(07-22-2021 07:47 AM)fsquid Wrote:  

(07-22-2021 07:44 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(07-22-2021 07:43 AM)fsquid Wrote:  

(07-22-2021 07:36 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Good stuff, let's hope she's right that much of this is approaching critical mass.

we've always been a pendulum, it will swing back the other way

I agree to a point. What happens when the pendulum breaks, or is broken, and gets stuck to one side or the other?

Then it means whatever "party" was on the other side screwed up. See democrats in 1976 and the GOP in 1996.

My problem is that I don't have faith in this round of republican leaders NOT to screw it up. Look back over the past year. All of the things that they are now complaining of regarding relaxed controls over voter irregularities were in the courts last summer, and they let them slide. Then, when the two Georgia senate runoffs were absolutely critical, they turned flat brain dead and let both of them fall to democrats. Perdue got 250,000 fewer votes in the runoff than he got in the first round, and Loeffler got 60,000 fewer votes than Loeffler and Collins combined got in the first round. They allowed the runoffs to become a referendum on Donald Trump, and it appears to me at least that they lost the votes of a lot of ordinarily republican suburban voters who thought Trump was "mean."

Mitch McConnell couldn't lead a sex addict to a whorehouse, and McCarthy is so innocuous that I still don't know his first name, and I spent a year having to look up his last name every time I wanted to post something about him. Trump resonated with a large group of voters because he at least said what he believed and worked for it. That worked first time against Hillary, and he is probably the only republican who could or would have beaten her. Unfortunately, second time around that angered too many voters for him to beat a vegetable with a commie **** running mate.