Youngkin Wins.
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I think many thought 2020 was the last gasp of white supremist ideology in U.S. politics.
Buckle up for 2024. Team Racism is ready to fight. I predict they aren't even going to try very hard to disguise what they're on about. They are just going to full on appeal to racist notions and I predict it will work.
I'm going to look forward to 2032. That might actually be the last gasp of the racist stranglehold on the U.S.. Until then, we are a racist nation. We have been, we are, and we do not seem ready to give it up.
Buckle up for 2024. Team Racism is ready to fight. I predict they aren't even going to try very hard to disguise what they're on about. They are just going to full on appeal to racist notions and I predict it will work.
I'm going to look forward to 2032. That might actually be the last gasp of the racist stranglehold on the U.S.. Until then, we are a racist nation. We have been, we are, and we do not seem ready to give it up.
candrew
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NJ Gov race is insane - with well over 2 million votes cast the race is almost dead even with about 1K votes separating the candidates. Murphy will probably pull away a bit being the larger counties are blue and always report last - but not by a enough of a margin where we'll avoid one or the other demanding a recount.
The calculus for shareholder polling continues to be ****ed up - Murphy had low double digit leads in most polls leading up to the election. It seems even the somewhat "saner" northeastern republicans don't trust pollsters anymore.
The calculus for shareholder polling continues to be ****ed up - Murphy had low double digit leads in most polls leading up to the election. It seems even the somewhat "saner" northeastern republicans don't trust pollsters anymore.
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I read last night that the majority of voters in Virginia didn’t list Covid as a top concern. Want to know what was? Critical race theory. Imagine living in a world where a damn pandemic that has already killed 800,000 Americans and is killing 1,500 per day isn’t a top issue but critical race theory in K-12 schools is.
CRT is nothing more than Willie Horton in 2021. Google Willie Horton if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
What I wonder about is why aren’t republicans questioning the results of this election? Were the machines fixed in less than one year? If Hugo Chavez, James Comey, China, Russia, aliens, and Hillary Clinton could hack the 2020 election why couldn’t they hack the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election? Where’s the My Pillow guy? Where’s the cyber ninjas when you need them? Release the Kraken!
CRT is nothing more than Willie Horton in 2021. Google Willie Horton if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
What I wonder about is why aren’t republicans questioning the results of this election? Were the machines fixed in less than one year? If Hugo Chavez, James Comey, China, Russia, aliens, and Hillary Clinton could hack the 2020 election why couldn’t they hack the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election? Where’s the My Pillow guy? Where’s the cyber ninjas when you need them? Release the Kraken!
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candrew
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I seriously doubt it ; but I'm hoping the VA Gov race finally puts an end to the democratic party trotting out these old, milquetoast, middle of the road, centrist, Clinton-like candidates.
You need a more compelling reason to win an election other than "I'm not a republican; but don't worry I'll just kinda act like one once I get into office."
You need a more compelling reason to win an election other than "I'm not a republican; but don't worry I'll just kinda act like one once I get into office."
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Aren’t Democrats usually criticized for trotting out anti police pro BLM socialists? I’m glad I’m not a Democratic strategist. Seems like they’re in a no-win situation. You either try to appeal to whites/moderates and are then critiqued for trotting out a Republican with a D by their name or you’re critiqued for trotting out a liberal who alienated whites/moderates. Damned if you do damned if you don't.
I think the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about is the establishment of state run media (Fox News) that is able to bend all other news organizations and social media platforms to its will. To avoid the criticism of bias, mainstream news sources now go overboard to appease Fox News. The NY Times is notorious for this. Then, Facebook, the largest social media platform in the world regularly promotes Fox News/right wing commentators for clicks. Throw in the organization of the Koch network (Heritage Foundation, Turning Point, Cato Institute) together with evangelical churches (Family Council, Eagle Forum, Focus on the Family) and you really do have an unstoppable force.
The realization I'm coming to is that policy no longer matters in America. It's all about messaging. You can sit on your *** 20 hrs a day watching Fox News, tell people to shoot up lysol and stick a flashlight up your ***, and blow covid off as a flu and a large segment of the population will believe you because Fox News, Facebook, etc tell you. An even larger segment of the population will be influenced by this because Fox and Facebook are just so damn influential. With Republicans receiving cover fire from Fox and Facebook, it makes it so Trump can continually insight violence without accountability. It's why the GOP can be an authoritarian party and try to overthrow the government less than one year ago and then win a gubernatorial election in Virginia. It's why Obama's tan suit got far more coverage than any number of Trump crimes. I mean, could you imagine what Fox News would've done if Obama had led a mostly black insurrection of the capitol to keep himself in power? Democrats would've been lost in the wilderness for a century. The cover fire that Fox News provides Republicans is incredible. There's no equivalent on the left.
Policy no longer matters, only messaging. It's why no one talks about Amy Klobuchar or Elizabeth Warren and why jokes like Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, and MTG get all the money and clicks.
- The American public is overwhelmed with information, the 24 news cycle and Internet just throw too much info too fast at people.
- Right Wing Media floods the zone with **** (citing Steve Bannon here) preying on fear and anger.
- Facebook promotes divisive and hateful RW speech because it generates clicks.
- A confused, ignorant, and polarized public falls back on racial animus and simple slogans to make critical choices.
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Transphobia also appears to be effective…
Oof
Like I don’t know how to fix this. At some point voters need to have some level of decency and empathy for others. If CRT and “drag queens” are what’s motivating you to vote R, then I’m not sure there’s a candidate or solution for you. :shrug:
Al-O-Meter
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I fear that is going to be the narrative in the left bubble, and it is going to make the next election unbearable because every election advertisement from the left is going to be racism-this, and white supremacy-that. I think that if the Democrats go forward with that idea then they’ve completely lost the plot.
Social phenomenon can swing like a pendulum. Something will spark movement, society will run too far in that direction and then the pendulum will inevitably swing back. If you think I’m talking about race right now then stop being such a race obsessed racist. It is about authoritarianism.
We’ve just come through 18 months of “emergency powers” where some businesses were told they were non-essential and forbidden from opening. Departments of Health had unprecedented power that couldn’t be challenged and you couldn’t even vote in new leadership because they are unelected. Government said “eff your union contracts, you will do what we mandate”. People are over it. They are so over it that they’re refusing to take a vaccine that could save their lives as a tiny show of rebellion.
Into that mood we have the school board in population dense, deep blue Louden County, Virginia where Biden won by 25 points. A 15-year old girl was raped in school and the School Board moved the boy to a different school where he raped another girl.
The father of the raped girl showed up to a school board meeting to demand accountability only to be told by the school board there was no rape as they had the police arrest him. The pictures of the father of the raped girl being arrested was then used by the national school board association to label parents as domestic terrorists and to call for the full force of the federal government to use every tool at their disposal including the Patriot Act to silence them.
Even voicing rage over your little girl being raped and for that rape to be subsequently covered up by school administrators was not allowed. Terry McAuliffe then dropped the perfect soundbite at the perfect moment when he said “parents shouldn’t have a say…”
The election last night was seen as a choice between continued government authoritarianism or pulling back from authoritarianism. If Democrats came away from last night thinking people still love authoritarian mandates, they love having schools closed for arbitrary reasons, they don’t care about being told they have to wear a mask or inject medicines in their bodies because we said so, they don’t care if we cover up rapes of their daughters, label them as terrorists, and use the DOJ to frighten them into submission. If this morning Democrats think the mood of America is to embrace the status quo of authoritarian emergency powers but they just want more white supremacy, then the Democrats should prepare to get waxed. As evidenced by last night, all the GOP has to do is say they’ll let you have a say in how we are all governed.
Avery
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If you don't like big government, and I suspect many of us don't, you shouldn't want politicians making any business of your children's education. Most don't have a clue about how to build any learning curriculum.
And most parents unfortunately don't have a clue of how to properly educate their kids anyway regardless of them wanting a 'say' in what their child learns - they couldn't wait to get their kids back into public school when they were doing distant learning from homes and parents suddenly realized that being an educator is really, really hard.
And most parents unfortunately don't have a clue of how to properly educate their kids anyway regardless of them wanting a 'say' in what their child learns - they couldn't wait to get their kids back into public school when they were doing distant learning from homes and parents suddenly realized that being an educator is really, really hard.
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Regurgitating Ben Shapiro disinformation again? Second time in the last 48 hrs my man!
Like I said in my previous post, it’s hard to compete with the RW disinformation machine.
Opinion | The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia
An attack in a school bathroom had nothing to do with trans issues.
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But the right isn’t against big overbearing government controlling schools. They’re totally fine with indoctrination. It just has to be their form of indoctrination.
A Texas lawmaker is targeting 850 books that he says could make students feel uneasy | Houston Public Media
Republican Matt Krause is asking schools for an accounting of any book that "might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress."
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
I think CRT was the issue that propelled Youngkin to a win. It was one of his main campaign topics when he surged to the lead and it really seemed to get his supporters fired up.
Since CRT isn't part of the curriculum in VA schools, what would you call the message being sent that he's going to ban something that isn't even being done and isn't being pushed as a K-12 subject?
I call it a racist dog-whistle.