# Why political forgiveness and cooperation won't be coming any time soon **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 23, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296 "2021-01-23T17:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296/37 "2021-02-01T11:40:21Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > That’s betting the whole farm on Democrats staying in power - unlikely since we just had a census and the GOP won big at the state level. …sorry for the double post. But I mean, yeah. The Democrats have to hold onto power. If Democrats don’t hold power then America is fucked. MAGA isn’t going away. If you oppose MAGA then **you need to be acting now to keep them out of power in every conceivable possible way**. Governorships. The Mayor. The Sheriff. City Council. School boards. I mean: holding at the State level **should just be a given**. But you’ve got to win every else as well. This isn’t a battle between two rational actors any more. Its going to be a fight and they are never ever going to let up. You’ve got to push back and always keep pushing back. And back in 2018 nobody thought the Dems had a chance to win the Senate. But they did: and they did it on the backs of black and marginalized grassroots campaigners. They aren’t going to stop fighting. But they can’t do it alone. This isn’t somebody else’s battle. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296)._