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You forgot C: Won’t even hear about it because it doesn’t involve Trump spouting coprophilic glossolalia and we lack the attention span to understand what’s happening
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
You forgot C: Won’t even hear about it because it doesn’t involve Trump spouting coprophilic glossolalia and we lack the attention span to understand what’s happening
I’ve given up on anything happening in the books ever again.
I’ll take it
Join city council meetings
That sounds terrible.
The good news: We have some small modicum of control.
The bad news: Control involves pain, disappointment, frustration, anger, and a whole bunch of mental anguish that people who don’t pay attention to politics don’t have to deal with.
The good news is that it’s only gone up from 65%
If we’re asking for things that will never happen I would like a unicorn that shits Lucky Charms
Okay but only if you’re shiny and chrome
It’s okay because trying to blow up the building was an official act. The guys he appointed decided so.
Do I really have to look at my fellow Americans? They’re not pretty.
God, I hate humanity some days.
Only some days? Optimist.
Voter disengagement helped along by media consolidation. It’s not profitable to cover House races anymore unless something crazy is happening, so people aren’t made aware of it. State and local elections are even worse. Sometimes the only information about a candidate I can find is their private Facebook profile.
Don’t forget that the ballots in Florida were really poorly designed, and caused Pat Buchanan to get a very high number of Democratic votes.
George Wallace got some electoral college votes because he was a flagrant racist.
I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing this happen all over the world. All over the world we have feckless neoliberal parties failing to represent their people and getting replaced with populist right-wingers.
One could make an argument that NATO is a continuation of the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about. But Cornell West just saying “I oppose NATO” without making that argument is pretty weird.
I’d show the fundies a plucked chicken and assert its personhood but I don’t think they’d get the joke.
It’s not even Republican presidents. Newt Gingrich destroyed the House. Mitch McConnell destroyed the Senate. And there’s a whole bench of people willing to continue their work.
The entirety of the Republican party, from their philosophy to their platform to their elected officials to the individual voters, is a poison. And they have a lot more power than Democrats thanks to their low population density.
We have a FPTP voting system meaning the first candidate across the line wins, so you either vote for A or B.
If you’re in a solidly blue or red state that math is a bit different.
our country WANTS someone on the left that represents the people
Your perception of the electorate is quite different from mine.
I’ve seen everything Trump posts on Truth Social despite never having installed the app.
I also don’t have Twitter but I see a lot of those, too.