Opinion: Time to give it back, Democratic Party!
Photo: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer.
We’re already perceived as stuck-up and mean. Well then let’s go there! Let’s turn this around and match their “mean” to show that the Democratic Party can not only take it but give it back three times as hard. We will not be beaten down. If MAGA throws something at us we can hit that ball so far it won’t come down until it reaches the equator.
We’ve had our time to mope and cry and feel sorry for ourselves. We’ve had our time to look at the Confused Carrot and what he’s going to do. He has a crowd of admirers. Well. What’s stopping us from the Democratic Party having a couple of leaders and half a country as admirers?
An influencer named TikTok creator Suzanne Lambert has started on this. It’s time to be mean. Who knows what we could do if we’re mean? And she means REALLY mean. How often have we lost things by being too nice? A fair amount, I would say. And look at the Democrats who succumbed to the Republican Party nonsense and said something to the effect of “We’re going to need to work with them to get the important bills passed”.
No. No, you are not. We are the Democratic Party and we have NO obligations to the Republican Party. They have the majority, after all. They want our help? Make them work for it. Don’t cave in like 48 members did to get a bill passed. We are not that weak. We are strong and we are mean. I wish I could talk directly with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and have a long conversation about this. Do NOT let the Democratic Party succumb to being nice.
We *can* be mean. Give it back three times as hard. Look at where we are by being nice. Ugh, change that. Change. That. We are a party of wimps right now. Come on everyone. We can’t have just a few people standing out. We need to have *everyone* standing out.
So, start talking to the people you know. Show them what we are doing wrong and how we can change this. BE. MEAN.
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