Today, California announced that in order for Trump to appear on the California ballot, he’ll have to reveal his tax returns. Gotcha! There’s no getting out of that one, Orange Menace!
Except, there is. First, Trump’s people will sue California and most likely lose, especially if the judge is housed in California (although federal). And there’s always the chance that the judge might be a strict interpretationist who will argue that any stipulations a state puts on a candidate adds restrictions the Constitution didn’t put forth.
But even if that’s not the case, this is a battle being engaged in which the end of the war isn’t as clear. If you think about it, Trump has very little chance of winning California, so I don’t see a single reason why he should even care, unless it’s yet another one of those cases where he’s convinced everyone must love him, so he doesn’t want to lose his chance of winning California too in his expected massive landslide.
I guess the reason I mention this is that it’s getting really frustrating living through the continuous failures of the Democrats against this administration. And it goes back to 2016 as well. There was zero reason for the Democrats to lose that election, yet they proved how well they could completely screw up that whole process. As a matter of fact, when Bernie Sanders was seriously screwed over by both delegates and what I still consider the most dishonest tactic ever played by a party leader, I knew that Trump was going to end up winning the election. I actually had his numbers a little higher than they were, but that was only because I didn’t expect him to turn into a turd that early in the election. When I counted the states, I saw an easy victory for Trump, and even though a few of the states I suspected to go for him managed to be won by the Democrats, the numbers still held their own, even though in the end it came down to a stone’s throw of victory.
We’re heading that direction again. Yeah, I’m serious. And this isn’t because I like Trump because I seriously deplore the guy for the racist garbage that comes out of his mouth. It’s because the Democrats are capable of being their own worst enemies yet again.
If you listen to the rhetoric, we’re hearing nonstop about how the Democrats have an easy victory to the finish line this time around. The people saying this point out Trump’s racism, his womanizing (and hating), his lack of service and derision towards the military, his cronyism, his nepotism, his narcissism, his inability to care about anyone that doesn’t further his own means, and so many other little reasons, but the one thing they haven’t done is convince the people who love him that he’s not the person they think he is. Oh, sure, they have a lot of commentators revealing his evil ways and all that, but for the most part, they’re talking to themselves, and not the people who need to hear this.
And even if they did address these people, it probably doesn’t matter because they’ve been saying this stuff so long that any criticism is probably going to be interpreted as “liberal hogwash”. Hell, this article alone probably fits that as well.
They just don’t care.
So, Democrats need to do two things. First, they need to get every Democrat alive out to vote and those Dems needs to vote in states where Republicans tend to win regardless of who runs. And second, and even more important, they need to make sure they make the presidential candidate the most Democratic one they’ve run to date.
You see, last time, they let delegates choose their leader because they didn’t want their party represented by someone who wasn’t a “true” Democrat. And that hurt big time.
Even today, people complain that Bernie Sanders wanted to run. They blame him for Hillary’s loss. What they should have blamed was a system that demanded the votes from every Democrat regardless of who was chosen.
That would have been fine if they didn’t give the finger to every Bernie voter and then demand they support the party after. Well, hopefully, the party has learned from its mistakes.
Except it hasn’t. Instead, what has already started happening is that people are canvasing the Bernie and Warren voters and trying to make weird deals with them that go something like: “If your candidate loses, you need to support whoever wins, okay?” So, instead of waiting until they’ve suppressed any socialist movement, they’re trying to get buy-in for the eventual occurrence of that anyway.
Hopefully, that works for them because I’ve already seen that they’re no going the democracy route. Which seems strange for a party that has a very similar name.
Which should make 2020 a very interesting election. I’ll leave you with a small aside: During 2016, I kept telling people that in order to avoid a crappy result, they needed to do certain things. The response from a lot of my friends was that I was some kind of Sanders lover, and that I needed to toe the line. So, I started telling people that Trump had a really good chance of winning, and they laughed at me. After Trump won, they all acted like no one ever suspected such a thing and ignored bringing it up with me like the plague.
This election, I’m saying a little of the same things, based off of numbers I’m already seeing. People are pretty sure about the results that will be coming, and they’re starting to laugh at me for this election as well.
Like last time, I really hope I’m wrong.