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Georgia seems to be going through it right now.... hopefully it helps the democrats

Maybe in regards to when Kemp runs for re-election, but all this talk of Republicans boycotting the run-offs is nonsense. It's from the misdirection chapter of their playbook. They want the left to think the party is fracturing and won't turn out. The media has been hammering this story for a week now. They absolutely will turn out, and they know it. Republicans vote, regardless of what it is, and they blindly just check the "R" box. There might be a few nutjobs who boycott, but it'll be an insignificant number of fringe Trump loyalists.
 
Maybe in regards to when Kemp runs for re-election, but all this talk of Republicans boycotting the run-offs is nonsense. It's from the misdirection chapter of their playbook. They want the left to think the party is fracturing and won't turn out. The media has been hammering this story for a week now. They absolutely will turn out, and they know it. Republicans vote, regardless of what it is, and they blindly just check the "R" box. There might be a few nutjobs who boycott, but it'll be an insignificant number of fringe Trump loyalists.
I’m not sure I agree. So much of the Party had turned into Trump over R. Trump world has poisoned the well and these people really believe the election was stolen. This could have real ramifications, although the left shouldn’t bank on it.
 
Maybe in regards to when Kemp runs for re-election, but all this talk of Republicans boycotting the run-offs is nonsense. It's from the misdirection chapter of their playbook. They want the left to think the party is fracturing and won't turn out. The media has been hammering this story for a week now. They absolutely will turn out, and they know it. Republicans vote, regardless of what it is, and they blindly just check the "R" box. There might be a few nutjobs who boycott, but it'll be an insignificant number of fringe Trump loyalists.

You’re right. They’ve done it before and both sides are drumming up support. It’s not going to be easy.
 
The Republican Party won’t go away. However, it is dividing somewhat. Like I think many of millennials, there are some ideas like the goal to actually trying to put together a balanced budget, where we would agree together. Now how we get there becomes the dividing issues amongst the parties. It’s why I consider myself center left for the most part. I believe in a better social system which we need to improve for every citizen and we should be cutting spending on military and such to compensate for it. Trying to abolish contradicting ideas isn’t a good thing.

I wish we as a country could get a multi party system where we have 4-6 parties who have equal chance of getting power end then developing a coalition to pass ideas. This two party system just isn’t it. And I know that many European countries struggle with the multi party system, but we all fall in different buckets and not just bucket A or B like the English and Americans have it set up. It’s too simple minded.
 
Yeah, I still believe America's main problem is not that it only has two parties. To be honest, under the right conditions a two-party system can function better than a multiparty system.

America's main problem is the electoral system. It is so rigged in the GOP's favor, and it incentivizes them to putting party over country and rig the system some more. Which lets them grow more reactionary and more hostile to democracy

America's citizens can't properly punish the GOP's for their bad behavior.
 
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Think about it. The GOP will probably take the House in 2022 off of gerrymandering. Good chance they keep the Senate too. Then if they win the Presidency through the electoral college, then our entire federal government will be run by the party that got the least amount of votes. And the judiciary will be filled will judges that got appointed by a party that hasn't won the most votes. Unless Dems pull off those two upsets, by 2024, it would be a whole decade where no liberal judges have been appointed to the judiciary. Even though Dems held the White House for 6 out of the 10 years.
 
Real talk, I wish we could come up with a way to build a metro area in Wyoming and get liberals to move there.

Even a small to medium size one might flip the state blue. And would probably do more to dilute the GOP's power in the Senate than adding DC as a state
 
Just read that FCC's Ajit Pai is stepping down before Biden is sworn in lol.

Goodbye, clown.

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Good riddance!
 
Real talk, I wish we could come up with a way to build a metro area in Wyoming and get liberals to move there.

Even a small to medium size one might flip the state blue. And would probably do more to dilute the GOP's power in the Senate than adding DC as a state
good point. adding a state gets you 2 senators. flipping a state nets you 4.
 
It seems like high income counties is a pretty inaccurate way to measure for whom the wealthy vote.

Poor people live in every county, so even “rich” counties have a lot of poor people. You can have a few super wealthy enclaves making the mean income look high. If you go by median income, that reduces the effect of those outliers but there’s still the problem of counties with high income tend to have expensive housing so people making the national median or even more than the national median are not doing very well financially.
Furthermore, Republicans aren't really railing against the moneyed elite. They are complaining about the intellectual elite, those who think, and those whose thinking brings them to question Tradition.

Republicans don't want you to ask yourself why we are doing XYZ; they just want you to keep doing it, especially if they're on the selling side of it.

The replies in this are hilarious :lol:. Got damn cult man lmao


At least they know someone, somewhere is lying to them. In the land of the Blind, the One-eyed are kings, I suppose.
 
Real talk, I wish we could come up with a way to build a metro area in Wyoming and get liberals to move there.

Even a small to medium size one might flip the state blue. And would probably do more to dilute the GOP's power in the Senate than adding DC as a state

vox had an article on this I think.

suggesting moving government agencies to swing states and starting more universities and research parks?

that might do the trick?
 
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