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More Gen Z Americans identify as LGBTQ than as Republican (www.thepinknews.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I remember seeing this comment on Digg while people speculated that W would be the last republican president elected for a generation.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair, he didn't win his first election by getting the most votes, and neither did Trump.

    The Republicans realized during the Reagan administration that they would soon be unable to win the presidency with a majority of votes and took many steps to undermine the Democratic process. Voter suppression, purges, intimidation, voter ID laws, all of that began with Reagan.

    Bush the elder was the last to win a "democratic" victory. If it weren't for 9/11, Bush wouldn't have been able to win his second election either. That fact always blows my mind. Like people rallied around the incompetent fool who managed to ignore warnings and let a terrorist strike happen only to then go on and invade the wrong country multiple times and spend trillions of dollars on nothing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    " ya don't change horses midstream 🤠" was a literal campaign ad phrase back then I remember

    Boomers have a lot of lead accumulated in their brains, not entirely their fault

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    That was so dumb. We literally had a President die in office during the biggest war humanity has ever seen, and we still won. Not only that, but Truman was kept out of the loop on a lot of things ("What's the Manhattan Project all about?").

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If the US president got elected by getting the most votes, there wouldn't have been a Republican since Bush senior. I really don't understand why electoral reform is not higher on the political agenda in the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    This was the deal with the devil that people in the North made with people in the South to convince people in the South to join them in a government specifically set up to defy the British. The US as a democracy has always failed because it was designed to give ultimate executive power to the states rather than to the people.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Because the DNC enjoys power more than democracy and does not allow such things to happen.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's right wing spin.

    Only the politically ignorant believe it.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol. No. Only the politically ignorant think that the DNC is anything but a power hungry juggernaut, set on choosing candidates based on their own agenda regardless of the will of the people. They don't even really seem to care if their candidate gets elected.

    I really don't understand how more of a fuss wasn't made when they cheated Bernie out of a fair shot, were sued by donors and used the defense "We were so blatantly favoring our favorite that anyone who thought we were being impartial wasn't paying attention and deserved to be swindled out of their money! Yes, we broke rules to get Sanders out of the running, but we were very obvious about it and they were our own rules and we can break them if we want, so get fucked." And the court was like.. "Yeah... sounds good."

    https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You're still hurting over Bernie. That's cute.

    Politically that was a long time ago and you're still holding a grudge over it. This is why the Democrats lose.

    Many on the left needs to be placated with something new every election cycle while the right votes without any hesitation.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Or because it would take a constitutional amendment. The only way around that would be making the electoral college irrelevant via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which has largely only been signed by democratic leaning states. In fact, of the states that have passed it, zero have been right leaning.

    There are certainly shitty corporate democrats that do fall into your category but to say the party as a whole is that way is ignorant.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The DNC would actually benefit here because the popular vote would always bring in a Democrat. It's the small, red states that will never let change happen because Wyoming enjoys having more direct representation than California.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The PEOPLE would benefit since they are the ones doing the voting, not the states. It is just as ridiculous that Republicans in California have little say in the presidency as Democrats in Wyoming.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It is just as ridiculous that Republicans in California have little say in the presidency as Democrats in Wyoming.

    The Republicans in California have a better chance of seeing a Republican president with the electoral college than they would with a national popular vote, even if their particular votes carry less weight. In a sense that gives them more representation in the end, not less—their voices are ignored but they get what they wanted anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah this has been a thing forever. DeSantis was the strong culture war candidate too and... yeah. Trump has a clear role in culture war but he doesn't seem to care personally, he flip flops all the time on many culture war issues depending on what is convenient or funny to say in the moment.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It's important to remember that collapse doesn't happen overnight, and then suddenly it does. It takes a great deal of times for cracks to form and a structure to fall, but once it goes, it goes.

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