Political Parties and Cleaning House

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It will be foolhardy for Democratic Party bricklayers and plumbers to think that one man’s selfie to demolish the Republican Party will make it easier for them to win 2024. They must do some housekeeping and it cannot be anchored in Trump’s selfie because nobody does it better than him.

Housekeeping starts with moving things around, like my mother on a rainy day. Tables are re-arranged although our home was smaller than the vegetable section of some of these mega grocery stores. Mama always found a way. It will be presumptuous for the Democratic Party to think it’s perfect, with no skeletons in the cupboard. There are. Policy skeletons. Campaign skeletons. Age skeletons. Talking about age skeletons, the party took care of that when Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker retired at 82 years old. It turns out it took that long because the Party was still grooming and vetting Hakeem Jeffries.

Joe Biden is younger than Pelosi at 80, but he is still a skeleton in the cupboard. Well! Maybe not the cupboard, but White House. It’s not about Kamala Harris, as some staunch Democrats think. They love Joe but cannot imagine her being U.S. President should anything happen to him. The man is still alive and we cannot think of his demise because of his age. It’s America, and young healthy people can die in supermarket or school mass shootings.

Housekeeping should also avoid dictatorship. Was the rank and file asked about teaching kids about changing their sex from boys to girls, and nullifying parents’ authority? The same rank and file has no problem with adults deciding they want to be lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, but have a problem with the parachute. No choice, this is what is taught in schools and girls are forced to share bathrooms with boys, pretending to be girls.

These are just a few examples of required political housekeeping. I guess it starts with dust on the table. It must be acknowledged first. Democrats cannot assume that they’ll win in 2024, because of Trump’s selfie of destruction.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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