If that truly is your only way, you're just going to watch what you fear would happen happen anyway.
I think we've just been shown that it doesn't matter what he says. The "will of the people" line won't do any more damage than "floating island of garbage", or all the other batshit racism. Why would it? He has never been careful about what he says, and the worse it is, the more it gets rewarded.
Still suck for the millions who voted Harris (the Trump voter/no show/3rd party can get bent). Also suck for the rest of the world who didn't get a vote but will suffer the consequence, we can console ourselves that American will have it worse.
The Democratic Party is vacuous and evil. The Republican Party is false and evil. At least one must perish for genuine improvement to occur.
All this talk of Dems failing this and having no epectations for Republicans that lets give some energy to the third parties.
Which will happen by voting third party and doing nothing else how? The only way to dismantle the current two party system requires much more drastic measures, unless you're actually undertaking those on the sly. But if not, voting third party will do far less good than voting Democrat. I guess you'll feel good about yourself, but you're really not doing anything else.
You think wages are going to go up under "let's joke with Musk about firing unions who strike" Trump? Violent crime has been going down for years; wages and housing costs have a lot to do with fallout from COVID (and I won't pretend that there's a whole lot Trump could've done about some of them). As for the public unrest, a whole lot of that seems to be coming from the right.
Well don't you worry none. If Trump behaves the way I think he will, you'll never have to worry about how Americans vote ever again- because we won't be able to.
I don't mean speaking it, I mean governing on that attitude. I'm saying his support isn't actually any better than it was 4 years ago when he lost because of his inept rule.
If only you realized this when it was repeated to you constantly.
Yeah, centrists don't do well here it seems.
Voting third party and doing nothing else is more helpful than voting for a Republican or a Democrat, because any vote for a Republican or a Democrat counterproductively strengthens the illusion of their popular support.
Maybe by 2028 The Democrats and their pundits will realize they're trying to become President of The United States of America, not President of The United States of Israel.
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Imagine knowing so little about politics that you had no idea Joe Biden had dropped out of the race over 3 months ago. Wild.
Thats more or less the message of this election, republican will vote literally anything if it has an R next to it, Biden could have replaced Trump and they still would have all voted for him with that magic R. But large swaths of Democrat voter are fickle and will show up only if they feel like it.
I knew beforehand it could happen. I hoped it wouldn't, but knew it could. And I know it's likely to happen at midterms too; voters won't start punishing Republicans for governing like kings. They can do and say what they want. There's no limit.
That's the problem when you don't expect your constituency to be cultists and have critical thinking skills.
But all your energy was spent telling people like me otherwise. To only admit it at a loss is a bit galling.
No, i was talking about how I thought people should use their energy and votes, not making predictions about how they would or could.
I want people to demand better from their politicians, and as I recall you're British anyway, not that having empathy for others is bad or anything, but turning it into something about yourself is kinda weird, ngl.
It's not about me. When policies are targeted directly at people like you, there's going to be a feeling of vulnerability and hostility, particularly if you may have previously considered moving country (as I have) or when it shares so much of its culture with your own.
But you started it off framing it in personal terms, "me", "I", how bad *you* felt. And that you've suddenly seen the light on how things work, it just comes off as disingenuous.
