The new Democratic party. What will it look like?

Speaking of optimism, I confess I have none at all for the new Democrat party.

I mean I see no way to exert any influence in Washington at all, not any in the coming years since Reid employed to nuclear option we now have to live with being powerless

I know republicans can now with reason say "we told you so"

But he bears attributes many Democrats say are lacking in the party's top brass: At 43, he's a generation younger than Pelosi and her top lieutenants, all in their mid-70s. And hailing from the Youngstown region of northeastern Ohio, he represents the very type of blue-collar, battleground-state voters who have shifted steadily to the GOP's camp and helped drive President-elect Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress to their landslide victories this month.

If we have more far right judges, it is pretty safe to assume, the decisions will not favorable to civil rights and liberties.

I think the issue boils down to just which rights and liberties you are talking about. The right of a woman to end the life of as child she is carrying may well be inhibited. However the rights of citizens to bear arms, to support political speech and action they favor, or to be protected from unwanted government intrusion in their private lives, may be protected or enhanced.

We do not use moral or religious reasons to settle our laws or else people would be in jails for having affairs or living with the opposite sex without marriage.

Mr. Soros, a Holocaust survivor originally from Hungary, said in a telephone interview this week that he was “deeply troubled” by hundreds of reports of possible hate crimes since the election — including many Nazi swastikas spray-painted on cars and buildings. “We must do something to push back against what’s happening here,” Mr. Soros said [..].

His nonprofit group, the Open Society Foundations, plans to spend at least $5 million in coming weeks to fund grants of as much as $150,000 to community groups and civil rights organizations to develop plans for combating the recent spate of hate crimes and to work with victims.

The group said additional money would go toward national efforts to improve tracking of hate crimes — an effort that law enforcement officials acknowledge is incomplete. The F.B.I. reported last week that there was an increase of nearly 67 percent last year in hate crimes against Muslim Americans — and an increase of 6 percent against all groups.

The Open Society Foundations says the notion that Soros is paying anti-Trump protesters is fiction, but says — with so many protests organized by so many groups — it's possible some groups the philanthropy supports may have been involved in the protests. 

"There have been many false reports about George Soros and the Open Society Foundations funding the protests that have erupted since the U.S. presidential elections. There is no truth to these reports,"  Foundations President Chris Stone said. "The only initiative we are planning to fund related to the elections is to respond to hate crimes and speech." 

There is no proof other than insinuations to the rumor of Soros financing the protest. He has denied it.

The Open Society Foundations says...with so many protests organized by so many groups — it's possible some groups the philanthropy supports may have been involved in the protests.