We can only HOPE.
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Don't threaten me with a good time, Mr. Paul.
I guess I'm glad he thinks that elections will still matter.
Noodle head mofo
Nah. This won't be enough pain to really get people off their butt's in the US. We really like our confort.
Don't threaten me with a good time!!!
Also, it's a wheel. The Cons ruin the economy, voters get mad and vote Democrat, Democrat fixes economy, voters don't like the spending even though it's improving everything so vote Con, the Cons ruin the economy, ect ect so on and so forth
This is so true it hurts to read it.
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Here's hoping.
We thought that would happen after the first Trump term, but here we are.
I've learned that Congress has the tariff power, but has delegated it to the president. Congress can take it back any time they want apparently.
According to the constitution, only congress can levy or collect taxes. BTW that makes the IRS an illegal organization since they are part of the executive branch.
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I wish American Voters had memories longer than 4 years. But they don't.
They got pissed at Bush and the Republicans in 2006 for the war and in 2008 for crashing the economy.
And 2 years later in 2010 they voted in a red wave not seen since reconstruction.
Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and 4 years later they gave him another chance. If Trump shot a crowd of people on 5th avenue the kids of the victims would vote for him 4 years later.
Your treating this as if the same people are voting different ways. It's usually much more along the lines of voters staying home one election and voting in another.
Edit - autocorrect got naughty!
There were massive voter suppression campaigns in both those election cycles. And it doesn't help that the neo Liberals highjacked the democratic party, marginalizing labor. People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.
People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists, no matter how much y'all hate leftists (and laugh at leftists with your more conservative friends) you need to understand the average person in the US hates you and your leaders far more than than they hate genuine leftists that actually fight for the working class instead of spitting on them and publicly calling them stupid.
Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists
It won't. They benefit from corporate greed as much as the right does. They are enablers of fascism.
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Democracy will not save us. People that won't vote unless they fall in love can fall out of love much more easily.
Do vote, it's low effort and it can make a marginal difference. Just make your plans assuming you party will lose and if they win they will disappoint.
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LIES! Republicans HAPPILY Voted for all these! Both Republicans in Congress and Republican VOTERS! They would NEVER do things that would Hurt Their CONSTITUENTS OR Themselves! Republicans are SMART and CARE!
From your lips to The Goddess' ears.
Truman’s campaign against the “Do Nothing” Republicans is not the cause, but it’s when these huge majorities for Democrats got cemented in place for decades:
Isolationism is not dead. Far from it. Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party. And that prospect is beginning to scare the voters--and it ought to scare them.
Now, we can always rely on the Republicans to help us in an election year, but we can't count on them to do the whole job for us. We have got to go out and do some of it ourselves, if we expect to win.
The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing. And we don't need to try it.
The record the Democratic Party has made in the last 20 years is the greatest political asset any party ever had in the history of the world. We would be foolish to throw it away. There is nothing our enemies would like better and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.
I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.
But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
-Harry Truman, Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952
But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are–when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people–then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
I wish that were true. I might have been in the past, but we have a full third of our population that will not vote for anyone but Trump and a full third that were told over and over about Project 2025 and the Drak Enlightment but stayed home for whatever reason. That left the rest of us yelling till our voices were hoarse.
Please the Democratic leadership, the DNC, the DCCC, the defacto “party leaders” like the Clintons and Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, RAHM EMANUEL…This element, these people, are at best conciliatory and at worst collaborators. Call them “phony Democrats”, call them whatever you want. I want them to fuck off.
There is a reckoning coming, I think, and neither the Republicans nor the establishment Democrats are going to like it much. There is already an apparent sea change in some critical contests, and the polling data and turnout has been literally unprecedented.
I wish that were true
Besides the lame masculinity part (history is surely full of far more men who were cowards as leaders than women) it is true.
There are many reasons turn out was crap, primarily people didn't want Biden shoved down their throat again and Harris didnt have the time or space to differentiate herself.
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Sorry, best we can do is folks who hold up little signs that say "lies" during speeches.
I never understood why anyone finds Trump appealing. I watched less than half an episode of The Apprentice because it was on at my uncle's house. All I could think was, what a fat, ugly, childish, idiot Trump was. But my boomer uncle used to run around saying "you're fired!" like it was the coolest phrase he had ever heard. BTW that same uncle is unable to read. That didn't stop him from voting for Trump.
You mean an era of unprecedented social, economic and technological progress? THE HORROR!!!!
Good. Conservative ideology should be tossed into the flames of Mordor.
They deserve it.
And yet this simpering little weenie will still vote for every single thing that HitlerPig demands.
Also during those 60 years....recovering from the big depression, dust bowl and gaining human rights....
Shit, you're right. We can't have that. Can't wait to ~~watch~~ read about Josh Hawley breaking Booker's new record with a speech about how freedom of religion is discriminatory against christians and only christians.
I wish. Social media has poisoned minds so badly that I don't think there's any chance of that happening again.