Neither Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders is the President of the United States, are they, so what’s your point?
We all lost to the lying POS who parks his disgusting ass on the chair beneath the Resolute Desk most weekdays.
So every story written which climbs the REC LIST, filled with the strident comments of the still angry supporters of our two losing candidates in the presidential race of 2016, is a story which accomplishes nothing except to keep the divisiveness of that election cycle alive and well.
At some point, all of you angry people need to see that the ONLY WINNERS in this continual effort to re-fight the last election are the Republicans.
Is that what you want? To help the Republicans?
It’s 2017, and while we lost the White House to the Liars and Manipulators there was a silver lining — that loss created The Resistance.
Which lead directly to our first big win of 2017 — and it wasn’t for a single candidate, but for all of us.
Democrats, progressives, liberals and Independents looked around after the stunning results of November 8th, 2016 and after grieving though the holidays they found something interesting. A little group of former congressional staffers put out a Guidebook for how to not just protest, but to do so in a manner designed to be successful.
The Indivisible Guide for how to resist the Trump Agenda.
Overnight, Indivisible groups popped up all over America. People in counties everywhere connected on Facebook and created local groups — and by the end of January there were over 7,000 of them.
For more than a month, people just like you and me started calling our Members of Congress (MoC) and turning up outside their local District Offices demanding they NOT repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA/ACA/Obamacare).
We did it in groups, and we kept on doing it, week after week… and guess what?
We won. Trump and the Republicans lost their first battle and it wasn’t the Democrats in the Congress who stopped them.
It was The People. UNITED.
The lesson to be learned here is that when we work together, we WIN.
When we waste our time and energy arguing with each other about something which cannot be changed, we win nothing and instead leach our own side of necessary energy.
So stop looking back to 2016 and fighting about it. It’s over now and we all need to start looking FORWARD.
Because the Mid-terms are underway and in 2018 we have a rising tide of support out there to help us win seats and shift the balance of power to our side.
We’ve seen it in red, red Kansas — where Democrat James Thompson gave the Republican Party of Kansas nightmares they are probably still having, by losing his bid for a special election to fill a US House seat by just under 7 percent.
We’ve seen it in the GA06 race, where a young Democratic candidate damned near made off with the seat which used to belong to Newt Gingrich without a run-off election. Because in that special election last week, Jon Ossoff WON the largest number of votes in blood red Georgia, in a seat which hasn’t had a Democrat in it in over 35 years. In the run-off in June, he still has a fighting chance to win that seat.
The next seat up is in Montana on May 25th, and the grassroots is already working to help.
In a press release, his campaign announced the fundraising milestone, “The momentum continues to build for Rob Quist’s grassroots campaign to be an independent voice for everyday Montanans. In just over 6 weeks, Rob’s campaign raised $2 million from mainly small donations. Nearly 40,000 individuals have donated to the campaign with an average contribution of $32.”
Quist campaign spokesperson Tina Olechowski said, “Rob Quist has the momentum and excitement behind him with hundreds of Montanans coming to events across the state and small donations flooding into the campaign. Montanans across party lines are supporting Rob, because they know he will stand up for everyday working people, not corporate special interests.”
The grassroots Resistance isn’t going it alone in Montana. The DCCC has jumped into the race with a six-figure investment, which is a sign that after the special election results in Kansas and Georgia, Democrats are starting to believe that they have real momentum on the ground. It is also an omen that election analysts think that Democrats have a shot of pulling off a win on May 25.
These special election races are a harbinger of what is to come next year — if our fractured Party can get it’s act together and QUIT FIGHTING ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION.
You want to win?
You want end the Republican stranglehold on Congress and our Statehouses?
It is within our power to do so this coming year, but not if we’re mired down in an endless internecine fight about last year.
Turn your attention to the future, look at the great candidates we have now and will have next year, and put your energy into supporting THEM — because they have races to run and win and they need our help to do it.
Next Saturday, I’m re-opening the series “Help Progressives Win”.
If you have a candidate you’d like to see featured, please leave a comment with links to their campaign website or Facebook page or whatever you have.
Because we can win in 2018 and we can win BIG.
If we fight together against the Republicans, instead of fighting ourselves.