Good Sunday morning and Shavua tov, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. Must have more coffee. Black as usual.
The enthusiasm will endure.
The crowds keep showing up in big numbers to Harris-Walz rallies around the country and we feel fine. It may just be the end of the world as we know it and it’s about time.
We’ve been sick of this world for years now, even before 2016. And yes, that includes Obama’s two terms in office when we witnessed the same old stone walling that kept him from going farther in his achievements, among which a more far reaching ACA and SCOTUS nominations. We’re sick of that world. We need a new world. A world where hope is realized into action and promise is kept alive. What worries me right now is down ballot game in two vectors.
The first one is about discipline and we talked about this before. We need a blue Congress. We need to vote blue up and down the ballot once the choices are made in primaries. Remember: vote blue after we chose who. Of course it matters “who” but the time to pick the people representing us is the primary they run in. After that it’s blue, baby blue; all the way down the ballot to the last democratic dog catcher on it.
The second vector is the lack of ambition. I am still to witness the Harris-Walz energy transposed to an ambitious expansion of the democratic representation in Congress: House and Senate. Kamala and Tim are awesome and they truly put every single state in play but they can NOT do it alone. I watch the pundits and “experts” moderately confident in the “restoring” of the “blue wall”. Pardon my French but FUCK the blue wall. We need a blue tsunami.
I wish we could all understand just how important it is to stay both disciplined and ambitious. The momentum we are seeing is historic and will for sure elect the first woman president of the United States. We must take it up a big notch. Feel disillusioned with a current representative or senator? Replace them in primaries like we did with Bowman and Bush. Hey, Omar is on a contested primary this Tuesday. Don’t want her to represent you? Vote for her challenger.
But if Don Samuels fails to replace her on the November ballot you better damn sure vote for Ilhan Omar. That’s how it’s done. You can challenge her next primary. We need to wise up, Thriends. There’s too much on the line. The democrats who we see as past the expire date will vote for reproductive rights, voting rights and new Supreme Court justices. If we allow Republican fascists to replace them we lose those votes. That’s on vector one.
On the ambition vector we need to be bold and get out to vote in places where the usual suspects tell you there’s no chance, like Ohio, Florida, Texas. Hell yeah there’s a chance! But we can’t just turn those states blue for the Presidency. We MUST turn them blue all the way to Congress. There’s just no justification for someone in Texas to vote for Harris and then choose “R” down ballot. Do NOT fuck this up.
We need a blue tsunami. The kind they never saw coming.
Democrats have for far too long been afraid of governing with super majorities. We’re sick of the old world “balance” crap that made so many vote “D” for one thing and “R” for another. Fuck that! When we vote for EVERY single democrat we will be ending the world as we know it. And trust me: we will feel just fucking fine.
Let’s go win this fucking thing.
ALL OF IT!
We’re not going back!
