I keep wanting to believe (I sound like a broken record) that there are smart CT GOP members out there, and obviously, all eyes go to the weird and unusual. If I was a Republican in CT right now, I'd cheerfully vote Democrat.
Having lived thru the violent and tumultuous 60's and watching the country survive and try to heal I see little hope of our survival or healing now! The sides are severely divided, even local politics that once ruled for the common good has gone all right wing radical. The blame is widespread but started with 45 and continues with his dangerous, divisive rhetoric that has drawn loons in Congress to cling to him like remoras to sharks! We have to get people to vote blue, that is out last best hope! And if Susan is a 'Satanist' come rub the lamp on my table and I will grant you 3 wishes!!
I too, lived through the 1960s. I still so well recall the destruction of the Democratic Party at the 1968 convention when leftist radicals rioted in the streets of Chicago. Even as a tender 15 year old, I watched and mused why my side was out on the streets self-destructing when they should have been at the republican convention. Oh, I know. We demonized LBJ for the war. Of course he happened to be the most progressive president in the 2nd half of the century but he couldn’t shake off Vietnam then a real demon came around in Nixon and you know the rest. In 2020 summer of, after George Floyd and the street demonstrations, I ruminated that our huge blue wave was about to become smaller. Guess what happened? It got smaller. I expressed this and another blogger on substack criticized me by asking, “And what were we supposed to do?” I get it. But I only suggest cause and effect. Street troubles will never win elections. Heck, look at the gift of the Capital insurrection. It appears we are playing this one right with the congressional hearings right up to November and I know the repoops are having S_fits.
I think it's tough to rein in one's disgust when the actions of a party's leadership are so egregious. It feels complicit not to scream from the mountaintops. Haven't the Democrats always touted themselves as the big tent party? To me, that means we'll always have infighting and discussions and knock-down-drag-outs, but I always hope we come together on election days and do the right thing.
I was shocked that she won in CT but wondered if some Dems changed parties to vote her in, thinking it will make a more secure win for Blumenthal. Or few people voted? Or do we really have that many nuts in CT. 😥
If a democrat or a member of any other party wants to switch their affiliation to republican they have to do it three months before the primary. I doubt that many did. Unaffiliated voters however can switch up to the day before.
The turnout was only 20% so it's hard to say if was a surge by the cultists or complacency by the moderates who figured Klarides was going to win or some combination. Low turnouts frequently result in surprises.
Trump got less than 40% of the vote in Connecticut in 2020 but that still amounted to over 700,000 people. So, nuts? We got a few.
Oh, I appreciate that. This is really a minor thing, getting called a stupid name on Twitter, but I intend to make hay of it for a while because this IS the protocol for shallow people. Call names. Repeat yourself. Move on.
Ha ha ha. My crowd in the hippie days used to smoke a joint and laugh at the “square” culture. Things were simple back then. No don’t waste your book sending a autographed copy of “Dating Jesus.”
I too thought her commercial was odd for Connecticut republicans. I haven’t looked at the numbers but it only takes a core of motivated nincompoops to win a sleeper and she did. More importantly is what portends nationally in the coming elections and in 2024. I’m going to open up a thought to ponder and I don’t have clear answers. Or maybe I do. When someone reacts negatively to something I’ve said or done, my first reaction is to question what I’ve done wrong. And what, if anything I can do to change it. This philosophy would be healthy to apply to the national debate rather then retrenchment. What might we be doing wrong. What wedge issue does the opposition successfully use against us. One that comes to mind is the southern border issue. I happen to feel we are at least, showing disregard for illegal entry. I understand the issues, of our history of being a nation of immigrants seeking a better life. My grandparents were in that group. But they came to Ellis Island legally. I believe we are too often and too easily, giving ground to republicans and it’s incumbent to win even if we risk some compromises on principle. I sense you will disagree but I want our side to win especially in these very difficult times. We are on the tipping point. We really can lose democracy very easily. Even Plato wrote that Tyranny follows Democracy. Let’s not have it happen here.
If you want to send a book out, I’ll take one on the Parkville community where my grandparents settled. In exchange, you get mine, “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums,” and you might just get a few belly laughs in the process.
I doubt Terry Schilling would enjoy my book, so no, though this morning I offered again to send him one, I doubt it would interest him. And that's cool. But I do agree that Democrats can't just dismiss people's concerns, and that name-calling (one of my favorite things to do) hasn't exactly been an effective means of changing people's minds. I think we can draw some lessons from Kansas' recent vote to protect reproductive choice. They used "freedom." They used the language of the right, and while the right tried to muddy the waters with confusing language, they may have succeeded only in confusing their own. So if we were going to talk about our Southern border, we need precise facts as to how big an issue IS it (I'm not convinced that everything the Republicans say about the numbers is accurate), and then we need to tell stories of how the current administration is dealing with the issue. We need to tell those stories a lot. Part of my issue with this administration is that they don't do an awesome job of blowing their own horn. Yes, I know a lot of this will fall on deaf ears (Biden's successes, I mean) but let's try repeating ourselves some. Let's use facts and data, and for those for whom that means nothing, let's count them as lost and shoot for the (muddled) middle. Let's ask for precision of language. Do what I'm doing with Terry Schilling. Keep coming back and asking for clarification. Do it in public.
Using proverbial Madison Ave tactics is what I’m suggesting. Simple and direct, like the title to a book I like to read now and then. It’s only borrowing from the republican playbook. We can’t be assured that the voters understand the complexity of issues. Enough do not and that is the group which must be convinced. It’s that simple.
I’m also reminded of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition which in a way, was a precursor to what some of us feel the democrats have become, an elitist party. it’s at least arguable. We lost the white working class vote. How? Where did they go, to the republicans? Oh dear, that’s like walking into the mouth of a hyena. Or something. It’s all about messaging and the more simple the better. There is a Mexican American woman running in Texas for congress a newbie as a republican.she repeats to her very basic constituency, “God, Country, Family.” That’s all she mostly repeats. And she’s winning.
But didn't that loss to the Republican Party start with the masterful messaging of Ronald Reagan's team? And a historic reliance on the phrase "forgotten American?" It feels like we're all walking around waiting to be labeled a victim, and then we know precisely how to act. That's a real skating-over-important-details on my part, but I'll swing back to Kansas' activism and how they pitched their message. You're right. Only policy wonks ready policy papers.
I think her election is a reminder that the Trumpers are a passionate group that gets out and votes! The answer to that is: We need to have HIGH voter turnout on the Democrat side in November, and not just in CT! How do we best do that? How do we reach beyond those already paying attention and get them to vote?
Selected not elected, and another reminder of the idiocy of relying in a self funded candidate party, They are dependent in large donors and individuals
I really hope people will be motivated to vote. It's disappointing we no longer have no excuse absentee ballots, as we did 2 years ago (due to COVID). And why don't we have early, multi-day voting?
Ah, it hadn't occurred to me that the cupcake was the proximate excuse for that particular name-calling!
As a matter of curiosity, do you believe in the existence of a supernatural Satan? I have no opinion. And also I have no personal need for a Satan. I'm quite bad enough on my own. (I could easily believe that Satan exists in the realities of people who believe in Satan, and not in the worlds of us who don't, BTW.)
I do not think I much believe in an actual Satan, or an actual hell. I lean more toward the Jewish concept of creating heaven on earth (or, if you're bent that way, hell). So calling me a satanist is about as far from the truth as....well, Leora Levy.
They are nothing but their own fears and prejudices projected outward.
And not even in a smart way.
Intelligence is one thing they will not be accused of.
I keep wanting to believe (I sound like a broken record) that there are smart CT GOP members out there, and obviously, all eyes go to the weird and unusual. If I was a Republican in CT right now, I'd cheerfully vote Democrat.
Having lived thru the violent and tumultuous 60's and watching the country survive and try to heal I see little hope of our survival or healing now! The sides are severely divided, even local politics that once ruled for the common good has gone all right wing radical. The blame is widespread but started with 45 and continues with his dangerous, divisive rhetoric that has drawn loons in Congress to cling to him like remoras to sharks! We have to get people to vote blue, that is out last best hope! And if Susan is a 'Satanist' come rub the lamp on my table and I will grant you 3 wishes!!
Here are my wishes:
1) That righteous people flood the polls in November.
2) That people practice their deductive reasoning.
3) That Connecticut gets out of its own way and realizes its potential.
I too, lived through the 1960s. I still so well recall the destruction of the Democratic Party at the 1968 convention when leftist radicals rioted in the streets of Chicago. Even as a tender 15 year old, I watched and mused why my side was out on the streets self-destructing when they should have been at the republican convention. Oh, I know. We demonized LBJ for the war. Of course he happened to be the most progressive president in the 2nd half of the century but he couldn’t shake off Vietnam then a real demon came around in Nixon and you know the rest. In 2020 summer of, after George Floyd and the street demonstrations, I ruminated that our huge blue wave was about to become smaller. Guess what happened? It got smaller. I expressed this and another blogger on substack criticized me by asking, “And what were we supposed to do?” I get it. But I only suggest cause and effect. Street troubles will never win elections. Heck, look at the gift of the Capital insurrection. It appears we are playing this one right with the congressional hearings right up to November and I know the repoops are having S_fits.
I think it's tough to rein in one's disgust when the actions of a party's leadership are so egregious. It feels complicit not to scream from the mountaintops. Haven't the Democrats always touted themselves as the big tent party? To me, that means we'll always have infighting and discussions and knock-down-drag-outs, but I always hope we come together on election days and do the right thing.
Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black!
I was shocked that she won in CT but wondered if some Dems changed parties to vote her in, thinking it will make a more secure win for Blumenthal. Or few people voted? Or do we really have that many nuts in CT. 😥
If a democrat or a member of any other party wants to switch their affiliation to republican they have to do it three months before the primary. I doubt that many did. Unaffiliated voters however can switch up to the day before.
The turnout was only 20% so it's hard to say if was a surge by the cultists or complacency by the moderates who figured Klarides was going to win or some combination. Low turnouts frequently result in surprises.
Trump got less than 40% of the vote in Connecticut in 2020 but that still amounted to over 700,000 people. So, nuts? We got a few.
Just like regrets..
"I know you are but what am I?"
I'm not one to remark on people's looks, but with LL, I cannot help myself. She looks like The Joker.
I don’t get her. At all.
If everyone who thinks Leora Levy is a nasty, delusional piece of work is a Satanist, Connecticut must be overrun with them.
Maybe we can all meet at the Pedophile Pizza Palace for our next get-together.
Oh, good! I’ll bring the potato salad.
Terry has a girls name
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhaa.
You stand up strong against such dribble. By the way, that IS me standing next to you.
Oh, I appreciate that. This is really a minor thing, getting called a stupid name on Twitter, but I intend to make hay of it for a while because this IS the protocol for shallow people. Call names. Repeat yourself. Move on.
Ha ha ha. My crowd in the hippie days used to smoke a joint and laugh at the “square” culture. Things were simple back then. No don’t waste your book sending a autographed copy of “Dating Jesus.”
I too thought her commercial was odd for Connecticut republicans. I haven’t looked at the numbers but it only takes a core of motivated nincompoops to win a sleeper and she did. More importantly is what portends nationally in the coming elections and in 2024. I’m going to open up a thought to ponder and I don’t have clear answers. Or maybe I do. When someone reacts negatively to something I’ve said or done, my first reaction is to question what I’ve done wrong. And what, if anything I can do to change it. This philosophy would be healthy to apply to the national debate rather then retrenchment. What might we be doing wrong. What wedge issue does the opposition successfully use against us. One that comes to mind is the southern border issue. I happen to feel we are at least, showing disregard for illegal entry. I understand the issues, of our history of being a nation of immigrants seeking a better life. My grandparents were in that group. But they came to Ellis Island legally. I believe we are too often and too easily, giving ground to republicans and it’s incumbent to win even if we risk some compromises on principle. I sense you will disagree but I want our side to win especially in these very difficult times. We are on the tipping point. We really can lose democracy very easily. Even Plato wrote that Tyranny follows Democracy. Let’s not have it happen here.
If you want to send a book out, I’ll take one on the Parkville community where my grandparents settled. In exchange, you get mine, “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums,” and you might just get a few belly laughs in the process.
I doubt Terry Schilling would enjoy my book, so no, though this morning I offered again to send him one, I doubt it would interest him. And that's cool. But I do agree that Democrats can't just dismiss people's concerns, and that name-calling (one of my favorite things to do) hasn't exactly been an effective means of changing people's minds. I think we can draw some lessons from Kansas' recent vote to protect reproductive choice. They used "freedom." They used the language of the right, and while the right tried to muddy the waters with confusing language, they may have succeeded only in confusing their own. So if we were going to talk about our Southern border, we need precise facts as to how big an issue IS it (I'm not convinced that everything the Republicans say about the numbers is accurate), and then we need to tell stories of how the current administration is dealing with the issue. We need to tell those stories a lot. Part of my issue with this administration is that they don't do an awesome job of blowing their own horn. Yes, I know a lot of this will fall on deaf ears (Biden's successes, I mean) but let's try repeating ourselves some. Let's use facts and data, and for those for whom that means nothing, let's count them as lost and shoot for the (muddled) middle. Let's ask for precision of language. Do what I'm doing with Terry Schilling. Keep coming back and asking for clarification. Do it in public.
Using proverbial Madison Ave tactics is what I’m suggesting. Simple and direct, like the title to a book I like to read now and then. It’s only borrowing from the republican playbook. We can’t be assured that the voters understand the complexity of issues. Enough do not and that is the group which must be convinced. It’s that simple.
I’m also reminded of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition which in a way, was a precursor to what some of us feel the democrats have become, an elitist party. it’s at least arguable. We lost the white working class vote. How? Where did they go, to the republicans? Oh dear, that’s like walking into the mouth of a hyena. Or something. It’s all about messaging and the more simple the better. There is a Mexican American woman running in Texas for congress a newbie as a republican.she repeats to her very basic constituency, “God, Country, Family.” That’s all she mostly repeats. And she’s winning.
But didn't that loss to the Republican Party start with the masterful messaging of Ronald Reagan's team? And a historic reliance on the phrase "forgotten American?" It feels like we're all walking around waiting to be labeled a victim, and then we know precisely how to act. That's a real skating-over-important-details on my part, but I'll swing back to Kansas' activism and how they pitched their message. You're right. Only policy wonks ready policy papers.
I think her election is a reminder that the Trumpers are a passionate group that gets out and votes! The answer to that is: We need to have HIGH voter turnout on the Democrat side in November, and not just in CT! How do we best do that? How do we reach beyond those already paying attention and get them to vote?
Selected not elected, and another reminder of the idiocy of relying in a self funded candidate party, They are dependent in large donors and individuals
Flood the airwaves. Offer to drive people to the polls.
I really hope people will be motivated to vote. It's disappointing we no longer have no excuse absentee ballots, as we did 2 years ago (due to COVID). And why don't we have early, multi-day voting?
For all of Connecticut's progressivism, I wish we had the most wiiiide open elections. https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Opinion-CT-is-more-restrictive-on-voting-rights-16153985.php
Ah, it hadn't occurred to me that the cupcake was the proximate excuse for that particular name-calling!
As a matter of curiosity, do you believe in the existence of a supernatural Satan? I have no opinion. And also I have no personal need for a Satan. I'm quite bad enough on my own. (I could easily believe that Satan exists in the realities of people who believe in Satan, and not in the worlds of us who don't, BTW.)
I do not think I much believe in an actual Satan, or an actual hell. I lean more toward the Jewish concept of creating heaven on earth (or, if you're bent that way, hell). So calling me a satanist is about as far from the truth as....well, Leora Levy.