The Democrats' anticipated Blue Wave.

"Democrats have it within their power to effect a change."

Well right now I am a bit extremely worried that the midterms (1.0)>>Blue Wave If it's  going to happen.The Democrats' anticipated Blue Wave was downgraded as voters backed strong candidates who can enable the GOP to hold and potentially expand its majority in the crucial midterm elections.  Former President Barack Obama re-emerged into the political scene after months of maintaining a low profile, making subtle references to his disapproval of the current administration and possibly illuminating the reason behind his return to the limelight. Obama had a message "Fear is powerful," he said. "Telling people that somebody's out to get you, or somebody took your job, or somebody has it out for you, or is going to change you, or your community, or your way of life - that's an old story and it has shown itself to be powerful in societies all around the world," Mr Obama said. "It is a deliberate, systematic effort to tap into that part of our brain that carries fear in it." (1.1)>>I believe the Democratic Party is in need of help. Its incumbents in Congress might be on survival mode , So what might speak against the possibility of a blue wave?  Then comes the crazy rants by (1.1.2)>>Representative Maxine Waters and House leader Nancy Pelosi Wednesday morning, calling them the “unhinged face” of the Democratic Party. Right-wing pundits have accused Waters of instigating violence and called for her formal censure. Rep. Anthony Biggs of Arizona insists that she resign and issue a public apology to White House officials for “endangering their lives and sowing seeds of discord.” Even some Democrats directly or indirectly criticized their colleague. House minority leader Chuck Schumer said that Waters’s words were “not American” and Nancy Pelosi suggested that “we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.” Waters has already canceled two speaking events due to threats.  (1.2)>>Well, favorability ratings of the Democratic Party currently stand at 38% to 49% - the population does not like the body of the Democratic Party. Of course, the 49% disapproval also contains a large part of the 40%

Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer ,
Democratic incumbents.
Regardless of Trump tantrums
approvals are slipping as well.  

voters who approve of Donald Trump’s presidecny, but it still speaks to the ideological split between the established moderates and the recently emerged radicals within the Democratic Party . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old grassroots activist, just pulled off the biggest upset so far in the 2018 election cycle.Her Democratic primary win Tuesday in a race with Congressman Joe Crowley, a veteran party operative and 10-term incumbent who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, may well be the most remarkable New York City congressional election result since 31-year-old Elizabeth Holtzman beat House Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler in a 1972 primary.The defeat of Crowley, who was widely seen as a potential successor to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, was described by a stunned New York Times as “the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in years and one that will reverberate across the party and the country.” Ocasio-Cortez won 57.5 to 42.5, despite the fact that Crowley overwhelmingly outspent her and enjoyed support from the same top-ranking Democrats who are lining up to back New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his September Democratic primary contest with Cynthia Nixon.
"Socialist Democrats?"
That was the result of the primary elections in New York on Tuesday when a young

Dem Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats
top Dem lawmaker by double
 digits in shocking primary upset

politician beat the "establishment" Democrats at their own game.Longtime Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), who’s been viewed as a potential House Speaker, LOST  the Democratic primary, a massive upset that will shake up the political world in New York and Washington.This is the first time in 14 years that Crowley, 56, has faced a primary challenger. Crowley has long been seen as a potential successor to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). And he's been a staple in New York City politics as chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party.Prior to his defeat at the hands of Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old member of the (2)>>Socialist Democrats of America who is described by many as “to the left of Bernie Sander,” Crowley was identified as a likely contender to unseat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the next leadership election. Following her 15-point win Tuesday night, the millennial described her socialist vision for America:“To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. It’s to say that no individual’s civil rights are to be violated. And it’s also to say that we need to really examine the historical inequities that have created much of the inequalities—both in terms of economics and social and racial justice—because they are intertwined. This idea of, like, race or class is a false choice. Even if you wanted to separate those two things, you can’t separate the two, they are intrinsically and inextricably tied. There is no other force, there is no other party, there is no other real ideology out there right now that is asserting the minimum elements necessary to lead a dignified American life.”Some Democrats also said they believe Crowley may have been too focused on party dynamics in D.C. and didn't pay enough attention to his district. Others say it has less to do with politics and more to do with this being the year of the woman, and Ocasio-Cortez just the latest example.Ocasio-Cortez’s second point is related to the first: to attract working-class and middle-class voters of all colors and ethnicities, Democratic candidates need to demonstrate that they aren’t part of a system rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. As a former campaign organizer for Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez levelled many of the same charges against her opponent, the ten-term Democratic congressman Joseph Crowley, that Sanders hurled at Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic primary. “My opponent takes insane amounts of money from luxury-real-estate developers, from private-equity groups, from pharmaceutical corporations and insurance corporations,” she told Greenwald. “And that is tied directly to the legislation he has been passing. So the future might be vary telling . IF the Democrats don't wake up , quit wining , it may be the cruelest irony of the Trump era. During an election season when the House seems to be a lost cause for Republicans and nearly every indicator suggests massive Democratic gains in November, the outlook for wresting the Senate away from the GOP remains grim.

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(1.0)>>Blue Wave If it's  going to happen. The GOP was in trouble before Trump. Bush's Iran invasion & Tea Party assured that. However, not to be out done I think the Democratic Party is facing it's day of reckoning too with the "socialist democrat " win Ocasio-Cortez seems to upstart the Democrats . (1)>>Well, favorability ratings of the Democratic Party .The generic ballot tells us voters prefer Democrats to Republicans by a 10-point average. The president’s approval ratings, a historically useful guide to his party’s midterm hopes? The lowest at this point of any in recorded history. Recent special elections? Democrats took a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama for the first time in 30 years and a Wisconsin state Senate seat that had stayed Republican for 17 years. The average swing to Democrats in the four special elections so far: more than 20 percent. Republicans in the House seem to be heading for the hills: Thirty-one have already announced they are leaving, compared with just 15 Democrats.(1.1)>>I believe the Democratic Party is in need of help. To gain a majority in the House, the Democrats need to pick up twenty-three seats. To gain control of the Senate, they need to pick up two seats.Above all, Republican voters have only grown more supportive of the president. The GOP has retained its grasp on the voters and constituencies that delivered the party the White House and both chambers of Congress. Despite the constant tumult in Washington, the GOP is unified in defense of Trump and his allies, and the party is calling on voters to defend Trump at the polls from Democrats who might subvert his agenda, or even call for his impeachment.These facts don’t point to a “blue wave” of Democratic dominance. Instead, they suggest a tight contest—one where Republicans could hold their majority even in the face of scandal, corruption, and mismanagement. (1.1.2)>>Representative Maxine Waters.We’ve all known that Maxine Waters is a crackpot, but this is truly berserk and dangerous — a sitting member of Congress urging mobs to attack senior members of the government!   “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters told a crowd in California over the weekend. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”CNN’s John Avlon pointed out that ahead of the midterm elections, “this is exactly the kind of thing that will get [Trump supporters] motivated, because it creates a veneer of moral equivalency.”(2)>>Socialist Democrats of America. So aside from socialists, as a friendly reminder since everyone's scroll wheel needs a workout every now and again, below is a list of all the "reasons" Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election courtesy of the Daily Mail - because it certainly wasn't her fault. The 28-year-old member of Democratic Socialists of America—who shockingly won in New York’s 14th congressional district on a leftist platform of Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and a federal jobs guarantee—inspired a major boost in membership for the organization on Wednesday.According to Lawrence Dreyfuss, a program associate for DSA, the organization saw a surge of 1,152 new memberships on Wednesday—about 35 times more sign-ups than on an average day.The last major membership bump DSA experienced was in the month following President Trump’s election, during which time they had about six times more sign-ups than in the previous month.