Bad Ass Cassandra

Malcolm Nance, on Bob Cesca's Wednesday show

TRIGGER WARNING

We hear a lot of complaints about how the Dems aren't being forceful enough. While it's extremely frustrating to see it move slowly, we need to keep a coupla things in mind:

• It's a process. We follow process in America. Without process, we're not America.
• Dems own just one part out of the four component parts of our power structure. (one out of five if you include Republican control of a plurality of state governments)

There's no denying we're in a bad fix. We have to move and we have to move as boldly and as decisively as possible - but within the parameters of the law as much as is practicable.

So it's a major dilemma. Our strict adherence to process is the great strength of our form of government, but it's a strength that's being used against us right now by people who refuse to honor that process.

You should always try to get your adversary to fight in a place and at a time of your choosing, but when you can't do that - and you can't avoid the fight - then you have to go to where the fight is and work at shaping the battlefield from there.

It sure as hell doesn't look like we're winning much so far, but I think there's good reason to believe we're not exactly cooked either.

We're fighting from a position of relative weakness. We're outnumbered and out-gunned. But there's a few things to keep in mind.

First - Hillary had to run against Trump, and Bernie (and other 3rd parties), and The Press Poodles, and the enormous war chest funding of people with names like Koch and Mercer etc, and the full force of the Russian government - and she got 3 million more votes.

Second, George Washington went something like 3 and 9 - and we won that one.

Third, the USA went something like 25 and 2 - and we lost in Vietnam.

So if we can see this thing as an exercise in Asymmetric Warfare - and we put ourselves in the role of Insurgency - we can approach it with the understanding that the other side loses if they fail to win a decisive victory. 

We win by not losing.  We win just by surviving.