'We've Got To Get Creative About Power'

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Democrats and Republicans exude learned helplessness in wildly different ways. Republicans can’t govern for shit. That’s their thing, really, reinforcing the self-perpetuating belief that government is incapable of solving problems big and small, that all issues past and present should be solved by our big, beautiful oligarchs and their untaxed fiefdoms. Like a guy who tells his wife he’s just not good at washing the dishes or folding the laundry, governing is the GOP’s learned helplessness. Democrats like to govern. That’s their thing. They can be pretty damn good at it when they decide to ignore bad-faith right-wing lawmakers and media narratives. That Democrats can’t govern federally is due mostly to a Supreme Court designed to block any and all center-left governing efforts. It’s when Democrats have power that their learned helplessness kicks into high fucking gear. They become the slack-jawed husband who convinces himself he simply cannot properly fold shirts in the laundry basket. Our whole lives have been one disastrous lost opportunity after another for elected Dems to punish Republicans by harnessing the necessary political power and will. Fold the fucking shirt, we howled into the void after the 2021 Republican insurrection. Fold it now! Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .