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The Democrats are stumbling around and in disarray

Started by Brent, February 01, 2025, 02:12:49 PM

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I despise everyone these days but particularly those dumb as fuck socialist motherfuckers.
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Quote from: Garraty_47 on February 04, 2025, 09:07:56 AMThe democrats never "learn" from their failures because they ALREADY KNOW how corrupt and hypocritical they are. It's by design; not a mistake, incompetence, or bad luck. They won't change because the system and their role in it are functioning as intended.

At best they will focus on tweaking their rhetoric and shifting the targets of their performative displays but they will never fundamentally alter their governing actions or party power structure. Their owners/donors won't allow that.
The only thing that ever forced political parties to fundamentally change in Canada was the founding of a very successful new political party- The Reform Party of Canada.

They were in parliament for less than a decade, but they forced political parties to listen to their constituents for a change.

When they dissolved, it was back to parties taking voters for granted.
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Quote from: Garraty_47 on February 04, 2025, 10:29:45 AMPolitical partisans are conditioned to fight anyone who challenges the narratives their "team" has fed them. They've internalized the lie that anyone who doesn't share their beliefs is by definition bad, evil even.

This is also by design. A populace mired in culture wars can be manipulated and exploited. The only war that matters is the class war and that's why the establishment works so hard to avoid one.
Amen. Everything flows from your final point, it is why I am as reluctant to take my marching orders from FOX as I am CNN and MSNBC.

There is only one "team" I am on... mine. If (and that is a pretty big "if")... if I interpret some other team's aims as being commensurate with my own, I might be content to hitch my wagon to it for a while. At least for as long as it is convenient to do so. I'll be happy to pile out when it starts heading in a direction I disagree with. Because it is no longer "my team" at that point.

It is my contention that more people could benefit from such an attitude. Conservatives and Liberals alike. What say you?
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Screaming and hollering outside the Department of Education; do-or-die defenses of foreign aid; "gender-nonbinary candidate" rules; and octogenarians holding all-nighters over agencies Americans have never heard of. Democrats have found their fight again, but have not been in such rudderless, leaderless disarray since the 1980s.

They don't know what they stand for any more. President Donald Trump has flipped the table, putting lifelong Democrats who once championed bedrock (and common-sense) crusades into Senate-confirmed positions. His nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, pushed once anti-Big Pharma champions like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to demand protections for ... Big Pharma. The president's pick of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) even pushed Democrats to fight for more wars abroad.


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Any critics still clinging to delusion and doubt on this point were dealt another blow over the weekend in the form of a CBS News/YouGov poll, which revealed that the country — especially the under-30 crowd — is majoritively behind the president.

According to the poll, which was conducted from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7, 53% of respondents signaled approval for the job Trump is doing — a figure "Face the Nation" anchor Margaret Brennan begrudgingly admitted marked the highest approval rating for Trump in a CBS News poll to date.

Some keen observers seized upon particulars in the cross tabs indicating that Trump's post-election explosion in popularity among young Americans has not dissipated.

When asked whether they approved of the way Trump was handling his job as president, 50% of respondents 65 and older, 56% of Americans ages 45 to 64, 52% of Americans ages 30 to 44, and 55% of Americans under 30 answered in the affirmative.

An Economist/YouGov poll conducted from Nov. 17-19 found that 57% of respondents ages 18 to 29 said they had a favorable view of Trump — a result that Newsweek indicated marked a week-over-week net favorability increase of 19 points for Trump among members of that age cohort. An Emerson College poll released in late November similarly found that 55% of voters under 30 expressed a favorable opinion of Trump.

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