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If Democrats want to prioritize beating Trump in 2020, they're no longer acting like it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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lol
From day one they haven't acted like they wanted to beat Trump. I'm half convinced that everybody who's been on that stage is working for Trump.
2020 is going to be a blowout because of the constant pandering to the extreme left.
Is that CNN falling in line with my predictions about the media starting to back Trump "reluctantly" too?
Too predictable.
Trump is great for clickbait headlines and ad revenue.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You are pointing out something that explains why things seldom change for the better in the Federal government. For people like me, the system works perfectly well. I get whatever I want. I think the upper 50% of Americans are getting most of what they want (the higher up in the hierarchy you are, the more of your dreams you get) and they vote in such a way to keep things mostly the same. That majority, the upper 50%, don't want the Democrats to fix what is wrong for the lower 50% of the population, unless fixing what is wrong can be done without the upper 50% losing some of their advantages to the lower 50%. The Democratic Presidential candidates don't seem to be aware that the upper 50% really don't like the lower 50%. The upper 50% doesn't want to sacrifice its position to help the lower 50%. Since far more of the upper 50% go to the polls compared to the lower 50%, who is more likely to win the Presidency? Whoever the upper 50% likes best.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
From day one they haven't acted like they wanted to beat Trump. I'm half convinced that everybody who's been on that stage is working for Trump.
2020 is going to be a blowout because of the constant pandering to the extreme left.
Is that CNN falling in line with my predictions about the media starting to back Trump "reluctantly" too?
Too predictable.
Trump is great for clickbait headlines and ad revenue.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The ultimate Democratic candidate for President needs to reassure the Upper 50% that things will NOT change, other than fat, dumb, lying Trump will be gone:
"People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor"
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-po
verty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
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Mutz examined voters whose incomes declined, or didn’t increase much, or who lost their jobs, or who were concerned about expenses, or who thought they had been personally hurt by trade. None of those things motivated people to switch from voting for Obama in 2012 to supporting Trump in 2016. Indeed, manufacturing employment in the United States has actually increased somewhat since 2010. And as my colleague Adam Serwer has pointed out, “Clinton defeated Trump handily among Americans making less than $50,000 a year.”
Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.
This unfounded sense of persecution is far from rare, and it seems to be heightened during moments of societal change. As my colleague Emma Green has written, white evangelicals see more discrimination against Christians than Muslims in the United States, and 79 percent of white working-class voters who had anxieties about the “American way of life” chose Trump over Clinton. As I pointed out in the fall of 2016, several surveys showed many men supported Trump because they felt their status in society was threatened, and that Trump would restore it. Even the education gap in support for Trump disappears, according to one analysis, if you account for the fact that non-college-educated whites are simply more likely to affirm racist views than those with college degrees. (At the most extreme end, white supremacists also use victimhood to further their cause.)
These why-did-people-vote-for-Trump studies are clarifying, but also a little bit unsatisfying, from the point of view of a politician. They dispel the fiction—to use another 2016 meme—that the majority of Trump supporters are disenfranchised victims of capitalism’s cruelties. At the same time, deep-seated psychological resentment is harder for policy makers to address than an overly meager disability check. You can teach out-of-wNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I hate S.E. Cupp. She never failz to say sumthing stupid within a minit uv opening her mouth.
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Quote:Check the candidates' policy positions:
Originally posted by JO753:
I hate S.E. Cupp. She never failz to say sumthing stupid within a minit uv opening her mouth.
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http://www.7532020.com .
www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/
Congress can, but a President cannot change those policies. It is stupid to think that a Democratic President will be the leader of a Republican controlled Senate. So long as there are 41 Republican Senators, Congress will remain in a deadlock. The next Democratic President cannot lead a deadlocked Congress to anywhere. It is still deadlocked. It is a bad idea for the Democrats to take policy positions that will cause them to lose votes for President. The Democrats running for President can take a position that loses votes, but the future President needs to WAIT until AFTER Congress is not deadlocked, or else the Democrat won't get elected in the first place.
What the Democrats are doing now is giving Trump more ammo to fire at the eventual Democratic Presidential candidate.
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Try keeping peepl tuned into a debate for 2 owrz in wich everybody agreez with each other. Then see how many voterz dont seem to hav the time to woc the next debate.
The primariez are not just for defining the candidate's pozitionz, they are for jenerating interest. Maybe even enthuziazm.
The notion that "you dont want to create tokking points for the Republicanz to uze in the jeneral election" ignorez the fact that they will make up tokking points anyway. Its not like Trump chumps are going to fact check anything.
I'm seeing the same problem we had in 2016 - no karizma.
The few hoo hav a hint uv karizma, at least in my opinion, arent polling well enuf to get the air time needed to reach everybody.
A possibility that the majority are tired uv Trumps juvenile antics and just want stability coud win the election for Joe, Bernie or Liz. That they are in the lead iz good evidens for that.
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Quote:I have not watched any debates. The only thing I care about is who is energetic, smart and sane and who is old, dumb and mentally unbalanced. Sorry to say, but Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Trump are too old or too dumb or too crazy to be President. All three will have a deadlocked Congress, so there won't be a Green New Deal or Medicare for All or a 100% complete Texas/Mexico Wall or a Moon base or smaller Military budget or whatever crazy ideas are cooking in Trump's and Bernie's and Joe's addled old brains. Congress will be just as stuck in the mud 8 years from now as it is today, unless there are miraculously fewer than 41 Republican Senators. 33 or fewer would be a better number.
Originally posted by JO753:
Try keeping peepl tuned into a debate for 2 owrz in wich everybody agreez with each other. Then see how many voterz dont seem to hav the time to woc the next debate.
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From today's Houston Chronicle, after yesterday's flood:
For Houston, climate change is not some abstract, faraway issue. The city is on the front lines, whether it wants to be or not. Not only is it the energy capital of the world, home to oil and gas companies that produce the fossil fuels that contribute to a warming planet, it’s already experiencing the effects of severe storms such as Hurricane Harvey and the one flooding streets and neighborhoods across the region as we write this, tropical depression Imelda.
If the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not reduced, intense storms and flooding will become commonplace. Worldwide, a changing climate will lead to increased sea level rise, intense heat waves and prolonged droughts. Experts also warn that up to a million plant and animal species are at risk of disappearing, with untold impact on humanity.
These are all irreversible changes that will devastate nations and economies. Many changes are already underway as our political leaders continue to dither and even question if climate change is real. Time is running out.
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Join-the-climate-s
trike-and-replace-fear-with-14453652.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Sorry to say, but Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Trump are too old or too dumb or too crazy to be President.
Afraid so. Sanders is a great voice to have, and an ethical thinker and can be a good no BS inspiration, but not as president.
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When it comes to the issues, the gulf between those two parties is incredibly wide.
1) Health Care
Democrats have a variety of plans, but almost everyone agrees that health care should be a right, not a privilege. That is why they support government intervention to make insurance more affordable and care more accessible.
Republicans remain committed to repealing Obamacare and letting the free market reign when it comes to affordability and accessibility.
2) Immigration
Democrats support a secure border and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. When it comes to asylum-seekers and legal immigration, they support humane policies that align with this country’s stated values.
Republicans are committed to fear-mongering about immigrants and enacting xenophobic policies.
3) Guns
Democrats support common sense gun safety measures that, based on research, would reduce the toll of 40,000 gun deaths in this country every year.
Republicans have consistently refused to consider any gun safety measures.
4) Climate Change
Democrats agree that climate change poses the existential crisis of our lifetimes and have various plans to address it.
Republicans generally deny the scientific evidence of climate change and have blocked any measures to address it.
5) Perhaps even more important than these specific issues is the fact that, other than racist fear-mongering and tax cuts for the wealthy, Republicans don’t really have an agenda. Instead, they have been content to simply block anything Democrats support.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/09/20/theres-only-one-way-to-end-gr
idlock-in-washington/
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