Dang, didn't know I was talking with a Canadian.Funnily enough my immediate reaction to reading this was a little "oh, sorry". Just who I am (as a tangent towards this ghost town of internet of yore, I caught the 'Sorry Cop-o-type' in Disco Elysium right away when I played through that a couple of months ago, great game).
Oh no, they put Rumble podcasts on their TV. Though being where they are, their internet is pretty bad and they can only do so much online. Thankfully.And my sympathies in regards to your family. I won't be so crass as to say you're 'lucky' that they're still at least at the cable news stage (as bad as Newsmax is, which is max), so I'll just say that try keep them from the internet side of things. You'll be shocked how quickly "liberal globalist agenda" turns to "The Jews".
I mean to say those people who yell at third party voters constantly to tell them they're actually voting republican or that their vote won't matter, etc, convinced people who might have otherwise voted Green to vote Republican instead because mathematically it spites the Democrats more to do it. I'd say it's a bad strategy to purely spite instead of voting for something constructive, but centrists are really shrill and obnoxious, and make for very easy targets to spite. But like I said, it's copium more than anything, I doubt millions of potential Greens decided to vote Republican out of spite, though it does seem that way at least in Dearborn.But man,
This makes no sense. You mean the voters that you keep (rightfully) reaming the Democrats for trying to go after? Or hell, what is with this "this year"? While yes, she has done abjectly terrible this year (so terrible in fact that she is in real danger of losing to Robert fucking Kennedy), you say this like she or her party have actually done well, and Jesus dude, they have never done well. Screw the 5% threshold, it'd be a record setting day if they hit 2. They have no seats in the Senate, or the House, and hold less than 200 elected positions across the entire country. The uncomfortable truth you don't seem to be getting, is that they aren't a party, they are the idea of a party.
Technically true, if challenged in court and so on, but passing those initiatives now helps now. Abortion is a great example, congress never codified it, so it was always on shaky ground, and it was never codified when Democrats controlled the house, senate, and presidency. But you passed it in your state, and without having to go through the abstraction of a party. It can be struck down, it could be struck down at any time anyway even if it were passed at the federal level, even if it were made an amendment to the US constitution. All you can do is make it a law and ride it as long as you can. In short, voting for president never got you a law to protect abortion, working locally and making a direct democracy attempt did.Because unfortunately,
This isn't true. The president picks who sits on the Supreme Court, who have the power to strike down such initiatives (like they rightfully did with the aforementioned SB1070), and that's before the fact that the president now has executive power to do whatever the hell they want now (due to said Supreme Court).
She did. She frequently talks, and works between elections every year. The meme that she appears every four years is carefully crafted by excluding her from any and all conversations unless there's something that when taken out of context (or occasionally in context, she's far from perfect) makes her look bad. Nobody hears from her because she's never "newsworthy" until it's relevant. And for the money, that kinda is the point of the 5% mark, getting more money to be able to pay to put her message out instead of being at the whims of a hostile media landscape. Maybe pull out of the spiral of "she can't win because she has no support, she has no support because she can't win".For as much shit as the Dems get for running a neutered, mealy mouthed campaign, where the hell was Stein? The left is so fucking starved of meat that even calling what was going on 'weird' was enough to set people off, all Stein had to do was basically walk out, go "look at these idiots" and dabbed, and steam roll the election. Unless you think that the key to success is to be a huge, million dollar political apparatus like the other two parties.
The rest of your post is more aimed at Tippy than me, but there's something I do want to spring off of.Snip
Dems moving left: Moving right failed now, and in 2016, and it hurt them in 2012, along with various midterms. Moving left (or at least pretending to) won them 2008 and 2020, and other midterms. When you poll people, they want leftism. When you let them vote themselves, they vote leftism. Leftism wins demographics they're supposedly chasing by going right. And for sure it staunches the flow of central demographics to the party. It is like the most obvious conclusion that can be drawn from decades of elections, but the party is wedded to third way-ism, which won 1992 where Bill Clinton got... 40% of the vote. It's an addiction the party needs to kick.