Comments on: How did the Squad get elected? And what’s the game plan to get more far leftists into the House?

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:03:47 +0000

That is a way it may be possible for the far left to gain more power, particularly in the House, even if the majority of America and even the majority of Democrats do not support far left politics. –neo

True, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to beat the strategy locally. However, at the national level it may backfire because it makes the Democrats looks crazy far left and energizes the center and the right to vote against Democrats.

Trump certainly seems to be testing the Squad strategy. We’ll have to see, but I bet the Squad is more dangerous to Democrats in the long run.

By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:04:00 +0000

We’ll see how it works out. Tlaib is a radical muslim in a district from Dearbornistan, I expect her to win re-election hands-down. AOC and Omar, I’m not so sure. I think both will be primaried by someone with political acumen and also of the favored demographic. But with a good or better ground game and GOTV effort they should be able to win the primary.

I think AOC is much more vulnerable because she almost single-handedly turned away Amazon. And all those good paying jobs. From her district. People might be OK with a candidate who looks like them, sounds like them, and understands them. But they remember unfavorably who took money out of their pockets.

By: Cluebat

Cluebat — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:39:42 +0000

This plan sounds familiar.
Wasn’t this the same method widely proposed to purge never-Trumpers?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:35:14 +0000

Minor edit: The phrase is “shoo-in,” not “shoe-in.”

That aside, watching the far left become the face of the Democrats just before the 2020 election is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in politics.

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:07:39 +0000

Perhaps we need to start gerrymandering to make sure as many districts as possible are always competitive.

By: I Callahan

I Callahan — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:41:26 +0000

This only works in far left districts. If they try this in districts that are 50/50, the Repub is going to win it every time. This makes things crystal clear for those riding the fence – either normalcy or lunacy.

So I hope they try it in every Dem district.

By: docweasel

docweasel — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 06:19:37 +0000

Now you see why the CBC isn’t over fond of the “justice democrats”- black owned districts are about the only districts ripe for the kind of candidate you mention. Most of these Maxine Waters types are entrenched political hacks who enjoy the perks of being a congressman, do little work, are usuallly unintelligent and unversed in policy, they just rubberstamp the leadership’s lead while garnering little crumbs for their constituents. These well-financed and well-organized JDs will eat their lunch, and they aren’t too happy about it, they’ve already announced primary bids against some of them. The coming war will be something to see, but once it sorts itself out, there will be hell to pay for the country. Politics operates on a pendulum in the US: I dont believe the midterm losses of Obama in ’10 nor PDT in ’18 had much more to do than the public instinctively shifting power. Eventually these maniacs will gain power, and they will be loath to give it up, and will do everything thery can to entrench their solicialist vision while they have the reins. Some, like obamacare turned out to be, might be well-nigh irreversible. I weep for my country if AOC & Co gain the upper hand. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say it might be the end of the country, that parts so alien to the socialist dictatorship might break away. I honestly think it’s not only possible, but inevitable.

By: om

om — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:20:12 +0000

Tommy Jay:

” … In particular, the beautiful woman, after 35, is the woman whose soul carries a mix of happiness, peaceable goodwill, and disciplined self-respect enacted through conscientious self-maintenance.”

Ann Elliot from Jane Austen’s Persuasion comes to mind, achieving happiness at the end of the novel, and having the other characteristics you highlighted, whereas her oldest sister Elizabeth, had always been “handsome,” but was without depth or good character.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:18:20 +0000

“I have no idea what AOC, Tlaib, etc., do in the area of self-maintenance. But they aren’t happy and they don’t radiate peaceable goodwill, …” — R.C.

I don’t want to get into the finer points of feminine beauty or lack there of. But, I have noticed something about Rashida Tlaib’s looks on numerous occasions.

When she gets amped up with her adrenaline flowing perhaps, she has this square mouth lip curl. And it looks a bit like an angry sneer. To me, it very definitely does not radiate peaceable goodwill. It certainly could just be my perception, or bias; or is it really a window into her heart?

When AOC gets worked up, she strikes me as silly and dishonest, but I don’t see anything like the hostility that I see with Tlaib. I don’t put much stock in any of this, except Tlaib really stands out to me.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 23:39:37 +0000

Why keep referring them as the squad when Gang of Four was a much more fitting name giving its connection to the masterminds of the cultural revolution and how these two groups of lunatics believe the same leftist ideology and employ very similar strategies to push their respective agendas.