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Post by MarchingOn on Nov 26, 2015 20:34:25 GMT -5
Not sure why America needs Jim Webb more than Bernie. And I don't think the majority of America wants Trump. Or hopefully they don't.
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Post by Morkim on Nov 26, 2015 21:36:45 GMT -5
Not sure why America needs Jim Webb more than Bernie. And I don't think the majority of America wants Trump. Or hopefully they don't. America wants Trump. And I just posted it for Jauncy for the Rand part. I didn't make it.  |
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Post by Juggs on Nov 27, 2015 23:38:56 GMT -5
Not sure why America needs Jim Webb more than Bernie. And I don't think the majority of America wants Trump. Or hopefully they don't. America wants Trump. And I just posted it for Jauncy for the Rand part. I didn't make it. He fell 12 % points after having a rough week. Hopefully it's the beginning of the end. Trump does well with anti-establishment libertarians, and those people will flock to vote for Bernie in the spring. |
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Post by xdeadlyxmirage on Nov 28, 2015 1:01:40 GMT -5
Trump does well with anti-establishment libertarians, and those people will flock to vote for Bernie in the spring. What? |
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Post by xdeadlyxmirage on Dec 7, 2015 18:22:41 GMT -5
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Post by Juggs on Dec 8, 2015 0:20:49 GMT -5
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Post by xdeadlyxmirage on Dec 8, 2015 0:58:38 GMT -5
Is this a reference to something or a real question? It's a link. |
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Post by Juggs on Dec 8, 2015 16:16:22 GMT -5
oh. With the Titans theme I used, I couldn't even see it. The background is blue, and text is white. It looks great, but... it makes links look exactly like regular texts and being colorblind really doesn't help!
Haha I was going to talk about my career aspirations! Great comic though I like it.
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Post by Juggs on Dec 12, 2015 23:45:54 GMT -5
-An Effigy to Rand Paul and the real GOP-
Rumor has it that Rand Paul's campaign will end this weekend unless he gets back up to 5% by Tuesday in Iowa in time to qualify for the next debate. It's a real shame you have two independent fascist celebrities on the stage instead of... you know, an actual candidate who could actually get the nomination.
I think Paul is a hypocritical loser not fit for the office, but shit, he'd be way better less worse, than the current three leaders in the GOP right now.
In other news of what I'm starting to call "the third place game" (the GOP primary), Trump and Carson are about to call it quits, and the GOP will likely be holding a split convention, meaning the party's delegates won't uniformly nominate a candidate! This is starting to be like the NFL back in the 2000's where everyone knew the NFC championship game was just an audition for who got to lose to the Pats Colts or Steelers. I can't remember a more befuddled primary election, even with how bad 2012 was for the GOP nominating process, what with Rick Santorum, Hermain Cain, and Newt Gingrich all winning for significant runs.
The toxicity of the republican party has stained electoral politics in a remarkable way that cannot be cleaned. Barack Obama won reelection with the highest unemployment rate in the history of incumbent presidents in an election that wasn't even close, and that was with an opponent 10 times more qualified than the lambs being thrown out this year.
The root cause of this total failure of one of our two parties is the nomination process. It drives candidates increasingly to the right. The left handles this really smoothly. The democratic debates are civil, substantive and polite. Ad campaigns are mostly positive and public statements and speeches are policy based, not fear based. It's the exact opposite on the right. And that brings out the fascists who take away the spotlight from candidates who could be viable nationally, not that Rand Paul ever was that candidate, but still, he was a lot closer than what we're seeing succeed now. When you have only republican, mostly conservative voters determine who will run with a completely polar opposite electorate, one which abhors racism, fascism and fear politics, you cannot expect to produce the correct candidate to win.
The primary system is a handout to the voter to make them feel empowered. The DNC understands that. That's why they've done everything in their power to guarantee Hillary a victory (although the people are getting rowdier than anyone anticipated about that), and they made sure that Sanders would be buried if he went negative, which he hasn't. The DNC has taken every step possible to limit the damage that the primary process inevitably does to the nominee's ability to win. They neutered the power of the voter to elect who they want, and that's probably the correct step for the party interest, undemocratic as it might seem. Because while they soften the blow against their eventual nominee, whether it be Clinton or Sanders, they can watch and laugh as the RNC embraces the horrible machinations of the nomination process year after year. The extremism of conservative rhetoric and ideology, fueled by the Tea Party, makes the nominations process particularly explosive on the right, which is all the more reason why the RNC needed to soften the blow that guys like Donald Trump do to the eventual general election effort. They're smart. They understand this. So I can only assume that they're plan is to convince Donald Trump to bow out and galvanize the Tea Party around a non-fascist later in the race. It's not like Donald Trump has anything to lose. The influence he's gained in this campaign and the money he's made have been worth it. And by bowing out, he could take a cabinet position or a policy platform for whatever he wanted if the GOP wins (which it can't because of him, but his ego won't let that enter his head).
The bottom line is that the strategy didn't work. Even if it is part of a grand heelturn for the RNC, it won't matter. They're past the point of no return, well past it. The entire right win has been tainted by commercial icons pretending to be world leaders, racists trying to turn back to Jim Crow and blatant attempts to steal from the poor and give to the rich with every executive they run. And that's really the problem, because clearly the legislative wing hasn't been compromised. The Republicans have a majority there. But the stink of conservatism going all the way back to the invasion of Iraq and the 8 years of GW Bush has not been cleansed, and every executive who fails to detach himself from the GOP entirely has no chance at the white house.
How long will it take to completely rebrand the GOP? I think it will take until the next two cycles are finished. The policy platform will need to change drastically:
- The party will need to lean back on gun control and focus on the balance of liberty and security, rather than about personal defense. Essentially, they need to distance themselves from the even more toxic NRA. And that root runs deep. So many republicans are owned by this organization. I think doing this would win them the issue: grant background checks and take steps to minimize crime while emphasizing hunting and sport ownership. There is no legitimate argument that people need guns to protect themselves from the state when the state has drones, dirty weaponry and nukes. Owning muskets in the days of the revolution made sense: you could form a militia, fight the federal government, and carve out your own territory if they threatened to take away your rights. This no longer exists. You would all go to prison for the rest of your lives for treason without killing a single SWAT member.
BUT, the more important point was that the GOP is destined to win the war on gun control. American liberty on the second amendment is too important, and real gun confiscation like in Australia and England are too far away in American politics, so the second amendment is absolutely here to stay. The only threat to it is the extreme and untenable position currently held by conservatives. Allowing moderate gun control will get to the core of the issue: liberty vs security. People love liberty and won't amend the constitution to change things, so it's an easy win for the GOP once they stop overextending themselves to defend domestic terrorism as they do now.
- The party needs a 180 degree turn on pollution and climate change. This is an inevitability to some extent. History shows that scientific progress never stops. And the talks in Paris this week prove that international representatives are way beyond recognizing climate change: they're addressing it. A political party that does not adapt dies. The right will completely reverse its current position on this by 2020.
- The party will reemphasize the middle class and shed the label of the party of the rich. The Bush tax cuts are mostly the cause of this, but in reality, both parties are slaves to the ultra rich. Yet, it's the Republicans who own that label by choice. And that superficial appearance needs to change. We're going to see the right going towards progressive and flat tax plans, estate taxes, cap gains reform and other moderate policies to regulate income inequality. It's not because it's the easy thing to do, but it will happen because the party will die if it doesn't change to reflect the massive majority of Americans who are realizing, very quickly in the internet age, how the ultra rich are controlling the repbulicans. Both parties will always bow to the rich, but the GOP will stop doing so in a non-transparent way.
- Lastly, and most importantly, the party must end it's reputation for xenophobia and racism. This is currently it's most effective strategy, and it will take the longest to undue this toxic element. But it has to happen. The United States is getting browner. That's the only thing that matters. Your white supremacy constituency is dying. And the white youth don't even support you, which means you need black and hispanic voters to form the next generation of your party. That cannot happen if you oppose immigration, equal rights, voter suppression of minorities and welfare.
Actually, it totally can, since the democrats also oppose all those things. You just need to be quiet about it. And that is inevitable: the right will stop vocally discriminating, it will just do so more smoothly and quietly. The policy that's going to change first is mass incarceration, and after that, gender and achievement gaps. These are simple enough: prove yourselves to be the champion of these groups, and then they'll vote for you. Immigration will probably never be supported by the GOP, since they are committing political suicide if they allow the color of the average voter to darken even one hexadecimal. Voter ID and anti-immigration policies are only necessary for the GOP because their policy platform is built on white supremacy. Once that begins to change, then maybe immigration and suppression policies can change with it.
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