You caught me 🙄

It’s not a democracy it’s a representative democracy so basically we have a giant suggestion box that our elected leaders can look at and say “I’ll consider that in my vote in Congress”.

Not what I said. If you think the Democratic party is going to save you than go ahead and keep voting for Chuck Schumer’s fetal position strategy because it’s your vote and you shouldn’t be shamed in voting one way or another same as this guy doing whatever he wants with his vote. That’s it.

Don’t let people shame you into the lesser of two evils argument because it’s your vote at the end of the day. I heard all sides for the past 10 years now and honestly we got to Trump because of Hillary and not having a party that stood for anything.

For the equivalent of $402 a month plus having no input into what is the dream job can leave you feeling empty for sure.

I agree sounds awesome until you realize you are at a bullshit job and are not even making headway or money doing what you trained for.

That’s a poor reason to excuse joking about killing someone but it’s so common now your excused I guess.

Don’t know but I can’t recall a time where I was commenting online that I wanted someone to be assassinated. It’s just weird to joke about but it’s just so common now.

This is a fucking wild comment. I couldn’t have imagined this being the discourse we have as politically acceptable on either side. We are low-key driving off the cliff and going into civil war territory and I’m seeing it everywhere.

Dean Phillips is literally just a younger Joe Biden, he is running on “I’m not old”. Williamson is running on Bernie’s platform and is actually running on a platform of reform, regardless if you like her or not she is actually something different imo.

I was there. I started slow clapping and slowly, but surely, everyone joined me as your father walked out in shame. The waitress came up to me and asked “who was that brave man that gave me that tip?” And I told her “your soul mate”.

Oregon, PDX: I’ve noticed a lot of businesses and restaurants closing and a ton more overdoses and emergency vehicles downtown.

My job specifically relies on business to business interactions and NOBODY wants to be downtown. It’s to the point Ted Wheeler (mayor) is now pleading for people to go back to the office because the commercial realastate bubble is on the verge of hitting and business owners know it.

We are blindly waking around hoping things go back to the way they were and I see so many delusional takes and wonder where we are going to be next year as a city.

Not an expert on this at all but I feel like it’s less of “the human race is going to die out” vs the owner class needs cheap labor and bodies for war to continue infinite growth.

My running theory is in the United States, Republican’s obsession with abortion is tied to the fact they need poor and broken families to pump out kids for future cheap labor and the prison industrial complex to make a nation function moving forward. That and the gray sunami of a upside down pyramid with not enough young to take care of the older generations (I think Japan and China are experiencing this currently).

He is senile. That doesn’t mean I don’t like his administrations policies and that doesn’t take away that he has done more for a progressive agenda than what was expected.

He’s on the same path as Regan was with his age, the difference is social media wasn’t a thing so they could hide Regan easier.

That’s a deeper question and not what I was talking about but as a fake populist? Yeah, in the eyes of his base. He’s really good at messaging and straight up lying about being pro worker and for the people.

I feel the current administration has done tangible things policy wise to help people but the Democrats don’t know how to take a victory lap when they accomplish these achievements.

I think the general population, indicated by recent polls, think Biden is too old and not up to do a second term. They want anybody else to run against Trump.

the issue is you are thinking I’m cheerleading Trump and that’s not my intention. Im pointing out that there is voting block that is ready to sit out over the lack of enthusiasm for Biden and hatred for the political institutions that haven’t helped the average voter over the years.

It’s how Trump got elected in the first place.

I hope others feel the same as you but I’ve lost faith in the electorial college and the two parties a long time ago.

Oh for sure. Trump is high as balls on uppers and a cocktail of meds to have him bounce off the wall at rallys, I just wish Trump would let Biden take a hit off of whatever he’s using.

I think it’s about optics and looking at Biden on stage wandering around and falling down stairs/over his own words vs Trump who’s shitting on all of his opponents and captivating his base it’s resonating with a base that’s fed up.

I think Biden policy wise is a lot better than any president we have had in recent memory (chips act, leaving Afghanistan, covid relief, cares act, TRYING to get student debt relief) but the general population in today’s age needs to have a politician message to them what their party is actually doing for them and Biden and his admin of fail on that level so often.

I’m not playing down the seriousness of Trump’s actions. I’m just making the case that even with Trump on trial right now he’s leading in polls because Biden is so out of touch with what the base needs right now. It’s so bad that other prominent Democrats are calling out their own party and asking Biden to step down because they see it’s a liability.

My point is independents see both parties and candidates and the party in power are making it so Biden, who is unpopular, is the default to the point they are taking away Iowa’s first super Tuesday as a primary state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/politics/biden-dnc-primary-south-carolina-2024.html

The reason why is they don’t want any potential primary candidate to work up the ranks, which is undemocratic.

The problem here is you are voting because you are afraid of a Trump second term rather than voting for a candidate that is qualified for the position.

If you are more of an independent and look at a crazy person on one side and a senile sun downing person on the other the choice is more of a 50 50.

The Democrats are playing with fire and doing undemocratic plays to keep viable candidates out of the race and hide a compromised Biden instead of having an open primary and that might cost all of regardless of who actually wins.