Democrats have a lot to consider, and better do it quickly.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/democrats-have-lot-to-consider-and.html

Polling data was released by a couple of the major networks last week which showed that the favorability rating of the Democratic party in Congress had fallen to 29%, down from 47% just before election time. In one poll, it was as low as 27%.

Noting that the other party's numbers are similar, and Congress' job approval rating has been in the toilet for a long time still does not relieve the Democratic party leadership, whoever that might be now, of the responsibility they have to their constituents. We did not put them there to do nothing. And I think the even more powerful message in this polling data is that we didn't put them there to do what they are doing.

I think it's pretty simple, really.

We are for the preservation of American democracy. We believe in the Constitution and we support the rule of law. And that means we are opposed to every word, and every deed, of the current President. We have come to a point in our history where the biggest threat to the existence of the United States as the world's leading democracy is its own President. This President, the incompetent cronies he has installed in his cabinet, and the members of the Republican party in Congress and in the judiciary who support him, are a real and active threat to the American Republic, its Constitution, and the idealism it has stood up to support over the course of its existence. They are also a threat to me, personally, to my life and the lives of those I love.

Those within the Democratic party who are still passively responding to all of this, thinking they can still conduct business as usual and at some point, this will all go away and everything will return to normal, are as much of a threat to all of those things as this President himself.

Change must come, and action must be right behind, or what we have will be irretrievable. We can no longer afford interminable court delays by a reticent and incompetent attorney general, dithering over whether the filibuster is worth saving or not, or debating over whether giving the Republicans everything they wanted in a bill they authored without consulting a single Democrat is a better option than letting the government shut down as a consequence of something the other party did, and then fussing over who will get the blame.