Yesterday, as always, I got a lot of emails frompeople and oeganizations from whom I would unsubscribe in a New York minute if I didn’t think it’s important to access a wide variety of news so I have a range to choose from to share with y’all. That included several from individuals and mini-caucuses in the 120th Congress (includin ones who were also in the 119th and earlier) who are stermined to get stuff done whether party leadership will push those things or not. For instance, one of these mini-caucuses, for example, is “The Squad.” /these grouos and their emails give me hope that maybe not everything, but things we want will get done. And I also get emails from pressure groups outside The Hill – here is From line and a subject line which made me LOL:
The email linked to a video of a segment of Dateline White House featuring a veteran in the group who minced no words.I’ve used it as today’s political video. I still have a few 250 to 250 I haven’t used, but I’m running low and looking for almost anything else to make those few last.
“Iranian commanders have vowed to kill both Trump and Netanyahu.” And I don’t see how anyone who takes an unbiased look at their foundational beliefs can blame them for taking that stand. Sure, my foundational beliefs would not allow me to take such a stand – but if you are going to morally judge someone else at all, you need to do it from their own viewpoint. Moral judgment, of course, is not the same thing as enforcing laws where jurisdiction exists. And there’s much more information in the rest of the post.
And this is exactly why so many people, including me, are worried that Democrats in Congress will sabotage the party.
More and more analysis of uncertainty.
The Briefing from The Brennan Center is also on the positive side – not in what most people call a “Pollyanna*” way, but just looking at facts
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* So many people think that Pollyanna was a blind optimist seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. It’s clear they have not read any of the books, because nothing could be further from the truth. I hve read the books – not all of them, but the first two and several of the later ones, which cover the rest of her life, all the way up to menopause (which is not stated, but is clearly implied). Pollyanna’s position was more like”Yes, this is happening (or has happened), and it must be lived with – or dealt with. And that will be hard. But it is also not the end of the world. Because there is something else which is happening (or has happened), from which I can draw real joy to give myself strength to deal with the bad thing.” It’s not blindness. It’s more of a “Count Your Blessings” approach – which no one that I know of considers to be blind optimism.
