Trump looked at the Dems last night and noted that nothing he does can make them “happy.”
But “Are you happy?” is a simpleton’s
approach to governance.
We need, first, a broadly shared understanding of the sources of happiness. A discussion of happiness that is connected to values and to public discourse re: the meaning of our professed ideals.
“Stopping woke.”
“Owning the libs.”
These are not principles, but manifestations of primal pleasure.
6/
It’s true that politics is a question of policy and winning elections.
But in the absence of clearly articulated values, we get the post-human void or Trump, Musk, Vance, etc.
The Resistance doesn’t seem to run through the Democratic Party right now.
Inside that apparatus, we need a Party of American Values.
Media and academia drive that conversation or cede their role in this teetering democracy.
/end
"The Resistance doesn’t seem to run through the Democratic Party right now."
The #DemocraticParty is asleep
The leadership of the #DNC has checked out
The senile old white men of the Democratic party have opened their Golden Parachutes and are softly descending downward to the Golden Years of their retirements
Nothing will touch their world-class #HealthCare, their lifetime #Pensions, their #NetWorth
They've got everything they need
They've checked out, leaving the United States holding the bag
