A short easter conversation with my brother (from another mother) is resonating with me. He said that Republicans, in general, do not feel democratic party rule is valid. Unless a Republican is in charge they don’t feel they need to respect or obey what is going on. I thought on that for days before coming to the difficult realization that the man was right. In my lifetime Clinton was considered invalid. They tried to impeach him over some fabricated criminal action and finally settled on impeaching him for what he did with his intern (which had nothing to do with the initial investigation, by the way). They treated Obama like he wasn’t even a citizen. I have no recollection of other Dems who ran the show, but I can say that the problem is not only presidential. The republicans will find any excuse to invalidate a democrat and then, when a republican does the same stuff, they will act like it is totally fine… Which leads me to my point: The National debt.
We are slipping into a deeper and deeper deficit which is only going to get worse due to the money we are handing out over Covid. Still few if any republicans are talking about our debt. It is far larger than it was in the Clinton or Obama years when every republican was screaming at the top of their lungs about handouts and national debt. Now there is none of that. Silence. Why? Because when one of them do it then it is for good reason. When one of the democrats do it, it is a problem.
So, I think democrats need to accept the fact that they are not going to be treated as equals or even respected by republicans, but they will be respected and treated well by the majority of this nation. It is not a country split down the middle, in spite of what the media wants you to think. It is a country that elected Trump based largely on the clear media invalidation of Clinton.