Quote (Skinned @ 20 Jun 2022 17:47)
It is funny that the team of the dumb whites who aren't able to win as many elections are all ready to move past democracy lol. "We don't wanna vote if we can't win". Just losing the marketplace of ideas, that's all.
Once the Boomers are dead the GOP won't be here to hold us back anymore with their flat earth agenda. We have real problems and they're spending all their mental energy oppressing women blacks and gays. So pathetic.
Odd take. Boomers tend more towards moderate positions politically. The silent and greatest generations have been dying off at extreme rates, which is expected, since they have already lived past life expectancy. Oh yeah, and omg covid. Or some stupid shit.
This is from 2017. Trump was in office and anti-Trump sentiment was pretty fucking high, with 2015 and 2016 rioting being blamed on Trump, even though the rioters were attacking Trump rally-goers:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-partisan-and-ideological-gap-between-younger-older-generations/While there does appear to be a slightly wider lean towards the left from millennials, it's not that wide. Overall, millennials are more moderate in approach. Biden is not moderate. Harris climbed the ranks on her knees. AOC is the Twitch™ representative, not a real congressperson. Knows nothing about law and doesn't care. She's actually a good feeler for where things are going, as is Donald Trump. Trump gained more votes in 2020 than Obama gained. Quite literally, Trump was a more popular president as an incumbent running for office than the prior most popular president in history was when he first took office.
Even Ted Cruz, who the left loves to hate, has gained in popularity, and it's only gone up. Dan Crenshaw, who is becoming more and more hated by the right, is now being heralded by left leaning moderates. As it turns out, what the true lean is is that those politicians who put their face on Youtube, Rumble, Twitch, etc. manage to get massive funding, massive name recognition, and win their elections. They also out themselves, and supporters who thought they stood for them find out they stood for something else. But those supporters are replaced by others who believe in lockstep.
The truest concern regarding Trump running for office in 2024 is how he'll get his message out. Nobody was tuning in to the censored and clipped footage of his rallies aired by CNN and MSNBC in 2016. People were swarming to youtube and foxnews who aired the full unedited video. Over the course of not only the campaign, but the subsequent presidency, a lot of those who mirrored his rallies and speeches, or focused on provided them in full with commentary were banned, eventually he was banned, and quite a few additional republicans were banned, and the CNN types started running nothing but hitpieces on them, no direct words. 8 second clips without context, etc.
I don't know about Tim Pool and his "fourth generational warefare" nonsense but I will say the information war has been going for a long time. I'd love to have the days of altavista search engine reigning supreme back. It had no algorithm that picked and choosed. It would simply give you the results, and two identical searches could give different ordering on the results. This "curated for thought police" shit is pretty wild. It's almost as though those in power believe that the ignorant are more likely to vote for them or something. So why is it that the Dems keep seeking to deplatform all the republicans? As an Independent, I'd like to know.
