I fear this might be true:

[tblue37]

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The next generation is going to have to contend with the fact that we lost every important fight to amoral morons because we insisted on being polite while they cheated.

[guillaumeb]

1. Only if we stop fighting can this happen. eom

[wnylib]

20. +1,000,000.

Never give up, not even if they do manage to grab hold of the government. People in other nations have faced terrible odds in terrible situations and have fought back.

Never stop fighting.

[PortTack]

2. Just me...but I will never give up! .donate, volunteer, vote!!!

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, We need to copy GQP message mechanics not their message then start whooping their asses with

... it.

[onecaliberal]

4. We're still doing it.

We will stand by politely while they take everything people have fought and died for 200 years to gain.

[mitch96]

5. Yup, you don't bring a hotdish to a knife fight in a phone booth.. NT

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Toxic optimism.

We habitually overestimate both the intelligence and the personal integrity of the average voter. They want professional wrestling and we keep offering them CSPAN.

[Progressive Jones]

10. Thank You. nt

[LakeArenal]

14. Exactly.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Yup, time to kick some ass, politely.

[BlueJac]

8. No kidding!

[c-rational]

9. Uncomfortably numb is not what we should be. Unfortunately, I do agree with this sentiment.

We, as in Dems, are too polite at times we should not be. As others have pointed out, we need to copy the messaging technique, not the message.

[Escurumbele]

11. Well said...that is what keeps us all Democrats frustrated.

Democrats must be the most optimistic people on earth, we are always waiting for the Democrats to fight hard to remove all republican criminal actions...we keep waiting...

By now Biden should have added judges to the Supreme Court, and so many things.

[stopdiggin]

18. should have added judges to the Supreme Court .. ?

explain please

[wnylib]

23. Please think about the following from your post:

"...we are always waiting for the Democrats to fight hard..."

We ARE "the Democrats." We do not have to sit passively waiting for "them" to do something.

Ask not what your party can do for you. Ask what you can do for your party.

What talents ot skills can you bring to the fight? Art? Music? Writing? Debating? Attending local party meetings? Local council and school board meetings? Letter writing to representatives? Phone calls? Donations of time or money to good candidates and good causes?

A quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

You could substitute other words in that quote for the word "inferior," like "hopeless."

[electric_blue68]

12. Remeber when (last year?) Sen Schumer got a bit testy...

over what, I don't remember, but sooo many people were upset! And not I think just Repugs.

I think I was "you go, Sen!".

[monkeyman1]

13. good start is ban dark money, lobbyists, the list is huge !

[Duppers]

15. K & R

[stopdiggin]

16. the suggestion is that I must embrace cheating and lying

in order to have any chance to prevail. The simple answer is, "Nope."

Hardball politics - hard nosed negotiations and results - hard eyed looks at what is achievable, and what is not .... I can countenance a lot of 'tough guy' approach, and 'hands dirty' method - but when you're advocating that we become a mirror image of our opponent ....

Why - - so I can become a cult member myself?

[tblue37]

17. We can be tough without being dirty.

[stopdiggin]

19. gets a hardy endorsement from me

I read the OP (tweet) as saying something different. If so - my mistake.
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[Gore1FL]

21. You might want to re-read the OP for clarity.

Discontinuing being polite in the face of egregious cheating doesn't imply embracing cheating and lying. It implies not tolerating cheating and lying.

[Kaleva]

24. So what do you do to not tolerate cheating and lying?

[Gore1FL]

27. Call it out constantly, would be a good start.

Punish it would be a good follow-up. Stop throwing olive branches at the people shooting arrows might also be a consideration.

Or to sum it all up, I would like to see Democrats move the agenda with the facts as well as the GOP does with lies.

After 35 years of cowering in a corner, I've kind of had enough.

[Kaleva]

29. Thanks for your response!

I disagree and point to Nancy Pelosi who is tough and dishes it out. Biden is like Obama. Staying above the fray and being classy. I don't see him as a street fighter anyways. My own Gov. Whitmer isn't afraid of a fight.

[stopdiggin]

31. "35 years of cowering in a corner .."

man, I am so sorry you see all the struggles and efforts of the past generation in that light.

[treestar]

22. well if we cheat the media will go on and on about it

the only way to win is either to take over the media and use it in the same biased way, or try to get people to be more intelligent and not just follow the media pundits' instructions on how to see things.

[JI7]

25. What does being polite have to do with it ? Terry McAuliffe wasn't Polite

He told the "morans" to f off and defended teachers and lost becsuse of it.

[JI7]

26. So we should have defended Cuomo because that's one of the things

that turned people off to Democrats.

[albacore]

28. Fighting...?

At some point we....Dems/Progressives/sane people... need to hire some really clever people to make ads that attack the Qpublicans with their own words.

There is a youtube video that consists of 4 minutes of trump playing down the Covid virus. As we approach one million dead Americans by the end of February.... 15 million worldwide (IHME numbers-crunchers)... perhaps some media company could put together those numbers, trump's comments, and the fact that 85+% of Repubs approve of trump. Keep it short and deadly. 10-20 seconds. And repeat it constantly.
And then there's all the dumbshit things that MTG and Boebert and Jordan and the rest are constantly coming up with. Fodder.
And then there's the abortion thing. Short, deadly Teevee ads supporting - not abortion - but choice.
Shit... The writers on Saturday Night Live and the Daily Show could make a better product than the ads I've seen.
That's not playing dirty...it's not even fighting. That's simply telling it like it is.

[Skittles]

30. that pretty much sums it up

yup

[canetoad]

32. Sorry

It's never wrong to take the high ground and stick to your principles.

[betsuni]

33. So it's Democrats' fault? "Why didn't Dems stop ___ ?" "Dems don't fight hard enough!"

Why would anyone think Democrats don't fight? What do they expect them to do? They're legislators, not revolutionaries, protestors, activists. People can still do that populist revolution thing. What are they waiting for, why so polite? Get out there and rally.

The whole history of the party is fighting for equality and rights. "Lost every important fight"?

What the hell is the point of this?