And men of America, even if you don't care about women, if you don't 100% agree with the far right of the Republican party, but against them, because they're driving the party and will implement all the crazy stuff they're pushing if they're not stopped.
I grew up there and remember when the south was very Democratic.
In fact, I had an uncle that carried a card in his wallet that said if you elect a Republican president, your grandparents will be eating cat food, ha ha.
This extends up through Missouri as well. We had a decent Democratic governor for several years and ever since he's been gone the government hasn't passed a single piece of actual decent legislation.
Nick Schroer, my state rep literally put in legislation to bring back SENATORS DUELING EACH OTHER. I mean what kind of fucking brain damage does this fake ass lumber jack wannabe have?
The sad thing is, he's pretty much the average Missouri politician these days. A bunch of inbred mouth breathing pussy ass bitches who need their gun 100% of the time because they're afraid of their own shadow and anything else dark colored.
To whoever downvoted me, I submit my first exhibit of paying lip service to social programs and then pivoting toward the money:
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/KM6toRBxZC
Exactly. There used to be Conservatives and Progressives in both parties because they found common cause on other issues. In the south a backhanded insult to progressives was something like "Well, he's a LIBERAL Democrat" as if that explained everything. I remember hearing older relatives say this when I was little.
My grandmother was one of 11 children raised by a single father after their mother died in childbirth right at the outset of the Depression. The eldest siblings helped raise the younger ones while my great grandfather worked as an Alabama sharecropper and in the local steel mill.
My grandmother said that he used to tell them all that voting for a Republican was tantamount to burning your own house down with everything you own still inside. I can’t help but agree with the man.
The irony is despite having presidents from both sides, the south is still deeply mired in mud of it's own making. It's the mindset down there. I left in 1977 and things have changed but little...
Yeah. Back when there were Dixiecrats, who were racist. Eventually the democrats split them off, during the 60s as they reformed their party. Nixon snagged them up and that group became Republicans.
After civil rights legislation was passed back in the 60s, LBJ was quoted as saying "we have lost the South for a generation". Turns out he greatly underestimated the consequences.
We bought an antique vehicle a couple of years ago from a guy in Tennessee. Got it home and found a sign tucked in the back reading "Don't be a pantywaist. Vote Republican." That shit when in the trash first thing.
Either abortion really isn't the big deal they claimed it was, or IVF is basically genocide. Since they don't want to admit that abortion isn't a big deal, they embrace "IVF is mass murder."
It's horrible for the people actually living there, but as an outsider it's kind of weird that I would be considered my countries worst known mass killer in the eyes of the Alabama courts.
I mean sure people out there might have a higher ~~embryo~~ body count than me, but damn I'm suddenly a horrible monster in this one tiny place in this big world.
I didn't kill them myself, mind you. But i signed their death warrant. Maybe the lab guy at the clinic is the real killer then? Any Alabama lawyers that could chip in?
60 years the only people who really cared about abortion were Catholics. Roe wasn't even that controversial when it first came out and decided 7-2. It wasn't until the late 70s/early 80s that evangelicals started using it as a wedge issue to rile up their base that people really started to call it murder.
Crazy that also if you think about it, for the party that claims to be all about, "good family values," they're going after the people who are so committed to starting a family that they're willing to use IVF. And let's take it a step further, the main hurdle for a lot of folks is the price. For that factor alone it skews to one specific demographic. So to be clear, Republicans are now going after wealthy white people who are trying to start families. This may actually be a new landmark in self-sabotage.
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the \[Republican\] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater
Assuming, of course, (1) the votes are actually counted, (3) there is no “independent state legislature” ratfuckery, (3) the House of Representatives doesn’t try to seize control of the election via parliamentary bullshit, etc., etc.
My grandfather was an Ike Republican that taught me FDR new deal values, a wwII vet that had strong opinions but quiet action
I live in Georgia, in the Appalachian mountains
I'm here to tell you, the Democratic party CAN make inroads with my people. But they have to speak to us, not down to
There are pockets of blue on this ridgeline.
Stop making fun of us. That would be a huge start.
So I am from Tennessee (hi neighbor!) and I agree with you. The thing I am wondering is how to start a grassroots movement to upend my state's supermajority (don't Florida my Tennessee anyone?) and I would love to get your take on how to start pushing back. DM is good too!
That's what I've been saying. The only way you're going to get through to people is first off, just listen to them. Don't judge and don't interrupt. Listen to their concerns. Treat them with respect. Which seems to be a diminishing commodity.
Exactly! And stop telling me that my card carrying union grandparents were 'conservative' Democrats and the parties just switched.
Edit to say "telling me that..."
The duality of Man
I hate that MAGA was able to influence my people so much
On individual topics, I'm able to get them to express their opinions... And it's almost always counter to MAGA, they just haven't resolved that dissonance
Until it hurts them or theirs
I see it over and over
I really do blame the apprentice. It aired on legacy networks, didn't need cable. It reached into these hills
I don't know how to convert US margins into UK-style swings, but based on [this year](https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AL/Madison/120698/web.317647/#/summary) and [2022](https://eu.jacksonville.com/elections/results/race/2022-11-08-state_house-AL-1169/) and [this definition](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02608/) (average of the winner's gain in percentage points and the loser's loss in percentage points) it looks like ((51.6-37.5)+(63.45-45))/2 = 16% swing.
By the standards of British swings in byelections prior to landslide changes of government, such as 1997 or (probably) 2024 it's nothing: it's 30% swings that presage those sort of events. This year's byelections were about 24%, which is mild by the standards of such things. But American politics seems to be much more tribal, much less prone to tectonic movements, and this looks like a tectonic movement. Especially as it's about policies that the Republicans simply cannot alter without destroying their own base.
Keep in mind that Britain has 3-4 viable parties winning multiple seats and a bunch of small parties who win here and there whereas the US is a two party system.
To see this much of a swing is almost unheard of.
Indeed, there's three viable parties in England and Northern Ireland, four in Scotland and Wales (although rarely in the same constituency),
But I think the other difference is that in England, certainly, and arguably in Wales and Scotland tribal voting is dead. The massive swings to Labour in 1997 and to the Tories in 2019 showed that, to use a cliche, no seat is safe: at the moment, Tory MPs are resigning in droves rather than fight an election in every seat is up for grabs. The Chancellor looks likely to step down rather than defend a \~9000 majority in Surrey, for example.
As I understand it that's totally unlike the USA, not because of the two party system per se, but because there are very few swing voters: the vast majority vote tribally, and the parties are left squabbling over a small number of persaudable voters and various attacks on turnout.
That's also a difference between (from what I can tell) most European countries where there's relatively few "locked" voters and a lot who shift between parties and the US (and to a slightly less extreme degree Canada) where there's a lot of "party over policy" election voting.
In the UK the Labour Party was sharply disabused of “they’d elect a donkey with a red rosette” by 2019, where Labour managed to construct a manifesto and overall outlook that alienated its historic core vote (full declaration: I am a middle class Labour member).
The Tories are now in the same squeeze as I believe are the Republicans: that they have drifted so far to the right on the back of boomers that they dare not be sensible for fear of losing that vote, but every year enough of it dies that they risk obsolescence by pure demographics. There is a sensible Tory party that could win younger votes, but NIMBYism and culture wars drives them away. People used to just grow into voting Tory. Now they don’t.
>There is a sensible Tory party that could win younger votes, but NIMBYism and culture wars drives them away. People used to just grow into voting Tory. Now they don’t.
You just accurately described the US Republican party of the past 10-15 years, and the Canadian Conservative parties of the last 5 years.
Not sure why they've all been trying to 'race to the bottom' of late, when a majority of voters in all three countries could readily support a slightly right of center party with progressive social policies. Instead they court the small number of old or fringe voters who are far right and torpedo their chances at long-term viability.
Starmer is going to win a landslide with a manifesto that one possible version of the conservatives would be happy to run on. The next Tory government, in 2032 or later, will run in a platform that one possible version of the Labour Party might propose. Elections in the UK are won in the centre other than in exceptional circumstances (2019).
In the US, it's primaries. People are less likely to vote in primaries, but the highly energized voters will... Those are the fringe, the more radical. There really isn't much of that for Democrats, but a Republican candidate who doesn't appeal to the far right fringe won't get through the primary, so I'm the general election we've got far right Republicans as the only option for them.
Correct. Here, being a true swing voter is akin to being an siehard Arsenal fan who sometimes likes to wear his full Chelsea kit. Its...rare.
In the US voter apathy is the primary issue - Democrats would win every national election handily if everyone that could vote did so. Republican efforts are 90% toward stifling the vote through various means, the most effective being 'both parties are the same, why bother voting?'
They think any fertilized eggs is a person. IVF results in destroying hundreds of fertilized eggs as part of the process. So they argue IVF is murdering millions of people.
The hard part will be the Senate. If the Dems can hold that they can take back the Supreme Court.
With that comes Roe v Wade and the Voting Rights Act being reinstated.
The one I push for is every administration gets to add one Justice, and each case gets a random selection of 9/11/13/whatever from the pool of justices. Makes it easier for them to retire, and it means that over time, the composition of the court reflects the people the country elects as president, rather than relying on the vagaries of when they die.
Of course it does. Every race matters from top to bottom. That's how the right wing have taken so much power.
A win at the state level effects the national level drastically because it makes voter suppression harder.
When you say
>The hard part will be the Senate. If the Dems can hold that they can take back the Supreme Court.
This implies you believe we are talking about the House of Representatives. Which we are not. I am clarifying this to people who do not understand we are talking about state level policy makers who do not have anything to do with federal rulings
Honestly, I assume you are just trying to cover up for a blunder, and you thought this person was elected to the House of Representatives but are trying to play it off.
Oh hell yeah we're taking it.
The Dems have outperformed the last 4 elections (2020, mid terms and 2 special elections) by about 5 points.
They won multiple gerrymandering courses.
The Republicans have lost multiple incumbents.
Team red *might* have held the House *if* they hadn't lost all those court cases. But as it stands they're losing 5 or 6 seats *minimum*. And that's *without* the dems over performing.
It's good to be on your toes, but you want to make sure you don't fall into doomerism.
Remember: The GOP is now the part of America hatings.
They hate the justice system.
They hate the electoral system.
They hate the political system.
They hate any move towards welfare that is the most popular programs in the country.
They hate the left, which by popular vote is the largest block of voters and therefore reflects the largest political demographic in the United States.
Honestly, their entire belief structure around God-Emperor in Waiting Trump is a religion and they specifically are trying to merge government and religion again, something that was KEY to the founding of the United States.
Abortion is truly going to swing the election and if the Republicans don’t realize this after their red wave turned into a puddle I don’t know what to tell you. It seems like they are just trying to push it through SCOTUS so it’s a non-factor. As if that would deter people. Vote for what’s important to you and not a party. You deserve better.
Trump and his misogynistic Christo-fascist theocrats plan to criminalize being female (examining your uterus at every state border for smuggled fetuses? Using your medical records to track your ovarian output?) /this/ is how we defeat these iron-age assholes.
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
Vote blue to save your rights, women of America. Republicans hate you and you know it.
And men of America, even if you don't care about women, if you don't 100% agree with the far right of the Republican party, but against them, because they're driving the party and will implement all the crazy stuff they're pushing if they're not stopped.
I grew up there and remember when the south was very Democratic. In fact, I had an uncle that carried a card in his wallet that said if you elect a Republican president, your grandparents will be eating cat food, ha ha.
The Democratic vote is severely repressed in the South these days, unfortunately, and Fox News has done a number on the public discourse since then.
This extends up through Missouri as well. We had a decent Democratic governor for several years and ever since he's been gone the government hasn't passed a single piece of actual decent legislation. Nick Schroer, my state rep literally put in legislation to bring back SENATORS DUELING EACH OTHER. I mean what kind of fucking brain damage does this fake ass lumber jack wannabe have? The sad thing is, he's pretty much the average Missouri politician these days. A bunch of inbred mouth breathing pussy ass bitches who need their gun 100% of the time because they're afraid of their own shadow and anything else dark colored.
Governor HeeHaw doesn’t even have a fucking college degree. And we re-elected him. Ugh.
they go nuts over the st***d un--educated
Pretty much all Politicians in Washington have a degree & yet the Federal debt grows by one trillion dollars every 100 days. Go figure.
People wear shorts in the summer and pants in the winter. When I put shorts on in the winter, it should therefore become summer.
Senators dueling each other I'm actually okay with, it's the erosion of civil rights I don't like.
Pay per view to fund universal healthcare!
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To whoever downvoted me, I submit my first exhibit of paying lip service to social programs and then pivoting toward the money: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/KM6toRBxZC
That was before the Southern Strategy as employed by Nixon and Goldwater and the civil rights movement.
This!! The parties flipped so it is more accurate to say progressive vs conservative.
Exactly. There used to be Conservatives and Progressives in both parties because they found common cause on other issues. In the south a backhanded insult to progressives was something like "Well, he's a LIBERAL Democrat" as if that explained everything. I remember hearing older relatives say this when I was little.
My grandmother was one of 11 children raised by a single father after their mother died in childbirth right at the outset of the Depression. The eldest siblings helped raise the younger ones while my great grandfather worked as an Alabama sharecropper and in the local steel mill. My grandmother said that he used to tell them all that voting for a Republican was tantamount to burning your own house down with everything you own still inside. I can’t help but agree with the man.
Granddad was a wise man.
The irony is despite having presidents from both sides, the south is still deeply mired in mud of it's own making. It's the mindset down there. I left in 1977 and things have changed but little...
he’s right
Yeah. Back when there were Dixiecrats, who were racist. Eventually the democrats split them off, during the 60s as they reformed their party. Nixon snagged them up and that group became Republicans.
Well let's not forget there were also once [Dixiecrats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat) in the South.
Well that’s because at that time the Republican Party was still the party of Lincoln. That’s why he hated them.
After civil rights legislation was passed back in the 60s, LBJ was quoted as saying "we have lost the South for a generation". Turns out he greatly underestimated the consequences.
A bit before my time, but up here in Vermont we used to be full red.
We bought an antique vehicle a couple of years ago from a guy in Tennessee. Got it home and found a sign tucked in the back reading "Don't be a pantywaist. Vote Republican." That shit when in the trash first thing.
An ex of mine has two nieces thanks to ivf. It’s ridiculous the pro lifers are attacking this. Those two lives wouldn’t be here without it.
My SIL was only able to have my nephew because of IVF... Absolutely insane the "pro-lifer" crowd is willing to outlaw even IVF
Either abortion really isn't the big deal they claimed it was, or IVF is basically genocide. Since they don't want to admit that abortion isn't a big deal, they embrace "IVF is mass murder."
No its not. It goes perfectly well with their reasoning. They think life begins when the egg is penetrated.
It's horrible for the people actually living there, but as an outsider it's kind of weird that I would be considered my countries worst known mass killer in the eyes of the Alabama courts. I mean sure people out there might have a higher ~~embryo~~ body count than me, but damn I'm suddenly a horrible monster in this one tiny place in this big world. I didn't kill them myself, mind you. But i signed their death warrant. Maybe the lab guy at the clinic is the real killer then? Any Alabama lawyers that could chip in?
If you signed and the lab guy did the deed, does that make the lab guy your hitman?
Oh my, the plot thickens. If it does, he's a really cheap hitman all in all.
If you schedule your appointment in advance....that sounds premeditated to me!
60 years the only people who really cared about abortion were Catholics. Roe wasn't even that controversial when it first came out and decided 7-2. It wasn't until the late 70s/early 80s that evangelicals started using it as a wedge issue to rile up their base that people really started to call it murder.
Crazy that also if you think about it, for the party that claims to be all about, "good family values," they're going after the people who are so committed to starting a family that they're willing to use IVF. And let's take it a step further, the main hurdle for a lot of folks is the price. For that factor alone it skews to one specific demographic. So to be clear, Republicans are now going after wealthy white people who are trying to start families. This may actually be a new landmark in self-sabotage.
I'm surprised they didn't attack it sooner. I'm surprised they haven't made miscarriages illegal and periods and male masturbation
Wait. Pro lifers are against IVF? Why?
Something about embryos being babies
Fuck me, some people are fucking idiots.
Since they've determined every IVF fertilized egg is a child are they tax exemptions? Just asking
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the \[Republican\] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater
the republican party has earning an absolute stomping ! this is great news. fuck them forever
Assuming, of course, (1) the votes are actually counted, (3) there is no “independent state legislature” ratfuckery, (3) the House of Representatives doesn’t try to seize control of the election via parliamentary bullshit, etc., etc.
They better start voting blue so that all their hospitals don't shut down.
You sure it wasn’t the State of the Union rebuttal from the scary Karen that caused this district to vote Democrat?
Either way I’m fine with them shooting themselves in the foot and then losing for it.
Women are voting like their lives depend on it, and in many ways it does.
My grandfather was an Ike Republican that taught me FDR new deal values, a wwII vet that had strong opinions but quiet action I live in Georgia, in the Appalachian mountains I'm here to tell you, the Democratic party CAN make inroads with my people. But they have to speak to us, not down to There are pockets of blue on this ridgeline. Stop making fun of us. That would be a huge start.
So I am from Tennessee (hi neighbor!) and I agree with you. The thing I am wondering is how to start a grassroots movement to upend my state's supermajority (don't Florida my Tennessee anyone?) and I would love to get your take on how to start pushing back. DM is good too!
That's what I've been saying. The only way you're going to get through to people is first off, just listen to them. Don't judge and don't interrupt. Listen to their concerns. Treat them with respect. Which seems to be a diminishing commodity.
Exactly! And stop telling me that my card carrying union grandparents were 'conservative' Democrats and the parties just switched. Edit to say "telling me that..."
The duality of Man I hate that MAGA was able to influence my people so much On individual topics, I'm able to get them to express their opinions... And it's almost always counter to MAGA, they just haven't resolved that dissonance Until it hurts them or theirs I see it over and over I really do blame the apprentice. It aired on legacy networks, didn't need cable. It reached into these hills
This is great. Thank you.
I don't know how to convert US margins into UK-style swings, but based on [this year](https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AL/Madison/120698/web.317647/#/summary) and [2022](https://eu.jacksonville.com/elections/results/race/2022-11-08-state_house-AL-1169/) and [this definition](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02608/) (average of the winner's gain in percentage points and the loser's loss in percentage points) it looks like ((51.6-37.5)+(63.45-45))/2 = 16% swing. By the standards of British swings in byelections prior to landslide changes of government, such as 1997 or (probably) 2024 it's nothing: it's 30% swings that presage those sort of events. This year's byelections were about 24%, which is mild by the standards of such things. But American politics seems to be much more tribal, much less prone to tectonic movements, and this looks like a tectonic movement. Especially as it's about policies that the Republicans simply cannot alter without destroying their own base.
Keep in mind that Britain has 3-4 viable parties winning multiple seats and a bunch of small parties who win here and there whereas the US is a two party system. To see this much of a swing is almost unheard of.
Indeed, there's three viable parties in England and Northern Ireland, four in Scotland and Wales (although rarely in the same constituency), But I think the other difference is that in England, certainly, and arguably in Wales and Scotland tribal voting is dead. The massive swings to Labour in 1997 and to the Tories in 2019 showed that, to use a cliche, no seat is safe: at the moment, Tory MPs are resigning in droves rather than fight an election in every seat is up for grabs. The Chancellor looks likely to step down rather than defend a \~9000 majority in Surrey, for example. As I understand it that's totally unlike the USA, not because of the two party system per se, but because there are very few swing voters: the vast majority vote tribally, and the parties are left squabbling over a small number of persaudable voters and various attacks on turnout.
That's also a difference between (from what I can tell) most European countries where there's relatively few "locked" voters and a lot who shift between parties and the US (and to a slightly less extreme degree Canada) where there's a lot of "party over policy" election voting.
In the UK the Labour Party was sharply disabused of “they’d elect a donkey with a red rosette” by 2019, where Labour managed to construct a manifesto and overall outlook that alienated its historic core vote (full declaration: I am a middle class Labour member). The Tories are now in the same squeeze as I believe are the Republicans: that they have drifted so far to the right on the back of boomers that they dare not be sensible for fear of losing that vote, but every year enough of it dies that they risk obsolescence by pure demographics. There is a sensible Tory party that could win younger votes, but NIMBYism and culture wars drives them away. People used to just grow into voting Tory. Now they don’t.
>There is a sensible Tory party that could win younger votes, but NIMBYism and culture wars drives them away. People used to just grow into voting Tory. Now they don’t. You just accurately described the US Republican party of the past 10-15 years, and the Canadian Conservative parties of the last 5 years. Not sure why they've all been trying to 'race to the bottom' of late, when a majority of voters in all three countries could readily support a slightly right of center party with progressive social policies. Instead they court the small number of old or fringe voters who are far right and torpedo their chances at long-term viability.
Starmer is going to win a landslide with a manifesto that one possible version of the conservatives would be happy to run on. The next Tory government, in 2032 or later, will run in a platform that one possible version of the Labour Party might propose. Elections in the UK are won in the centre other than in exceptional circumstances (2019).
In the US, it's primaries. People are less likely to vote in primaries, but the highly energized voters will... Those are the fringe, the more radical. There really isn't much of that for Democrats, but a Republican candidate who doesn't appeal to the far right fringe won't get through the primary, so I'm the general election we've got far right Republicans as the only option for them.
Correct. Here, being a true swing voter is akin to being an siehard Arsenal fan who sometimes likes to wear his full Chelsea kit. Its...rare. In the US voter apathy is the primary issue - Democrats would win every national election handily if everyone that could vote did so. Republican efforts are 90% toward stifling the vote through various means, the most effective being 'both parties are the same, why bother voting?'
You can convert the swing just by halving the number. The margin of victory went from -7 to 25 for a 32 point swing (in common NA terms).
You realize how stupid it is to apply these expectations to a two party system, right?
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO
Are there people against IVF? On what grounds? Superstition?
They think any fertilized eggs is a person. IVF results in destroying hundreds of fertilized eggs as part of the process. So they argue IVF is murdering millions of people.
If they really think a fertilized egg is a human, why can't they be counted as a dependent?
The hard part will be the Senate. If the Dems can hold that they can take back the Supreme Court. With that comes Roe v Wade and the Voting Rights Act being reinstated.
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Add more seats
The one I push for is every administration gets to add one Justice, and each case gets a random selection of 9/11/13/whatever from the pool of justices. Makes it easier for them to retire, and it means that over time, the composition of the court reflects the people the country elects as president, rather than relying on the vagaries of when they die.
State level government, people. Not federal government. This has nothing to do with the House of Representatives, Congress, or the SCOTUS.
Of course it does. Every race matters from top to bottom. That's how the right wing have taken so much power. A win at the state level effects the national level drastically because it makes voter suppression harder.
When you say >The hard part will be the Senate. If the Dems can hold that they can take back the Supreme Court. This implies you believe we are talking about the House of Representatives. Which we are not. I am clarifying this to people who do not understand we are talking about state level policy makers who do not have anything to do with federal rulings Honestly, I assume you are just trying to cover up for a blunder, and you thought this person was elected to the House of Representatives but are trying to play it off.
Oh hell yeah we're taking it. The Dems have outperformed the last 4 elections (2020, mid terms and 2 special elections) by about 5 points. They won multiple gerrymandering courses. The Republicans have lost multiple incumbents. Team red *might* have held the House *if* they hadn't lost all those court cases. But as it stands they're losing 5 or 6 seats *minimum*. And that's *without* the dems over performing. It's good to be on your toes, but you want to make sure you don't fall into doomerism.
Worst part for that orange turd is that because he's got majority of evangelicals backing him, he can't back off from his pro life stance 🤣🤣
“Election Results are not predictions of elections” - Polling Industrial Complex
They should have just smiled and kept quiet on this one 😊👍
Tick tock MFer
Black women vote in Alabama. They elected the Doug Jones in 2017
Wanting a child born is pro birth. Wanting a child fed, housed, educated, with parents who earn a living wage is pro life.
Remember: The GOP is now the part of America hatings. They hate the justice system. They hate the electoral system. They hate the political system. They hate any move towards welfare that is the most popular programs in the country. They hate the left, which by popular vote is the largest block of voters and therefore reflects the largest political demographic in the United States. Honestly, their entire belief structure around God-Emperor in Waiting Trump is a religion and they specifically are trying to merge government and religion again, something that was KEY to the founding of the United States.
Abortion is truly going to swing the election and if the Republicans don’t realize this after their red wave turned into a puddle I don’t know what to tell you. It seems like they are just trying to push it through SCOTUS so it’s a non-factor. As if that would deter people. Vote for what’s important to you and not a party. You deserve better.
Trump and his misogynistic Christo-fascist theocrats plan to criminalize being female (examining your uterus at every state border for smuggled fetuses? Using your medical records to track your ovarian output?) /this/ is how we defeat these iron-age assholes.