“I personally think the Right is highly unlikely to bend at all, because they’d rather virtue-signal than win elections.”
But of course that precisely describes the woke left. As you say (and it’s a quote one doesn’t see often enough), politics is the art of the possible. Whatever you may think of it, if you look at landmark legislation like LBJ‘s great society programs, they got passed because of skill in compromise – LBJ was a legendary horse trader. That skill is, if not gone, at least highly devalued. It doesn’t earn you any points on social media.  so basically we’re screwed. 
It is finally getting cold here in Texas. Talking 50 degrees, sweater weather for most folks. I did my duty and voted. The lack of candidates, and the same ones over and over, so no real change. Next year our legislators will be in session.
I moved from a strictly blue state to a red one. Culture change for sure. While I was brought up a liberal I saw first hand the changes it brought to society. Lots of it good and in my case no grown up in several generations of family. My grandmother hated all her sons-in-laws, her husbands, and to some extent her grandsons. Her daughters all picked men that were just like her mother, ensuring trauma for all children born. My father an alcoholic, abusive to children, women totally unsuitable for marriage much less raising children. My mother raised as a Jewish princess expect to do no hard work in her life. No heavy lifting emotionally, physically and psychologically. the princess with moats, broken glass, razor wire, and of course in her high tower. Never to hold, comfort, praise her children, a void the children lived with their entire life. Some did better some became causalities of a country in change.
I always saw women who were feminists as women with choices, money, college educated, opportunities that I could have if I went to college. That was a big lie to me. I never had the family, support infrastructure, the basic education to get me there. So I worked a variety of jobs to support myself, and did well given the times. Early 1980s. Feminism to me was about rights, to work, make the same salary as a man, same opportunities as everyone else. Feminism never discussed poverty, laws against women, the dissonance between what we were told and what is reality. It had no power really, to make substantive changes. It still doesn’t.
Did my life turn out success or not? Some successes and some failures. Never made over $35K a year, which has impacted me in terms of financial success. I still have had some great things happen to me. I got to see England and Hawaii and that was wonderful. I eventually married a wonderful man and we have a nice life. I worked for everything I have. In fact, I still work today, part time it helps out with medical bills.
To me both parties are the same thing. There are some people who are going to succeed and some that don’t. I have no idea what components, what percentage of luck, family, come into play. I know sadly that we are going to have to make our own way, meet people along the way, some will be helpful, some not. But we go forward. Right now we don’t know where we are going, don’t know the lies we have been told and are feeling totally isolated. We will get through this, we will survive and boy the crap we can cast aside will be wonderful. Take care one and all.
I've got a third option that lets the Ds not run Harris in '24. Two words: "Michelle Obama".
“I personally think the Right is highly unlikely to bend at all, because they’d rather virtue-signal than win elections.”
But of course that precisely describes the woke left. As you say (and it’s a quote one doesn’t see often enough), politics is the art of the possible. Whatever you may think of it, if you look at landmark legislation like LBJ‘s great society programs, they got passed because of skill in compromise – LBJ was a legendary horse trader. That skill is, if not gone, at least highly devalued. It doesn’t earn you any points on social media.  so basically we’re screwed. 
It is finally getting cold here in Texas. Talking 50 degrees, sweater weather for most folks. I did my duty and voted. The lack of candidates, and the same ones over and over, so no real change. Next year our legislators will be in session.
I moved from a strictly blue state to a red one. Culture change for sure. While I was brought up a liberal I saw first hand the changes it brought to society. Lots of it good and in my case no grown up in several generations of family. My grandmother hated all her sons-in-laws, her husbands, and to some extent her grandsons. Her daughters all picked men that were just like her mother, ensuring trauma for all children born. My father an alcoholic, abusive to children, women totally unsuitable for marriage much less raising children. My mother raised as a Jewish princess expect to do no hard work in her life. No heavy lifting emotionally, physically and psychologically. the princess with moats, broken glass, razor wire, and of course in her high tower. Never to hold, comfort, praise her children, a void the children lived with their entire life. Some did better some became causalities of a country in change.
I always saw women who were feminists as women with choices, money, college educated, opportunities that I could have if I went to college. That was a big lie to me. I never had the family, support infrastructure, the basic education to get me there. So I worked a variety of jobs to support myself, and did well given the times. Early 1980s. Feminism to me was about rights, to work, make the same salary as a man, same opportunities as everyone else. Feminism never discussed poverty, laws against women, the dissonance between what we were told and what is reality. It had no power really, to make substantive changes. It still doesn’t.
Did my life turn out success or not? Some successes and some failures. Never made over $35K a year, which has impacted me in terms of financial success. I still have had some great things happen to me. I got to see England and Hawaii and that was wonderful. I eventually married a wonderful man and we have a nice life. I worked for everything I have. In fact, I still work today, part time it helps out with medical bills.
To me both parties are the same thing. There are some people who are going to succeed and some that don’t. I have no idea what components, what percentage of luck, family, come into play. I know sadly that we are going to have to make our own way, meet people along the way, some will be helpful, some not. But we go forward. Right now we don’t know where we are going, don’t know the lies we have been told and are feeling totally isolated. We will get through this, we will survive and boy the crap we can cast aside will be wonderful. Take care one and all.