WBGH reported several months ago, “Voters in northwest Illinois have a lot of questions for their congresswoman, Democrat Cheri Bustos. They want to know about rail plans around Moline, federal transportation dollars and health care costs.” In addition, PBS News Hour reports, “The candidates are spending too much time talking about esoteric issues like the Senate filibuster and the composition of the Supreme Court and not enough time speaking the language of workers, several union officials said. Those ideas may excite progressive activists, they said, but they risk alienating working-class voters. ‘They’ve got to pay attention to kitchen table economics,’ said Ted Pappageorge, president of the Las Vegas Culinary Union that represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers. ‘We don’t quite see that.’”
These two quotes are a sampling of a theme I keep reading and hearing from pundits, reporters, and Congresspersons, namely that Democratic voters keep asking their representatives about kitchen table issues. This drives me f***ing G.D. crazy because it clearly evinces that collectively voters seem to have no f***ing clue how the government f***ing works. I only wish I could attend my representative’s town hall meetings but I live in one of those red districts that were recently flipped by a moderate Democrat, so needless to say the meetings are populated by MAGA morons (as I have read) and I would likely go ballistic. But I digress. This is my point: nothing else matters — nothing else should matter — until Democrats take back the White House and the Senate. I have no f***ing clue why these voters are still bellyaching about healthcare and drug prices when RepubliKKKlans still control the Senate. Yes, of course, these are still major concerns, but voters must understand that these issues are never going to be resolved as long as Moscow Mitch blocks legislation from the House, which he has. Pelosi has passed legislation to lower drug prices, for example. But it languishes in the Senate where Moscow Mitch refuses to bring the bill to the floor for debate, so I have no f***ing clue what the point of voters still complaining about such issues are trying to make. Voters should be asking (demanding) their representatives focus on one thing and one thing only: how to defeat traitor trump! Full stop! Democratic voters are never going to get any of their issues addressed until they take back the White House and the Senate, so stop wasting time and energy complaining about things that will never change under RepubliKKKlans. Wake up dumbass Democrats. There is only one goal: defeat traitor trump or take back the Senate or both! Welcome to stupid America!
