Because at the time of the Nazi takeover, the party with that name was wholly operating as a rubber stamp to the most extremist right wing elements taking hold of their party. “The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” is similarly nondescriptive as “German Worker’s Party” later purposely misleadingly named to “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” after Hitlers rise.
No, and neither did Germany.
Leave it up to moderate liberals to roll over and die. Way to signal his kingship guys, fucking top notch pick, that Merrick Galand. To think this ineffective dipshit was considered for SCOTUS. Literally a direct historical correlation to the rise of Hitler through ineffective and complacent liberalism from the socialist party. I guess when you construct a DOJ that doesn’t prosecute billionaires the whole thing short circuits when the tyrant is one… who could have predicted that except every leftist and historian?
Just FYI, there is strong terf energy in this movement if you look into its primary supporters. I’m all for withholding from men who don’t support your basic human rights, that is literally why the curve from young men to mid 20s and early 30s drastically shift left, but be careful about your associations.
They definitely are low information voters. When people hear things they don’t like from people they do like, they always assume it’s not going to hurt them until it actually does. This might eventually work if they heard it enough, but they never will and don’t care enough to pursue the information on their own.
In terms of the old white man thing, I think it’s fair to say that while people say they don’t want old people running, what they really mean is old people who aren’t all there. This should eliminate Trump, but he’s never seemed all there and he’s had a more shallow decline than Biden. Bernie doesn’t meet this qualification because he’s still as sharp as ever. Biden’s decline was shockingly fast and even turned liberals away despite his government still operating
I did get the very strong vibe from undecided voters that they really wanted to vote for Trump but couldn’t tell anyone the reason was racism or sexism because they care too much about their image with liberals or their own self-image.
That all being said, a trending search term on election day was, “Did Joe Biden drop out?” So clearly, the low information problem should be doing some heavy lifting in our conclusions.
Completely agree with these two traits being the primary obstacles. I think the Democratic party’s ability to acknowledge this is the key to future election wins. You conclusion though that the solution is for Americans to “overcome their base human instincts en masse” is very incomplete.
A few suggestions if you want to appeal to someone who is lazy about gathering and retaining information and getting off their butt to vote:
A few suggestions if you want to appeal to someone who is selfish and wouldn’t lift a finger in a holocaust if the target wasn’t them:
This all fits firmly into the messaging solutions of leftist populism by the way.
The underlying assumption here is that these voters aren’t low information voters. The economy was what they themselves say they voted while thinking about. I believe it’s pretty clear that perception is more important than reality for these voters, and their perception could not be more wrong about that and many other issues. There is certainly misogyny and racism in there too, but also keep in mind that was largely felt in people staying home, not voting for Trump. Harris got far fewer votes and Trump received nearly the same as last time.
There’s no easy one size fits all blame to be had here I don’t think, as nice as simple explanations are. I believe lack of populist messaging, following safe trends rather than creating them in the minds of constituents (with exception of the weird insult), lack of emergency covid situation, sexism, and appeals to status quo systems that have flaws all played a role.
The National Review? A broken clock is right twice a day I guess. They support Trump all the same, just as William Buckley intended.
New information shows his internal polling at the time showed he’d lose to Trump’s 407 electoral votes… He still refused to step down for over a month. You are incorrect that he would have won by all metrics that can be known.
She is literally the smartest person in the court by far and remains to be. We can talk replacement when she loses her mind like Breyer did.
Seems like a reasonable ask if they’re worried for their safety.
Very well stated. We need to operate within this reality instead of the fantasy land created by those who will be fine either way.
Unfortunately it’s worse than this. It seems like the GOP has successfully indoctrinated a new generation if incel supporters in high enough numbers to matter. If this trend continues the boomers can die and we’ll still be fucked.
I think empathy dies in greater numbers every year. Your position seems to rely on empathy of the downtrodden. Obviously progressives will largely support these policies, but there is selfishness within those ranks too. What if America is just losing touch of their humanity? I feel like leaning into the obvious divide is step one. Stop pretending they’re our friends, and then call them every name that applies to them and then double, triple, quadruple down. The smartest thing Biden said all year is that the only garbage he sees is Trump’s supporters laughing at that joke.
As sad as it is though, it’s very difficult to have empathy when you’re drowning. If people weren’t all drowning it would be easier to get through to them. Power has locked out all options for that though.
I think it was a matter of who was willing to go low. American people are not civilly minded, they appreciate hyperbole, satire, and vicious descriptive insults versus those they don’t like. This isn’t just Republicans who like these things, and one could even argue they don’t understand satire. Tim Walz was the energy we needed and the muzzle they put on him was like an enthusiasm sponge. When you say your enemies are good people who deserve a cabinet seat you’re fucking lost. Nobody in this climate gives a fuck about civility except the talking heads and politicians worried that making a stand needs to be proceeded by a ballot questionnaire and a sacrificial lamb.
From the wording it sounds like it wasn’t made public, just presented to the lawyers. It’s similar to how jehovah witnesses tried to pierce anononimity for the antijw reddit posters to identify defendants in a copyright lawsuit and the judge said something akin to “It’s understandable that you don’t want your name publicly associated with this post, but the court system imparts trust on lawyers to act as good stewards of this information and so plaintiffs council may have access to your identity.” If this information is leaked they should be disbarred on the spot for mishandling the data.
Sorry bud, you’re not a republican any more… They’ve left you behind because your morals were based on something.
I dunno bro, I saw a lot of bright smiling teeth behind him DURING the joke. Not a single person I know with a soul did anything other than gasp. The entire rally was full of opaque out and open fascist statements and disgusting needlessly aggressive remarks about opponents. If you think it wasn’t similar to the MSG Nazi rally then you really ought to watch it. Your blinders are letting you get slow-walked to nazism.
Maybe if his spawn’s failson husband didn’t oppsidaisy the federal contract to restore its infrastructure to a middleman shell company nobody’s ever heard of it would be in better condition… or if it wasn’t Washington’s proving ground for the effects of cruel and unusual policies nobody except companies want. Or if they could spend money on their own infrastructure before paying back bonds like everyone else can legally do. Or maybe if Trump gave any shits at all about it as his entire presidency was riddled with hatred towards US territories like “at least the only thing in range of North Korea’s nuke is Guam.” I’m sure there isn’t metric tons of evidence that his policies reflected that opinion.
In another blow to Democra
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