• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    That 53% of voters includes ever trump voter in the country.

    So if it’s every trump supporter, it’s only 10% of people who aren’t voting R no matter.

    Republicans pander to the majority of their base. And Dems also pander to the Republican base.

    It’s one of the biggest and most obvious problems with our political system. When both parties keep moving right, it’s obviously going to result in the country overall moving to the right.

    It’s really not complicated, but some people love to misrepresent it.

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      15 days ago

      the Democratic chase for the centrist unicorn stuffs us all into a very cramped and increasingly hot basket.

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      16 days ago

      Which is why we need to be smart.

      We need to cancel the electoral votes of the South, until they sort their shit out, call it Reconstruction 2.0.

      We have to fix this cancer on our nation if we ever hope to function again, and the longer we push it off, the worse the metastasis gets.

    • That 53% of voters includes ever trump voter in the country

      Perhaps not every single last one, but good point overall.

      So if it’s every trump supporter,

      I would need more evidence to support the rest of this. But yeah we at least can get a better handle by filtering out those supporters - the remaining percentage is likely to be much smaller.

      Republicans pander to the majority of their base. And Dems also pander to the Republican base.

      Actually this is not true. AOC for example, endorses Harris (as per https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cj4xegj1jq2o ) but is definitely more liberal than Harris and not afraid to state it (see https://qz.com/aoc-mark-cuban-kamala-harris-ftc-lina-khan-billionaire-1851669012 )

      Harris is in a tough spot to win the election but wait another generation or decade and I have a feeling that things are going to look very different.