And this:

Open Secrets

Gotta agree here. In terms of endorsing human rights, Dems have a far superior record to the GOP. However, it’s their motivation that I question. Since most Dems are beholden to their corporate donors, their motivation is “freedom of consumption,” that is, giving access of consumption to marginalized groups to maximize profits. I wonder how much of it is a genuine concern for human rights.

It also explains how Dems don’t go far enough or fight hard enough when it comes to marginalized groups.

I’ll take a win regardless of the motivation, but it’s interesting to investigate the underlying motivations.

47% of Dems in that state are conservative neoliberal Zionists. The boomers will eventually die off.

And if you don’t vote in primaries, you need to start. It’s the only chance any of us have a say-so on who ends up on the Dem ticket.

Tell me the constitutional weaknesses and loopholes weren’t exploited to allow the oligarchs to hand power to a fascist traitor who doesn’t respect the law.

What good is a constitution if it can’t even prevent the situation we’re in now?

You can’t “line item” each thing. The entire document requires a convoluted and complicated process that prevents things from being rewritten easily.

That’s why the entire thing needs to be scrapped. Other countries have already done this multiple times and they’re fine.

The USA constitution is not sacred nor worth preserving. It’s archaic and needs to go. Traditionalism holds back human progress and nationalism led to fascism in this country.

Remember why the Republicans lost the Spanish Civil War. They couldn’t get over their internal squabbling and purity tests.

Well, basically the entire thing. The changes needed to truly democratize and modernize the document would require a complete rewrite.

There’s many things that need changing, but some of the basics would be to abolish the senate to eliminate disproportionate representation that led to the coup we just experienced, for one. The establishment of a true parliamentary system where representatives can be recalled at any time, second. Then, minimizing and subjugating the power of the executive and courts to parliament.

I would prefer the parliament nominate a prime minister who serves at the will of the people and can be dismissed at any time, and not have complete control over the military and bureaucracy.

Prevention and punishment for political corruption needs to be baked into the constitution to ensure politicians truly serve as servants to the public will and are forbidden from pursuing their own financial interests in office.

I could go on and on about more specific things like the right to arms, but I’d I have to write an essay.

The framers themselves intended for the document to be rewritten over time. Jefferson said the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of tyrants, or something that effect.

First-generation Hispanic voters tend to be single-issue voters, so they’re easily wooed by messages like, “We hate commies!,” “Eww gays!,” “Machismo is a good thing!” and “No Abortions!” and will happily vote against their own interests on everything else.

It also doesn’t help they tend to value education less than subsequent generations.

It never was. It’s a constitutional republic created to benefit slave-owning, white, male property owners.

The constitution should’ve been burned and rewritten multiple times already. An archaic, 250-year-old document isn’t relevant in modern times.

Greenville is a nice little pocket in the midst of a neglected, dystopian rural wasteland.

They’ve been propagandized by the fascist grifters to believe education is not of the Lord, and their legacy racism/hate has been encouraged to stoke a cultural war. Why turn on your oppressors when you can receive “protection” from gays, commies and brown people?

Hatred is just a result of class oppression anyway. When you’re economically and culturally oppressed, you’ll believe the grifters who distract you with convenient scapegoats.

Good riddance!

Not when they start to starve, then they’ll just overrun the castle walls regardless of who’s in power.

WV was solidly blue until the MAGA cancer capitalized on neoliberal dem failures. Hopefully they see MAGA has been a bigger failure and come to their senses.

Edit". I will say that more investments should have been made in education, but I will always say that we don’t invest enough in education.

I can’t disagree with that.

And I also have to concede that a lot of rural voters have gotten entrenched into their ultra religious echo chambers, and anything that has to do with public education gets rejected as “woke agenda” to them. So they vote against their own interests.

The problem was created by lack of resources and now that the effects have firmly taken root, it’s hard to reverse course.

Isn’t it funny that every older generation accuses every younger generation of being weak and spoiled? This time, they wanted to scapegoat a national treasure, who did more for kids than any of their bullshit trickle-down, bootstrap, hate-filled policies.

To these cretins, they’re constantly living in fear and anger about society being on the verge of collapse, unless people buy into their hyper-masculine, violent, parternalistic and ultracapitalist worldview.

A third of the country has been denied adequate education and services because the inequitable distribution of resources towards affluent urban versus poor rural areas.

Democrats have failed to significantly improve the material conditions in some of the poorest areas of the country, so a lot of rural voters feel betrayed and would rather go with the guy who is a outright greedy jerk, than the politician who talks out of the side of their mouth, while still obeying their corporate masters.

Gotta pump and dump those shares. Waiting for the next announcement for a new offensive push. “We will strike them so hard, they’ll never be able to recover.”

Protists in the vegetables, worms in the water. They’re really trying hard to kill us all.