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Published: 2018-10-24 04:06:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 3249; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 3
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Winning an election and then teaching your supporters to hate democracy right before the next one. Oh yeah, nothing suspicious about that...Related content
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Illinois seems to have drifted inland a little bit.
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Is it Democracy if a handful of angry protesters around the capital get to bully our politicians and dictate policy all while ignoring the rest of the country? It would be a like having a room with a 100 people and they elect a leader, but the one guy getting angry and screaming at the leader is always getting his way just to calm him down.
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And it's only gonna get worse; about 300,000 voters were purged from the rolls in Georgia.
This country is corrupt as hell; it makes me so goddamn angry.
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But why was there no push from the Democrats to get people to vote while Obama was President?
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I'd say a combination of the usual voter apathy that occurs and hubris.
From here on out governing party means controls the White House and opposition party means they don't. As a presidency drags enthusiasm for the governing party tends to decline, the voters become complacent, and the hardliners become disaffected. While the opposition party sees a rise in enthusiasm, voters are more active and the hardliners are more interested in winning than seeing their agenda fully committed to. It's a big reason why the opposition party tends to do better in midterm elections. Usually this enthusiasm gap gets so bad by the end of the President's second term the opposition party has political winds at their back going into the election. If you actually look at party control of the White House since World War II with only one exception no party controlled the White House for more than 8 years.
I think another thing that hurt Democrats was a number of political myths that developed during the Obama years that gave Democrats the impression they had every election in the bag going forward and contributed to party complacency. The first was Demographic Determinism which was the idea demographic changes would ensure Democrat dominance in government, but this made the assumption that each demographic group would vote the same way going into the future. Democrats ignored the fact that White voters were increasingly voting Republican and this showed in the Midwest as Republicans were swept into office throughout the region. Michael Barone actually predicted back in 2011 that the Republican path back to the White House would be through the Midwest and low and behold in 2016 that is exactly what happened. Which brings me to the next myth which was the Blue Wall. Democrats noticed that they had won consistently in the last six election a large segment of states that amounted to 242 Electoral College votes and assumed it would be this way going into future election. There was plenty of reasons to doubt the Blue Wall one was the changing voting habits of groups like White Voters predominant in the Midwest. Another was back in 1992 Republicans touted their own party wall of States they had been consistently winning since 1968 and that came crumbling down in 1992. In the summer of 2015 Nate Silver even wrote an article about the Blue Wall and why Democrats shouldn't rely on it and made the point that a longer the wall exists the more likely it will be broken next election. It seems like as soon as talk of a party wall becomes prevalent is when it is going to fail. The last and most absurd was that the Republican party was dying party. I guess it came about with the idea of Demographic determinism, but for some reason Democrats were certain that the Republican party was a party in decline even after 2014 when Republicans controlled more Governorships, State Legislative seats, and largest Congressional majorities it had seen in almost a century. The Republican 2016 primary was a circus with so many Republican candidates, but it was a sign of party health. Most of those people were party stars. Where as the Democrats coronated Hillary Clinton and with few who could actually oppose her nomination.
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Because the Democrats still think there's some finite amount of bending over backwards, or just plain bending over, for the Republican Party Death Cult that will make the Republican Party Death Cult stop trying to completely eradicate the Democratic Party even as an abstract concept.
This has been another inciting exstallment of Stupid Answers to Snappy Questions.
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So do you agree that RednBlack is a Dem apologist or not?
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Not only do I not agree, I'm not currently able to think of any of his deviations that could lead to such a conclusion.
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How? This guy has had little to no sympathy towards people who refused to vote against Trump because they were too scared of Hillary.
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