For fucks sake, I’m so tired of this shit
Every election is the most important election of our lifetimes, since the right keeps becoming more fascist. No shit, it’s exhausting.
In the most recent 538 poll, Robinson is up by 4 points, and this was taken before the debate, which means the gap may’ve widened.
If you’re in NC, or have family/friends there, please tell them to vote and not for this loon
Don’t worry. I voted for not Trump. I’m sure that’ll take care of everything. We’ll wait for a more convenient time and means to begin meaningful change. Trust us. We moderates have been at it for forty years.
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
(emphasis mine)
Damned glad to meet you, hypnotron. You good on supplies? My cup seem to overflow, at the moment.
That is a stupid take, but it does leave me curious. I can see where your chain of logic lies (let’s all vote for Bernie and solve all the problems tomorrow), but the disconnect from idilic fantasy and reality seems to have you hung up a bit. While the tongue-in-cheek Bernie comment would be kinda neat to bring about, you can not realistically shift an entire voting base overnight. You, and others on here are more in tuned to the political goings on than a horrific percent of the actual voting population. I talk politics more than anyone is comfortable with (it IS that important…sorry folks), and I very consistently come across people that don’t know what left and right is, don’t know what conservative and liberal is, don’t know which of the latter is described by the former, don’t know the difference between economic policy and social or political policy. So we come back to your take. Yeah, shit has to change, but we have a slim chance of getting systems in place to cause real change under one guy and authoritarian endgame under the other. THIS election’s loss carries unacceptable loss conditions. When we are voting between a Clinton and a Bush, then push your agenda because the loss conditions there is just having someone disagreeable in power maintaining THEIR version of the status quo…not ideal, but much safer. Convincing fence-sitters that lean blue (the kind that would care about the genocide happening) to not vote or to vote 3rd party gives the guy that will make everything worse a better chance. Ultimately if you don’t vote for one of the two people our current system allows, you are casting a vote for whoever happens to win, mathematically.
Your idea is a Prisoner’s Dilemma, and in the real world, we absolutely can not trust that the other 80million prisoners will all play their part. Sorry.
That is a stupid take
Take it up with MLK.
I can see where your chain of logic lies
Incredible feat considering you didn’t ask me shit.
I assumed the rest continued in ignorance and bad faith.
As a leftist I’m about done listening to constant bloody threats from MAGA people.
If MAGA are going to say “If leftist don’t get in the way there will be no blood” then I’m here to say that there will be blood.
I’d love to confront an otherwise normal, conventionally Republican voter who is planning to vote for this shit. I’m sure some of my coworkers or neighbors or acquaintances fall into this category. However, I see no outward projection about their support of this garbage. I assume that they must be ashamed to advertise what garbage views they have or at the very least have no confidence that they could defend such positions when confronted. Again, I’m just assuming their presence in my immediate social vicinity given all the polling. I of course can see the nut job on the corner with adrenachrome signs, but that asshole isn’t representative of most Republicans. Fucking cowards, the lot of them. Ignorant, self-hating cowards.
“I just agree with their fiscal policies and think abortion is murder, I don’t like the other stuff, but most of it’s just harmless (to me.)”
- Oh, there’s no way he said it
- Ok, I guess he did but it’s taken out of context
- Looks like it’s not taken out of context but it was one time when they got excited
- Ok, there’s a history of this kind of rhetoric
- Well, no one really believes that stuff
- Ok, this really is a popular opinion
- I just want lower taxes
Projection is a hell of a drug.
Ugh, saw the headline and knew it was my state. Our current Dem Gov is term limited. This Robinson asshat is so very embarrassing and scary like a drunk bear with brain damage.
NC is so gerrymandered we are painted red, but I think Gov is based on popular vote so there is still some hope for Stein for next Gov and Jackson for next AG.
Also, Cotham can suck it for getting voted in as a Democrat then switching parties within months in a very very blue district. She ran on protecting abortion rights then voted to ban it after joining the Republican party.
We are potentially very very up a nasty creek without paddles here, even in the blue places.
Also, Cotham can suck it for getting voted in as a Democrat then switching parties within months in a very very blue district. She ran on protecting abortion rights then voted to ban it after joining the Republican party.
Scumbag move. This kind of behavior needs consequences.
Unfortunately, multiple lawyers said there are no legal consequences, so next election is all there is.
Her mother, Pat, has been easily re-elected (Dem) for years. Pat supported the decision made by her daughter. Pat normally wins easily. She came in 4th in the primary.
