Depends on the country, sad to say. This is not American uniqueness.
Depends on the country, sad to say. This is not American uniqueness.
Exactly. If you’re as interest candidate, or arguably a center-right candidate, saying a few things to try to pretend you’re left wing is not going to get the support that you want. You need to actually change your policy in a major way well in advance.
She wants to be famous, so she’ll deal with it.
Attempted assassination will get your name on TV and in the history books. It might get you killed or locked up for life, though. So it depends on your life goals.
That’s probably true. But one of these decades maybe we can figure it out. Not because of Orange. Because of the school shootings. Maybe. Eventually.
Many polls are of registered likely voters. So as you point out, that data alone is not particularly informative on this issue.
These posts are always missing the point. Voters will vote third party. Your moral claims won’t change that, but your candidate’s policies could. Also, most of us don’t live in swing states. Don’t pretend our vote matters when it never did.
Hillary proves you wrong, though. Awkward!
She almost apologized. She was so close to apologizing. But she couldn’t quite do it. (At least from what is quoted in the article.)
If that were true, then nobody would be worried about third-party voters. Off the top of my head, you might want to consider it 1992, 2000, and 2016.
(Of course motivating people is really important, too.)
In other words, this is classic strong narcissism.
They aren’t confused. They want the base to understand that Trump would definitely pass an abortion ban, but they don’t want to say that outright so that they can keep a few more votes from people who aren’t paying close attention.
They all kind of know it. It’s just that probably they think that all politicians are dirty and so they are happy with their extra dirty guy. They also like the bigotry.
I’ll try to show why what you’re saying is not entirely accurate.
Here’s the easy reason. Most people don’t live in swing states. If they vote third party, or if they stay home, it’s not likely to change the result of the election. My vote has never made a difference in the presidential race, not once in my life.
Then we get into the more complicated reasons.
Depending on the candidate, I might feel that they don’t plan on pushing any policies that would make my life better or that I think are important. So why would I vote for them? Of course my motivation would be low.
The strategy of triangulation, where the Democrat candidate moves farther to the right because people don’t have any other choice, we saw that fail already. I hope you haven’t forgotten Hillary Clinton’s loss. I think if Clinton had been left wing instead of a centrist hawk, that she would have gotten more votes and she could have won the election. You can blame her loss on people who voted third party, or people who stayed home, but the reality is that it was a predictable situation. She gambled that they would believe in the wisdom that you’re pushing, and she was wrong.
Some people like to say that every vote is equal. And others rebut that with the comment, “everyone’s equal but only on election day”, and yet others note that the electoral college means we’re not even equal on election day. All of which is to say, as voters, we have more power to impact policy before the election than we do after it. You’re suggesting that we throw that power away. Meh.
Finally, I’m not on either candidate’s side, because neither candidate is on my side. We are all on our own sides, advocating for the things that we think are important or good for us and our community. There’s nothing wrong with saying that you disagree with a candidate on several major issues, even if you think they are generally a solid choice. Many of us strongly value honesty and integrity.
You used the expression “bitch and moan”, which is self-destructive. If you’re complaining that other people are complaining, that means you are “bitching and moaning” too. And you’re not going to get any support with that kind of antagonistic hypocrisy. (I’m not trying to attack you here, simply to point out the kind of attack that your position encourages.)
It felt like the authors of the article accurately pointed out how skewed mainstream media’s portrayal is. I appreciate that.
It’s not only up to US voters. It’s up to US citizens in general, and any workers who are working in the US, to advocate for themselves in forceful ways, including unionizing, striking, and reporting corporate crime by their bosses, among other things.
Politicians will vote for laws when they are forced to, not because the word “Democrat” appears next to their name. Election day matters, but so does every other day.
If Trump takes his rhetoric a little farther, he can get some new election interference charges. I don’t suppose the quotes in the above article are there, but he’s getting close. Threatening old officials, if they are still employed and working on the current election, is an interesting approach.
There is no legal obligation to protect citizens. Is there an ethical obligation? Kind of no, for reasons you listed, but kind of yes, because the cause of death was predictable and it’s something in the US has partial control over.
From a practical standpoint, we all agree that the US won’t do anything, because they certainly aren’t worried about pacifists in war zones where one of the sides is getting its weapons from the United States.
Goldman Sachs wants to make money. When they talk about the economy, they’re talking about more yachts for their CEOs and rich stockholders.
And what makes this extra comical is that a president is supposed to be there to lead the country for the benefit of the people. Not for the big banks. Newspapers are supposed to know this basic fact about civics.
If you get on the internet and go find a comment section that has a couple hundred comments, you can always say that it’s a dumpster fire. Some people are lazy, some people are trolling, some people are addressing concerns that you don’t understand because they didn’t frame it with enough background.
I think you have several options in a situation where it seems like the comments are a disaster. You could download and walk away, you could comment about how it’s a dumpster fire and walk away, or you could throw in something a little bit constructive. I recommend the first or the third, unless you feel like you’re in a trolling mood, and then do whatever you want.