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Unbelievable how this can still be a close race
I don't trust these polls and haven't since they said Hillary was going to win.
“Just IMAGINE how much worse it’d be with a liberal.”
You know like how things weren’t as bad 4 years ago and we way better during the Obama admin.
But yea they’d totally make it worse despite historically, EMPIRICALLY it was better.
"But I love pedophilia, genocide and higher gas prices!" - every Republican voter
"It's all worth it to own the blue haired liberals."
and then you'll see endless posts defending those supporting the GOP as lovely people slightly misinformed.
Fascism is very popular with today’s ignorant and communist youth.
You need to factor in propaganda on this one, billions are spent yearly on both small scale operations and large scale projects to push rightwing propaganda to the masses with some having been inundated within it for decades at this point. Frankly there's no real clean way of dealing with this short of pushing for policies that'd make them effectively illegal, mind you this would be rather easy right now because the steps you'd have to take would also catch monopolies so that's a win win.
Personally I'd start with radio since it's a periphery medium at this point so less care could be drummed up. Revoke the business licenses of iHeartRadio due to them being a fucking monopoly and you'd probably nock out half the issues if not more in one go from there it'd just be a matter of strategic deregulation and reregulation to encourage independent/pirate stations to clutter the airwaves and push out anyone who's not them. Hobbiests would kill to just blare whatever they want and if it drowns out the local Rush Limbaugh wannabe that's just a bonus. Basically make it so as long as they don't take advertisement they can do whatever, donations are acceptable but they have to be small scale ones and will be checked for sources, if it has to be done create an office who's job it is to organize payment for these stations basically creating a middleman filter so the stations aren't financing directly.
Wealth inequality is the root cause. Fix our oligarch problem and the rest becomes plausible.
Oh I'd agree but this would be a first step, far easier to move things along without their mouth pieces yapping. Just consider Kirk as an example, ever since he was converted into a temporary high pressure fountain the right has lost a solid bit of steam. Mind you it's not massively notable with just one example but imagine how much more effective it'd be to shut down say Dailywire or Fox.
Also the rich wouldn't invest nearly as much materials into propaganda if they didn't think it did something, even if it somehow turned out to not be all that notable pissing them off and switching them over to bitching about radio could pull a good bit of pressure off of some groups. In my experience the right generally has limited bandwidth so you can sometimes make them waste time on stupid shit while you deal with other things. Just an anecdote, but when I was working at Amazon I got a right-winger completely side tracked from harassing the trans girl via me yapping about trains for like 2 hours straight, he was stuck bitching about why we don't have more train bound logistics for nearly two months and completely ignored the poor girl.
There is no war but the class war.
Not to disagree in the slightest, but there are WAY more wars....... but...... class war is primary, for sure. heh.
They'll get closer because trump will panic and start campaigning for them...
Currently he's doing a Hillary victory lap where he's doing rallies in places he's projected to win and ignoring everything close because his handlers know he'll hurt Republicans.
Another week or so and those poll numbers will be worse. Trump will believe he can save them, and when it hurts Republicans in those elections, trump will blame the people who tried to keep him out of it He'll never understand if he had campaigned in those races earlier they have lost by more.
I remember how good optimism felt. I miss it.
It's not optimism, it's what's logically going to happen. They're distracting him now by telling he's "needed" in the safe states. But we're a month out and these articles and polls will get worse. trump isnt capable of understanding people don't love him, they'll never be able to keep him away from Senate races that are polling close.
We don’t live in logical times.
Life is always logical, if you don't think it is then you're not paying attention to the shit that matters...
Just stop doing that, nothing is stopping you from using critical thinking.
LMAO! Show us how you’re not paying attention without actually saying you’re not paying attention.
I swear dude, it’s like you go out of your way to be on the wrong side of everything.
Reality shows that life isn’t even remotely logical. Life doesn’t follow logical ideology any more that in follows illogical ideologies. It’s controlled chaos. Nothing more. And to think there’s reason for all rings and it works out in the end because it just has to-
Is fucking ignorance on display.
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No need to respond like a boomer with belligerence following confusion
You're never going to make sense of anything doing that, and I'm sure as fuck never going to waste time trying to help you again.
Feel free to keep replying I'll never see it
And there’s the ever-predictable bOoMeR accusation, the clear go-to response of every out-of-gas internet-intellectual that thinks they have something to say.
I’m going to go ahead and block you know as you have proven you have nothing worthwhile to ad to any discussion.