all of this. every last bit. republicans win because they know how to tickle their base's amygdalas. that, and gerrymandering & voter suppression.
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They know how to tickle the amygdala of their Christian base because it is primed to be tickled with brutality, torture, violence, and murder every Sunday morn Their religion is borne from it. They celebrate it when they eat the human flesh and drink human blood of the murdered one they feast upon
aug 25, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
No, Republicans win because way too many people either are bigots, are ok with being led by bigots, or can't be bothered to vote to against bigots. Remember that this President was only elected by 1/5 of the population.
aug 25, 2025, 1:45 pm • 14 0 • view
Unfortunately, 1/5 is far too few. Of the total adult pop., 28% voted for Trump. Of the 155,201,157 people who bothered to actually vote, 48% voted for Trump. 192,098,843 did not vote. A low estimate of the percentage of these folks who would support MAGA would be 40%. so, more like >1/3.
aug 25, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not talking about projections or estimates, I'm talking about the proportion of the total population who actively voted for him. ~1/5 is that number.
aug 26, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, as I showed. 28%. The math is incontrovertible: far closer to 1/3 of adults, than 1/5. (We cannot, obviously, include those under 19.)
aug 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Racism is a factor, certainly, but voter apathy is worse. Half the country has no faith in either party or the process, & the dems have lazily coasted on being the lesser evil, while accomplishing almost nothing of lasting substance. Both parties are just trash.
aug 25, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I said bigotry, not just racism. In an ethical society, open bigotry would be an immediate disqualifier for service. It's not accurate that both parties are equally trash or that Dems don't do anything. Some folks are trying to serve the US, not just their party.
aug 26, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
There are people trying to do good within the system, sure, but the DNC & the party literally back AIPAC pawns in primaries against progressives, or outright fund Republican candidates if things don't go their way. They only believe in Democracy if it's pointing centre/right.
aug 28, 2025, 6:47 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I saw what you said, but the semantics don't alter the paradigm. If the Dems weren't trash, people would have had universal healthcare & a $15 minimum wage 15 years ago. Most of them are bought off by corpos or protecting their portfolio. They're a corrupt, mediocre lesser evil.
aug 28, 2025, 6:36 am • 0 0 • view
So get rid of the bad ones. Take over the party. There's a lot of momentum for this.
aug 28, 2025, 6:46 am • 1 0 • view
Of course, all of this is assuming voting even matters & we don't have to wait for an allied invasion to unseat orange Hitler, or his successor figurehead.
aug 28, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
Sure, either way. Do you see some other group that's decisively seizing the moment?
aug 28, 2025, 9:03 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. Leftists. Look at Mamdani's success in NYC.
aug 28, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Remind me again what party he's running as
aug 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure how you think we're making the same point. Mamdani is an outlier & the Dems want nothing to do with him, because they're a party of corpo stooges & AIPAC servants. Mamdani's LEFTISM is the crucial element, not the pretense to being a Democrat.
aug 28, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Remind me again which party funded a rapist in order to defeat him. 🤷♂️
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
You're making my point for me, thank you. I guess we agree. Support leftist Democrats.
aug 28, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
People try to do that & the DNC opens a money firehose on behalf of AIPAC stooges to squash anyone Left of center, & it's usually successful. We don't have that kind of time to save the planet, let alone the country. Our elections are themselves a multi-billion dollar grift.
aug 28, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
If the Dem power structure won't budge, then the U.S. will continue to decline. We don't have hundreds of years to sort this out anymore. Rome is on fire. The plebes are going to start eating the Patricians soon.
aug 28, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
Don't really understand the mentality that says you can more easily subvert the entire nation than just one party; or more easily beat two entrenched parties than just one.
aug 28, 2025, 6:47 am • 2 0 • view
Oh, nothing about any of this will be easy. But we've reached the point where no matter who wins, we lose. It's just a matter of how much. Money has corrupted the entire process, so maybe decline & collapse are inevitable.
aug 28, 2025, 7:07 am • 0 0 • view
It's not that I'm pro-Democrat I'm just pro-what-works and the last time a third party won, it was Lincoln.
aug 28, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
The two party binary works very hard to keep it that way, but they've overplayed their hand. Most Americans can't afford a $500 emergency. Multiple generations have grown up under mediocre neoliberalism & conservatism & are over both. 40-50% of the eligible population doesn't even vote.
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
The disparity between the buying power people have now & what their parents or grandparents had at their age has simply become too wide for the usual distractions or propaganda to be effective. People have started to catch on that they're being exploited while the oligarchy gets fat.
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
People also know both parties are complicit in that, though obviously Republicans are more shameless. & A lot of folks still get swept up in the vibes when Dems do empty performative bullshit, but younger folks more uniformly have had enough of both & are ready to flip the table.
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
The two party system is a byproduct of the first past the post voting system. Until you change that, the political landscape will always collapse into a binary system. In my lifetime there has been one serious national candidate who campaigned on changing it. Tim Walz.
aug 28, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
This doesn't make any sense when the other party is also bigoted.
aug 25, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re bigots because they’re Christian, less because white The deist founders recognized and knew and warned us…Christians were, are, and always have been a threat to freedom and democracy. Trump is the offspring, the baby, of the marriage between the GOP and Christianity, ordained by Reagan
aug 25, 2025, 4:03 pm • 7 0 • view