Not OK, Boomer

Rolling over and playing dead is not an option

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Have you noticed certain polluted words coming from people of a certain age? Most recently, the Democratic political strategist James Carville (80) has told us that the solution to the hostile takeover of the American government is to “roll over and play dead.” Such a strategy, Carville proposes, will “allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss” the Democratic Party. Many people have already weighed in on Carville’s misapprehension, warning that immediate action is needed (yes) and that the Russia-backed regime in Washington, like nature itself, abhors a vacuum and will surely take our retreat from action as an opportunity to seize still more power (also yes).

Carville, like other old people from previous generations, is simply incapable of seeing that the paradigm that fostered him is no longer extant.

Yet the faulty idea that we can and should do nothing and wait for a Republican implosion is dug in within the Democratic establishment. Whether it’s Chuck Schumer (74) telling us that voters will eventually make dollars and donuts calculations about the Russia-backed regime in the oval office and somehow express their opinion electorally or the…