"57% of male Republicans " says it all.
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Elon has alienated so many people it's not clear he would be able to form a consortium of voters big enough to matter.
To break the two-party system we have in the USA, you'd need to have overwhelming numbers, because both the Democrats and GOP have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo regarding the balance of power.
We already have a far-right fascist party and a right wing party. Why add another fascist party?
40% of Americans would support a party founded by the world's richest man whose very first instinct when Trump won was to triumphantly perform two Nazi salutes. WTF, USA?
Have you met trump voters?
They idolized trump because they believed he was wealthy
But musk is actually as wealthy as they believed Trump was.
Nothing else matters to them, wealth = power, and power is a good thing to ally with.
It's all basic psychology, because when you spend literal generations ignoring public education, around 40% of the population never gets past base animalistic thinking.
They're picking the aide they think is most powerful, because millions of years of instincts beat into us by evolution says the powerful will kill the weak. Learning the killing doesn't have to happen is the entire point of socialization, and we just don't teach that to humans anymore.
Learning the killing doesn’t have to happen is the entire point of socialization, and we just don’t teach that to humans anymore.
We don't teach it to Americans any more. Some places still understand what society and social responsibility are. But Americans have been subjected to the propaganda of toxic individualism for too long.
toxic individualism
That's not the root problem. It's the lie told to defend ruthless capitalism:
If you can't make it, you're the problem
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I'm actually very much in favor of Musk starting a political party that effectively splits the Republican vote and makes Democrat victories that much easier. Go Musk!
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Please do it. Split those GOP votes!
New party is fine. New Musk party is a hard no. I'm suprised he didn't call it the X party, 420 party, or Gigaparty
It's the absolute perfect time for Republicans to split...
This is gonna be the first fair Dem primary in decades that will be a fair fight. Musk and Trump having a slap fight while Dems can actually get the most popular candidate into the general?
Let em cook
X Æ A-Xii party
Or the Life of the Party, the After Party, or the Block Party.
I definitely would not support any party created by that fuckhead. It will just be another douchebag conservative shitshow.
Neither would I. But! It would split the conservative vote and also force the Democrats to listen to the voters! If it ended "first past the post" voting, it would be incredibly good for this country and the world...
Or, Democrats do what they do best -- not listen to their voters -- and the new party comes to power by merging the Nationalists that are in Musk's camp with the Socialists that the Democrats always ignore. Maybe they'll even merge those two names together to describe the new party....
I'd like to remain more hopeful in that the first past the post standard collapses and that means we socialists get to do democrats 2.0 in the same way musk wants Republicans 2.0
Cynically that means that the spoiler effect might actually work in our favor if he does go through with it. I'm not gonna hold my breath for it, but it would be so funny if Musk's ego actually leads to the Republican party splitting and losing because they can't decide how many poor people and minorities they want to throw into a wood chipper.
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