The Struggle Is Real. The Fight Is Crazy.

MTG constituent 'Burnitdown’ thinks Hillary Clinton ‘cut a girl’s face off and she wore it’: report https://t.co/Hfo0mBCcue

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 12, 2022

"In Greene, she did not see what much of America saw — a person willing to do almost anything to keep emotions running high, whether that meant perpetuating lies about election fraud, harassing a victim of a school shooting, speaking at a white nationalist conference or casting fellow citizens who disagree with her as 'domestic terrorists.' Instead, Rubino saw a person like herself: a political outsider who shared the same sense of urgency about the same dystopian America, one that required a popular uprising to save it," she wrote.

What is the difference between that ☝️ and this: 

MSNBC anchor worries Democrats are not 'really in this fight to save our democracy'
https://t.co/SuauwYu8Ov

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 12, 2022

"I don't think the Democrats are -- you know, really in this fight to save our democracy at this moment," he said. "It least that is how I am seeing it."

In context, the discussion was about legislation to extend federal judicial ethics rules to the Supreme Court. A perfectly sensible notion which all in the discussion agreed would fall to a filibuster in the Senate. And that, somehow, means Democrats are not fighting to save democracy.

The real, the fundamental difference, between these two. Both sides want a fight. What is the difference between them? What they want to fight for?

What is this fight? How is it conducted? Who is the fight with? What is the goal?

I’m asking honestly. I don’t understand. Who do we fight? What weapons do we use, battles do we wage? Or is it all metaphorical? Same questions apply. “Let’s you and him fight” seems to be the order of the day. Which Democrats should fight? Manchin? Sinema? Schumer? With Senate rules? Pistols at dawn? Harsh words into the cameras?

Doesn’t this conjectural fight make us like them? Except we are the “good guys” and they are not? And how do we win this fight? Rubino thinks the only win is the destruction of her enemy. She thinks she’s fighting evil. Do we fight that? Do we fight like that?

The struggle is still real, but do we fight with the supporters of MTG like Rubino? And what, convince her she’s right? Who is MTG, that we give her so much power? There have been crackpots like her in Congress since the beginning, and crackpots supporting them, too. There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun.

I think Twitter and cable news are watching for a fight. I think most voters are looking to elect good people. We’ve got enough damned “fighters” in office, and we’re ready to see something get done, instead.

The fight is at the ballot box. In January, everything changes. Which way it changes depends on the voters.