So 1/3 of Americans are in a cult of hate and idiocy whether they know it or not.

The difficulty is getting 75% of the remaining population on board. 75% of a wide range of ideologies to agree that freedom and investment in America are better than submission, oppression, and chaos.

So, convincing 75% of people that allowing the government to deport innocent people (innocent until proven guilty and we know many of them are actually innocent) is actually really fucking bad.

The Democratic Party is centrist between moderate ideologies. Fetterman is centrist between the two parties.

That’s worse!

The whole point was to trim excess. If they really had fired almost nobody, that would mean they’re doing maximum damage with very little “benefits”.

Now, obviously doing damage is what Trump and co. want. But the initial claim was efficiency.

Just like the polls that show McDonald’s, Taco Bell, or Chic fil a as America’s favorite restaurant in X state. It doesn’t take too many idiots to outweigh everyone else.

A couple reasons.

Bernie and the Democrats are going to align 90% of the time (just like with Manchin on the other end of the spectrum). Basically, the other party is anti-America. So being pro-America makes you a de facto Democrat.

Since we don’t have Ranked Choice Voting or any other system that is conducive to multiple parties, primaries allow directionally aligned candidates to decide who is most popular to avoid splitting the vote. This isn’t necessary if a candidate has enough support for it to not matter. (Bernie is an independent in congress, but he ran as a Democrat in his presidential runs.)

Not efficient enough? I’m sure he meant that they need to deport the right people. But to Trump more efficient means deporting them faster. He’s still confused why Melania is still here.

He’s also lazy with no sense of nuance. If there’s an easy way to do something, he’ll do it. Pardon all Jan 6ers, deport all illegals (or all immigrants), let someone else handle shit, whatever is easiest.

On the flip side, Dems will regularly get that much of the vote in really red areas.

If they had focused their campaign on helping the middle class

I agree with most of that except this. They basically ONLY focused on the middle class. All the tax break incentives were great. But they never offered a damn thing for the working class. And that’s who they SHOULD have focused on.

Yep, I heard lies and accusations for the 5 seconds I tuned in and turned it off.

Also, “mainstream” media is far (FAR) more critical and nitpicky about Democrats and blame everything on them. When they question Republicans the bar is usually “can you confirm that racism is bad?”.

Which election? It’s been known since Covid that he’s an anti-vaxer. So, I pretty much assumed he voted Trump.

Liberals are constantly offended because conservatives are constantly attacking everything around them.

Conservatives attack everything around them because they are offended by EVERYTHING!

I prefer the Crooked Media shows, especially Pod Save America. But I usually check out the most recent MeidasTouch when I’m all cought up with my podcasts.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but DC is entirely under federal jurisdiction, right? Meaning literally every crime committed in DC is eligible for pardon. Really scary when you think about it.

Replacing DEI with ASH. Great strategy.

Was it MTG?

Even in their fantasies they’re scared of Obama.

One ignored point is that Democratic voter turnout was especially low in safe blue. Dejected Democratic voters still largely came out in swing states (still not enough). They didn’t come out in states that didn’t matter, Republican voters showed up even when it didn’t.

If you make the election popular I’d wager Kamala wins. Make voter turnout mandatory, and she’d win by more.

I’ve kind of wondered about something. Manchin kind of represents what Republicans should be. He opposes more liberal policies but wants to work with us for America’s benefit. He approves judges that will uphold the constitution, will negotiate instead of obstructing. However, we only got that with him labeled as a Democrat. On paper, this is better than him just being another GOP member.

But, now we’re left with Democrats not being able to get shit done when really it was a conservative blocking progress on key issues.

So my question, would we be better off if Manchin or Sinema were labeled independent from the beginning? Would Democrats be blamed less for what “they” couldn’t get done?