Nothing against toads, of course, but, they’re toads.
Btw, when I call most Trumpies morons, imbeciles, stupid, idiots, etc., that’s really an oversimplification and shorthand, plus venting. Some of them are actually reasonably intelligent, some quite intelligent.
It’s just that, with the former, they’re just very ill-informed and incurious and don’t bother to read up on what’s going on and get their news, if they get it at all, from untrustworthy sources like Fox, and just aren’t that well-educated and sophisticated overall. This is also true of quite a few Dems, I should add, but they have their hearts in the right place (but also vote tribally).
And with the latter, they’re generally mostly interested in their pet issues and rationalize or tune out all the rest, and are also not especially well-informed politically.
So yes, there are those MAGA Morons, of course, but there are also lots of non-imbeciles who just aren’t equipped to understand what’s going on or prepared to admit it.
May be wrong on a whole lot of levels, but given that it’s been generally accepted that we are governed via Twitter and that it is an acceptable form of communication of policy, it is what it is.
Would come to a screeching halt if the CEO of Twitter weren’t making a boatload of money off this activity and would just decide to shut this down.
Many on both sides are equipped to “get it”. It’s that they don’t care to and that really bothers me. Democracy has to be psrticipatory or it won’t work. In 2016 just over half of registered voters bothered to vote. Hillary got 26.6% and Two Scoops got 26.5% and that’s just so wrong. Way too many folks are tuned out to their government. If folks don’t care they will lose it.
It’s not an epidemic yet, but I’ve spoken to enough people who feel they’ve already lost it. Between voter disenfranchisement and the EC, there are enough folks out there who just don’t see the need to put oneself out there for something that has little to no reward - the ‘my vote doesn’t count’ bunch.
They know things are bad. Honestly. They do. But they don’t see voting as a way out of making something bad into something good. They’ve tried. And the numbers you cite above are in part the result of that. It is a willing disenfranchisement after a couple of decades of Supreme Court decisions (the voting rights act gutting, Citizens United, Gore v. Bush and more) that this quadrant just has given up. It may only be 25% of the population, if it’s that high. But those numbers are enough to potentially change election outcomes.
Now, how to get them back in the fold? There’s the question. There’s no Obama-like candidate on the horizon, so what else have we got to offer?
“Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose [sic] also a lawyer, by the way…"
Uhhh, your delusion-ness: The jury foreperson, Ms. Tomeka Hart, IN A WRITTEN QUESTIONNAIRE provided to the parties, listed that she had run for CONGRESS as a Democrat in Memphis, Tennessee.
–>So much for her failing to disclose her political affiliation. If Stone’s attorneys chose not to challenge her while knowing this, so be it. It’s called a “waiver” to raise the issue after the trial.
I’m on the verge of thinking that voting must be mandatory by law as in lots of other places. Look, since the Senate weaseled out on impeachment and showed in spades they are worthy of the poll numbers they have (less than 20% approval) the only choice short of armed rebellion we have is voting. I’m too old to be a guerilla off in the mountains. So voting is our only option. We need to nombard media … social and otherwise with ads, talk to anyone and everyone, demonstrate, resist, yell…loudly.
The only way crazy stops is if someone returns the favor. Democrats should take on the judicial decisions that are important to them. Right now, the department of justice, the judicial system is corrupt and is an instrument of conservative tyranny. It should not be treated as sacred.
There would have to be a “reality experience” offered to non-voters** which would compress 3 years of living in a dictatorship with NO vote at all in that hour-long simulation.
Only then would there be a change in attitudes about voting in this country.
I have tried to describe political life in Third World, non-democratic regimes on this website many times. With extremely limited success. But I still try.
And that also (the motivation to continue to try with less-than-instant results) is part of the Lesson people have to learn.
People will either learn to vote or they will die in a dystopian Planet ruled by 0.0001% of the population.
The Rich do not like us.
** There was a sleeper film called Brother Future in which that very thing was depicted. A young African American youth who had a casual relationship with sacrifices previous generations have made was transported back in time to Ante Bellum Charleston SC (site and time of the Denmark Vesey Plot).
For a sleeper film, it had an impressive cast: Moses Gunn (who was inspiring), Frank Converse, Carl Lumbly (who of course played Denmark Vesey), and Vonetta McGee.
In fact, I recommend it, Because after the kid woke up from the Time Travel, he felt a lot more like doing things like voting
I, myself, as a younger person,had to be reminded of the sacrifices made by earlier people to be able to vote. And this is probably a significant motivator of POC turning out to vote for Democrats as a NECESSITY, as opposed to simply as a preference
Yes, I have been reading that in many areas of Britain where the greys are taking over territory and driving the little reds out. It’s a real shame, because the little reds with the tufty ears are so damned cute. Hope we don’t suffer the same fate here,'cause I love my little tree tenant!
