Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Does Joe have his mojo back? [View all]Celerity
(43,731 posts)I love her ideas and positions, but I am so cynical on what can happen if we go too far to the left and get painted as radicals. If Rump wins (obviously at that point we would have no chance of regaining the Senate barring truly bizarre skewage at the state levels) and we also lose the House, we are fucked. The SCOTUS will probably end up 7-2 or even 8-1 (if Sotomayor's diabetes does her in) hard RW, plus a Rump win means we would probably fail at state assemblies level, thus giving the Rethugs big gains and abilities to further gerrymander and vote suppress.
If all that happened, we can start to kiss good-bye to many, if not most, of the civil rights won post Brown v Board (and B v B itself would come under attack).
A full decade more of sprinting to the far right, if left unchecked for the most part, lays the groundwork for the union itself breaking up by 2040, as there is no way California and other big Blue states will submit to a RW theocracy at foundational levels.
My most fervent hope is that no one ever looks back at these words 10, 13, 15 years from now and says 'Damn, she was fairly spot on in her future-forward prognostications.'
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden