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Mcconnell sold his soul far before TrumpHey, two more people who sold whatever ethics or morals they have to Donald Trump.
As the founding co-member of CONTIFA I heartily endorse this message.Speaking as a newly-minted member of the CONTIFA wing of the Democratic Party, is this pre-election freak out a normal thing among my brother and sister Dems? Good lord, people. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!! Even with the recent WSJ poll that has some obvious methodological problems, Trump has STILL not hit even 47% on the 538 average. Kamala is working hard and has a great plan to keep working the people who need to be reached over the next 10 days.
It's like everyone who's been recognizing and calling out Trump's nonstop lies for the last nine years is suddenly believing them.
Yeah this is pretty standard freak out dooming by us. I think 2016 just made us all so wary that he can win that we are sort of bracing for it now, just so we aren't knocked off balance if it does happen again.Speaking as a newly-minted member of the CONTIFA wing of the Democratic Party, is this pre-election freak out a normal thing among my brother and sister Dems? Good lord, people. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!! Even with the recent WSJ poll that has some obvious methodological problems, Trump has STILL not hit even 47% on the 538 average. Kamala is working hard and has a great plan to keep working the people who need to be reached over the next 10 days.
It's like everyone who's been recognizing and calling out Trump's nonstop lies for the last nine years is suddenly believing them.
That is very nice of Trump and Harris to go down there and help out their candidates. I think I'd be a little more selfish.Ted Cruz’s seat is possibly in play. Texas is not in play for the presidential election.
I agree that no one is changing their vote based on the endorsement.
I’m more concerned about the role that the press is supposed to play in promoting a free, open, and democratic society.
If your newspaper’s slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and you can’t even bring yourself to endorse the candidate running against a fascist then it’s clear they don’t really care about democracy.
Not a surprise to those of us who know that capital controls the major newspapers, but it’s still disheartening.
I think Harris is going down there to get in an appearance with Beyonce and in hopes of a resulting media bounce in coverage.That is very nice of Trump and Harris to go down there and help out their candidates. I think I'd be a little more selfish.
I like the endorsements on the local and less well-known state candidates like the soil and water commissioner or the county commissioner of district 6 or whatever. I think for president it's probably not going to affect too many votes.
Harris isn't in Texas to help other candidates. I thought maybe that's why she was going, and I'm sure she'll do what she can while she's there, but she's made her intentions clear now. She's in Texas to highlight the state's barbaric abortion laws, which are actively causing the deaths of women and the needless suffering of nonviable infants. That seems well worth a quick trip to our second largest state to me.That is very nice of Trump and Harris to go down there and help out their candidates. I think I'd be a little more selfish.
I like the endorsements on the local and less well-known state candidates like the soil and water commissioner or the county commissioner of district 6 or whatever. I think for president it's probably not going to affect too many votes.
The problem is that they all went bankrupt already, and got bought by people who are morally bankrupt
The newspapers in this country are morally bankrupt and probably well on their way to actual bankruptcy.
1. Kind of normal. I'm interested in the personality theory of politics -- namely, that people's political leanings are determined by the types of people they are. Well, according to that theory, there's an authoritarian personality, which is determined primarily by very low openness to experience. high conscientiousness (i.e. diligence in following rules), and very high on antagonism (which means low agreeableness). And the liberal personalities have their own types.Speaking as a newly-minted member of the CONTIFA wing of the Democratic Party, is this pre-election freak out a normal thing among my brother and sister Dems? Good lord, people. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!! Even with the recent WSJ poll that has some obvious methodological problems, Trump has STILL not hit even 47% on the 538 average. Kamala is working hard and has a great plan to keep working the people who need to be reached over the next 10 days.
It's like everyone who's been recognizing and calling out Trump's nonstop lies for the last nine years is suddenly believing them.
I'm not really sure I follow your last sentence. No one here believes Trump's BS. The objective reality is that the election is very close and will be decided by thin margins. At best, that means we're about to go through two more months of "stop the steal" BS, and conspiracy theories, and lawsuits, and who knows what else. Being concerned about Trump winning the election, which is a very real possibility, and/or about what will happen if we don't know an official result for days, which is also a very real possibility, does not correlate at all with believing Trump's BS.Speaking as a newly-minted member of the CONTIFA wing of the Democratic Party, is this pre-election freak out a normal thing among my brother and sister Dems? Good lord, people. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!! Even with the recent WSJ poll that has some obvious methodological problems, Trump has STILL not hit even 47% on the 538 average. Kamala is working hard and has a great plan to keep working the people who need to be reached over the next 10 days.
It's like everyone who's been recognizing and calling out Trump's nonstop lies for the last nine years is suddenly believing them.
Oops. Didn't mean to post that part. But I think this is her second or third trip to Texas in the last week or two.Harris isn't in Texas to help other candidates. I thought maybe that's why she was going, and I'm sure she'll do what she can while she's there, but she's made her intentions clear now. She's in Texas to highlight the state's barbaric abortion laws, which are actively causing the deaths of women and the needless suffering of nonviable infants. That seems well worth a quick trip to our second largest state to me.
How long have you been a liberal? I think that's a lot of it. See my post above.I guess my complete response would be, how are you NOT freaking out? How is, like, a 40-50% possibility of a Trump win (likely coming along with control of both the House and the Senate) not raising a huge knot of stress in the pit of your stomach?
That all makes sense, and while you're right I don't think much like a long-term liberal, I think I may be intellectualizing this a little differently than you're suggesting. If Trump wins, I'll be devastated for the people who will be most impacted by his presidency (recognizing I'm probably not in any of those groups personally). I just don't think Trump is going to win. The polling, and especially changes in the polling within the margins of error, seems meaningless to me at this point in the race. All of the "momentum" talk is just noise from Trump's camp. I don't think this race has materially changed since Kamala took over and showed the country she has what it takes to be president of the United States, and nothing that happens in the next ten days is likely to change anything either. I'm not saying it's impossible for Trump to win. I just think his odds of doing so are somewhere in the 10% range.1. Kind of normal. I'm interested in the personality theory of politics -- namely, that people's political leanings are determined by the types of people they are. Well, according to that theory, there's an authoritarian personality, which is determined primarily by very low openness to experience. high conscientiousness (i.e. diligence in following rules), and very high on antagonism (which means low agreeableness). And the liberal personalities have their own types.
Well, educated liberals are generally high on neuroticism. That's what makes them successful. Lawyers are famously neurotic, as you surely know. Good ones, anyway. Professors are often neurotic. These are related to success because neurotic people can often channel their anxieties into productive pursuits. But they are still neurotic, meaning high anxiety.
2. But it's also a fear response. There's just so much at stake in this election. And I don't think you identify with it.
Let me offer my diagnosis of CONTIFA: it's not unflattering. Basically, you appreciate the dangers of Trump. You've come to understand why it's important, in our day and age, to be anti-MAGA. You've understood that being a good person is usually inconsistent with MAGA. That is to say, you've intellectualized your politics. As someone who intellectualizes almost everything, I am not offering this as a critique at all.
It's just different from how a lot of long-time liberals think. Sometimes you see people on the board, when feeling pessimistic, say things like, "it won't hurt me, so I guess I can soldier on," etc. That's a form of reassuring thinking. It's being phrased in a pro-social way, and it's a good sentiment, but it's not my sentiment. You'll almost never see that from me, because that makes me feel worse.
It hurts me even more to know that people like me will not be targeted but the vulnerable populations will. That is, I've tried to live my life, from the very beginning of my autonomy, to help people, especially vulnerable people. I'm not always that successful because reasons that don't need to be mentioned here, but anyway that's my ideal. It literally makes me sick to my stomach sometimes thinking about the communities ravaged by hurricanes or typhoons or droughts and wild fires and realizing that Trump's election will basically lock humanity into a warming cycle that will reproduce these things many times over. That there will be people who starve when the farmland gets pulled into the sea. I might or might not be around when the shit really hits the fan, but it makes me really upset anyway.
All of that is to say that people like me really *feel* the impending doom of Trump. It's not intellectualized. And again, that's weird for me to type because in 99 out of 100 cases, I'm the one who intellectualizes more than my interlocutors. But it seems, not here. And so this is naturally going to make me on edge.
Now, because I intellectualize, I'm pretty good at burying my anxieties beneath analysis. That's why I'm not freaking out here. But I suspect that there are a lot of people who *feel* the same way I do, but don't intellectualize as much as my weird ass does, and that's the recipe for the freakouts.