well fwiw both NY dem senators endorsed walton, not sure how everyone is working together or w/e
JFC. Who votes for republicans
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What did any of those people get from the Dem trifecta?
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well, lots of money
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Sometimes I hate being right. Have managed to almost completely ignore results today, but it’s just really sad how many people in this country are genuine bad people, stupid people, or fully brainwashed people. Or all three.
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Matrix theory
It seems way more likely that his ties to the Clintons hurt him more than recent dysfunction in Congress. There isn’t a better accelerant for culture war narratives than handing the Rs an opponent that is easily associated with Hillary Clinton.
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Even if this isn’t true, I’d like to see some progressives make it a talking point.
I really think the Dems only hope is to cut the so-called moderates loose and go full economic populist. Letting Republicans rack up ever increasing margins among non-college voters is hopeless.
Politics is driven by emotion. Democrats do absolutely nothing to excite anyone, or activate people. There is no unifying message and no hope for a better future. Just a bunch of rich old assholes whose insincerity is obvious from a mile away.
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I think the other thing happening here is in a late-stage capitalism situation it doesn’t really even make sense for “good” people to be “good”. When everything around you is in smoking ruins nuanced means tested Clintonite policy proposals just are so obviously inadequate to meet the moment that literally no one sees them as an actual solution. So lots of people are just reverting to more base instincts and solutions. Tribalism/racism and a fuck you I’m going to get mine mentality that is already deeply ingrained here anyways. The Republicans are doing a fantastic job feeding that.
I mean you can see the proof of it in this very group of people’s words and actions. A significant portion of us spend 10 hours a day day trading jpegs hoping to rack up enough money to escape or wall ourselves in. More and more of us are talking about needing to have our passports renewed and a plan to GTFO. I think we all realize any hope for fixing things through our legislative branch and/or electoral system is hopeless.
Now do that on a grander scale where 40% of the country are evil power hungry fucks and the rest of us have mostly given up hope for any real solutions. What is that going to look like in 5-10 years?
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A classic example of this is Dems expecting the professional class to keep paying more and more in taxes to keep the system chugging along while they do absolutely nothing to correct the tax loopholes and outright evasion of taxes by the super rich. Its insane to think that these people, who should reliably vote blue, are going to keep turning out to vote and keep dutifully paying their taxes while they watch other better connected people loot the country.
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Right. There is increasing, very real fatigue among educated people trying to be decent.
People can only get kicked in the teeth for so long before they throw their hands in the air and give up. You see the biggest pieces of shit in the entire country acting with complete impunity. You play by the rules while nobody else has to, you see the complete lack of accountability for anyone and the entirely different set of rules for rich people and eventually you say fuck it, at least the red team might cut my taxes.
The Dems are bleeding these voters across all races, it’s not just white people. How long have we been bemoaning their failure with Hispanics? People are able to sense that Democrats are unable to deal with our obvious problems. Can you blame anyone for giving up on these fucking assholes?
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Narrator: They moved to the center and lost 75 House seats
One thing I do at my job is look at wealthy peoples’ tax returns.
These people send us lots of stuff, and one of the things they send us in addition to their tax returns is cash flow statements. Almost uniformly, the cash flow statements indicate personal income in the millions of dollars. Just as uniformly, the tax returns indicate negative income and zero tax paid.
Everyone working around, for and with these guys sees these same documents. They know these guys aren’t paying any taxes. And even more importantly, they know that Democrats know that they aren’t paying any taxes, and that they deliberately choose to do nothing about it.
The Democratic Party simply isn’t credible. You would have to be a fucking idiot to think they’re actually fighting for normal people at a national level. This is obvious to everyone except elected Democrats and their consultants.
Look at the “transformative” BBB bill:
- Absolutely nothing to lower medical costs
- Carried interest remains
- 1031 exchanges remain
- $23 million estate tax exemption remains
- Step up in basis remains
- Capital gains preference remains
- Paid leave gutted or out
- No student loan relief
- SALT likely coming back
- No minimum wage increase
- No ethics reform of any kind
Now, they still have a chance to get normal people who hate Trump. All they have to do is hold literally anyone accountable for the absolute horror show that has been the last 5 years. They can’t even do that. You know why? Because they’re all fucking crooks too and they really don’t want Trump Admin 2.0 digging too deep.
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I guess the one “positive” thing is we may be getting close to where much of the populace looking at politics as sport starts to become untenable as basics such as adequate healthcare become unavailable in America for even much of the professional class. Maybe life is just too comfortable for the top half of economic society and a failed state and the end of the luxury to disengage will help bring some clarity.
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Trump 2.0 is coming after them regardless. He’s going to want revenge. If there is anything on them to get trumps doj is going to be all over it. Some will likely go to jail.
I think a part of it was a legitimate strategy to return things to normal, and wanted to bring the country together and knew going after trumps people would outrage the right and motive them to vote.
Lol Dems either way.