He had the entire media juggernaut behind him as well -- talk radio, Fox News, millions of social media followers, and help from foreign hackers. — Xtrix
The present situation in the Republican Party is...silly. Yet as said, the party has been hijacked. And of course it is true that there's still time until 2024 and much will happen.I think it's a silly mistake for Republicans to rally behind this guy still. But they're pretty much out of ideas, and they're afraid of those voters who still love the guy. They're really caught in a bad spot in this respect. All the better for the country, in my view. — Xtrix
And there's the reason just why it will stay like it is. At least if it comes to the GOP.US elections wouldn't be polarized dumpster fires if we didn't have such an incoherent and broken election system.
If we went via the popular vote, the GOP would have won one election in a third of a century. — Count Timothy von Icarus
US elections wouldn't be polarized dumpster fires if we didn't have such an incoherent and broken election system. — Count Timothy von Icarus
But maybe it's time - long past time imo - for voters to earn the right to vote by passing a basic test. — tim wood
Pass good for life. — tim wood
a voter qualification test — tim wood
According to our friend the internet, a 30 - 50% pass rate. A test that fails 99% is not a useful test - the 1% figure thus a red flag.The test isn't super hard, yet it has a 1% pass rate. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Cf. Emerson on consistency. Or for Harry's sake:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. ” — tim wood
If, for instance, Congress didn't agree to increase the debt limit - looks as though they will, but if - this would instantly destablise the entire world economy and create another global recession, probably a lot bigger than the 2008 GFC. The world is a global village, America is one of its leaders, what American governments do and don't do have global impacts on the whole world. — Wayfarer
Trump clearly tried to engineer a coup - — Wayfarer
The US probably will become a dictatorship eventually. — frank
The Japanese are a lot less rambunctious than the Yanks. They'd never do anything like that, it would be impolite. — Wayfarer
besides, the problems caused by an American default would dwarf anything the Japanese could do, — Wayfarer
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