I personally have both in my family. Much like your father who has delusions of MAGA dancing in his head, I have a few family members in Alabama and Northwest Florida that have been pumping out Facebook bs since 2021. The hurricanes that rocked us here in FL back 2 back were man made to swing FL blue because according to them, the red vote in Florida, a battleground state, would be wiped out by the man made storms
All politicians do this however with Trump frequently spewing racist and fascist bullshit, it has been the auto reply for the GOP over the past decade who need MAGA voters to ensure they can win elections.
and not to pick on you cuz I appreciate what you do here, but again, like i mentioned above:
Extremism on both sides of the political divide is nothing new. The internet and social media has just both shined a light on it and magnified it ways we haven’t had to deal with before. The biggest difference and the reason that I don’t necessarily agree with the “both extremes are equally as bad” is because of where each parties figureheads fall on the extremist spectrum. Trump embraces the the most extreme views whereas Harris (Biden, Obama) all likely hold more liberal views but govern more to the middle, often to the ire of the more hardline left. There IS a centrist party. It’s the Democratic Party. The only portion of the country not being represented in our government currently is those on the far left.
Recently, it’s been the GOP’s stance to say what Trump has said was taken out of context and this is what he meant. The awesome thing is that then Trump gets asked and goes, no, no, That’s what I meant.
But that’s Trumps whole thing. He doesn’t have any sane policies. He had to disavow his platform. He has to distract because on policy he’s toast.
I think she does. She's comfortably ahead in PA, MI, and WI. And if she wins those three, she's at exactly 270 and it's over. I think she also takes NV too. Juries out on GA, AZ or NC, but if energy and numbers are underestimated as they seem to be, she could clean up.
I’d like to believe that. Hopefully we’ll know sometime in the next 7 to 14 days.
I agree with this except I think she'll take Georgia. If it went for Biden last time, it should go for Kamala this time due to sheer demographics. Of course, the fuckery the GOP has done in that state could stand in the way. I think Trump takes Arizona and maybe Nevada. I think the influx of people from red states to both could flip those back. Nevada I could see being a reaction to inflation and fear that tourism will drop more if prices don't come down more. I'll believe NC going to her when I see it. I just feel there's too much old South there to vote for a black Democrat female.
I'd say because it was a rally, not a roast, which to me is a major difference. That being said, I agree with your main point.
As someone who's far left, no one who is would have worked for Obama. There are extremist Democrats, but they're not leftists. They're more like an extremist center. Not trying to do a purity thing here, it's just the fact of the matter that Obama wasn't a leftist any more than Hilary was. Bernie is the most leftist and he'd be considered center left in most of the world.
He was kicking off a 5 hour rally where much hateful rhetoric was spread. Shining a light on that is important. He wasn’t working a second set at the Laugh Factory.
Obama's, and the democratic party at large's co-opting the idea of "change" and then decidedly not doing that can be largely attributed to why we got Trump. Neoliberal bullshit leads to disillusionment leads to fascism.