For the moment, it seems as if you all really did vote your hearts out. TERESA GRASSESCHI

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Ah, spin. Just days ago the moderate and progressive wings of the party were pointing fingers and doomsplaining our future, you’d think fascists were literally goose-stepping in the streets of Seattle…Nevermind that mid-terms are always a moderating effect against the party in the White House. Lesson learned: fear mongering goes both ways, keep your head on, vote, choose optimism. It’s a better use of time if it is indeed running out.

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@1 This sort of predictable Monday morning quarterbacking is called the Survivor Bias Fallacy.

Had people NOT reacted with the necessary alarm turnout would have been even lower.

And other than the supposed "Doctor" Oz losing, there is not much good news here. The slow downward spiral continues.

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@2, are you kidding? Abortion rights gained ground in several states, cannabis continues to be adopted and Michigan went blue! Dems need to stop licking their wounds and start acting like a club people want to be a part of. We’ll never know what might have been without the panic, but playing the defensive loser/minority party (esp when you have control of everything) and stirring up all kinds of infighting isn’t a long term sustainable approach. Wet blankets are cold.

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“Seems like that Ann Davison-OMG-CRIME shit only works in odd years, when half the people vote.”

To recap: for last year’s primary election for City Attorney, the Stranger dumped incumbent Pete Holmes for NTK. The Stranger did this with the explicit intent of denying Ann Davison a spot on the general election ballot:

“…she could take second in this race if she got a last-minute injection of cash or a Seattle Times endorsement. Davison’s current fundraising numbers don’t support this fear, but we’re not taking any chances.

“We want the city to have a productive conversation about whether to meaningfully reform the current criminal punishment system or whether to abolish it and then rebuild it from the ground up. We do not want a stupid, tedious discussion about how three-term incumbent Pete Holmes is the reason Seattle Is DyInnnNGGG, and how he supports pouring coffee on babies, or whatever post-news right-wing story KOMO is running on any given day. (He does not, for the record, support pouring coffees on babies!! He’s against it!)

“That’s our primary reason for supporting Nicole Thomas-Kennedy,”

(https://www.thestranger.com/news/2021/07/14/59065522/the-strangers-endorsements-for-the-august-3-2021-primary-election)

Davison came in second anyway. Having learned nothing from this result, you doubled down on NTK in the general election, discovering too late that a City Attorney who wouldn’t prosecute domestic violence cases was just too far out there for Seattle’s voters. Rather than trying to comprehend just how you’d screwed up this badly, you promptly victim-blamed Pete Holmes for his failure to win the election in which you’d endorsed his opponent:

“…the three-term incumbent who apparently spent more time sipping wine and watching the Olympics than running a meaningful primary campaign.”

(https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/11/03/62528438/five-takeaways-from-the-2021-seattle-elections)

Oh, and by the way, when then-candidate Davison did NOT attempt fear-mongering with crime statistics, you even criticized her for that, too: “…we are THRILLED to report that Ann Davison, the conservative candidate who hopes to sail through this primary on a wave of suburban fear, is an absolute dunce. We thought she’d AT LEAST drop a bunch of opportunistic crime stats on the table during our endorsement meeting, but no such luck! She doesn’t even seem to know enough about the office to criticize it effectively.”

So, did she or didn’t she? I guess it all depends upon which route you choose when running away from responsibility.

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Even if it's not a red wave losing the house is still bad for democracy. The lameduck house is going to have to pass a debt ceiling thing that will last into 2025 so the GOP house can't bring down the world economy.

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there's still Hope:

Democratic Socialist Summer Lee’s
Victory in Pennsylvania Gives
Progressives a Boost
in House

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/9/summer_lee_women_of_color_pennsylvania

she's a fucking
Firebrand

THANK YOU tS
for everything.

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"Abortion rights gained ground in several states, cannabis continues to be adopted and Michigan went blue!"

And that would not have happened without the meager turnout spurred by very real alarms that you just claimed were unnecessary. Again Survivors Bias Fallacy. The very worst is averted by the call to arms. But that is no victory.

These few bright spots are at best holding the barricades and at worst pyrrhic victories. A huge number of coup supporters were elected and their narrative strengthened. And any hope of Biden getting anything done is dead.

The rightwing has so normalized batshittery that liberals think not being nailed to crosses and tortured is some sort of victory to pump fists about while everything else goes to shit.

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It's pathetic all we can perpetually hope for in this country is "not as shitty as it could've been." The political party that tried to overthrow the government should be nowhere near still possibly controlling a large part of it. That this decision will be made in part by evangelicals in GA who won't vote for an actual religious person is the icing on the cake.

The fact it's this close and we allow domestic terrorists to masquerade as one of the two main political parties means we are nowhere near shaking our collective psychosis.

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Look, we won. Now we're fighting over the scraps.

Set another place at the table, friends.

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@11 No "we" did not. The House and Senate is not settled yet. Sure be "relieved" the worst didn't happen all you want. But that's like death by a thousand cuts and the torturer didn't use lemon juice.

A whole bunch of other Slog dipshits are squealing about all the panic was for nothing. When in fact it was the panic scratched out the meager wins we had. If anything liberals do not panic nearly enough.

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When you lose: "This just proves we were right all along!"
When you win: "This just proves we were right all along!"
At all other times: "This just proves we were right all along!"

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@12 yeah calling your fellow progressive voters d*pshits who have chosen to put away their sad trombones for a bit isn’t a winning strategy either. If you’re hellbent on being disappointed, you will succeed.

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@15 no shit. My elderly father donated to the Democratic party last year. To thank him for his generosity, the party floods his email in box with hundreds of the most hysterical, ridiculous, over the top pleas for money I've ever seen. Garish too. The sky is always about to fall, the fate of humanity always rests on whether he sends another $5 or not.

When I began the task of clearing his in box of hundreds of emails, another hundred waiting in the queue due to the in box being full replaced the ones I just deleted. He's abandoned email communication because of this, which is a loss to the rest of the family. My visits to him always consist of clearing the newest emails.

At first glance, you'd think these emails came from Republicans but no. Any Democrat or otherwise left leaning person that claims their side doesn't engage in fear mongering is, well, the most charitable thing I can say is that they are liars treating the rest of us like we are too stupid to see this. I hope I never meet a Democratic party volunteer in the flesh, as I am not sure I could trust myself to not wring their fucking neck. The loss of oxygen to their brain won't make much difference.


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