I think punditry would be a lot healthier if people made the case for their policies and position on the merits first rather than framing everything they advocate for as a good electoral strategy. 90% of the time, it's what they support on the merits, so just make that case.
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Me: i want X
Them: well polling, and elections, and moderation, and obtainable goals and scotus
Me: what do you *want*?
Them: to win? I dunno .... To win i guess...
Look at the bills Republicans sponsor. They are never to help anyone. It’s always to prevent someone from doing or having something.
Democrats view elections as sharing truth with voters.
Republicans view them as selling voters a product.
It’s at a level where I think many people are unable to cognitively differentiate those attributes in their minds.
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"Nah, that takes work & believing in things.Bleh. How bout these polls?" ~ Dems
We better not let the GOP stereotype us so we better make sure we don't run people the GOP will stereotype
which is literally everyone
so
I think that FDR should be invoked with the reverence that Reagan was.
You can rightfully spit on the bad stuff (court packing and Japanese internment) all you want
emphasize:
ND saved us from the Depression
AND
he won WW2
repeat this ad infinitum!
Seems like there's a lot more money to be made advocating for monied interests to keep/make more money and using wedge issues in bad faith for the sake of electoral gamesmanship.
Assuming I hear you right, ... I strongly agree with this.
Like the dems and the immigration issue. Not taking a moral stance allowed the republicans to control the discourse.
There are some that focus on the merits however, eg Jane Mayer.
If Dems can admit to themselves they're clinging to the identity of shrewd analyst for ego and a mollified mind, things would change.
h/t Jay Rosen btw
Have to agree 110%
what they’re doing is effective
but no one’s really trying this either
But- What if Trump STOPS ELECTIONS?
PLEASE, PLEASE find a plan for That Scenario- or WE WILL have Guns in the Streets and it WON'T BE PRETTY!
Lesson wasn’t learned, somehow, that it works.
The reality is that there is a tremendous amount of work to be done in every wealthy country and the labor of immigrants is essential to doing that work.
They have been taught to fear Others to reinforce scarcity, while the times of greatest immigration have in reality been the times of our greatest economic flourishing.
...which is sort of the whole point of civilization.
A robust floating min wage would ensure it affects the right people.
The US's issue is not separate of any other countries' issues when it comes to illegal immigration. So his point stands even if I disagree with it.
The effects of SCOTUS' decisions affect all Americans on a molecular melanin level, it does nothing to redress civil rights injustices but instead catalyzes inequality, injustice & unfairness at all levels of the social stratification.
Costco et al are on DEI Frontlines.
We owe future generations a safe and free America.
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Call all who call Trump a Fascist liar, Radical Liberals
Let POTUS47 rule by executive orders without consequences to
run Koch's #Project2025PurgeDemocracyPogrom & destroy American Institutions.
https://youtu.be/OiRiZRBFXBQ?si=g4mlaUcmOIMcIQgh
GOP pursued a slow destruction of democracy with insane American bankrupting policies of wars, with their campaign donors exporting jobs to China, in exchange for tax cuts. https://washingtonspectator.org/project-2025-the-latest-plot-against-america/
The effects of SCOTUS' decisions affect all Americans on a molecular melanin level, it does nothing to redress civil rights injustices but instead catalyzes inequality, injustice & unfairness at all levels of the social stratification.
Costco et al are on DEI Frontlines.
It’s one of the cancers that has eroded American democracy.
Most pundits are essentially media entertainers telling people what they want to hear.
You might even argue that standing for your principles might be worthwhile…
National Debt owed by Federal Government $33 trillion.
Interest owed 1 percent of share volume of voting right shares class A in all banks.
Actual debt owed by all nations.
$680 trillion
— $33 trillion
$647 trillion
Interest payment onto debt is 25% of US GDP payable to 1 person.
$24 to $25 trillion
Greater rates coming.
Bad policy rates rise.
Good policy power lower rates.
Taxation upon annual distribution of interest only payments.
My holdings hold 750 trillion shares in each bank inside my holdings
Each payment of interest
All dividends paid were distributed in public grants
Halted by Trump administration
Camp Pendleton closure per Donald Trump EO close bases.
Miramar military base closure per Donald Trump EO
Reliving base and creating closures will be next on agenda by DOGE
Close military bases.
I do believe Jesus spoke ,in his way of saying, observe what a human does(over time) and this is the real person.
Why always RICH humans elected?!
Let us try and intelligent POOR humans to lead the country?
How worse could it get,really?