Sure but this might be different. For one Trump is in the news 24/7. 80% of Americans probably didn’t even know Iran Contra happened. Thats not the case with Trumps corruption, racism, and the GOP being spineless evil cowards. Sure a lot of them probably won’t bother to vote because they don’t want to take work off for 2 hours or because the dems haven’t done anything to better their lives, but they sure as shit aren’t ever voting for the GOP when they get older and voting starts to matter to them.
And more importantly people are growing up on the internet. When they do get older and become voters all the people who grew up on social media will remember what a shit show Republicans were. They will be better able to shift through the lies and BS. There is a reason millennials are the most progressive group maybe ever in the US and this is why. most of the online disinformation shit only works on olds on FB and shit and they’re dying. And most of the young people who do support Republicans are either incels, racists, or people who were brainwashed by their family. But they’re only like 30% of the generation, and I expect that number to continue to shrink if progressives can get in office and actually do something to help the struggles of their generation.
There are legitimate reasons for optimism for the future… even if they require you to zoom out to see them. Even looking five years out it’s pretty clear that we’re at the end of an era here. This remains true even if Trump gets reelected.
Yeah but not the optimistic kind of new era if Trump gets re-elected. Trump and the GOP can and will do things that will solidify their ability to be the ruling party regardless of how demographics change and the only way to stop it will be violent revolt.
Anyone who is on the fence or not about whether we are fucked just needs to spend some time reading about the current state of the climate. It might already be too late. We are fucked.
When your optimistic take is that we might lose a few cultures, I think that qualifies as fucked. It’s going to be a lot worse than that when you consider cascading effects.
Do you think they should be on the ballot along with P and VP or some sort of separate choice? I imagine putting them on the same ballot would result in basically the same as the status quo, but maybe a separate ballot would work.
Or maybe we need to blow up the Senate approval process to make presidential appointments more accountable to the people, AG and others.
I think same ballot is fine. Even if they’re the same party, if they’re independently elected and not subject to being fired by the president it would be a huge improvement. You could also stagger the terms so they’re only up in an off-year election.