Because the GOP is better at slander than just about anybody in world history. Watching them at work is like seeing a gold medal performance at the Criminal Olympics.
Because the GOP is better at slander than just about anybody in world history. Watching them at work is like seeing a gold medal performance at the Criminal Olympics.
I, at least partially, agree, though I think JVL’s analysis is mainly correct. There was a post on X today that said Trump is the choice because we’re a socialist country and Trump will change that. 50 trillion dollars has moved upwards, we have people who have hundreds of billions, the government owns no means of production, we don’t have universal health insurance. We are the least socialist country in the world. And yet many Republicans believe we are, because their media drums it into their heads that Democrats are socialists. Over and over and over. Republicans equate socialism with culture wars, though socialists (communists) would have none of it.
I agree. They just seem nasty, which is why they like Trump. He makes fun of disabled people and POWs. He let's them not care about the less fortunate.
This is 100% true, the GOP *is* way better at selling narratives alongside character assassination campaigns against opposition candidates well in advance of election cycles--see HRC's tar and feathering over Benghazi, Obama's birtherism campaign, and Biden's current investigation cycle in the house--I really don't think that's why Biden isn't ahead in the polls by a lot. I think it has a lot more to do with 1) polls not showing solidified opinions this far out of an election, and 2) as the country gets more and more evenly divided and the elections come down to a handful of districts in 4-6 swing states, polls become less useful as predictive models. See my reply to this Triad if you want to dig deeper into those arguments.
Agree 100%. Since 1992, Dems have won the popular vote in every election but one. (36 years: the same as the time between FDR's first term LBJ's second.) They must be doing something right. There's a very good chance that Biden will win the PV this year too. But it's impossible to predict, especially this far out from the election, whether Biden will prevail in enough of the swing states, and a virtual certainty that each state will be decided by a relative handful of votes.
One thing that upsets me about Republicans is that almost every one of them can say the name of a Democrat with such disgust in their voice that it elicits a powerful emotional reaction in a hearer. They don't explain why Biden/Pelosi/Clinton are so disgusting— they don't need a coherent case. It's like a six-year-old pointing at a classmate saying, “She has cooties."
I can understand that an opposition party has different priorities and I don't have a problem with that. What I am disgusted by how supposedly morally upright conservatives want to vote for Trump? The few things they like can't compare to the he's done. He is an indecent, sleazy sociopath. So I question his voters and can only come up with is that deep down they are just as morally bankrupt as he is. They actually approve of breaking the law and getting away with it. They approve of his blatantly showering his family with money. They like him because he says he doesn't like disabled people or starving people or old people or disabled Veterans or POWs. They now have permission to see them as losers. That's why Kristi Noem shot her puppy. Because Trump's ethic is now the Republican Party's ethic.....I've got mine, fork you!
Yes, I would like to know why Kaitlan Collins didn’t press Bill Barr as to what specific policies of the Biden administration were a “greater danger to democracy,” and so of course, he was voting for Trump.
I agree, though she does have a point. The Republican Party is the party of dirty tricks, lack of civility and outright indecency. And, since Trump emerged as it's leader, moral depravity.
My point was that 30 years of inauthentic screeching about Hillary eventually paid off for the GOP. I can't think of an equivalent situation with the parties reversed.
Clearly. The Republicans have told a narrative and people are following it. The relative diversity of Democrats means they do not speak with a unified voice, and they can't lead voters in a single direction.
The big story of the last 20 years is the Republicans have taught a large chunk of Americans to be ideological.
Why Isn't Biden Winning By 20 Points?
Because the GOP is better at slander than just about anybody in world history. Watching them at work is like seeing a gold medal performance at the Criminal Olympics.
If that’s the reason, it’s ultimately because nearly have of our citizens are craven and feed off of their slander. It’s very upsetting.
I, at least partially, agree, though I think JVL’s analysis is mainly correct. There was a post on X today that said Trump is the choice because we’re a socialist country and Trump will change that. 50 trillion dollars has moved upwards, we have people who have hundreds of billions, the government owns no means of production, we don’t have universal health insurance. We are the least socialist country in the world. And yet many Republicans believe we are, because their media drums it into their heads that Democrats are socialists. Over and over and over. Republicans equate socialism with culture wars, though socialists (communists) would have none of it.
I agree. They just seem nasty, which is why they like Trump. He makes fun of disabled people and POWs. He let's them not care about the less fortunate.
This is 100% true, the GOP *is* way better at selling narratives alongside character assassination campaigns against opposition candidates well in advance of election cycles--see HRC's tar and feathering over Benghazi, Obama's birtherism campaign, and Biden's current investigation cycle in the house--I really don't think that's why Biden isn't ahead in the polls by a lot. I think it has a lot more to do with 1) polls not showing solidified opinions this far out of an election, and 2) as the country gets more and more evenly divided and the elections come down to a handful of districts in 4-6 swing states, polls become less useful as predictive models. See my reply to this Triad if you want to dig deeper into those arguments.
Agree 100%. Since 1992, Dems have won the popular vote in every election but one. (36 years: the same as the time between FDR's first term LBJ's second.) They must be doing something right. There's a very good chance that Biden will win the PV this year too. But it's impossible to predict, especially this far out from the election, whether Biden will prevail in enough of the swing states, and a virtual certainty that each state will be decided by a relative handful of votes.
One thing that upsets me about Republicans is that almost every one of them can say the name of a Democrat with such disgust in their voice that it elicits a powerful emotional reaction in a hearer. They don't explain why Biden/Pelosi/Clinton are so disgusting— they don't need a coherent case. It's like a six-year-old pointing at a classmate saying, “She has cooties."
I can understand that an opposition party has different priorities and I don't have a problem with that. What I am disgusted by how supposedly morally upright conservatives want to vote for Trump? The few things they like can't compare to the he's done. He is an indecent, sleazy sociopath. So I question his voters and can only come up with is that deep down they are just as morally bankrupt as he is. They actually approve of breaking the law and getting away with it. They approve of his blatantly showering his family with money. They like him because he says he doesn't like disabled people or starving people or old people or disabled Veterans or POWs. They now have permission to see them as losers. That's why Kristi Noem shot her puppy. Because Trump's ethic is now the Republican Party's ethic.....I've got mine, fork you!
Full concur.
Yes, I would like to know why Kaitlan Collins didn’t press Bill Barr as to what specific policies of the Biden administration were a “greater danger to democracy,” and so of course, he was voting for Trump.
I wish she would have pressed him to define what means by democracy.
Well put!
I . . . . don't think that's the reason!
I agree, though she does have a point. The Republican Party is the party of dirty tricks, lack of civility and outright indecency. And, since Trump emerged as it's leader, moral depravity.
Two words: Swift Boat.
I agree with Kathleen. Republican politicians lie through their teeth, and their voters eat it up like candy.
At least not the entire or even primary reason
Maybe you could ask Hillary?
This is so tired. Hillary Clinton, much as people want to make it so, is not the Democrat bogeyman.
My point was that 30 years of inauthentic screeching about Hillary eventually paid off for the GOP. I can't think of an equivalent situation with the parties reversed.
Clearly. The Republicans have told a narrative and people are following it. The relative diversity of Democrats means they do not speak with a unified voice, and they can't lead voters in a single direction.
The big story of the last 20 years is the Republicans have taught a large chunk of Americans to be ideological.