The Democrats have historically pursued the "high road" of attempting to appease those who disagree or have done wrong. It's true that we can't survive as a nation by further division.
However, there's a point at which we must move on. Try to bring "them" along, but do not be stampeded into concessions or obstructed. On many policy issue…
The Democrats have historically pursued the "high road" of attempting to appease those who disagree or have done wrong. It's true that we can't survive as a nation by further division.
However, there's a point at which we must move on. Try to bring "them" along, but do not be stampeded into concessions or obstructed. On many policy issues, the GOP has followed a simple strategy of saying "No" without offering up an alternative. The ACA is the most obvious case, where they tried to overturn it more than 60 times while Obama was in office, and then tried to "repeal and replace" at least 3 times, only with no "replace" in place. And they've done so with an alarming absence of ethics.
You can be persistent and ethical. The Dems need to learn to play hardball. UNTIL they do, they'll be the weaker party. And UNLESS they do, they'll be run out of office after Biden and we'll be facing the, or worse, from the Republicans.
The Democrats have historically pursued the "high road" of attempting to appease those who disagree or have done wrong. It's true that we can't survive as a nation by further division.
However, there's a point at which we must move on. Try to bring "them" along, but do not be stampeded into concessions or obstructed. On many policy issues, the GOP has followed a simple strategy of saying "No" without offering up an alternative. The ACA is the most obvious case, where they tried to overturn it more than 60 times while Obama was in office, and then tried to "repeal and replace" at least 3 times, only with no "replace" in place. And they've done so with an alarming absence of ethics.
You can be persistent and ethical. The Dems need to learn to play hardball. UNTIL they do, they'll be the weaker party. And UNLESS they do, they'll be run out of office after Biden and we'll be facing the, or worse, from the Republicans.