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Future of the Democratic Party

I have been thinking about maybe getting some seeds locally and planting them out back in the jungle in a common area that is not on my property, that gets rain and sun.
It is a "weed" after all, and might not need any help to grow large enough to use.

You may as well grow it in a backroom like many of the potheads do because your legal risk is pretty small
 
You may as well grow it in a backroom like many of the potheads do because your legal risk is pretty small

Nawww, with the luck I have had, my cat would eat it all up, and be laying there all glassy eyed.

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Future of the Democratic Party

they have a rough go in 2018, from what i've read. hope that they manage to get their **** together and at least win the senate, though. i don't like one party rule, and i don't agree much with the agenda of the party that's in charge.

their problem remains the same, and i've posted about it before. if you ask the average person on the street what the message of the Republican party is, he or she will at least say "to stop Obama" or "to cut government," even if that's entirely an oversimplification and is less than accurate. ask them the same thing about the Democratic party, and you'll get some partisan regurgitation about socialism (or their mangled understanding of what socialism actually is,) or you'll get no answer at all. why? their messaging is terrible. no easily remembered motto, no unifying message, nor anything substantive in most cases. here is what the Democratic party needs to take away from this election :

1. jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. even if you can't do it, jobs. after that, jobs. good paying jobs. "we'll rebuild your town" jobs. jobs.

i told them, but they didn't believe me.

2. shut the **** up about guns. the battle at the federal level is lost. yes, many people are too stupid and violent to be trusted with a weapon as deadly as modern guns, but the issue is killing you. put it on the back burner, and climb out of the ditch before looking at it again.

3. use the ****ing bully pulpit to explain to people WHY you want to fix healthcare. you got drowned out by the right, and now the ACA is toast. there should have been interview after interview with average Canadians and Europeans saying "well, it isn't perfect, but there's no way i would trade places with you poor blokes. 12K for a broken arm, and you lose your insurance when you lose your job? that's daft."

4. jobs.

5. there's about to be another huge attempt at trickle down. map that **** out, and watch it like a hawk. when it fails like all of the other attempts over the past thirty years, have data, graphs, and a plan to fix it at the ready when the bubbles start bursting. hopefully, Charlie Brown will eventually figure out who's holding the football.

6. package policy priorities into something like the New Deal, and then find someone who can sell it.

that's a good start. get to work.
 
I prefer they remain Centrist, but I suspect they go all out Lefty. My hope now is Trump is more a Centrist than those who supported him the most want to accept.

But, I'm a Center-Right kind of guy. So, it's only natural that I would look to the Right more so than the Left when it comes to outcomes I prefer to see.

Ditto. I think Trump has some fights in the future with Congress, particularly with the far right. I would hate being in Ryan's shoes. His job is all but impossible.
 
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