Wow look at that neck flap.

Yay, you did it! You saved nobody from nothing!

How are you going to waste our tax money next?

Also, for the record I semi-recently found out he was a comedian.

To be fair he’s not a very good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgiHcvAUFU

Pardon for being shouldacouldawoulda, but in that case vote accessiblilty should’ve been a top priority for the dems after all of the 2020 bs.

I think this really should be their goal, and they should trade things to get there. Like, who cares about needing an ID to vote, if you can use voter ID as leverage to get free national ID cards for everyone? (I’m not saying you can, but try?) Exchange president’s day as a holiday for election day…make voting access an actual priority.

They left the name out of the headline for click baiting purposes IMO. Mary Trump has been talking shit about Uncle Donny for almost a decade now. Anybody paying attention would not be surprised at all about this.

Because theres gotta be some reason trump had basically the same turnout while dems lost significantly.

I made this point elsewhere but it was also far easier to vote in 2020 (in swing states especially).

To add to that, in 2020 we had almost universal mail voting that had been rolled back in most swing states by 2024. In addition, there were a lot of scary stories floating around about Trump supporters at the polls. Lastly, voter suppression efforts do suppress votes (e.g. removing people from voter rolls, closing polling places in blue districts, making voting worse).

One definition of a collapse is a sudden drastic reduction in the complexity of a thing.

I’m not sure whether we’re going to have a societal collapse or a slow decline, but either way the US is in a downward spiral. I think Trump increases the likelihood of us going into the collapse trajectory.

All that said, on the other side of a collapse, there is some room for hope. The incendiary portion of the collapse will definitely suck to live through (if you’re lucky enough to do so), but our country could probably use some simplification long-term because the people within it largely cannot navigate a country this byzantine. A lot of this country’s systems are too complex for an average person to understand let alone administer.

Most of these complexities were probably birthed via intentional decisions by the system creators, and others were a product of unintended consequences. I think the gap in education between our commoners and “the elite” – to borrow a tired trope – also played a part here.

No matter how we arrived at this point, I don’t think the current population can actually operate these systems anymore and long-term one way or another our people require a drastic reduction in the complexity of our society.

There is another path in which the United States invests more in education and scales up the average intelligence of its citizens so that they can handle the complexity of modern life, understand nuance, do research, and create better policy…but at this point I think we’re frankly too far fucked to ever go down that path.

How does your response answer my question?

How exactly is Trump the “easiest possible opponent”?

The greens aren’t still working on the ground; they’ve already accomplished their goal of getting Trump elected.

They’re idiots

The last president – Obama – that the DNC really wasn’t at all involved with was still somehow not very progressive.

Yeah these are things that “centrists” can oppose…talking to your neighbors, going to council meetings, joining a union, starting a poker game, or joining a social group. /s

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I mean hell start a podcast even. There’s literally no place I even know of in my town to build any of this so-called solidarity keyboard leftists talk about as if it’s ubiquitous. I live in a top ten city in one of the most left-leaning states and all I see is “let’s go Brandon” bumper stickers and maga stickers plastered on the backside of my street signs.

Maybe, just maybe, online leftists are full of it and America isn’t on the brink of some great socialist revolution. But who am I kidding, it’s inevitable, right guys? It springs up automatically out of the dirt like dandelions. /s

WTF is with people on this site and the DNC?

What are you even talking about?

Enjoy trying to get money out of politics through magic.

Maybe with the people you spend time with.

If you’re spending your time with a large amount of civically involved, mutual-aid-providing people in America, you’re actually in the minority.

EDIT: Not sure why you’re talking about the 60s like everyone was hippies…

EDIT: Because I’m talking about statistical measures of things. Not feels and vibes like you’re thinking. It’s a well-studied subject, but I know nobody believes in reading or studying anymore.

We have that…

We absolutely do not have that. We have a couch-dwelling population that hasn’t been civically engaged in a meaningful way in fifty years and running. Social capital has atrophied since the 60s by every discernible metric.

Until we get dirty money out of at least the primaries and an actually non biased DNC, it’s not voters deciding.

You aren’t getting “dirty money” out of politics from your couch or by making a post about it on Lemmy.

I show up to vote progressive during party primaries and you and yours leave me lonely at the polls. In some states, such as my state of California, we have jungle primaries. The “DNC” certainly didn’t force the general contest for CA senator to be Schiff versus a Republican…the voters did.

Everyone talks a big game online about how popular leftism is, but I have yet to see it where it actually counts: at the fucking polls.

Why the fuck are you still blaming voters?

Because that’s who chooses the leaders.

I vote in primaries; a lot of you online progressives aren’t there voting with me. I voted for Katie Porter for senator in California, but the managerial class that actually shows up to vote wanted Schiff and so they got him.

EDIT: I find it hilarious that people advocating against showing up to vote in every other case always show up to downvote my comments.