Is it potentially learned helplessness, and they are enabled in other aspects of life?

Fostered and inculcated by the plethora of churches across the land, who also DON’T PAY TAXES. They are a cancer, rotting us from within.

Oh he does, he does.

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Low information voters are Republican mana.

Well, Controlled Opposition is a lucrative field, friend. You just won’t find it on Indeed.

Let’s not forget the network of churches fomenting regressive lessons, for decades.

The beginning and end of Leadership is accountability. The Dems refuse to accept their part in this loss.

The President and Vice President have zero outward indications that this is personally painful to them, at all. If anything, they seem relieved to be passing the potato. If they are so out of touch, or so insulated from the pernicious outcomes of their doleful stewardship of this country, then WHY should voters place their trust in that party again, considering it’s been helmed and staffed by the same obstinate members for decades?

I don’t see Leadership, I see a kind of craven capitulation, at a time when America most needs its leaders to have fire in their bellies, and compassion in their eyes.

This is not too far off from the reality in CA where voters essentially mandated prisoners to be used as wild-fire fighting fodder.

“I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together we’ve changed America for the better. Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count.”

Jesus fucking Christmas. Nothing will penetrate his perfect shield of fantasy.

I think perhaps you don’t know your fellow Christians as well as you think. These types have been Christianity since the 80s.

Tax. The. Churches.

chef’s kiss

This is the actual truth that people don’t want to face.

The DNC is too old and too set in its ways. They’re like a bad police force- unreformable.

The only way forward for the DNC is to visibly jettison their old guard and hope enough voters give them another shot- which is also a maybe at best. Losers lose.

Can’t argue against those points, though I still think that the figures listed lack the broader weight and gravitas required to successfully hold together a cult following. Trump succeeds because he’s also an old Boomer, and old Boomer white men like to imagine they are him- a weak man’s idea of a strong man.

As to the young men of America, we have essentially left them behind for 25-30 years as the cultural focus pivoted to ensuring that girls and young women have a seat at the table. So now young women are graduating college and going into advanced education and growing professional careers, but boys and young men have been handed the remnants of toxic masculinity, without any real, positive modeling. My father predicted this outcome in the late 90s and it’s been heartbreaking to watch it play out.

You might be right. I’ve also been watching this debacle for 30 years, so I can’t say you’re wrong, but I am hoping the high level marionettes die off (as so many are incredibly old) before the new crop of would-be-Confederates has a chance to reorganize.

Of course, the Dems would assuredly bungle that opportunity as well, since I have been watching this play out, act after act.

Sure, but understand basic Followership: a cultist will allow any action, any cut, so long as they believe it ingratiates them with their Leader.

No culthead, no cult following. The GOP reverts to a mob.

It’s a double-edged sword, even for the GOP. Trump’s followers are a cult, and cultists follow one person. So without Trump as the godhead, there’s no one with enough (ugh) charisma and panache to unify the GOP rabble.

The Federal government CAN just barge in. We specifically designed the structure that way. Federal supercedes state.