Except here one party has some good ideas and tries to govern but is terrible at politics while the other party no longer cares about truth and lies, has no platform aside from tax cuts to big donors and waging a culture war, and is actively working to destroy democracy so it doesn’t have to win elections to maintain political power.
For those who aren’t intellectually cut off and incurious, here is some interesting reading about the current dangers of this right wing authoritarianism:
www.theatlantic.com
newsletters.theatlantic.com
You want to vote out incredibly low unemployment levels and the ending of the covid19 pandemic?
Oh weird. Another post that you respond to and @Bucknutz likes immediately. I’m sure you two aren’t the same poster.While nothing in that clip is Republicans cheering inflation on, I will give you credit for appearing to recognize inflation is a thing and it is a problem. It is a long way from 6 weeks ago when you spent a month telling everyone that inflation wasn’t real except for milk and would evaporate entirely by March when people stopped buying as much milk.
If you can come that far in only 6 weeks, who knows what is possible? Maybe 6 weeks from now you’ll be driving the wagon to vote out the cause of all this inflation and replace them with some responsible neoliberal fiscal conservatives to get us back on track.
The "incredibly low unemployment levels" are a deceptive statistic meant to hide the damage the Democrats have done to the economy as can been seen in the more holistic labor force participation rate. Sixteen-million jobs that existed before the pandemic are gone. At least it proves false all those who said Biden is a houseplant because a houseplant would have done a better job.
Even as a prominent third party supporter, the R vs D thing doesn’t worry me nearly as much as the liberal versus progressive thing does. There was an interview between Bill Maher and the great Ira Glasser who headed the ACLU from 1978 through 2001. It was two old school big ‘L’ Liberals talking civil liberties. That is what the American political left used to be. It is that battle between liberals and progressives that liberals are clearly losing I find concerns me so much more.
The structure of the House, Senate, and EC also prevents 3rd parties from being competitive. In a winner take all system that we have, it discourages a plurality of votes. Unlike the parliamentary system that does encourage multiple political parties but also comes with its own cons. If we want to encourage more parties, then it needs to begin at the structural level:
Will it really matter?
We'll see but I'm thinking there is a possibility that neither Donald Trump or Biden win their party's nomination. Biden is just too old and his mental faculties are clearly degrading. I fear the next three years are not going to be kind to him.
abc11.com
Trump tried multiple times through multiple means to overthrow the 2020 election. That alone should be disqualifying for voters. You cannot entrust our democracy to someone who despises democracy and embraces authoritarianism.We'll see but I'm thinking there is a possibility that neither Donald Trump or Biden win their party's nomination. Biden is just too old and his mental faculties are clearly degrading. I fear the next three years are not going to be kind to him.
As for Trump, I'm not sure he's going to escape a 14th Amendment disqualification. It will be interesting to see what happens with Madison Cawthorn in North Carolina as if successful that same strategy will certainly be used against Trump.
Board of Elections says lawsuit against Rep. Madison Cawthorn should proceed
The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Tuesday said the challenges from voters to Congressman Madison Cawthorn's candidacy for re-election should proceed despite his own counter-lawsuit.
I was joking. Biden's been in office barely a year. This is still Trump's economy, to the degree that Presidents affect the economy at all.
www.bls.gov
