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We all know that polls have ceased to be the most reliable measure of what the public really thinks, but that doesn't mean they provide no useful data. The Gallup poll regarding party preferences in U.S. politics should frighten everyone to their core.
To me it points to both the growing concern that the Democrats have almost completely squandered any opportunity for putting this country on a better path politically, and that nearly 50% of this country is bat 5h!t crazy.
Republicans -- save for about the 7 or 8 elected to public office left in the entire country that are still tethered to reality -- have offered nothing in the way of a path forward to better the country. It is all the Big Lie, guns, God and the Gays with them. That's all there is. Yet the shift from Democrats to republicans is one of the largest seen in decades. Democrats will lose the U.S. House in the November mid-terms. With it will likely come an even stronger presence for republicans in state houses all over the country. And despite a very tough map in the U.S. Senate for republicans, I doubt very much the Democrats are going to hold on there either.
It is not surprising to me at all that the republican party did not lose any real favor in the 1980s or 1990s. Even when W was proving he was neither compassionate, nor conservative in the sense republicans like to think of themselves as conservatives I was not surprised to see them continue to win, and in some case win big. But after the last 6 years, when it has been completely exposed that the republican party is anti-democratic and completely bigoted, and let's face it, not just anti-democratic but full-on fascist, how can it be even more palatable to so many people?
Tell me there is a workable political solution to the troubles we face. I would like to believe in something positive. It already feels like we're not gonna have any Major League Baseball this year.
To me it points to both the growing concern that the Democrats have almost completely squandered any opportunity for putting this country on a better path politically, and that nearly 50% of this country is bat 5h!t crazy.
Republicans -- save for about the 7 or 8 elected to public office left in the entire country that are still tethered to reality -- have offered nothing in the way of a path forward to better the country. It is all the Big Lie, guns, God and the Gays with them. That's all there is. Yet the shift from Democrats to republicans is one of the largest seen in decades. Democrats will lose the U.S. House in the November mid-terms. With it will likely come an even stronger presence for republicans in state houses all over the country. And despite a very tough map in the U.S. Senate for republicans, I doubt very much the Democrats are going to hold on there either.
It is not surprising to me at all that the republican party did not lose any real favor in the 1980s or 1990s. Even when W was proving he was neither compassionate, nor conservative in the sense republicans like to think of themselves as conservatives I was not surprised to see them continue to win, and in some case win big. But after the last 6 years, when it has been completely exposed that the republican party is anti-democratic and completely bigoted, and let's face it, not just anti-democratic but full-on fascist, how can it be even more palatable to so many people?
Tell me there is a workable political solution to the troubles we face. I would like to believe in something positive. It already feels like we're not gonna have any Major League Baseball this year.
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