It's exactly what I did the last time orange man was in office, so yes, me first. Now you. Let's hit the range together.
BlueMacaw
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That might have been in the footnotes of the DNC platform, but Kamala said none of that.
Here's a quote from Stephen Semler's newsletter:
For example, in this video clip, Stephen Colbert asks Harris, "Under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be and what would stay the same?" Harris replies: "Sure. Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. So that would be one change. But also I think it's important to say with 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump."
First, that doesn’t answer the question. Second, that description applies to literally everyone except for Joe Biden and Donald Trump. This is the quality of candidate you get when the Democratic Party chooses one for you.
Many believe they are saving the country by voting for Trump. Everyone sees that America is going downhill. Everything is more expensive, more uncertain, more precarious. Leftists blame corporations and corporate capture of government agencies. Right wingers think that more corporate power is good and if left unchecked, the "free market" (aka government rules that favor unchecked corporate malfeasance) will be better for America.
People vote for their economic interests, as best as they can understand them. Most on the right think that their economic interests are served by corporate deregulation and scapegoating of immigrants. However, within that context, this is also why removing social security is not realistic. That's a direct attack on people's benefits, which they are not in favor of. Right wing corporate types want to cut social security so they don't have to pay taxes, or there will be more money in the government coffers to give back to the corporations. But the majority of right wing people that the corporate types rely on for votes will never vote to repeal social security.
To everyone in here saying that this is the end of democracy and this is the end times, what is stopping you from buying a gun and training with other liberals/leftists? Or are you just going to keel over and die?
Unfortunately I would think very few would care. For example, the Green party is very progressive, and comes with a TON of advantages electorally. They're on the ballot in almost every state, run in local and national elections, and have a system all set up for nominating people, etc. When you look at the Green party's platform, it's very close to what the progressives claim to actually want. Yet most democrats just shit on them at every opportunity instead of voting for the platform they ostensibly believe in.
Correct, but white women are the vast majority of women in America, thus their votes are weighted more than other group of women. Here's a chart from 2022, showing 58.5 million white women, compared to 3.8m asian, 11m black, and 9.6 hispanic. https://www.lwv.org/blog/report-women-voters-numbers
White women voters are also likely more present in rural areas that have outsized effects on the electoral college, too, but I don't have data for this, so this is just an assumption on my part.
Another headache is that everything dems do is means tested, so you've got to jump through a bunch of hoops to figure out if you're even eligible for any new program. Even if the programs do give relief to people, it's much harder to message on a complicated program with layers of bureaucracy rather than "everyone gets 3k per child no matter what."
Bernie purposefully did not do that because he did not want to be seen as another Ralph Nader. He believed working inside the system would do more good than doing a dirty break. I also wish he went in the direction of a break from the democratic party, but that's just not who he is.
If you actually think you will get hunted down...buy a goddamn gun. Take classes, carry every day. Arm yourself and your friends.
You're taking this way too hard, man. If every man in the US dropped dead, Trump would still be president. White women voted 53% in favor of Trump. https://apnews.com/article/ap-votecast-trump-harris-election-president-voters-86225516e8424431ab1d19e57a74f198
That's about the time the worm ate through his brain and stopped any further thinking.
Depends on what you consider expensive. For general purpose training, 9mm rounds (pistol) are easily found at about 25c each and 5.56 (rifle) are found at about 40c each.