Dear Democrats: Nobody Cares About Your Feelings

[man4allcats]

I found this to be an interesting article regarding considerations as to how we should move forward.

"Conservatives understand the importance of power, and they go all out to get it and to block their opponents from exercising it. Progressives, meanwhile, are addicted to the affectations of powerlessness: the protest march, the petition, the complaint, the indignation over unfair play and hypocrisy, and the incessant pleading for those who hold power to listen to them." - Cliston Brown in his linked article below

Dear Democrats: Nobody Cares About Your Feelings

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Jared Kushner's rag. He was a Democrat, but he's now fully aligned himself with

Drumpf and the RW. Do not take advice from the President-in-law's media mouthpiece!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Repugs blocked much during Obama's tenure.

They had a majority in the House.

Dems have a majority nowhere, so blocking efforts may be less effective. So, protest etc.

Yes, it's weak. But for now, the Democratic party is weak.

[ck4829]

4. I care.

Someone needs to stand up for the powerless, for the protester, for the petitioner, for the person who complains, for the unemployed, for the anxious, for the sick, for the Muslim, for the transgender, for the refugee, for the immigrant, for the victim of the unfair, and for the target of the hypocrite... even if the loud minority of people who got Trump in the White House don't care or have no desire to stand up for them.

[Bonx]

5. I'm still going to change my picture to the upside down flag if i can figure it out

[JaneQPublic]

6. It's true: Dems plead for sympathy while GOPers rage and rant their demands.

I was noticing that at the rally to support ACA this weekend. Dems on the verge of tears, telling stories about how they'll likely get sick and die if they lose their insurance.

But the problem with that approach is right-wingers have absolutely no sympathy for human suffering, as demonstrated by the first ACA town hall meetings in 2009, when GOPers would mock and ridicule disabled people in wheelchairs and shout them down.

We're making a big mistake by appealing to their sense of humanity, because they don't have one.

Instead, we should do like they do: Rage and rant and demand it as our right and entitlement, just as they do their "rights" to carry loaded assault rifles to the grocery store or to have the government provide them with highly paid coal-mining jobs for their entire lives.

[ananda]

7. Get over yourselves, cons!

It's our civic duty to push our country towards
human-centered goals and redress all of our
grievances!

If that's an addiction, I never want to be cured!