Krev wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:27 pm
I think a lot of the "economic concerns" shit was coded language. Calling out Trump's supporters as racist and misogynistic could jeopardize a Bezos space contract. Billionaires have no principles.
Aside from higher prices, the economy is basically fine. He'll once again take credit for something that America's morons handed to him.
I think both things can be true here. Remember almost everyone is a Low Information Voter, that barely have time to relax, let alone pay as much attention to politics as most of us here. The media tends to interview Trump headbangers because it makes good copy. But a lot of people simply don’t care about the news cycle, see high grocery prices and smash the Other Guy button.
I don’t even think a Marxist “voting against self interest” take is needed because the Overton Window of economic empowerment by both parties is non existent. There’s nothing on the table from either party that will materially benefit anyone beyond a bit of tinkering around the edges.
Also the talk of a “landslide” is absolute bullshit. It’s one or two percentage points here and there. First Past the Post is absolutely ludicrous. The winner takes all nature of it generates this bullshit polarisation.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.