2014: The Beginning of the End for the GOP?

[eridani]

Only if the grassroots acts against the leadership

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27704-focus-2014-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-gop

While there are many other issues that could make up a winning agenda, the ones I chose were the highlights of 2014. If we add issues like money in politics, violence against women, student loan debt, inequality, the environment, women’s issues, and labor issues, we can build a coalition that will end the GOP’s hold on Congress. It’s the coalition that allowed the Democrats to hold Congress in the past. If the Democrats turn away from their Wall Street supporters and build that coalition again, it will end the GOP’s control of Congress.

Many didn’t see the progress in 2014, but a shift has begun, a shift that could change our country, if we recognize it and act. I hear you: odds are the tone-deaf Democrats won’t see it, and will continue to hand elections to the Republicans. But we can choose to believe, and if we act and don’t wait for politicians to act for us, we can win.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I'd say only if the grassroots run their own candidates.

We have to become our own politicians, not let the machinery simply provide us with those who fit the acceptable dogma of 'protectors of the 1%'.

[merrily]

7. IMO, this is not realistic in modern times. It takes millions.

The biggest donors to Democrats, like unions and Hollywood, even EMILY's List, are going to back the candidates that the DNC backs (though EMILY's list will draw the line at pro-choice females), not the ones we pick. And no one gives me a list of likely New Deal type candidates to choose from anyway, nor do I have the time, energy or money to beat the bushes.

[truebluegreen]

2. I agree with you: the time is ripe

and the GOP would have collapsed already were it not that "the tone-deaf Democrats (didn't) see it." But they still can, if we make them.

[truebluegreen]

3. I agree with you: the time is ripe

and the GOP would have collapsed already were it not that "the tone-deaf Democrats (didn't) see it." But they still can, if we make them.

[Demeter]

4. None of this hoping for change stuff, though, hear?

[Doctor_J]

5. Not unless the Dems push them over the cliff instead of providing them a life line

The Dem party in its current form, with BHO and HRC and WJC at the wheel is useless

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I think I was told something about the end of the GOP when Nixon resigned.

Well, if they were right about that back then, the end is a long time a'comin'.