Election Time!
Anticipation for the upcoming election is rapidly building. In just two or three weeks, the pace of the campaigns will become frenetic. The first "AI slop" election may prove entertaining as well as deeply annoying. We've come into the season for the biannual tradition of hearing the all-important opinion of the "man on the street."
Pundits, pollsters, and political hacks are dying to hear your opinion:
How are you planning to waste your vote this coming election?
By voting for the candidate that "Dirty Diaper Donnie" demands that they VOTE for, or he will send his NEO-NASTY-UNTRAINED-NAZI ARMY, ICE, to kill more Americans.
As we approach the coming midterms it is worth noting how the two political party's approach it. Republicans are focused on campaigns and voter concerns. The democrats are focused, as they have been since 2020, with voting rules and procedures. How much mass mail-in voting will there be? How much ballot harvesting? How many ballot boxes?
My vote here in MA will be to vote against all democrats and when the dems are unopposed to write in the name John Sears.
My vote here in NY will be against all republicans.
my votes will be the same in colorado ...
These two posts are IMO what is wrong with American adults. To vote strictly along party lines simply because of partisan politics is the invalid choice. I cannot say I always vote for the correct person but I do try to do the research and vote for the person who I think is offering the best to the public based on the choices available.
Unless you want to vote for the most centrist candidate for every office, which is partisanship in itself, choosing on the basis of party is very defensible. What kind of confused person would for an ultra liberal for one office and a hard core right winger for another? It doesnt even make any sense.
What you are highlighting is that both parties are now putting forward radical candidates. In that environment voting party line is not rational. Voters are forced into voting against the worst candidate (regardless of party) -- or -- choosing the least worst candidate.
Party politics has become so contorted that a party-line vote no longer makes any sense.
Nerm, it is about the democrat's radical revolution and Trump's counterrevolution. That is why there is no longer a middle ground.
But it was never supposed to be Trump's counterrevolution. Trump is a penthouse billionaire from New York. Trump is a poster child for the coastal elite. The northeast may buy into the 'counterrevolution' spin but MAGA was a movement of the heartland, not the two coasts.
Trump cannot lead a counterrevolution by behaving like a northeast autocrat. Donald Trump is becoming a Robert Mugabe style nationalist leader of a failed state.
He is a poster child for depravity wherever it exists.
Bur his recently named successor certainly can.
Only if JD returns to his roots. An heir apparent should be attracting more attention campaigning for midterm candidates. But, as we both know, Trump is the drag on the future of MAGA. Trump can't claim to be conservative while spending public money like a wild-eyed Socialist. Trump demanding free reign to gild the lily doesn't align with pragmatism, practicality, or conservative restraint.
When was this, 5 days ago? Trump changes his what's left of his 'mind' 5 times a day.
VIC:
Are you aware of what Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and Donald J. Trump want to do to the Constitution?
Shred it and let the UBER RICH run the Nation like a CEO.
Vic:
Are you aware that DONALD J. TRUMP is an ADJUDICATED RAPIST, a CONVICTED FELON, a CHILD RAPIST, a MURDERER, a CON MAN who sells Bibles and gold gym shoes, while making billions from corruption?
Vic Eldred:
The RADICAL REVOLUTION is Donald Trump's attempt to take over AMERICA & install himself as KING, or, more likely, a DICTATOR!
Trump is tied to PUTIN!
Amen, John Russell!
Nerm_L:
What doesn't make sense is allowing a CONVICTED FELON, ADJUDICATED RAPIST, CON-MAN, COMPULSIVE LIAR like "Dirty Diaper Donnie", who SHATS his diaper, to be anywhere near the WHITE HOUSE.
Snuffy, you may find this hard to believe, but the majority of Democrats VOTE for who they want. However, unfortunately, too many Republicans vote for who "Dirty Diaper Donnie" wants them to vote for!
It's as simple as that!
So? Are you attempting to claim that elections don't matter any longer? Are you highlighting that our government doesn't work any longer? Are you making a backhanded case that a Democrat Dicktator would be an alternative to a Republican Dicktator?
Anybody can scream at the sky. The only thing that does is spread COVID and make a target for pigeon poo. What's the alternative?
The WI primary is tomorrow. My wife and I will be voting, but not for either populist front runner in the Governor's race.
The establishment Dem won the nomination for Governor in both WI and MN last night.
EDIT: Klobuchar has a 95% chance of winning the MN Governor race and in WI, Crowley is polling ahead of Tiffany in the few polls out this morning.
That is the benefit of a FREE ELECTION, not one tarnished by "Dirty Diaper Donnie"!