The Democratic retirement floodgates just burst open

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   Readmikenowposted 3 years ago

   (CNN)Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy announced Monday that she will not seek a fourth term in Congress, the latest in a rapid series of retirements within the Democratic ranks that suggest momentum is moving heavily against the party as it seeks to hold on to its razor-thin majority next November.
   
   Murphy's decision came less than 24 hours after New Jersey Rep. Albio Sires said he would be retiring at the end of this Congress. And, just before the Sires' news, California Rep. Alan Lowenthal said he, too, would be stepping aside.
   All together, there are now 22 Democrats retiring or running for other offices this election cycle as opposed to just 11 Republicans doing the same.
   Two years ago, just nine Democrats had announced their retirement plans at this point of the election while 24 Republicans had done the same, according to CNN's political unit.
   
   https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics … index.html

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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Getting out while the getting is good...

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         Readmikenowposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I think it's possible they don't want to be part of the minority party.  If a veto-proof congress is elected.  This will change in Washington DC.

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   Ken Burgessposted 3 years ago

   The pendulum always swings.
   The Democrats had the House and Eoffice, their infighting, the decisions made on day one by the Admin that have been detrimental to the economy, and the growing social unrest (looting, assaults) are not things the majority of Americans have any desire to see continue.

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      Readmikenowposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Do you think the Democrats see the writing on the wall and know they will not survive being part of the minority?
      
      The Democrats seem oblivious to the red wave coming their way.
      
      A friend of mine described it as Democrats such as pelosi and schumer playing on a train track.  In the distance a huge red train is traveling toward them.  pelosi and schumer don't think they should change anything because the train is the problem and not them.  Nothing will happen to them because they are right and virtuous.  The train is the white supremist and bigot.  There is no reason for them to change.

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         Ken Burgessposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I think one has to understand that there are two separate Americas... two very different but no less real to the people who have them, perspectives.
         
         There are the Establishment types, the Elites if you like, they are the academic types at Harvard, Brown, Yale, etc. a concentration of which are all in the North East (New England, NY, DC) they are the Politician lifers (Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, McConnell) and their unelected counterparts that have roamed DC for decades now and the Bankers, Foreign and Corporate Executives that make their way of existence possible.
         
         There are extensions of this collective in California and elsewhere, but it is essentially the people who run the Universities, the Pentagon, the Political Machine in DC the Corporations and Banks and by extension the country.
         
         And then there is everyone else outside this social and cultural existence.
         
         I have spent enough time rubbing elbows with those that are "Establishment types" to know that logic, reason, and any factual evidence presented that goes against the grain of their beliefs and outlook on the world will be dismissed and/or derided.
         
         For the most part these are highly intelligent people that are just as deluded as they are smart.  They have swallowed the Blue Pill, so to speak, and they would stand side by side with Stalin himself believing all his propaganda if he were accepted and lauded by the Democratic Party and the MSM News (NPR, CNN, NYTimes).
         
         These highly intelligent people are often very full of themselves and their righteous (though they rarely realize it) outlooks, they almost always have lived well, if not exceptionally economically secure lives... few ever lived paycheck to paycheck or had to "earn a living".
         
         Unless you really spend time with (within) this social sphere, my words are not going to be able to convey that they see the world very differently than a person that owns a small HVAC business, or a Police Officer that has to try and keep society safe and functional, or a Mom that has to work two part time jobs and constantly juggle how to get the kids to school and then get to work.
         
         These people have "assistants" to help them raise their kids, cook their dinners for their get-togethers and contractors that come and fix any issues that arise at their home.

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            Readmikenowposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            You are so right.  I completely agree with you.

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               Ken Burgessposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               So, in short, to answer the question you posed to me...
               No, I don't think they see it coming, because they are not living in the same reality.  You can call it a bubble, or the elite, the establishment, or whatever you feel fits.
               
               They have more empathy and are more in tune with those they feel are repressed, infringed upon and owed a better living (immigrants / foreigners) than they do their "fellow Americans".
               
               If anything, those "fellow Americans" are racist, ignorant, threats to the better world they are trying to create, nothing short of terrorists that must be eradicated from America, they are a stain on the world and should be removed by any means necessary.... even if there are 75 million or more of them.

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                  Readmikenowposted 3 years agoin reply to this

                  You are once again correct.  It is sad but true that I don't see things changing any time soon.

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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Agree.

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