Quote (EndlessSky @ Dec 4 2020 04:27pm)
Kristi Noem will save us in 2024
She's too incompetent. The fact that her death rate is so high in the middle of fucking nowhere is downright pathetic. San Diego COUNTY has less deaths than her entire state and that's WAY denser and more populated than South Dakota. Do you want someone like that as Commander in Chief? We'd probably lose a war to Andorra with her in charge.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Dec 4 2020 10:39am)
The GOP won the House in 2010, on the heels of the usual anti-incumbent midterm backlash. In 2012, they only held the chamber because of the gerrymanders they put in place after 2010.
Furthermore, I'm not exclusively talking about winning elections, I'm also talking about prevailing on policy. Aside from Wall Street tax cuts and a bloated Pentagon budget, can you name me a single policy issue on which conservatives scored a major win between 1992 and 2016? Can you name me a single policy issue on which Republicans were able to pull public opinion in their direction/make the public adopt the conservative perspective? Can you name me a single field on which the GOP/the conservative movement increased its power in non-public institutions (like e.g. academia or the media) or was otherwise able to chip away at the cultural hegemony of liberalism?
The reality of life in America is the result of the political decisions made in previous decades. For decades, Democrats and Republicans alike were doubling down on deregulatory policies, warmongering, outsourcing and deindustrialization, mass immigration, culture wars and corporatism. None of these things were inevitable, at least not the massive extent to which they took place. On a really high abstraction level, that's the common core of all modern populist movements: the belief that the status quo is not inevitable or without alternative; that the right kind of government could induce a true change of direction.
I can't speak for public opinion but the GOP delivered on abortion, gun rights, and religious liberties.
I'm sorry, but populism is for fucking morons and is the downfall of most countries. We need to give them ENOUGH of what they want so they shut the fuck up and that's pretty much it. Outsourcing and deindustrialization was ABSOLUTELY inevitable. That's technological progress. Did you really think 3 billion Chinese and Indians were going to live in the stone age forever? Conservative culture wars are ALWAYS lost. The point of conservative movements is to retard social progress as much as possible. Black people STILL aren't treated the same as whites in this country so they're STILL winning that battle. Our immigration policies are pretty sensible I think. Americans aren't equipped enough in the sciences, medicine, etc. so we NEED immigrants. I agree that America's corporatism ISN'T inevitable.
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