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Schumaker and Jeffries and Pelosi aren't the problem because they are centrist .... they are the problem because they are old school, do nothing but stall the opposition, political dinosaurs who are happy milking the system as much as the R's -- although not as much as Trump who is in a league of his own there. And if you think moving to the extreme left is the answer then I can tell you know - it will be like a pendulum ... if it swings too far left it will just swing back harder and further right when the time comes.

What Dems should be doing is figuring out what they are going to do and how they are going to do it ... they shouldn't waste a moment of time talking about impeachment because that's a political process that will fail. By all means investigate the corruption and the abuse of power during Trump term 2 ... but simply provide observable, provable, factual conclusions and summaries and expose what's happened (if it's happened). Don't speculate, don't over promise, don't focus on bringing Trump down - focus on making the country better and help it recover. *** and try to put some guardrails in place to prevent the same abuse of power happening in the future no matter who is in power.

I get the feeling that everybody (not named Mike Johnston) would have bet on the Dems taking the House... Only a few were predicting that the Dems would take the Senate as well.

But I don't know anyone that thought that Texas would end up with all those state wide election wins for democrats... Yikes... And as of this writing, Mississippi is still in the Senate mix to Flip.. Alaska is still in the mix to flip a senate seat. Who would have thunk that?

Lots of excuses coming from MAGA as to why it happened. What they fail to admit is that Republicans (maga) screwed up. Trump got caught in lies over and over again., Congress got caught lying for Trump over and over again. All Republicans had was Culture Wars.

It's hard to find anything good about Ramaswamy.. I man geez,, how stupid do you gotta be spend $4 million running that ad about Actons mom... It was easy to discredit.. Just look up the police reports from that time and it all comes into focus.

Now we have Trump telling the DOJ (which isn't normal) to go after Democrats for saying we are going after Republicans for their actions? We have the AG saying he represents Stephen Miller (which of course is not normal)

We have a bunch of Idiots in the MAGA movement...

I get where you are coming from, but I don't think this is really the case. I don't think it is an intelligence issue at the root of the problem (though there are undoubtedly some individuals with deficits in that dimension,) I think it's more a case of emotional hijack. Almost a victims of abuse becoming their abusers sort of situation.

I think my problem with Christianity is that there are parts of it that I am drawn to. As a "survivor"/sufferer of child abuse, Jesus is a very relatable figure. Having your father effectively demanding that you "kill yourself"/willingly go to the cross despite your "wanting the cup to pass from" yourself is very abuse coded. Wanting to be able to love others despite what you've been subjected to feels very noble.

The problem comes from the God, the father, aspect. Ultimately, the Biblical God is effectively a narcissistic abuser. Worship me or suffer forever is something that if a human father told his child, we'd probably throw him in jail. Yet, in Christianity we/they've somehow twisted constantly being told such a thing into an act of love. Once you can rationalize that and have subconsciously integrated that into your belief systems, you can rationalize almost anything. Most are taught that young and come to believe it before they can rationally understand it.

Now, I don't claim to know the specifics of the existence of higher powers, but, if God is actually love, it seems people may have underestimated the "Great Deceiver" and have attributed his actions to the "loving God." If God can drown the majority of the human population and it be love, you can justify essentially anything. An entity of power beyond comprehension but opposed by another entity of similar power locked into some near stalemate would seem to make more sense if higher powers actually exist in a "sentient" form.

Sorry if I got too far "off topic."

Rather than Democratic or Republican parties as forces in opposition constantly pinballing between extremes, I think we need to figure out some sort of third party to bridge the two sides. The Compassion Party comes to mind as I feel like more compassion is really what our society needs, but it might be too sappy to catch on. The "persecuting" nature of the current two party system seems to lead to entrenchment and things (divides) getting worse.

I feel like as a society we're all pretty messed up. It's just a difference in how that happened and how it expresses itself. Ultimately, we all just want to feel safe, and, likely, loved.



....Thanks for listening to my TED talk?

Well when it comes to God the Father I noticed something I found significant.

When he was young and wild he was very abusive and violent. I'm not sure where that anger originated but maybe it's when some of his angels rebelled against him.

At any rate, like a lot of people who outgrow their youth, he mellowed out quite a bit after he had a kid.