Quote (Jere @ 10 Nov 2020 22:52)
Republicans want to purge voter rolls regularly because the voter rolls have been proven inaccurate. I don't really see a problem with purging the rolls and re-registering, all I have to do to register is mail in a piece of paper.
I haven't seen any evidence of closed polling stations.
It's only considered undermining the publics confidence in elections if you hate Trump with some bias. It's actually saving the United States from a corrupt election that screams fraud in multiple places (ignoring that is wilful ignorance)
There is evidence to many of the sworn statements and TONS of other evidence I have shared here. It's also all over social media, but you have to get past all the "Trump is a fraud" crap to find it in between.
i can see you have done literally ZERO actual research on this, just brainlessly parrot whatever right wing talking point is out there, or whatever a registered sex offender from a different state tells you about pennsylvania in a "sworn statement", dragged in front of the camera by another creep... talk about ignorance...
Quote (Handcuffs @ 10 Nov 2020 22:44)
I think that there are a plethora of very valid reasons why people want a second term of Trump--which, in many ways, I read more as a second term of Republican leadership for some. There are definitely many right-wing folks who actively like Trump, and many more moderates who aren't super big on Trump as a person, but are in alignment with him by way of the two-party system and the limitations therein. Some reasons I can think of include:
- If you're from places like the Iron Range in Minnesota or any other areas of 'Coal Country', then Trump is the clear winner in terms of short-term necessity. The left does wonderfully about thinking of thinks at a systems-level, but sometimes does horribly at thinking at a local or individual level. When you have Democrats saying that they're either going to "put coal miners/mining companies out of business" or "ban fracking", it does little to build confidence and a feeling of support in people whose entire families and towns have been built around crude oil, coal, or fracking. Many people in these areas describe themselves as "single-issue voters", and understandably so. Trump is the candidate between the major 2 that at least says that he'll be bringing jobs back to coal country and cementing job security (Whether this happens in actuality is a different story though).
- Trump's foreign policy record from a war perspective is actually pretty good. The United States hasn't entered a new war (at least not a major one that I can think of) since he's been in office. This has been nice to see after more than a decade's worth of unnecessary wars.
- Trump made major in-roads with minority voters that Republicans haven't seen for several decades. This is largely, I guess, a result of push-back forming against the left. Again, the left thinks in a very systemic way at the expense of individual considerations. They've historically treated minorities as a monolith and as tokens, and people are understandably getting sick of that. Even though people will chalk it up as a poor joke, Biden's "If you vote for [Trump] then you ain't Black" is certainly a reflection of the sentiment many white people on the left have with regards to minorities.
- People are very concerned about the role and power of China in international politics, and Trump has taken a very strong, vocal opposition to China's authoritarian practices.
Edit: You don't have 71 million people vote for Trump without reason(s).
here's the thing though:
- coal jobs kept declining under trump, despite his generous promises back in 2016
- he did NOT bring the troops back home, almost started a new major war with iran just because he wants to destroy obama's legacy so badly, and he also escalated drone strikes that were already rampant under his predecessor
- he ballooned the deficit and gave major tax breaks to the rich and corporations
- his sometimes harsh / sometimes flattering rhetoric regarding china does not follow any coherent strategy or even concrete policy.
and this is not even addressing his major failing, which is the total mishandling of a pandemic, being the single largest source of anti-scientific misinformation worldwide, directly leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths in america alone due to making mask and distancing a partisan issue...
i agree that millions of people didn't vote for him without reasons, but the 'reasonable / valid' sounding ones are easily debunked, while fear-mongering (about communism / socialism / antifa / the radical left) and bigotry (towards people of colour / muslims / jews / immigrants) remain the main factors when you look at his followers - not just the trump folk in this sub forum, but also his rallies, and in polls conducted amongst his supporters...