I thought you guys prefaced each post in this series with “Why Your Team Sucks.”

not to mention centrist democrats

You keep arguing against a point I’m not making. All I’m saying is that we shouldn’t be shocked at this headline. But we get shocked just like we got shocked that Dems didn’t do anything substantial about gun control after newtown, etc. When you elect people that don’t believe in the party platform on a thing, it’s…

Let me rephrase so it’s clearer: youre not wrong, but its also true that this kind of strategy led to dems not having any ability to do anything sensible about gun control in congress. would you rather be out of power, or in power but not able to do anything about the gun control agenda you claim to be trying to move…

youre not wrong, but its also true that this kind of strategy led to dems not having any ability to do anything sensible about gun control in congress. would you rather be out of power, or in power but not able to do anything about the agenda you claim to be trying to move forward?

ive read all the discussion in this thread and i have a question: what makes you think this situation is any different than any other ginned up existential threat our intelligence community has tried to sell us on in the last 70 years? Or even the last 15? We went from zero to existential threat with russia pretty…