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The Democratic Party repeatedly expressed the need for a strong Republican Party. They sure got it.

I am not sure you remember but the media reaction to Bernie doing well initially was major outlets like CNN reacting with fear, loathing, and uncertainty. And it impacted rhe course of an election. You had anchors yelling about how Sanders will result in public executions in central park during the primary.

You’re right, it’s only pretending to not have context.

I think it’s fairly apt, to be honest, just apparently not the way you appear to have intended or been aware of.

It’s really become a model for fractal irony.

No disagreement that the campaign is, in fact, doing the campaigning thing.

A good campaign presents their intended policies consistently and favorably. It sells the electorate on casting their vote.

A poor campaign favorably presents inconsistent policies in a vague manner. It erodes faith in what the electorate is voting for.

Policy-wise it is the same Grand Old Party. The vibe and rhetoric is different, but the policy is mostly all there.

SCOTUS: Yeah… the votes mattered there!

The campaign has been changing its tone depending on audience. In places like Michigan they’re doing this, but outside seing districts they’ve been banging the war drums for Israel.

So the lack of faith in the messaging isn’t without warrant.

Airlines nod accordingly

No one is really checking where and how people are operating from for those nuances to come out.

Judging from the points being made here in this thread, clearly there was little reading of the article to begin with.

Even article headline uses ‘Arab-American’ and ‘Pro-palestinian’ interchangeably. The perfect level of wrong that creates a bunch of uncertainty and confusion.

That super cool one with Dean Philips and Marianne Williamson. But frankly there wasn’t really a ready pool of willing candidates, and there still isn’t.

The very public V.P. courtship process was sort of the de facto primary we got. Or the closest thing to it.

You know the GOP elites weren’t really outvoted. A lot of them are comfortably still in office. A bunch of others just retired and handed them the keys. The biggest gift Trump gave the GOP is his ability to be a lightning rod of controversy and dominate the news cycle.

He is the best cover and distraction from their dogshit policies they could ever have dreamed of.

PAK CHOOIE UNF.

I used to be worried about having to idle on a hill while driving a manual transmission vehicle. Like backsweat.

But I got used to it. Time and practice. You start to see all the subtle motions and patterns; you start to know what you didn’t know you didn’t know.

Now it is just a basic part of the driving experience. It’s a road condition, like weather. Voting, especially in federal elections and especially the general one every four years for president, is not the only or even the main course of politics.

Same story with parallel parking–which would be, I dunno: primary voting in this metaphor. Where the promise of a better way gets crammed between two other poorly parked cars and you always end up a few inches too far from the curb.

I guess what I mean is uncritical votes for Democrats across the House and Senate doesn’t guarantee any pressure. Shit that is probably the most viable arena for third party candidates or at least candidates caucusing on a specific policy issue that people get behind, especially during primaries for each and every cycle.

Maybe I’m just being salty because my entire downballot this year is all Democrats running on working with Republicans and Republicans running on working against the Democrats.

One democrat in my old district is literally running on opposing Biden and helping Republicans with the southern border. My state borders Canada.

pressure them to impose term limits and expand the Court

No amount of voting will implement this pressure. This has been the chronic problem: electoral victories don’t translate into pressure for any given policy.

Over the past year on Lemmy I have witnessed a constant fight between people on hexbear, lemmygrad, and ml and people on communuties like tankiejerk, meanwhileongrad, and the like.

Both appear to constantly brigade and overmoderate their respective areas of control. Since my instance: sh.itjustworks, is some combination of defederated to hexbear and lemmygrad, I mostly just see threads like these complaining about tankies. I only assume the effort is being matched by those instances I don’t see to warrant this problem being so persistent.

So to me there’s so much active bad faith behavior between the camps I assume they all just have a paranoid view of the fediverse and are mostly just perpetuating a cycle of bad faith. Maybe that relationship is terminal if just people can’t handle each other.