and I want to be clear - this means no aid to Ukraine either. We are broke as it is.
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Excellent analysis, which I agree with, for the most part. I'm an Unaffiliated Independent, but for your purposes, I mostly fit into your BNMW category, including the SCOTUS expansion, and splitting with Israel, which are serious requirements for a future democratic America.
You are 100% correct that the Dems finally need to give voice to an actual platform, and not just "At least we're better than those guys!" But IF the Dems give us a platform we can support, the next wave of Dem politicians will first have to fight a political WAR before we can ever even consider any of those Democratic initiatives that we've taken years to convince them to accept. As long as MAGA continues to exist, they will thwart 90% of Democratic initiatives, and later they'll roll back the 10%, the first chance they get.
MAGA has to be stopped, crushed, and purged from our government and society, as a serious, ongoing National Security Threat. It would be great to finally get the DNC to support a real Democratic platform, but it's useless if we have a literal Domestic Terrorist Organization running around fucking up EVERYTHING. The Biden administration tried to pretend they were just Republican business as usual, and they got savaged for four straight years, and then stole the 2024 election. MAGA will not be ignored.
I want all those wonderful things on the Lefty Wishlist, and I believe they are absolutely possible, with proper economic and tax policies, but we will NEVER get the opportunity to address them until MAGA Treason has been decisively dealt with.
The Midterm election is going to be a bloodbath like we've never seen before, and seats are going to flip that nobody thinks are in contention, including the Senate. I think the Dems may win the Senate by a seat or two, but there will be several surprise flips in the House. All the gerrymandering won't save them, it will only mean that it would have been even worse for MAGA without it.
The Dems will come out of the Midterms able to do almost anything they want, and we have to make sure they follow US, not the other way around. They've demonstrated they can't be trusted to lead properly, or at all, so we'll have to take the responsibility from them, and make them work for US.
IN 2028, the ONLY winning combInation will be a candidate who enthusiastically commits to crushing MAGA, with a TRANSFORMATIVE platform to pursue after they've handled the MAGA business.
If the house goes how you suspect gerrymandering will backfire. Pack and Crack gerrymandering like republicans have been doing is the art of building as many pretty safe seats for your party as you can then attempting to shove the rest into as few as possible extremely safe seats for your opponents (if you can ensure none of your voters are in those districts you do it). It's finangling safety of seats vs number of seats, and republicans seem to be leveraging themselves a bit heavily at the moment.
If it's a bloodshed election, the gerrymandering will be most analogous to a dam that's bursting. What it had been holding back it's now providing an excess in its failure.