Our Focus Should Be On Getting Rid of Trump, Not Fighting among Ourselves

[CajunBlazer]

http://www.cajunscomments.com/our-focus-should-be-on-getting-rid-of-trump-not-fighting-among-ourselves/

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[brooklynite]

2. Translation: everyone should just agree with MY policies!

[CajunBlazer]

3. That's totally unfair

You can probably conclude that that I am a Democrat, or at least progressive independent, but you have no clue what my politics are.

[elleng]

5. Not a useful statement.

[CajunBlazer]

42. Your's absolutely right!

[NurseJackie]

15. No it's not.

Jesus. WTF?

[CajunBlazer]

32. Cursing and reiterating your original statement . . .

. . . doesn't make it true. You still have no factual basis for your assumption. It says more about you than it does me or the reason I made the post.

[NurseJackie]

35. I was on your side.

32. Cursing and reiterating your original statement . . .
. . . doesn't make it true. You still have no factual basis for your assumption. It says more about you than it does me or the reason I made the post.

I was on your side. Refuting someone else in your defense.

This is the response I get in return?

[Devil Child]

28. That wasn't my conclusion after reading the linked article n/t

[CajunBlazer]

33. That's because he didn't read the linked article

One way to show your ignorance is comment on an article you haven't read. Thank you for reading it.

[trixie2]

4. We can not let Trump win again

As an extreme leftist I am saying we have to run a centrist or at least off center, left leaning.

Just my opinion.

[elleng]

6. Thanks

Welcome

[CajunBlazer]

7. i Think that might give us the best chance to win but, . . .

. . . I’ll vote vote and support to the max whoever wins the Democratic nomination without reservations.

[defacto7]

16. This.

[spin]

8. Our focus should be on finding ways to improve this nation as well as getting rid ...

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of Trump.

If all we do is try to remove Trump and fail we may find the Republicans taking full control of Congress again in 2020.

We can investigate Trump and work on other important issues at the same time and in my opinion it would be a good idea to do so.

[GrannyW]

9. Donnie is just the most visable head of a Hydra of conservative malignancy - the

(unfortunately still alive) canary in the mine who showed us how deadly an atmosphere the right has created.

Sure, there will be a ton of visceral enjoyment watching the destruction of the Trump Crime Family, especially the vile creature that squats atop it.

But let's make sure that Donnie is only the loudest vermin eliminated - the entire right must be targeted for neutralization if we are to avoid re-fighting this war again and again.

Donnie has given us the opportunity to deliver a hopefully fatal blow to the entire family of diseases called conservatism.
Let's not be satisfied with only chopping off the head of the beast - a total cure requires significant sacrifice that we must be willing to make.
The alternative is unacceptable.

[defacto7]

17. I love a passionate rant!

Welcome to DU

[CajunBlazer]

21. I agree, and frankly, while I know this might sound like heresy on its face, . . .

. . . I am somewhat thankful that the "vile creature" is the one who exploited the populist potential within the Republican Party.

The elite fiscal conservatives leaders of the Republican Party have lead the social conservative hoi polloi by the noses by promising them to support their "they are not like us" agendas while instead consistently voting against the financial best interests of their constituents in order to line the pockets of their rich supporters. It was only a matter of time before some politician recognized that weakness of traditional GOP leadership and exploited it for his own ends.

Remember that Trump won because he not only appealed to the traditional Republican conservative base, but also to white blue collar workers in key states who feel threatened by globalism and immigration. Actually what makes Trump most dangerous as the leader of the free world and most powerful person on the planet, his character and his unstable personality, also makes him less dangerous as a candidate for reelection in 2020.

Consider for a moment that a charismatic Republican with a sterling character who has the ability to communicate with the common man might have been the first politician to recognize the weakness of tradition Republican leadership and used Trump's strategy to become the Republican nominee in 2016. He probably wouldn't have had the help to the Russians, but he might have been even better able to appeal to blue collar union workers that normally vote for Democrats.

What we wouldn't have now numerous investigations into every aspect of his life and and Trump's endless presidential blunders in both national and international affairs. If that kind of person would have used Trump's strategy to become president in 2016, he would be probably be much harder to beat in 2020.

[GrannyW]

29. Agree 100%. Slow boil versus immediate scalding. Too many were enjoying their hot tub as it

turned into a caldron.

If off-his-meds Donnie still draws forty-whatever percent support, think of how much more of America would accept a "kinder/gentler" version doing exactly the same (policy) things.

The GOP is riding him as long as he gives them the policies they want.
A tamer horse would take them farther, more easily.

As bad as things are now, they could be worse.
And we could have no chance of stopping it. Thanks to Donnie, we do.

[calimary]

31. Welcome to DU, GrannyW!

Indeed, that WAS a good rant! And so concise, too!

[Prof.Higgins]

10. Of course, we'll disagree (often strongly), but no dumbass infighting please. n/t

[lame54]

11. So, no primary?

[pnwmom]

12. We all agree with that. We don't agree about which candidate would be most able to defeat DT.

[CajunBlazer]

14. TBD

[CajunBlazer]

13. Why "no primary"?

Can’t we have a Democratic primary without the canidates tearing each other apart with their supporters following their bad example? If a candidate can’t convince the electorate to vote for him/her based on his/her qualification without stooping to going negative, he/she isn’t worth voting for.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. We always fight among ourselves first

What matters is that we stop that fighting once the nominee has been chosen.

[CajunBlazer]

24. You're right . . .

. . . we do seem to always fight among ourselves first - but that doesn't make it always any less stupid.

I remember when there were horrible fights on this board between Sanders and Clinton supporters. Those fights left many Sanders supporters unable to support Clinton in the general election with any enthusiasm. That's why "fighting first" is beyond stupid.

[mvd]

19. Right on

One thing supporters of all our candidates can agree on is we need to defeat Trump. There will be disagreements, but I'd rather lift up the candidates I like than tear down the ones I am not as enthused about.

[get the red out]

20. Absolutely

And count on the media to stoke those Democratic Party fires for a horse-race, country be damned.

[Autumn]

22. It would be nice to see some who have selected a candidate post about their candidate

instead of only posting attacks on other candidates. We have a great filed of candidates It would be nice to see more people discussing and explaining why their candidates are the best.

[Mr. Smith]

39. Yup.

[Andy823]

40. I agree

Like one poster did here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/128714877

[ZeroSomeBrains]

23. I agree with you wholeheartedly

I will be voting for the Democratic nominee whoever indeed wins regardless of my preference. I did it in 2016 and the only thing that could stop me in 2020 is dying and that is unlikely since I'm a healthy 28 year old.

[CajunBlazer]

25. But did you support Clinton with enthusiam in the general election?

Did you support Clinton's campaign financially as you did for Sanders? Did you physically work to get her elected?

If you did all of those things after the horrible fights between Clinton and Sanders supporters which occurred on this board and elsewhere on social media during the primaries in 2016, then you are a better person than I am.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

26. I pushed everyone I knew to vote for Hillary

I really didn't have money in 2016 and didn't give to any candidate.

[CajunBlazer]

34. You are still a better man than I would have been given the circumstances (n/t)

[Devil Child]

27. Thanks for posting CajunBlazer K&R!

This shouldn't need reminding but it's clear it does. I try to hold myself to this standard when discussing our primary candidates and not engage in mud-flinging. Can be difficult as emotions run high but positive rhetoric towards our candidates will help remove Trump and GOP stranglehold choking all of us.

We can always go back to the infighting after we win...

[CajunBlazer]

36. You're more than welcome

I appreciate the appreciation.

[MineralMan]

30. Yes, indeed it should.

There will be primaries about a year from now. That will sort out the primary candidates and we'll end up with a nominee and a VP candidate. Until then, folks here on DU will call each other names, based on who they support in the primary races.

With any luck, all that animosity will disappear once we have a nominee...just like it did before...oh...wait...

[CajunBlazer]

37. It certainly didn't disapear after the nomination process was completed last year

The nastiness continued right through the general election. I can remember numerous Sanders supporters being so made after those fights that they vowed never to vote for Hillary. We can't afford that luxury this time around when we are faced with another 4 years of Trump.

[MineralMan]

38. I hope nothing like that occurs again in 2020.

We desperately need to elect a Democrat as President, along with enough Democratic Senators to give us a majority in both houses of Congress. We will need all Democratic voters to go to the polls. All.

[CajunBlazer]

41. Absolutely!

We can't have a portion of the Democratic and progressive independent base who will go all out to support their candidate in the Democratic nomination process (as they did in 2016) so pissed off in November of 2020 (as they were last time around) that they will be totally unenthusiastic about supporting the ultimate Democratic nominee or worse.