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[Ruin]

I can't for the life of me figure out why the DNC thinks going further Left and into ID Pol is a winning strategy.

Sunken cost fallacy

 

[heyitsmike]

It's great watching a master at work. Simultaneously attacking Joe Scarborough from the right and getting him attacked from the left for helping elect Trump in the first place.

I have no doubt that this is to help take the heat off Mitch McConnell after Scarborough put it on him with the 'Moscow Mitch' bullshit. Cocaine Mitch is fucking livid about it. I look forward to seeing how much more vicious he can get in the Senate.

 

[verissimus]

So... the 10th amendment?

...yeah, more or less. Also as a given Article 1 section 8.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

It's great watching a master at work. Simultaneously attacking Joe Scarborough from the right and getting him attacked from the left for helping elect Trump in the first place.

I have no doubt that this is to help take the heat off Mitch McConnell after Scarborough put it on him with the 'Moscow Mitch' bullshit. Cocaine Mitch is fucking livid about it. I look forward to seeing how much more vicious he can get in the Senate.
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And while Trump tweets with his right hand, you wonder what his left hand is doing. Because I really doubt he's just jerking off. He KNOWS the left can't help but chase the tweets, so... I wonder who's about to get fucked in the ass next?

 

[X Prime]

I can't for the life of me figure out why the DNC thinks going further Left and into ID Pol is a winning strategy.

African-Americans vote nearly 90% for Dems.

Asian-Americans vote around 75% for Dems.

Hispanics generally vote 60%+ for Dems.

Non-Orthodox Jews vote mostly for Dems.

Muslim-Americans vote mostly for Dems.

Who did I leave out that does not vote primarily for Democrats?

For all intents and purposes, the Republicans live and die based on whether they get turnout of what we call "white people" in a given election.

The reason Democrats go into leftism and idpol is to drive turnout of their ethnic minority coalition, either with socioeconomic incentives or fear.

 

[Memento Malum]

Finally, some actual sanity from the left.

This article talks about the actual nitty-gritty of Senate races, and how they are being won (and lost) right now.
TLDR: (It's not long, more a summary than an article, but nevertheless)

• 2016 election marked the first time in history all Senate races went the way that state voted in the Presidential election
• Assuming current trajectories, this gives the GOP a 40 seat firewall in the Senate
• The Democrat base is a measly 26 seats in comparison
• 2020 election has 22 GOP incumbents up for re-election vs 12 for the Dems
• Conventional wisdom has this making the GOP more vulnerable, but most of those incumbents are from states Trump carried in 2016, if the Trump wave continues, retaking those seats will be a harder proposition

The advice given is for the Democrats to focus on rural voters, the ones left behind by the shift to idpol, to break up the GOP firewall. Good advice, but since the Dems are firing white staffers in pursuit of diversity, speaking Spanish in debates, defending grifter congressmen to the utter hilt, and more insanity, I can't see them taking this advice any time soon.

 

[X Prime]

The Democrats are banking on Demographics being Destiny. They are not going to appeal to rural white voters, they are trying to play the long game of turning red states purple through influxes of bodies.

It is a solid long-term strategy barring any paradigm shift like another social/ethnic group becoming The Enemy.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

The new GOP has kept the best qualities of conservatism and taken on best qualities of liberalism.

The Dems however have the redeeming qualities of neither and the worst qualities of both.

The 2020 Dems are out kissing Al Sharpton's ring again. Man, Trump really knows how to make these idiots dance. Let's all take a moment to be thankful that Trump uses his powers for good, not evil.
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When did trump call for the execution of 5 black guys?

 

[X Prime]

Reference to the Central Park Five.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Reference to the Central Park Five.

Oh boy! Here we go again. I guess they're going to blame Trump for the Holocaust, the 9/11 attacks, and so on.

 

[Memento Malum]

The Democrats are banking on Demographics being Destiny. They are not going to appeal to rural white voters, they are trying to play the long game of turning red states purple through influxes of bodies.

It is a solid long-term strategy barring any paradigm shift like another social/ethnic group becoming The Enemy.

I never bought "Demographics are Destiny" because the key idea behind it is all about overwhelming the "other" side with more people. People who in this case will lockstep vote for you.

Now I don't know how many of you nerds have had interactions with people at all, but both of you that have know that people are weird as all hell. They are inconsistent, stupid, wishy-washy, and generally just impossible to predict. (They might have some good qualities too, but lets ignore those for now.) Predicating the future success (and at this point, very survival) of your group on knowing how a large group of people will react to unknown and rapidly changing circumstances seems slightly misguided in my opinion.

Another thing about "Demographics as Destiny": people are xenophobic. The first word for people in almost any linguistic system is "The People" which refers to the originating group. The second word is "The Others" which then refers to every other group of people that group meets. There is a reason that "The foreigners are taking our jobs" has been a political rallying cry since at least the 1700s and probably farther back then that as well. The Democrats are attempting to weave together several widely varying strands of ethnicities into their tapestry of diversity, ignoring that most of these strands at best grudgingly tolerate the others and at worst actively dislike them.

It will not be possible to maintain a coalition of Asians, Africans, African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, LGBTQIAA+, and Muslims for long. There exist powerful forces working within that coalition to tear it apart, and once it is rent asunder, the demographics collapse into a thousand warring tribes, and your destiny has vanished into the aether.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Finally, some actual sanity from the left.
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This article talks about the actual nitty-gritty of Senate races, and how they are being won (and lost) right now.
TLDR: (It's not long, more a summary than an article, but nevertheless)

• 2016 election marked the first time in history all Senate races went the way that state voted in the Presidential election
• Assuming current trajectories, this gives the GOP a 40 seat firewall in the Senate
• The Democrat base is a measly 26 seats in comparison
• 2020 election has 22 GOP incumbents up for re-election vs 12 for the Dems
• Conventional wisdom has this making the GOP more vulnerable, but most of those incumbents are from states Trump carried in 2016, if the Trump wave continues, retaking those seats will be a harder proposition

The advice given is for the Democrats to focus on rural voters, the ones left behind by the shift to idpol, to break up the GOP firewall. Good advice, but since the Dems are firing white staffers in pursuit of diversity, speaking Spanish in debates, defending grifter congressmen to the utter hilt, and more insanity, I can't see them taking this advice any time soon.

It's actually pretty bad advice (and central to Trump's strategy) because the rural voters can just look at Democrat areas (Baltimore, Chicago, etc) and see how great Democrats take care of their constituents. The focus on taking the senate for a "Democratic president's agenda" is wildly optimistic as the Democrats don't really even have a clear message, agenda, or candidate.

They strategy they should be running would be "let's try and do a good job and bring value to people" but they seem utterly incapable of doing that on a most basic level. They've had decades to try and improve and all Trump has to do (and is doing) is putting a spotlight on some of these areas. Baltimore is the most hilarious (the Mayor has fled the city) but it's really hard to think of once place that's voted blue for 20+ years and is actually better for it. There are tons of disenfranchised people in these areas that maybe like where they live but don't like living in a hell hole.

There are places in Mexico/Brazil that have constant gang warfare that are still safer to live in than Baltimore/St.Louis.

 

[Ken Rosenberg]

I wonder how they square the idea that America will automatically become a liberal utopia once non-whites make up 50.1 percent of the population with the elections of guys like Bolsonaro and Duterte?

 

[X Prime]

It will not be possible to maintain a coalition of Asians, Africans, African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, LGBTQIAA+, and Muslims for long. There exist powerful forces working within that coalition to tear it apart, and once it is rent asunder, the demographics collapse into a thousand warring tribes, and your destiny has vanished into the aether.

The coalition will be maintained so long as there is a Great Enemy (straight white males aka Republicans) and they remain the same.

 

[CheezzyMach]

The Democrats are banking on Demographics being Destiny. They are not going to appeal to rural white voters, they are trying to play the long game of turning red states purple through influxes of bodies.

It is a solid long-term strategy barring any paradigm shift like another social/ethnic group becoming The Enemy.

Yeah I doubt that. DbD seems more like a convenient excuse for Right Wingers to paint the Left as evil.

More likely I think this hard Left turn is their attempt to keep the youth vote.* something they've been obsessed with since the Clinton years. *

 

[X Prime]

Yeah I doubt that. DbD seems more like a convenient excuse for Right Wingers to paint the Left as evil.

More likely I think this hard Left turn is their attempt to keep the youth vote.* something they've been obsessed with since the Clinton years. *

To paraphrase the Dems in their recent debacle of a primary debate:

Por que no los dos?

EDIT: To be less flippant, socioeconomic incentives attract the youth vote and maintain the minority coalition, while idpol maintains the minority coalition.

 

[heyitsmike]

When did trump call for the execution of 5 black guys?

People have opinions on cases. So what?

People have opinions on the JonBenet Ramsey case.
People have opinions on the OJ Simpson case.
People have opinions on the Casey Anthony case.
People have opinions on the Jodi Arias case.
People have opinions on the Trayvon Martin case.
People have opinions on the Central Park Five case. Donald Trump is one of those people.

I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.

 

[X Prime]

Trump actually bought a fullpage ad calling for the death penalty to return for that case.

So it's not a false statement, they just leave out the context of him not believing the Central Park Five are innocent.

He is not alone in that. It is just a social death sentence to say it out loud.

 

[It's HK-47]

Now that is interesting. Cummings' district, MD-7, all by itself was given nearly 16 billion dollars in Federal grants in 2018 alone. That''s not even all of Baltimore, that's just a wedge of Baltimore and then some bullshit outside of it. What the Hell was that money used for? It sure as shit didn't go into any of the schools or infrastructure or clean-up efforts in his district.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Finally, some actual sanity from the left.
View attachment 866852

This article talks about the actual nitty-gritty of Senate races, and how they are being won (and lost) right now.
TLDR: (It's not long, more a summary than an article, but nevertheless)

• 2016 election marked the first time in history all Senate races went the way that state voted in the Presidential election
• Assuming current trajectories, this gives the GOP a 40 seat firewall in the Senate
• The Democrat base is a measly 26 seats in comparison
• 2020 election has 22 GOP incumbents up for re-election vs 12 for the Dems
• Conventional wisdom has this making the GOP more vulnerable, but most of those incumbents are from states Trump carried in 2016, if the Trump wave continues, retaking those seats will be a harder proposition

The advice given is for the Democrats to focus on rural voters, the ones left behind by the shift to idpol, to break up the GOP firewall. Good advice, but since the Dems are firing white staffers in pursuit of diversity, speaking Spanish in debates, defending grifter congressmen to the utter hilt, and more insanity, I can't see them taking this advice any time soon.

Their idea of rural voters are people who live in suburbia because they like having lawns and space.