"The Blue Wave" Is Coming

[kpete]

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016-11-07-0000

[Lifelong Protester]

1. I agree.

[underpants]

2. Great cover.

I would offer this though - it's not the demographics. That is the convenient word to use amongst writers but I think the change is more directly attributable to attitude. Social attitude has become very much more liberal in the last 20 years. "Old people" now are the Baby Boomers who are more relaxed in their take on "norms" though not completely. Their children are now the middle aged crowd and they have seen in their own experiences and through their children a greater diversity in daily life. We've become more tolerant* and less religious. The Right made their money counting on the old norms being true. They have failed to adapt and the world is running away from them.

When the political and social history of the nuclear age is written the influence of music and sport will play a large role.

*on edit - look at the incredibly rapid pace that public sentiment on "gay rights" ( for brevity) has shifted and completely turned around in just the last 5 years.

[kpete]

3. agree

thanks,
kp

[malchickiwick]

9. Great analysis, thanks!

I think your assessment is spot-on; makes me think of that famous MLK quote about the arc of justice. Well done!

[Albertoo]

30. The original by Hokusai is a great painting

[AllyCat]

4. I certainly hope so.

[blue-wave]

5. This Blue-wave

is more than happy to agree!

[FailureToCommunicate]

39. Nice!

Maybe 'that wave' could become your sig pic

[kimbutgar]

6. I won't believe this until November 9th

[Wounded Bear]

7. Go Seahawks!!!

oh, this is about politics?

Sorry, carry on.

[CentralMass]

28. I'm sure that you meant Go Patriots.

[MFM008]

31. GO Seahawks

and go democrats. Hey Blue is a team color.

[Rorey]

38. Go BRONCOS! And Democrats!

Blue and Orange (but the orange of a beautiful Colorado sunset, NOT the orange of the pus-gutted disgusting sleeze Trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. GOP already committed

to dismissing it as a Trump problem and therefore Hillary
has no mandate to govern

The same ol', same ol'

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. Pretzel logic

They nominate the guy to run as their nominee for President, not city council...President of the USA!

But, they don't have to take any blame when he turns out to be the worst candidate in history. How do they do that? How can you possibly function in a professional manner, when you constantly have to pretend that the last two years never happened?

And they do this ALL the time. All of them. About every single item, large and small, that they think will get them some traction in their altered reality. I think I know why they do it, but it drives me crazy.

They would get more votes, and a lot less ridicule, if they could just make a pledge, with documented results, to their constituents that they would quit playing stupid political games with the people's business.

[former9thward]

16. Yours is "pretzel logic"

He will not be "the worst candidate in history.' All current polling shows that Clinton will not break 50% in the popular vote and Trump is running ahead of Romney in the electoral college vote.

[manicraven]

27. Still hoping Clinton WILL break 50%.

And if Trump is not the "worst," then surely he is the most dangerous candidate? The man is a demagogue. He knows nothing. He's a pathological liar.

[Cracklin Charlie]

29. How could he not be the worst?

When considered as a candidate?

His own party doesn't support him.

[treestar]

34. no way will he do as well as Rmoney

in any vote. Rmoney was at least a regular candidate with previously held elected office. And he wasn't vulgar and divorced two times.

The mandate is also as useless as the bully pulpit. Congress has power. If it is blue, the Dem. POTUS has a better chance of getting something.

[silverweb]

17. Turn-about time!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Don't forget that "W" claimed a mandate, when he "won" by a hanging chad 16 years ago.

When Hillary mops the nation's floor with Donny-boy, she'll have every legitimate right to claim a real mandate - and the reTHUGs can whine and cry about it all they want, but they won't be able to change that fact.

[vanlassie]

10. I'm stealing my dad's copy and framing it.

[panader0]

11. The original painting....

[marybourg]

26. Wood block print. nt.

[calimary]

14. Just desserts!

May that blue wave wash a bunch of red-teamers out of office! We need to turn the Senate blue too!

AND we need to work toward tirning as many governors offices from red to blue in the next two cycles: 2018 and 2020. Don't forget that the census will be taken in 2020 (always on the zero-years, to cover the next decade).

The census will determine how Congressional districts will be redrawn, to reflect the changing demographics in each district. COLOSSALLY important!!! So far, the CONS have been ruthlessly effective in redrawing districts so each one looks like a gyrating many-headed amoeba. They shrewdly created a nearly permanent built-in advantage for CONS to be assured a steady stream of election victories because of the way they could determine how those districts weremapped out. What we need to start seriously fixing the House of Reps are Democrats in the governor's mansions and many more Dems in the state legislatures. We need the Democrats in position to be the ones to redraw those districts.

[Agnosticsherbet]

15. I will count Congress persons when they are elect elected.

But it is nice to think about.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Buckley has to be rolling in his grave right about now

[roamer65]

21. How does the GOP survive? It doesn't.

[Bucky]

23. I think National Review is trying to jinx it for us

I refuse to read it

[Cane4Dems]

24. what are our chances for getting control of the house?

do you by any chance have any good sites that keep track of house races?

[Willie Pep]

25. This is why gerrymandering and voter suppression are so important to the Republicans.

They know that they are on the wrong side of history in many ways but want to maintain their power and influence without reaching out to new voters by moderating their ideology.

[calimary]

42. Welcome to DU, Willie Pep!

Your post is a SUPERB reminder of how we need to keep our eyes on the ball IN THE NEXT TWO ELECTION CYCLES! In 2018 and 2020. We need to set ourselves up for the next census-taking. We need a MAXIMUM number of Democrats in the governors' mansions in as many states as possible by then. Every zero-year, the census is taken. And that's what guides the reapportionment of Congressional representation, for which the states redraw their Congressional districts. If a CON is in charge, they'll create the most ridiculous, outlandish, and thoroughly UN-representative districts imaginable, to enhance fellow GOPers' chances of getting into office or retaining power.

That's a chronic pain Democrats need to overcome.

[Rex]

33. Yes

Been a LONG time coming! Bye bye GOP, hated your guts from the young age of 13...have fun in obscurity.

[CRH]

35. Party now, because you need to touch reality, soon.

Politics has been volatile, since 2000. There is no guarantee what you have today, you will have next year.

Many here 'appear', to either have very short memories or, they don't know much of politics or history.

There is no greater danger than complacency. There was a landslide in 2008, it appeared the republicans were finished for many years to come. Then the mid terms. From Wikipedia, 'US Elections 2010', below.


Approximately 82.5 million people voted.[2] The Democratic Party suffered massive defeats in many national and state level elections, with many seats switching to Republican Party control. Although the President's party usually loses congressional, statewide and local seats in a midterm elections, the 2010 midterm election season featured some of the biggest losses since the Great Depression. The Republican Party gained 63 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, recapturing the majority, and making it the largest seat change since 1948 and the largest for any midterm election since the 1938 midterm elections. The Republicans gained six seats in the U.S. Senate, expanding its minority, and also gained 680 seats in state legislative races,[3][4][5] to break the previous majority record of 628 set by Democrats in the post-Watergate elections of 1974.[5] This left Republicans in control of 26 state legislatures, compared to the 15 still controlled by Democrats. After the election, Republicans took control of 29 of the 50 State Governorships.

With all those govern ships lost, came redistricting aka gerrymandering, with the congressional losses came gridlock and the party of 'NO'. In 2012, oops there goes chairmanship in second house of congress, and between the Speaker and Mitch orchestrating the obstructionism, the power shift prevented the Obama Administration its mark in history. The only thing that could be accomplished in the second term was by Presidential administration of regulatory agencies, through mandate. In 2016, the democrats could not even claim their rightful pick to fill the Supreme Court. Now think, in 2008 we had what (?) the White House after a decisive victory, 58 seats in the Senate and a comfortable House majority.

The republicans are no where near finished, if the same complacency follows this election.

Sorry to be 'Debbie downer', but experience wises arrogance.

[iandhr]

36. To paraphrase Toby Zielger.

"This is our day of jubilee and I won't have it screwed up by tempting fate"

270 electoral votes is what we see before any celebration is done.


Or Do you want to tempt the wrath from high atop the thing.

[yuiyoshida]

37. TSU NAMI

[CRH]

40. Then, your art that is not your own, transgresses the politics of real? In reflection, ...

Oh my my, possibly your art predicts, … our fate, ,,, fait.

Oh My!. Can't, say much more.

[oberliner]

41. Feels like the opposite actually

This election cycle has illustrated just how many millions of extreme right-wingers there are across this country.