Well, we do have our MAGA base with their 85 IQs too. Doesn't look good for the next election, does it?@dbmhoosier it’s sad for the entire country. We are going to have two choices that could not be more polar. Not healthy for a country.
Bolshevik Bernie is out there laying the groundwork for her campaign. You know what the sales pitch will be. The Dem primary voters are about to be told they're bigger victims than they already believe they are. All of your problems are due to Elon Musk and the other billionaires and millionaires. Nothing is ever your fault it's all theirs. They didn't make anything they stole it from you. They are the reason you suffer. We just need to confiscate their wealth and everyone will live like Kings from here on out. No, not my wealth or AOCs wealth we're on your side that's different.
And the Dem voters with their 85 IQs will eat it up. I think we're really in trouble this time. Might want to start cashing out the 401ks, pay the early withdrawal penalty, and bury gold bars in the yard. This really could be it.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2078493364912067053
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And worst of all they're being very smart about how they handle the Israel issue.
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@dbmhoosier yeah throw in the stupids that vote D no matter what and it’s scary. 2 1/2 years to make as much money as you can and insulate it. Go hard at it
@dbmhoosier yeah throw in the stupids that vote D no matter what and it’s scary. 2 1/2 years to make as much money as you can and insulate it. Go hard at it
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@dbmhoosier aoc clearly runs the party. mamdani will as well. hollywood is absolutely obsessed with mamdani. and while stay at home pete gets street credit for breastfeeding and not working i don't think the socialist party will embrace him. even a breastfeeding stay at home gay guy is too conservative
@dbmhoosier she’s never run a business. Never even worked at a business save as a bartender. Never run an agency. Never run a city or state. Not a lawyer. Knows nothing about foreign affairs. And they think she can run a country. Why?
This woman is a glutton for punishment, I love it.
https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/2081391183000219784?s=46
My reading on the mid-term elections is that a good many voters are looking to their congressman, regardless of party, to offer at least some resistance to Trump. In other words, some return to a balance of power between the branches.
Having said that, I do acknowledge a good many voters like having what they call a strong president. A president who tells us what he wants done and does it. The problem here is the Iran skirmish. The executive branch is completely in charge but has reached a stalemate. Suddenly our strong president appears in a quandary.
So the Dems think the unaffordable economy will win the day for them when the real issues helping them are balance of power between the branches and the Iran war stalemate.
@hoot hard to say what will happen hoot. when you think it can't be possible for democrats to get dumber they do. i didn't think it possible after the woke stuff but here we are. the dems found a way to be even dumber and more worthless. so who knows. i can't imagine ever voting for a dem in anything at this point. even if you vote for a mod dem you're giving numbers to the party and that isn't something i'd do .
as for trump he just doesn't know what he's doing. the nuke i get. go bomb the shit out of everything related once, broker a deal, even if shitty, and get the hell out of there. iran is like a nasty ex wife. they want to be provoked. they want the attention. and you can never beat them. trump is no match for iran.
this has been a terrible presidency between the tariffs and iran. and the dems hate america and what to be socialists/communists and just freaks in general so they're always a nonstarter. but i would love to see is an administration come in and say we're goign to fix one thing. no wars. no mandate so we're eliminating welfare or we're tripling down on welfare. no radical tax changes. or tariffs. we're going to leave things and be and fix one major thing. one. how about healthcare. touches most people. we're going to spend four years addressing that and we're going to have an actual outcome. and we're going to work together to do it.
our politicians as it stands are the dumbest and the worst of us. the more aspirational a politician is and the more they want to do the worse it will be for all of us
These are the issues they will run on.
She's as nutty as Trump.
No sane person wants to abolish the police, prisons, borders, etc. The Senate? Maybe (lol), but there's a pesky little thing called The Constitution that would get in the way.
This shit is NOT where Independents are and it's not where most Democrats are. Anyone who runs on this nonsense may squeak through a primary but they will LOSE in the general in 95% of districts in the country.
@big-ryan About two-thirds (66%) of Democrats rate socialism positively in national surveys, outpacing the 42% of Democrats who view traditional capitalism positively. gallup
@big-ryan About two-thirds (66%) of Democrats rate socialism positively in national surveys, outpacing the 42% of Democrats who view traditional capitalism positively. gallup
Do not start with the insults or we're done.
I looked up the survey you mentioned. The question presented was: "Just off the top of your head, would you say you have a positive or negative image of each of the following? Socialism" (The question also included "capitalism" and "big business")
It does not appear that the terms, including "socialism," were defined.
It's quite possible - - and perhaps likely - - that most of the respondents didn't even know what true "socialism" entails. Do they think "socialism" is simply social welfare programs like Medicaid and SSI? Do they think a social insurance program like social security is socialism? Who knows.
If Dems were asked if they agree with the concept of defunding the police and the DSA's chair's list (in dbm's post), a significant majority would say no. For example, Pew Research polling demonstrates while support for reducing police budgets spiked briefly among some groups in 2020, it dropped sharply thereafter, with most Democrats supporting stable or even increased funding paired with reform.
Similarly, regarding the border, Pew Research surveys show that a majority of Dems reject the concept of unregulated entry. The official Democratic platform supports border enforcement, border security personnel, and legal immigration pathways rather than unmonitored or "open" borders.
The DSA chair's views on these issues are out of step with most Democrats.
I'm very busy and am out for now.
the more aspirational a politician is and the more they want to do the worse it will be for all of us
I think you're close to it with this. I think the real keystone to this problem is that too many radicals can't tell the difference between what's aspirational and what's practical. They want to live in a world that doesn't need borders or prisons or whatever, because they think that world will be a global utopia of human community. But they seem to honestly think they can bring that utopia about by abolishing all these things they don't like, instead of addressing the problems those things were created to solve. Borders and prisons might not be ideal, but they exist for very concrete reasons, and those reasons don't magically go away if the borders and prisons do. I think the socialists basically think they just legislate us into Star Trek. But they forget all the shit the Star Trek universe had to go through in order to get to that utopian society.
I think you could make the same argument about the loonies on the other side, too. Their version of utopia is a closed society with no migration? Great, enjoy your shitty economy and endless wars! Everyone who wants to radically reshape our society into their ideal model fails to recognize that the real-world imperfect society we have was built piece by piece as a series of responding to actual problems in real time.
I like your "Just fix one thing" idea. I'd like to see a politician say, "You know what? I'm not going to try to do everything. I'm going to identify X as the most pressing issue facing our nation today, and I'm going to get together with members of my party and members of the opposition, and we are going to craft a comprehensive - but very targeted - plan to tackle X once and for all. Everything else, we're just going to keep doing what we've been doing."
@goat i've been on a number of boards and spent considerable time working with nonprofits. these are social workers. the politicians that are dsa should be social workers. what you wrote i think they genuinely believe. they have a more optimistic (unrealistic) view of people than us - and certainly lawyers. the people are inherently good it is the system failing them is the idea.
i've overseen dozens of failing nonprofits. when the money gets tight the first person they want to cut is development. but we can't let jane go. she is in direct services. she's helping people. sarah is just in development. no money no jane.