Missing The PointโWe have to understand the concerns of Harris voters.โ
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fultonbot@MissingThePt
Yeah it's like we don't exist. That's how they feel anyway. They don't want us to exist.
Mollarom@MissingThePt they won the White House, the Senate, and the popular vote. This is not a time for compromise for them. This is a mandate to get away with their wish list.
Luna R@Mollarom @MissingThePt Not to mention that it's been clear since Wednesday that they're going to get the House as well (a few of the remaining districts are all but certain, and of the ones that aren't, they still have way more opportunities than needed seats).
And on top of that, of course, they hold the Supreme Court, and the majority of governorships... Honestly, the list just goes on and on. It's hard to find an area of government they will *not* control in a couple months.
teledyn ๐Perhaps also the concerns of that majority who saw no point in voting?
Sorry, shouldn't have asked that. We're not supposed to ask that. Go team go!
Michael Magras@teledyn @MissingThePt One wonders how some voters saw no difference between an imperfect yet palatable loaf of bread and a flaming mound of ordure, but perhaps that's a conversation for another day.
I think it's a conversation that should have started 8 years ago. Does no one find it odd that this isn't some fringe party? it represents so close to half and half disenfranchisement, on both sides, the last few elections have been uncallable. What's even more obvious is the geography of the split.
Another possible clue: this is happening all over the worldโฆ
@teledyn @MissingThePt I respect and completely understand that a lot of voters in the US are frustrated and disenchanted with the two major parties. They feel helpless and unseen. We feel that way at times, too. But a refusal to vote solves nothing. Someone that disenchanted might want to put in the day-in-day-out hard work of trying to effect the change they seek. We need to convince them that their vote matters. And that *they* matter, and their lives have value.
And what was done in the past 8 years to address your last two sentences? Especially the last one. I'm not complaining, I'm curious to know, like, why the geographic division is so stark.
Global neo-whateverism failed, that's what happened. It failed to deliver, failed to "absorb the variety" Stafford Beer would say, and so Chaos steps inโฆ
@teledyn @MissingThePt My answer would require more than 500 characters, but I'll just say here that history's carnival barkers have always found a susceptible audience. That's why their mendacity is so enduring. We can debate the pros and cons of globalization, but anyone who thinks an obviously self-interested agent of chaos is going to be their salvation has bigger problems than whatever two candidates might be on offer. I hesitate to offer a blanket explanation regarding geography.
Niels Nielsen, geographer@MissingThePt Of course not, they are now a shrinking minority.
Larix@MissingThePt
I keep seeing articles like 'the Dems made me do it! We don't like being called idiots/racists/mysogynists/(insert word that they mysteriously never connect to politician of choice)!!!'
I mean if the reason you voted your rights away to an idiot is because you don't like being called an idiot, that really doesn't prove anything, does it?