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    7 months ago

    Demographics are trending away from conservatism and since they are almost to the point where they can no longer win elections, they want to install a permanent conservative dictatorship.

    This has been a long time coming, I remember hearing on the radio in 2008 that projections showed conservatives couldn’t win elections if current trends continued for ~20 years, and they did. In conservative speak they call this the “great replacement theory” but it’s standard population math that a freshman math major could perform. They frame in a way to make stupid people think something nefarious is occurring. In reality, conservatives are the shrinking minority that is attempting to cling to power.

    Just look back to the last time a conservative won the popular vote. I believe it has been over 20 years. The electoral college can only carry conservatives for so long.

    To paraphrase a famous quote, “At some point conservatives will have the choice of abandoning conservatism or abandoning democracy.” Which do you think they’ll choose?

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      7 months ago

      Which is why it pisses me off when people go, “Third Party/Not Voting”. Other elections, fine. This election? Dems need to win. Period. They need all three branches of government and enough of a margin to prevent getting Manchin’d. Anything less means there will not be a second chance

      Destroy the GoP first, THEN focus on smacking around the Dems

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      The last was Bush Jr but it was narrow, there were two wars raging, and he was in office already. The last first termer was Bush Sr. That was 36 years ago.

      Even the EC cant hold it much longer. A blue Texas means the odds of a GOP win become in single digit probabilities. Go to Nate Silver’s site and play with the possible maps yourself.

      Of course in an ideal world they would look at this and try to change to match what the population wants.