I want Michelle Nunn to win her Senate election in Georgia, but so too do a lot of very rich people who have given her insane amounts of money.
I have a pretty strong feeling that, should Nunn win, those rich people will have their interests well protected.
And I won’t.
I predict that if she wins, she won’t be voting for Mitch McConnell for Majority Leader.
What else she votes for, is lagniappe.
That would almost be termed ‘business as usual’….
I’m currently behind enemy lines, here in Atlanta.
I will be providing every Democrat in Georgia with 2 votes, 1 from myself and 1 from my girlfriend (who is a southern baptist with ultra-conservative parents who previously considered herself conservative :P).
You can break through to these people. It’s all in the narrative. Tell a story using their conjuring words and your political views, and reassure them the whole time that they aren’t terrible people for having terrible, disgusting opinions.
Useful idiot conservatives are brainwashed, fullstop. You have to deprogram them, and it isn’t easy if you don’t have a connection with them otherwise…which is why it’s useless having a “debate” with them for the most part.
It’s interesting that those who will be protected are actually in little need of such protection. Meanwhile, everybody else gets the crumbs.
Tell them a better story. Honestly shouldn’t be that hard since the one conservatives tell isn’t fun, exciting, interesting, or inspiring.
Watched a few minutes of the Grimes/McConnell debate, and hate to say it, but she lacks TV charisma. McConnell is obviously running for the Senate and Grimes is running for some lower office.
Rick Weiland:
This is one very likeable candidate. No wonder Rounds refuses to debate him.
Weiland has a number of surprisingly good short and very short ads in the can and ready to go.
I’m a volunteer in the Nunn Campaign and indeed for all the Dems in the state-wide races. Nunn is a positive person with a positive agenda. So is Carter. Their two opponents are visibly not positive candidates. We’ve got a really good chance in this upcoming election and I’m out knocking on doors to get people to early vote, which started today.
In terms of the money, I suspect that virtually anyone who gets elected to a national office ends up being “bought” to some degree. And that’s the doing of the Supreme Court, the GOP, and the voters. We can change this and the starting point is putting some folks in office who might just be willing to reinstate some sanity into the political process. Gotta start somewhere.
The importance of the Nunn and Carter campaigns for Georgia is the way that they are going about them that stands a chance of re-establishing a geographically more revitalized Democratic Party organization across the 159 counties of Georgia.
The catch-22 of post-Citizens-United politics is having sufficient money not to be drowned by the Koch-financed media shitstorms. Because volunteers and the people they canvass are still influenced by them even though they do not motivate people to go vote but to stay home.
This is the problem that progressives must figure out a way to deal with in order to start putting progressives into office.
Michelle Nunn’s new campaign ad is straightforward and similar to those that Dan Malloy aired in 2010 and 2015 against Tom Foley. But is it good enough? For thinking people it should be. However, Malloy only beat Foley by a few thousand votes in 2010 and is currently struggling against him in a rematch. And that’s in CT!