Well yes the only thing Christians despise more than themselves are people who do not despise themselves. — Streetlight
No, I've never met a Christian who would actually despise himself or herself. — baker
The United States' political apparatus is structured against majority ruling, and the political establishment is broadly unwilling to produce legislation that runs counter to Capitalist interests. — Maw
Coming from a vacuously bookish, bile-spitting, wannabe revolutionary WITH NO FUCKING SKIN IN THE AMERICAN GAME like you, Comrade Street, the ad homs & denunciations are a badge of honor! G'day, mate. :lol: :up:People like 180 Proof will pretend, like the good milquetoast liberal he is, to use the language of comradeship, while shitting down the throats of 'people' while defending power everywhere even as it enables and supports fascism right in front of their eyes. — Streetlight
Agreed. We the Sheeple is only the symptom and not the problem. However, Dem voters aren't pushing-back as hard as GOP voters in the last four+ decades because Dem voters are "unethusiastic" despite not having that luxury.Blaming an unenthusiastic electorate or democratic voters, for the ongoing societal breakdown is fallacious and counterproductive, beyond the consideration that Evangelical Christians are achieving their political goals despite never having achieved a political[/u[ majority. — Maw
True, though there have been 46 US Presidents and only 5 have lost the popular vote – the last two in 2016 and 2000. Before that was 1876. With 89% of US Presidents elected with the majority of votes I think your statement in this instance is hyperbolic, Maw. However, I agree with your broader point. So what has changed? Organization and mobilization of a fifth to a quarter of the electorate in the last half century in a concerted – plutocrat-funded – backlash against The New Deal, The Great Society and Civil Rights for minorities, women, gays. E.g. "the conservative legal movement". :brow:In my lifetime only one Republican presidential nominee secured more votes than his Democratic opponent. The United States' political apparatus is structured against majority ruling ...
Nothing new in this ... Read, for instance, Charles Beard, WEB DuBois, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin & Howard Zinn.... and the political establishment is broadly unwilling to produce legislation that runs counter to Capitalist interests.
Agreed. Don't you think, however, the fact that the under-30 vote is consistently less than half the over-50 vote is a significant factor in the Dems being "a milquetoast gerontocracy"? No one willingly "relinquishes political power", they must be out-organized and out-mobilized to have it taken from them, and under-30 "youth vote" is consistently the least organized and most demobilized. Tell me how to reliably elect political parties with under-50 year old leaderships without significantly more and persistent under-30 participation. Also, is it just an accident that developed nations with historically higher voter participation in elections at all levels of government than the US have governing platforms & policies which tend to be much more responsive to their populations, produce more secular, better educated polities, and sustain higher standards of living than the US? :chin:The democratic party is run by a milquetoast gerontocracy, one that would make the Soviet Politburo blush, and who refuse to relinquish political power.
Btw, Dems will retain control of Congress this fall and the White House in 2024. — 180 Proof
True, though there have been 46 US Presidents and only 5 have lost the popular vote – the last two in 2016 and 2000. Before that was 1876. With 89% of US Presidents elected with the majority of votes Ivthink your statement in this instance is hyperbolic — 180 Proof
Agreed. We the Sheeple is only the symptom and not the problem. However, Dem voters aren't pushback as hard as GOP voters in the last four+ decades because Dem voters are "unenthusiastic" despite not having that luxury. — 180 Proof
Don't you think, however, the fact that the under-30 vote is consistently less than half the over-50 vote is a significant factor in the Dems being "a milquetoast gerontocracy"? No one willingly "relinquishes political power", they must be out-organized and out-mobilized to have it taken from them, and under-30 "youth vote" is consistently the least organized and most demobilized. Tell me how to reliably elect political parties with under-50 year old leaderships without significantly more and persistent under-30 participation. — 180 Proof
Someone suggested how pivotal the 2014 and 2016 election were which betrays a myopic view of the conservative's legal movement to achieve political objectives; […] Regardless of how 2014 and 2016 turned out (had Hillary won in 2016 who knows how she would have fared in 2020), the conservative legal movement would be waiting by the wings. — Maw
I've more or less been posting these factors separately across several threads and dozens of posts since Biden and the Dems started dropping the ball early last fall. I think these constraints on the GOP taking back the Congress are growing more stringent by the month. Sure, Dems are quite capable of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory ... :roll: :vomit:(A) Independents are breaking for Dems lead by "suburban soccer moms" and professional women and some young Republican women according various polls.
(B) I suspect turnout will be very high – comparable to the 2018 midterms, especially for Dems
(C) Dozens of indictable co-conspiratorial (pardon-seeking) GOP senators & congress persons who will be named by the J6 Committee by September. NB GOP silence is deafening about the J6 Cmte's findings so far (which is bound to get worse).
(D) I also suspect gas prices will come down during the summer and be felt by consumers / voters in the fall which makes them less eager punish encumbant Dems (though supply chain + Russian War-driven inflation will drag the G7 economies into recession by late summer)
(E) The wild card is, of course, any Federal indictments or NY State suits/indictments or Fulton County, GA indictments of Trump & co and how those developments may depress GOP turnout on the margins (at least)
A) Independents are breaking for Dems lead by "suburban soccer moms" and professional women and some young Republican women according various polls.
(B) I suspect turnout will be very high – comparable to the 2018 midterms, especially for Dems
(C) Dozens of indictable co-conspiratorial (pardon-seeking) GOP senators & congress persons who will be named by the J6 Committee by September. NB GOP silence is deafening about the J6 Cmte's findings so far (which is bound to get worse yet).
(D) I also suspect gas prices will come down during the summer and be felt by consumers / voters in the fall which makes them less eager punish encumbant Dems (though supply chain + Russian War-driven inflation will drag the G7 economies into recession by late summer)
10-year-old girl denied abortion in Ohio — Michael
Women can prevent pregnancies by using contraceptives of which there's a wide variety, but yet they get pregnant and then wanna tread the fine line between murder and freedom by seeking abortions. If it were possible to avoid giving people the impression that one is a murderer (by having an abortion), why would you ever put yourself in the situation where you would, for certain, be conflated as one? — Agent Smith
The quashed Roe vs. Wade ruling doesn't prohibit contraception. — Agent Smith
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