Election side note: Missourians voted to legalize sports betting by 7,500 votes out of about 3 million.
Continuing the trend of leftish policies being popular despite our politicians getting waffle crushed. Itās definitely something they need to figure out how to leverage better.
Even if true, takeaway is that Netanyahu (and Hamas in doing 10/6 to begin with) checkmated Biden as also a large chunk of people that feel Biden was insufficiently supportive of Israel.
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Idk literal hitler 2 did pretty well with minorities
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Why keep tempting fate? This is not the country to keep doing this.
Because Obama absolutely crushed in 2008 and still held on 2012 despite a lot of the fundamentals working against him.
If thereās one way America may have evolved from more traditional forms of racism itās that they are tolerant of people with darker skin who āfall in line and act whiteā. It may also help with turnout from those racial minorities. Even though I hate talking about the candidates race and how that might appeal to other races, itās not nothing.
Sports betting falls into the rare overlap of personal liberty that left-leaning people generally support, and addictive behavior that can used to funnel money from the many to the few. Special case.
But I do agreeāleftish policies are quite popular. But not as popular as strongmen and hate.
The new Democratic Party is pretty much gonna be fascism lite.
More likely that elections will be rigged in favor of the Republicans in enough states to make a fair presidential election impossible without an actual coup.
Thatās really where the fight of the next 4 years needs to be. Really 2 years. We need to make sure the 2026 and 2028 election are at least as free and fair as the typical US election.
Look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the reason why your politicians get waffle crushed is because their policies arenāt popular. Take a look at California props.
I look forward to the debates in 3 years whether you can only serve two terms or two āconsecutiveā terms
Any easy place to see fascism as a poll driver is in California.
No to min wage increase, no to rent control, Yes to 3 strikes rule reinstatement, Yes to allowing prisons to continue slavery.
We arenāt any better here. We like to pretend we are, but all of those measures not only passed, but passed with 60% or better (except slavery, that only passed with 55% wooo!)
This is what the country? world? fucking universe? wants.
Please show me what youāre seeing because all I see is majority support for stuff I would consider to be on the left side of the issue. Maybe the margins arenāt where Iād like them, but my 60 second search shows greater than 50% on the good side of them.
See above
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Not clear. It seems likely they will surge to the right to try to compete with the Rs.
I would feel better if the appeal to populism/fascism was based on things objectively being bad rather than mostly social/alternative media poison.
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How? Vance made Waltz look like a stuttering child
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Not enough LOLs for this post. The working people of this country are bleeding out
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What does surge to the right look like though? I vote for this party because theyāre the only party that pushes for equality for all americans and the party of human rights. What human rights will the dems abandon? Are they going to run on only cisgender women in womenās sports? On deporting millions of people who are here and not citizens and work in our slaughterhouses and pay taxes but donāt get health care? Because thatās apparently what this country just voted for.
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