No. The big question that everyone needs to be asking is about the shit-show going on in DC. Don't try to change the subject. That ad matters not at all.
He likes to hear himself talk and has absolutely nothing to contribute. So there you go.
I don’t have anyone on ignore but I definitely scroll past certain posters and focus more on the ones I know typically engage with me in good faith. Calheel and I hardly ever agree on things but we do have mostly respectful dialogue.
He appears obsessed with the transgender issue, that's for sure.
If Trump really does stuff between now and the midterms that is so bad it results in 60 Dem senators in 2026, it’ll be fine with me if the power flips. That’s the way our system is designed to work. I am not nearly as concerned with the Republicans keeping the power as you probably think I am. I dislike both parties, but just happen to dislike Democrats more.
As a general matter Republicans are obsessed with it. Republican support and approval of gay marriage has fallen over the past few years. It seems clear to me that many Republicans that claimed to have come around on gay marriage weren't telling the truth and are giddy that transgender issues have opened the door on rolling back all LGBTQ rights.
This I believe. I also believe that you do not understand what it says about you.
Except that the red legislature keeps stripping more and more power from the blue governors and blue state officials and adding it to their own. And that they have gerrymandered the state to the point that Democrats have no realistic hope of ever regaining control of the legislature, and they have made it very easy for them to gain a supermajority that renders a blue governor's veto useless.
Yeah, I’m glad the supermajority isn’t there anymore. As a Cooper & Stein voter in recent NC Governor elections, I like those guys having veto power to keep the legislature in check.
Absolutely. I remain convinced that attacking transgenders and rolling back their rights is simply a wedge issue for Republicans to eventually go after the entire LGBTQ community.
They failed to win a supermajority by one vote, and given their advantages they can easily win it back in 2026. And with the legislature taking more of the executive branch's power with each election cycle the governor's power to stop the legislature gradually grows less and less.
I agree completely. And Democrats need to learn how to combat this now as I believe that these culture war fights are going to get worse. Between Republicans chasing people away from religion and younger generations acceptance of LGBTQ people the culture will look unrecognizable to conservatives. This is going to get worse.
Not at all. All of those phrases have defined meanings. Might be a bit jargony, but that’s how political theory always is.
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Just FYI, whether they are buzzwords or jargon, they are far beyond my ability to comprehend what you mean by any of them.
Some are fairly self explanatory, I think. The only phrase listed there that can’t be deduced by just knowing the individual meanings of the words is identity synthesis, which I explained earlier in the thread. But it goes to show my earlier point that the message board medium isn’t a great place to discuss complex topics like this one with any degree of understanding between parties.