Funny how the complete, utter, and continuing failures of the media is never the problem with you clowns.
Your bias in favor of Republicans and against telling the plain truth is a far larger contributor to the sorry state of American politics than the fecklessness of Democrats.
Perfect example is right here: blaming Democrats for a hatchet job of a book written by two unprincipled hacks and highlighted and pushed endlessly on every single Establishment Media outlet in the country.
All while Trump continues to destroy literally everything good about the U.S.
They can stop bringing TV anchors onto Colbert and co any time but instead we pretend like these losers are protagonists of the news instead of just a bad source for it.
It's just so tiring critiquing the side of a binary that's obviously preferable to the informed, but loses anyway. A population too ignorant to identify & reject fascism is all that matters. The reality is dark because it makes us hate our fellow voters, but that's who are problem is obviously with.
In no way does voter/mass ignorance only make sense as a huge (I would probably argue biggest) problem under a 100% turnout counterfactual. I can't even infer what point you're trying to make.
There's plenty of people who wanted to vote, who couldn't. And plenty of people who would incur a cost to vote (from lost work hours) and decided not to participate, even if they did prefer one candidate over another.
There was voter suppression and significant misinformation, casting the blame on the voters exonerates the bad actors and incompetent ones who had far more influence on the results.
I'm not saying the mass ignorance is an act of god. Of course there's a massive industry whose sole purpose is spreading it. But people have agency. It can't be any more obvious than trying to overthrow an election. It's the job of people of voting age to see it as disqualifying.
Because the "mass ignorance" you are applying to the entire populace of the United States is a symptom of a larger problem.
Capitalist control of the media, conservative governance, and defunding of education.
The issue is that the cultural conservatism that dominates red state culture is incompatible with any political party of the left or center left. There is no “magical” messaging or repositioning to the left or center that will square the circle. Post Dobbs, embrace federalism for the culture wars.
There’s no “magic message,” but there is room for left populism that speaks to material needs and refuses to write off red states entirely. Bernie’s success shows it can resonate, even where cultural conservatism dominates.
MAGA will pocket the extra benefits and continue to vote Republican. Obamacare in Red States provided life saving medication and the same voters voted for politicians that promised to repeal Obamacare. Universal healthcare will not save us. Bernie’s economic message against Oligarchy (1/2)
should be the organizing principle of the Democratic Party but it will not put a dent into red state cultural conservatism. Dobbs had zero effect on voting patterns for women in 24. Limit, reform and constrain the power of the Presidency (progressive federalism) against future Republican Presidents.
Skeptical of any read that assumes others are dumb or ignoring big problems without at least digging into why. Also doubt intramural truth telling makes good politics. Is that actually what powered Obama?
I’m increasingly of the view that a well-funded third party on the left needs to rise quickly to create coalition rule. Let Dems own the milquetoast center and continue to flounder because of myopia.
Agreed. Ideally we need more regional parties that could act fusionally at the national level. The ideological range needed to stay competitive—across multiple valences—isn’t tenable within a single party. Dem strongholds need leftist parties; red states need pro-democracy center-right ones
The Dem Party as it currently stands faces two broad problems: the coalition is too wide politically, so it will always be at disagreement with itself; and the leadership is entrenched with inside-the-Beltway blindness and reluctance to yield to brighter (and younger) leaders.
…which is to say: it’s not going to get out of its own way UNLESS there is a significant rupture. And it certainly isn’t going to legislate overhauls of the system as is necessary.
Dollars to donuts, if they regain power, they will play softball with Trump’s fragrant and many abuses.
That may be, but to me it seems like it'd be at least 10x harder to build a new party than to primary 50-75 members of congress. Look at Koch's attempt to build a right wing party (Libertarian). The peak was 1 L, who changed party. He spent billions and basically gave up and primaried Republicans.
Fair enough on expense, but primarying current officials still won’t solve for the breadth of values the current party comprises. The reason Dems “don’t stand for anything” is because they will always disagree on what they stand for. And…
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Your bias in favor of Republicans and against telling the plain truth is a far larger contributor to the sorry state of American politics than the fecklessness of Democrats.
All while Trump continues to destroy literally everything good about the U.S.
The Democrats do not care about being popular.
There was not.
Capitalist control of the media, conservative governance, and defunding of education.
If I hear one more time about how democrats are excited to work across the aisle, I’ll fucking scream.
Republicans have impeded any progress on nearly anything over the past 20+ years.
Dollars to donuts, if they regain power, they will play softball with Trump’s fragrant and many abuses.
1. Speaker Johnson and the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate
2. Stephen Miller Russ Vought and the Nazi's.
3. Peter Theil and the techno oligarchs (plus their quantum AI, PALANTIR)