Recognize and Organize Against Your Enemies…

…Republicans will NEVER cooperate

President Joe Biden had a long and distinguished career in the United States Senate. Through both personal and national tragedies, Biden maintained a bipartisan, conciliatory approach towards some of the most intractable problems we have faced. As a life-long Democrat, he was loyal to his party’s platforms and principles, but he also wanted to work with Republicans in the hopes of achieving joint solutions to the problems this country experienced. In that way, he reasoned, we would accomplish our goals in a truly bipartisan way, fulfilling the promise of democracy: common solutions to common problems.

Unfortunately, Republicans don’t think or feel along those lines. Since the advent of Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon in his first political campaign in 1946, dirty politics has been part of the Republican Party’s DNA. And not only vile, despicable “tricks” were played on their Democratic opponents, but even questionable campaign slogans were used as a way to gain attention for themselves.

But perhaps the worst episodes of reprehensible politicking was in the “ratfucking” campaign, orchestrated by Donald Segretti, the…