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2/09/2021
Younger Democrats Are All Out of Fucks to Give for Republicans' Feelings
Let us say, and why not, that you're a Democrat who came of age in this century and then got elected to Congress. Your adult experience of the Republican party really starts with George W. Bush and the Iraq "war" and the economic meltdown and the fucktastrophe that was the response to Hurricane Katrina. You don't fondly remember Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan getting their Irish on to cut deals. You don't give a goddamn about how chummy Bob Dole and George McGovern were. You don't give a fuck about how there used to be liberal Rockefeller Republicans or there were glory days of cooperation or any of that bullshit that people exaggerate like their dick size on a Grinder profile. You only know Republicans as the savage motherfuckers who have twice wrecked the country and who treated Barack Obama like shit, who blocked progress in every area, who filled the judiciary with brutal idiots with culture warrior and evangelical nutzoid street cred, and who whine like wounded bitches whenever anyone dares to call them on their fuckery.
Imagine how freeing it must be, how liberating to not be burdened by that history. Younger Democrats get it. They know that the Republican Party is just a bunch of cruel capitalism fanatics, Christian nationalists, white supremacists, and conspiracy maniacs. They deal with the GOP as it is, not the fantasy of how it was, not the fantasy of how it could be.
That's why to those of us who have been waiting for this Democratic Party to finally emerge, who hoped that it would move beyond the torpor of tepid tradition and cancerous comity, these last few weeks have been like getting a breath of fresh air after being locked in a closet and having to inhale Joe Lieberman's farts for years.
Look at where things are going: Democrats are embracing the agenda (heavily influenced by the Bernie Sanders left, which, despite what you may think of Sanders himself or some of his more dickish followers, has brought more energy and youth to the Democratic Party since Obama's first campaign, and that's a net good by any fucking stretch of your political imagination) that is supported by the majority of the American people. And most of it is supported by big majorities, like the approval of Biden's COVID relief bill is at roughly 60-66%, including at least a third of Republicans. Who the fuck cares what Marco Rubio or Marsha Blackburn whine about when you've got that much of the public behind you? If you can't run on "We did what the country wanted us to do," then you suck.
The Democrats who have run out of fucks to give about what Republicans think, believe, want, need, or feel are pushing the party leftward (if by "leftward," you mean, "Where nearly every other country in the fucking civilized world has been for decades and calls 'the middle'" . You see it in how vitally important raising the minimum wage is at last, as well as canceling student debt. You see it in how a push for a rational, compassionate immigration policy might actually get off the ground beyond reversing the xenophobic fucknuttery of the Trump administration. President Joe Biden's policies so far have been, on the whole, more progressive than I think anyone anticipated, and his "yeah, suck my balls, we'll go it alone" response to Republicans wanting to negotiate COVID relief to death was encouraging as hell.
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This is not temporary. Democrats have developed a deep, deep bench since 2016, one that includes not only the Squad and Katie Porter, but newcomers like Cori Bush, Ritchie Torres, Jon Ossoff, and Raphael Warnock, all of whom understand that Republicans represent an existential threat to democracy and not just Democrats. They have been given no reason to give a single half-hearted fuck about the GOP. They're right, as are all of us who have been wanting this attitude for years. Maybe Trump finally scared the shit out of Democrats, as if they finally understood that you can't win a game when your opponent has wiped his ass with the rules.
Really, the Republican Party is only alive as long as Donald Trump wants it to be. That's how pathetic it is. That's how useless it is. Fuck them until they're buried in the cold, cold ground and govern as if we can actually fix the shit that needs fixing.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)dianaredwing
(406 posts)And I'm 72. Woo hoo.
KPN
(15,646 posts)dflprincess
(28,079 posts)Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)I may have been around but I dont have any warm fuzzy feelings about that bastard Reagan. I remember the news reports about good union folks killing them selves after what Reagan and his cronies did to them.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)I remember what Reagan did with the hostages in Iran
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)And 100% agree. Fuck 'em all.
coti
(4,612 posts)to "suck my balls."
kwijybo
(232 posts)I've watched politics since the Watergate Investigations, and saw what Reagan/Bush did to the hostages, What Reagan did to the unions and the middle class, what the Republicans did to the country with the Contract on America, Iraq, Afghanistan, the crash of 2008, What the Republicans did to obstruct Obama out of racism, and you'd have to be an idiot or asleep for 4 years to miss Trump's foul-ups. Now an attempted coup
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have absolutely had it! I am all for a big push left. Enough of this bullshit!
tblue37
(65,403 posts)Mickju
(1,803 posts)Tumbulu
(6,291 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,667 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)I have been waiting many years to see the emergence of this attitude in the Democratic Party. Its arrival is a breath of fresh air.
-Laelth
temporary311
(955 posts)That's the last time Republicans were worth a damn. It's been one long slide into the abyss since Nixon.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)All they know of the rethug party is negativity and damage. Why on earth vote for that?
Let us say, and why not, that you're a Democrat who came of age in this century and then got elected to Congress. Your adult experience of the Republican party really starts with George W. Bush and the Iraq "war" and the economic meltdown and the fucktastrophe that was the response to Hurricane Katrina. You don't fondly remember Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan getting their Irish on to cut deals. You don't give a goddamn about how chummy Bob Dole and George McGovern were. You don't give a fuck about how there used to be liberal Rockefeller Republicans or there were glory days of cooperation or any of that bullshit that people exaggerate like their dick size on a Grinder profile. You only know Republicans as the savage motherfuckers who have twice wrecked the country and who treated Barack Obama like shit, who blocked progress in every area, who filled the judiciary with brutal idiots with culture warrior and evangelical nutzoid street cred, and who whine like wounded bitches whenever anyone dares to call them on their fuckery.
tanyev
(42,566 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)We've been through decades of this bullshit and bad-mouthing by the GOP (oops, excuse me, GOQ)
That party cannot be salvaged. It is no longer a party, it is a cult.
Burn that whole motherfucker down and rebuild it from scratch.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)is not there for no reason.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)And ever since the mistreatment of Obama, some of us would piss our pants rather than risk cooling off a Republican on fire beside us.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)...and my 98-year old WW2 veteran father-in-law. He hated Trump, too.
And many of us here at DU, some for years.
ancianita
(36,080 posts)niyad
(113,336 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)go to F.E.C. CORPORATION'S DONOR LIST TO REPUBLICAN 'S & E-MAIL THE SENATOR'S NAME THAT THEY SHOULD STOP DONATING TO THEM BECAUSE THEY VOTED " NO" ON SEDITION CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP. HIT THESE PEOPLE WHERE HURT'S - THE DAMN WALLETS . THERE IS A LOT OF CORP. & COMPANIES STARTING THIS , BUT A LOT MORE SHOULD !!!! THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE TOO. I'M RETIRED & HIND A' ENJOY GETTING RESPONSES BACK . SOMETIMES IT'S A REAL PERSON & OTHER TIMES A DAMN FORM LETTER . GOT ONE FROM COTTON AN SATD HE WAS WORKING HARD FOR PEOPLE &TODAY AT HEARING FOR IMPEACHMENT HE WAS SCHUFFLING PAPER'S & IGNORING EVERYTHING !! GO FIGURE !!!
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)go to F.E.C. CORPORATION'S DONOR LIST TO REPUBLICAN 'S & E-MAIL THE SENATOR'S NAME THAT THEY SHOULD STOP DONATING TO THEM BECAUSE THEY VOTED " NO" ON SEDITION CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP. HIT THESE PEOPLE WHERE HURT'S - THE DAMN WALLETS . THERE IS A LOT OF CORP. & COMPANIES STARTING THIS , BUT A LOT MORE SHOULD !!!! THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE TOO. I'M RETIRED & HIND A' ENJOY GETTING RESPONSES BACK . SOMETIMES IT'S A REAL PERSON & OTHER TIMES A DAMN FORM LETTER . GOT ONE FROM COTTON AN SATD HE WAS WORKING HARD FOR PEOPLE &TODAY AT HEARING FOR IMPEACHMENT HE WAS SCHUFFLING PAPER'S & IGNORING EVERYTHING !! GO FIGURE !!!
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Aussie105
(5,401 posts)Like attracts like, if you have a warped moral code, don't mind climbing over others by stepping on their faces, and have a slight interest in politics, it's pretty much a certainty you will go Republican.
Simplistic to say this is a tug of war between Good and Evil, but that way of looking at it, sure fits well.
Trump epitomizes the values of the Republican party. And it is PURE EVIL!
Good to see some Republican politicians breaking away, sad to see so many addicted to the Trump deceptive hypnotism and not breaking loose.
I'm Mountain grammy's age.
Not American.
But the difference between Good and Evil I can see from half a world away.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Aussie105
(5,401 posts)My favorite line?
"Fuck them until they're buried in the cold, cold ground and govern as if we can actually fix the shit that needs fixing."
Well, not literally.
But they need to be neutralized somehow - made ineffective, irrelevant, less of a distraction from the jobs that the government needs to be doing.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)I could not understand why anyone would vote for Nixon then and by 1972 I was sure he was a crook and should never have been elected to any office. Then my first Presidential election was tarnished by Nixon's re-election and Watergate and finding out about all the crap the GOP was willing to allow.
The one difference was back then there were a few Republicans that had the guts to go to Nixon and convince him to resign.
There has not been one Republican since Nixon that gave me any hope they were better than him. In almost fifty years, not one single one. In fact, they just keep getting worse and worse.
When Trump got in my hope was that he would not only destroy his own name brand, but that he would take Republicans along with him. I believe my wish may come true!
It makes me want to throw glitter and wish for unicorns!
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)without the backdrop of the last 4 years I dont think people would be so excited for the Biden admin.
Bettie
(16,110 posts)quite a long time.
My sons apparently never had any.
housecat
(3,121 posts)Such an eloquent post expressed my anger so well, that it, strange as it sounds, absorbed the anger and turned it into pleasure. I love reading such articulate rants, and DU has many fabulous ranters. Thank you.
crickets
(25,981 posts)Oldem
(833 posts)then with Nixon, then with Reagan, then with Gingrich, then with Dubya and Darth Vader. I ran way into a huge F deficit with dump.
But every generation gets its chance to run out of Fs with repugs.
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)I remember the hippie slogan "Don't trust anyone over 30."
Well, now it's "Don't trust anyone who's a Republican."
And believe me, I haven't trusted the repukes since as far back as I can remember.
c-rational
(2,593 posts)developed a deep deep bench since 2016. Yes we have and yes we shall!
theneworiginal
(302 posts)There is more on the line with this voting block than ever. Student debt, climate change, affordable healthcare, a chance at making a good living...
Get the vote out!
byronius
(7,395 posts)I've been an Abbie Hoffman Democrat since the early eighties. Awesome to see this rise.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)Since the 80s the Republicans have had the wordsmiths and were able to grab the narrative and put us on the defensive. We have to stand up for what we believe if we want to win. We're the party of good ideas, but we can't back down in the name of compromise.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)mopinko
(70,127 posts)these kids are gonna be loyal voters at least until early alzheimers sets in.
drmeow
(5,019 posts)since I was 17. I get so much unabashed joy from watching and listening to some of the younger Democratic leaders.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Amen
Go Joe.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)K&R
danclinger1000
(9 posts)from Vietnam. They have just become shittier and shittier with the passing years. Im 75 and hoping to stay alive long enough to vote them into oblivion.
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)Glad you are here.
May being with us bring you a feeling of camaraderie.
Lunabell
(6,088 posts)The republicans were always the party of the kkk and I knew it way back then.
dhill926
(16,343 posts)dayum....
mezame
(295 posts)marmar
(77,081 posts).... which may or may not apply to me.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I know it's never going to be in the Library of Congress, but it's eloquent in its own way, and insightful in a way broader way.
Thank you, babylon sister, and keep it comin', Pundit!
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I always like RP's stuff, but this is a particularly good read.