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ericadawn16I think this is one of the best things Michael Moore has ever come up with it:
Morning After To-Do List:
1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked.” What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You're fired!” Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above). Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
Now, we need to make this happen!
Morning After To-Do List:
1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked.” What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You're fired!” Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above). Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
Now, we need to make this happen!
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Date: 2016-11-11 05:07 am (UTC)I've seen in the past how some of the old-school Senators worked together, even if they were from opposing parties. That's not happening today, and neither party can escape blame for this.
Many of the American people are extremely angry that nothing is getting done by the legislature, they wanted a change to upend the entire system and see if someone could get it to work, because no one within the entire political system has to be able to for a very long time.
So no, I don't want obstructionist behavior; it doesn't benefit the American people at all. I want a Congress that gets down to work! They are the ones in the Republic that vote on our issues/laws, etc. because we don't do it directly; we "hired" them to do it on our behalf.
Oh, and this country is what is called a Constitutional Republic. There is a big difference between that and a true democracy. A true democracy would have each citizen voting on every single issue that comes before it. A very cumbersome way of functioning, as the Greeks discovered. The Romans refined it into a a Republic. This is where you vote for representatives that vote on the issues of the day. Of course, the Constitutional part comes in because we are governed by the Constitution (and its Amendments), which is the highest law in the land. Any laws passed by the legislature are subject to the Constitution; if they are contradictory, they are declared unconstitutional by the judicial branch and are no longer the law. Hopefully school has taught you all this much, right? I went to school ages ago, so I'm not sure what's taught anymore.... but this is what I learned.
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Date: 2016-11-11 04:23 pm (UTC)Thank you.
You too. :)
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Date: 2016-11-17 01:04 pm (UTC)The new ones think they were put in to automatically disagree to anything the other party proposes, even if they agree. It's preposterous, and no wonder Congress only has a 17% approval rating. That should tell them something right off!
Maybe having a "negotiator" in charge might push them to work together. Let's hope so.... because this is what we've got.