some ways like Florida except pointing up instead of down on maps. For example, they keep reelecting a genuine horrorshow of a governor.
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Has Collins announced that she’s running in 2020?
We really need a national Progressive Party.
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Republicans party like it’s 1899. i sincerely hope the midterms deliver you from these nazi gasbags.
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On the bright side, maybe Kavenaugh will rule to lower the national drinking age.
Or better yet, keel over soon from cirrhosis of the liver.
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I have a theory there’s a remote chance Kavanaugh has CTE.
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we’ll have some democracy
Well, it is safe to say for most people that they have a remote chance of having CTE.
In the case of either someone who played football, or who has banged head a lot as a youth from falling down drunk, the chance might be less remote.
Dr., your point?
Um, I guess the left paw?
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3.3m last look
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Totally agree. If all Democratic voters under 35 started getting active in their local party, I think we would get the same result but quicker, and be more likely to get actual progressives on the ballot in the next elections.
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So much this. A lot of my friends my age and younger (I am going on 42) acted as if the party failed by not giving them a nominee they wanted. I would always ask them how long they had been involved in their local chapters, going to meetings, etc. I was usually met with blank stares. Democracy is a participatory institution, and the nominees are going to reflect the people who show up and do the work during the “off season,” not just during the campaigns. I think most local Democratic party chapters are hurting for new people and would welcome a bunch of young enthusiastic members, and this would imo have a profound effect on who is on the ticket next election.
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I suggest sharing this with those friends of yours:
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Remote but distinctly higher than the population at large. Or even considering just the population of people who played football in high school.
They’ve already described it roughly that way when the tooic comes up. They also claim statehood for Puerto Rico is an undemocratic attempt to create a permanent majority for liberals.
But less to the point, there are very good reasons to believe making election day a federal holiday wouldn’t work, or would make things work. Chiefly because the people with the biggest trouble accessing the polls are the people are are least likely to have federal holidays off in the first place. And having worked jobs where you couldn’t get off on federal holidays. The difference between a tuesday in November and a federal holiday is now your not just working a shift you can’t get out of. You’re working a double shift you can’t get out of.
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Collins is a POS like every Republican since the 1960s or 70s.
But what bothers me yet more than her argument for voting for unfit, unqualified Blackout Brett is that like practically everyone else, no consideration went to his woefully insufficient and extremist record as a, you know, judge.
Apparently for the a-holes who voted to confirm, being a party hitman is sufficient qualification.
Too, our f*** you POTUS is selecting f*** you nominees. And since he’s the most popular Republican out there, the Rs in Congress have no choice but to do his bidding. (And speaking of our infantile POTUS, even money that Kavanaugh’s appearance the other week was deliberate to impress Donald and excite the base for next month.)
Then again, it’s not like we were ever really much of a democracy for the most part since our founding. Were we a democracy in any true meaning of the word, Donald wouldn’t even be POTUS. So what you can call an undemocratic democracy may as well have its highest court made up of a party who doesn’t believe in a system of law but in merely using the law to serve their party’s special interests to the detriment of the nation.
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This is great, it makes the ppint much more eloquently that I can. Thanks!
