The passivity of the electorate over the normalisation of the postal voting scams etc is chilling. It sends an unmistakable message to the Democrats that they can get away with anything.
💬 making dialectical arguments instead of rhetorical ones is going to pay increasingly sparse dividends over time
As if said dividends ever paid off the investment to begin with 😉 You can’t argue ppl out of their beliefs ← a grey-bearded cliché subject to kinda Lindy’s writ large 🤷 Rationality reasoning logic—whatever you like to call the thinking mind at work—is just not up to the task; it’s destined to consistently fail and abysmally at that.
Whence comes the paramount import of *quality* candidates, especially in the sense of their charismatic appeal. The joys of sweeping democratic franchise never ebb 🤸
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PS Yesterday’s aberrations however blatant are consistently morphing into today’s normal at the speed of science™. Perma-rigging, a real good one [example] 👌
Great work Theophilus. Needed that one. Amazingly scary thing to me is how many lock down harder governors won. And the margins. The lady up in Maine won by 17. Two entirely incompatible groups of people living in this country now. Funny. I think back to the days of Tip O Neal and Reagan. They would yell and scream at each other. Then go have a beer. Same goals. Different routes to achieve. That America is dead as old Marley.
If the fraud you spoke of is true, then all the rest of your essay about Trump's personality, Oz's unelectibility, is moot. The ad hoc, mostly illegal electoral manipulations of mass registration, mass mail-in voting, broken vote adjudication, etc... make every other point useless.
Large numbers of people still just point at the "D" because it's still 1935 and if it weren't for that nice Mr Roosevelt, the bank would have foreclosed on grandad's farm by now.
It's been impossible to recover from the mythology of the '30s. It's impossible to get around people voting because they think they're on a knife's edge of collapse even as they vote FOR the party that keeps them on that knife's edge. It's impossible to get around the mythology that the government exists to keep the economy aloft and were it not for ceaseless intervention and redistribution, we would all be doomed.
They stole the last one, and they stole only little less of this one.
This isn't going to change until people feel enough pain.
The passivity of the electorate over the normalisation of the postal voting scams etc is chilling. It sends an unmistakable message to the Democrats that they can get away with anything.
💬 making dialectical arguments instead of rhetorical ones is going to pay increasingly sparse dividends over time
As if said dividends ever paid off the investment to begin with 😉 You can’t argue ppl out of their beliefs ← a grey-bearded cliché subject to kinda Lindy’s writ large 🤷 Rationality reasoning logic—whatever you like to call the thinking mind at work—is just not up to the task; it’s destined to consistently fail and abysmally at that.
Whence comes the paramount import of *quality* candidates, especially in the sense of their charismatic appeal. The joys of sweeping democratic franchise never ebb 🤸
~~
PS Yesterday’s aberrations however blatant are consistently morphing into today’s normal at the speed of science™. Perma-rigging, a real good one [example] 👌
Messaging from Republicans in this election was shit. Crime! Immigration! What, is this 1980?
Had they hammered on woke, trans and covid authoritarianism, they would have rolled with that red tsunami they seemed to think they were owed.
But they are all too god damn captured by phizer, moderna and the DoD, to show anything like being human. Not inspiring.
Great work Theophilus. Needed that one. Amazingly scary thing to me is how many lock down harder governors won. And the margins. The lady up in Maine won by 17. Two entirely incompatible groups of people living in this country now. Funny. I think back to the days of Tip O Neal and Reagan. They would yell and scream at each other. Then go have a beer. Same goals. Different routes to achieve. That America is dead as old Marley.
DeSantis will run for president if he can. The allure of presidency is too strong.
However a lot can happen before elections of 2024. Elections might not matter by then
Absolutely splemdid and rational post. Thanks very much, it helped me get over the depression.
You would wonder why a New Zealander would care , but where you go we go.
The fact is that while the weakling woke States deliberately allow crooked machines to do the work for them ,USA is fucked.
If the fraud you spoke of is true, then all the rest of your essay about Trump's personality, Oz's unelectibility, is moot. The ad hoc, mostly illegal electoral manipulations of mass registration, mass mail-in voting, broken vote adjudication, etc... make every other point useless.
Large numbers of people still just point at the "D" because it's still 1935 and if it weren't for that nice Mr Roosevelt, the bank would have foreclosed on grandad's farm by now.
It's been impossible to recover from the mythology of the '30s. It's impossible to get around people voting because they think they're on a knife's edge of collapse even as they vote FOR the party that keeps them on that knife's edge. It's impossible to get around the mythology that the government exists to keep the economy aloft and were it not for ceaseless intervention and redistribution, we would all be doomed.