If this all ended tomorrow, by election time people will have forgotten.
You, maybe. Not everyone.
Funny you should say that, though, because the government shutdown ended months ago and I STILL haven’t forgiven Schumer and the eight motherfuckers that ended it right when they were starting to get traction. And I kind of suspect I never will. I made a point of remembering their names, and the fact that Jeanne Shaheen of NH made it clear, in those words, that Chuck Schumer was kept notified throughout. When I see their names, I remember.
Similarly, I will always remember the name of Jonathan Ross as cursed, and the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti as those who were brutally murdered in cold blood by sociopaths cheerfully getting paid to play The Most Dangerous Game (it’s a very old movie ref) for the crime of caring about their fellow Minnesotans.
You can change my mind, or try, but I’ve kept powerful grudges for far less. I don’t carry many, I’d rather forgive where I can, but these infamies will never die for me until they have been fully addressed to my own satisfaction, and that’s a line that I draw for myself. You don’t get to draw it for me. No one does.
And I’m not alone. Lines have been crossed now that have never been crossed before.
Not all of us have the memory of gerbils.
Boy, if our democracy survives this, I’ll bet Minnesota’s state-level GOP will be a mess and will need to do a lot of backpedaling. But worse for them: even having seen over the last decade how pathetically short-sighted and amnesic people are politically, I can’t foresee Minnesota ever forgiving the GOP nationally in my lifetime. They’ve burned this bridge badly. Wishful thinking, but I think this is how you create a solid blue state.
We’ve been a solid blue state since the '70s. And we’ve only voted Republican 3 times since 1932.
Our GOP is already pathetic and impotent. Our local Democrats (DFL) are already significantly more progressive and effective than the DNC.
But this is adding fuel to the fire in a big way, no doubt.
I wouldn’t call Minnesota a “solid blue state” right now by any metric except that both of your US Senators are Democratic.
- Your Senate is split 34–33 DFL–Republican and the House 65–67 (plus two vacant).
- Your progressive governor has caved to pressure over a nonsensical scandal not to run again, and despite the fact that he was on the ticket as the VP, the Harris–Walz ticket only beat Trump – an insane fascist – by 50.92–46.68%.
- Your representatives to the US House are split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
