Well yea, I usually avoid this bored like the plague.
Feels like a day I should be active on it.
well, that's the thing!
Absolutely.BiggDick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:33 amwell, that's the thing!
Maybe if America DID have more choices than "little to no", there wouldn't be an "in a sense" to it.
Free up the choices - both with actual Dem primaries, and also with actual 3rd party (actual working-class please?!) sorts of political parties, rather than being force fed the same two parties who at the end of the day are both controlled by the same moneyed interests, and I think we'd all feel a little better here.
likewise.
It wouldn't be accurate to say I hope the country tanks hard.
...are we already there??jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:03 amIt wouldn't be accurate to say I hope the country tanks hard.
But from where I sit, I think we're in the "depression or mere recession" phase of things - and that failing to arrest this slide toward 90s-Russia-style kleptocracy (if we're not already there) is going to have permanent effect.
It does to me.
It's semantics, right? Because in a (grim) manner of speaking, America worked.
Here is part of the problem. That wasn't on her website until long after she announced her candidacy. I wouldn't have expected it to be on her website right away but she and her campaign waited way too long.pdub wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 7:39 am https://kamalaharris.com/issues/
"Healthcare! This one's huge."
5th one down.
"climate change."
10th one down.
"reproductive rights"
11th one down.
"also things like immigration, weed, voter rights, Citizens United, any number of anything for which an actual vision was an opportunity to have popular appeal more so than some status quo."
Read up.
Yes. With all you said up until.... We will be fine.DeletedUser wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 7:51 amHarris was one of the least popular choices in the Dem primary in 2020.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:42 amWould more time have helped break through the nonreality bubble? Maybe. I could also see an argument that a blitz campaign like Harris’s would have been the better strategy anyway.
I think ultimately this was about the specific timing of our exit from high inflation, combined with the capture of our information ecosystem (and the durability of some human-nature ugliness in our instincts).
They ignored that. And it mattered.
Again, it had to be Harris at the point it became Harris. But, it should have never gotten that far. We spent several years pretending Biden was going to be good to go for a 2nd term. When in reality, he wasn't.
I think we'll be fine. We survived Trump's first term. We will survive his second term too.
If you worked, or succeeded, at doing something shitty it's still shitty.