It just shows a black who doesn't run as a Dem is seen as a House Ni**er. Racism in America is from the left.
It just shows a black who doesn't run as a Dem is seen as a House Ni**er. Racism in America is from the left.
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Excellent post IMPress Polly. Ironically a long time republican strategist explains well what happened to the republican party. If I had time I quote pages of it.
'It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump' by Stuart Stevens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-was-all-a-lie
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
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IMPress Polly (09-25-2021)
Dumb article. The GOP turned into a nationalist populous party following the trend from Europe that started around 2011. Trump didn't invent it. And that is why so many Dems and independents shifted to the GOP. Especially minorities, they are Walking Away from the Dem plantation.
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My thoughts: Democrats preach democracy. Democrats set up the very democratic recall and referendum policies of California. Democrats in practice despise democracy. We saw that in their reactions to the recall and their now changing policy. That's all. Democrats are hypocrites. All they really want is power.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.
Yeah...Elder stood no chance in hell of winning.
I told my wife that over and over.
Though I disagree with you overall, I still enjoy reading what your thoughts are on a subject.
This is why I joined a political website.
Dave
When it is not allowed to be questioned, it is not science, it is PROPAGANDA
IMPress Polly (09-25-2021),Omar (09-25-2021)
Probably so. But then the question becomes power for what, personal interest or interest in the people. During the last election's debates, one of the highlights of the Pence/Harris debates was this. Pence repeatedly voiced the opinion he trusted in the people while Harris repeatedly voiced the opinion she knew better what the people wanted. Good leaders follow.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
MMC (09-25-2021),Omar (09-25-2021),Retirednsmilin308 (09-25-2021)
Oh there's someone neurotic here alright, but it ain't people who want their loved ones to survive this nightmare, it's people like you who deny its existence.
You have an interesting definition of "normally" because those states have some of the worst per capita Covid outbreaks in the country thanks to their bans on things like vaccine and masking requirements and their respective governors are both paying for it in the polls.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is currently polling the worst of his entire governorship to date and, according to the most recent survey by the Dallas Morning News, would lose to a likely challenger by 9 percentage points of next year's election for his post were held today. In fact, when you look at the chart at that first link, you can identify a point where things went downhill for Abbott permanently: right around the time he initially lifted the state's lockdown prematurely in 2020. Before that point, he'd been a popular governor in the conservative state. After that point, never again reached 50% support and his disapproval rating shot up and has remained elevated since. Conversely, his best polling, as you can also see, came immediately he briefly imposed the statewide lockdown. People may not be open to lockdowns anymore in 2021 now that we have vaccines, but they do want to sense that their leaders fundamentally care about them.
And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was once considered a serious presidential contender for 2024, now only breaks even in support in his state at 48% approval and disapproval after the delta variant ripped through his state this summer, resulting in a 14-point drop in support for the governor.
Gavin Newsom's approval rating, by contrast, has trended in the opposite direction. His polling trajectory was downhill in the early summer as Covid-19 receded as an issue on people's minds and they began to concern themselves more with other problems, like rises in violent crime for example. The delta outbreak, by contrast, has helped Newsom politically, as he's seen as a real leader on the issue. His state of California currently has the lowest per capita rate of Covid transmission in the country and he just got 62% of the vote a second time. (This is the CDC's Covid tracking site. You see that one spot on their map of the country that's not completely red? That's California.)
My point being that taking the virus seriously on the one hand and good political fortunes on the other are linked. As multiple states are now reduced to rationing life-saving hospital care for the first time in the history of this country, it's little wonder why.
Last edited by IMPress Polly; 09-25-2021 at 08:37 AM.
Fair enough on pointing out the massive nationalization of this election on the part of the Democrats in particular, complete with Biden and Harris and Bernie Sanders and everyone else wading in to actively prop up Newsom; an unusual development for an individual gubernatorial race. But that the Republicans were unwilling to do the same for Larry Elder says the essential thing I'm pointing out here about his toxicity as an alternative.
As to who's leaving, yeah mostly it's wealthier people leaving California, over taxes, and I have no doubt that Republicans are disproportionately represented among that group. Many, many people object not so much to taxation specifically though as to the state's high cost of living. One's ability to afford to leave that behind though is a form of privilege. Those who can afford neither the cost of living nor the cost of leaving often wind up homeless. Decades of gentrification have yielded real problems for the state. The question then becomes whether the Republicans actually have any solutions to those problems on offer or just tax breaks for rich people.
Is this all unrelated to next year's midterms? Could be irrelevant. Circumstances could be very different by this time next year. But this outcome suggests a model by which the Democrats might minimize the usual political damage that occurs to parties in power in midterm cycles.
IMPress Polly (09-25-2021)