Even as President Trump’s unpopular wars and perceived disregard for a flagging economy weigh on the GOP’s 2026 midterm prospects, critics argue that the risk-averse, corporatist-dominated Democratic Party has been slow to propose bold, transformative changes on key voter issues.
Democrats’ early policy blueprint group, Project 2029, recently unveiled its first major proposal—”Kids Over Clicks”—which calls for banning social media for children under 16, stronger privacy protections, and addressing mental health impacts of tech and AI on youth. While this aligns with bipartisan efforts on kids’ online safety, skeptics note the relative absence of equally prominent, detailed plans so far on major economic pain points like healthcare affordability or broad job growth amid ongoing inflation and war-related pressures.
This approach reflects a cautious strategy that prioritizes achievable, consensus issues while larger structural reforms remain underdeveloped heading into the post-2026 cycle.
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Man, your buddy, Stanti is all over the place. Has he just completely lost it? Maybe we can get Will Henry to take over his editorial pieces.
Ted, Boychik,
I’m sorry.
I respect the work you do, because you, truly, are one of the few people standing there in the public forum screaming something along the lines of Will Farrell’s character Mugatu in “Zoolander”: “I feel like I’ve been taking crazy pills!”
Every president has run a war. At least since America discovered glory holes, transistors, and canned goods. Stop making Trump a “for special.” He’s a hack. A sideshow carnie. Just dismiss him from all debates with a handwave and a “Trump’s an asshole, let’s get back to the issues, you gutless nothing.”
The “risk-averse, corporatist-dominated Democratic Party has been slow to propose bold, transformative changes on key voter issues.” Oh my God, Ted, did you hit your head? That’s the democrats ESTC — Ever Since The Clintons.
P.J. O’Rourke — and I didn’t agree with him on everything, but I respected the hell out of his writing ability — once posited that the difference between liberals and Nazis was that no one has ever had a rape fantasy about a liberal. I would suggest that that maxim be the central theory of the new democratic party. The democrats, if they want to regain the capital letter, need to understand that what women (and men) sometimes want, is a sexually aggressive partner, just like they want an aggressive political partner. “You want to peg me, Joan? Let me google that. … Oh my! Um … well, um, okay. You won’t tell anyone, right? (two days later) Um, Joan, could you ask your friend Peg to come over? Because after that, I am going to tell those pussies in Congress to pass universal health care.”
Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, wrote a book called “Childhood’s End.” That’s what the democrats need. The moment where they can stop acting like 17-year-old virgins, tentatively looking up “Black fraternity passes white Mormon around like a bag of chips” and simply admit that, hey, sex and politics are complicated. You can be gun-friendly AND support government-funded artificial insemination for lesbian Chicanas. Just like you can be the “straight” white Protestant who wants welfare to be more than just handing people checks.
“Democrats’ early policy blueprint group, Project 2029, recently unveiled its first major proposal—’Kids Over Clicks’—which calls for banning social media for children under 16, stronger privacy protections, and addressing mental health impacts of tech and AI on youth.”
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Stalin! Ted, this is simply “the War on Drugs (TM)” with some new ad copy. It will never work. Talk to ANY convenience store worker. “What? Oh, yeah. I had a kid come in the other day. He bought a pack of unfiltered Lucky Strikes, a pack of Winston mentols, and a pack of Virginia Slims. … What? Oh, hell man, I could see the 14-year-olds waiting outside the store for him. If he wasn’t a total idiot, he was also getting them to give him oral for scoring the smokes for him. Do you think any of that legislation worked? Holy Hell, you’ve got to be a frontal-lobotomy recipient, or a Yalie — but I repeat myself.” Outlaw 15-year-olds from accessing social media and a whole lot of 16-year-olds are going to be getting a large amount of oral, anal, and vaginal sex.
The reality is this: the democrats have, for decades, PICKED 50-50 issues, like abortion. The tension between the (basically) 50-50 issue has ensured decades of contributions. Gun control? Any national-level gun control is simply not possible in a nation as large and diverse as the U.S. Throw in the mathematical trickery surrounding the majority of the “debate” on school shootings — basically, you have an incredibly larger chance of being injured in a school-level sporting event than you do of being injured in a school shooting — and you’ve got the “democratic leadership’s” mindset locked down perfectly: don’t pick a winnable issue, keep going to the bank.
The new “democrats” should simply run Pelosi, the Clintons, Schumer, et alia, right out of town. It should be a total elimination of the “old guard” and a total replacement with angry young people who are tired of Boomer lies.
And now, off to “moderation.”