Polls: Society & Politics

Or are you going to start screaming about a "stolen election like you did the last time?

17% Say America Would Be Better Off If Trump Had Been Killed – The Napolitan Institute

Girls are given baby dolls and fake ovens so they'll start to think they want to grow up to be a housewife and boys are given things like tractors and fake tools so they'll start to think they want to "work like a real man" when they grow up. Am I too far off?

The White House just held its first cabinet meeting in 11 months
Jill Biden sat at the head of the table - x.com/endwokeness/status/1837174096263795030?s=46

Trump leads by 3% .

Increasingly, it is getting harder and harder to find anyone on the right who isn't well aware if someone - anyone - would assassinate Trump but fire off a "black lives matter" tweet or something before it, that would give their culture war a substantial boost and might even result in the Civil War they all obviously want. But after two tries from crazy people it seems like the Biden administration has caught on and is going to start protecting Trump as though he was two presidents - unless, of course, republicans block the funding for it. But Trump is also an idiot who is easy to bait into subverting basic security protocols. It can't possibly be too hard to lure him into some line of sight if half of his staff are in on the plan.

The Georgia State Election Board voted on Friday to force counties to hand-count all ballots cast on Election Day, a move critics say could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period.

The new rule, which passed on a 3-2 vote, runs counter to extensive legal advice from the top election official and law enforcement officials in the state. A nonpartisan collective of local election officials had also objected to the change.

The new rule is the latest in a stream of right-wing election policies passed by the State Election Board over the past few months. The board has come under increasing pressure from critics already concerned that it has been rewriting the rules of the game in a key swing state to favor former President Donald J. Trump. Last month, the board granted local officials new power over certifying the election, which opponents say could potentially disrupt the process if Mr. Trump loses in November.

The new rule to require hand counting in addition to a machine count, critics argue, could introduce errors and confusion into the process and potential disrupt the custody of ballots.

The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in this election is stark.
Democracy depends on at least two healthy political parties that can compete for voters on a level playing field. The founders hated the idea of political parties, but quickly figured out that parties tie voters to the mechanics of Congress and the presidency.
And they do far more than that. Parties allowed for the idea of loyal and legitimate opposition, which in turn allowed for the peaceful transition of power. That peaceful exchange enabled the people to choose their leaders and leaders to relinquish power safely. Parties also create a system for criticizing people in power, which helps to weed out corrupt or unfit leaders.
But those benefits of a party system depend on a level political playing field for everyone, so that a party must constantly compete for voters by testing which policies are most popular and getting rid of the corrupt or unstable leaders voters would reject.
In the 80s, radical Republican leaders set out to dismantle the government that regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, promoted infrastructure, and protected civil rights. But that system was popular, and to overcome the majority who favored it, they began to tip the political playing field in their direction. They began to suppress voting by Democrats by insisting that Democrats were engaging in “voter fraud.” They worked to delegitimize their opponents by calling them “socialists” or “communists”. By the 1990s, extremists in the party were taking power by purging traditional Republicans from it.
When a political party has so thoroughly walled itself off from the majority, there are two options. One is to become full-on authoritarian and suppress the majority, often with violence. Such a plan is in Project 2025, which calls for a strong executive to take control of the military and the judicial system and to use that power to impose his will. The other is for us to reject it.

Which one of these old countries would you like to exist again?