Ah yes, let’s listen to the guy who supports Ukrainian and Tibetan genocide.

The Tea Party was an astro turf campaign created by the propaganda machine I spoke off. It was funded and promoted by the Koch billionaires.

The main problem is that Democrats do not have a propaganda machine like the Republicans do. It does not matter what the message is if it constantly gets drowned out by the unceasing flood of propaganda coming from the right.

Because it’s Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.

I am talking about Sinema and Manchin only. They may have had a D next to their name, but they were not on the side of Democrats when it mattered.

Yes, but he’s also claimed support for industry-level collective bargaining like Europe has. He’s probably lying, but who knows.

If they didn’t vote with the Dems when it actually mattered, why should they count?

At least JD is an unknown quantity with some oddly left leaning positions in his past. We know what we’re getting with Trump and it’s terrible.

The only hope is that he’s so far gone mentally already that he ends up mostly doddering around the oval office. The problem is he’s already surrounded himself with the most vile people who will have no problem doing terrible things in his name.

Maybe he’ll die and JD Vance will magically regain a conscience.

I think a large part of the problem is that they don’t actually have first-hand experience anymore. Almost everyone who lived through WWII is dead now and humanity seems to be incapable of learning from other people’s mistakes.

No, we didn’t. They had 48 seats, which is not enough to accomplish anything.

The problem is having a contested convention would have been just as bad. We all know what happened with McGovern in '72. The only chance was immediately unifying behind someone else and Harris was the only one people could agree on.

The main stupid decision was Biden not sticking to his word and choosing to run again despite his obvious unpopularity and age.

The biggest swing towards Trump was Latino men by 31 pts. Make your own conclusions.

You can’t just ignore how the government works and the fact that Democrats never had a real majority in the Senate thanks to Sinema and Manchin.

I doubt most of the accounts saying that are actual living, breathing Americans.

I hate to say it, but the only way I could see it happen is if both parties simultaneously see significant 3rd/4th party challengers acting as spoilers. In that situation, RCV would be the short term solution to remove the effect of spoiler votes. Basically the situation the UK is in right now with both the Lib Dems and Reform.

The only way to cut 2 trillion is by cutting Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Literally. All of the rest of the government only totals up to 1.7 trillion in spending.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

1.4 million is the last number the CDC published before they stopped tracking it.

A lot of them already did. By some calculations, enough of them died to COVID to swing the 2020 election.