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4d ago
It’s a question of how many safeguards are enough NOT a question in my view that everything in a Democracy should be 50.01% opinion. Too many safeguards and you simply can’t govern or do anything. To little safeguards and the 49.99% can dominated.
My current opinion is we have too many safeguards on passing legislation which has ended up making the Presidency and SC stronger than they should be.
An example? Growing up my family was poor. We were eligible for food stamps but were capable of working so we never got on those programs. It’s wrong to use a government program if you can provide for yourself in other ways.
Are you young? Are you white? You seem like you are from a foreign culture? You talk like your Indian.
To use a government program for disabled vets when you are capable of working is in fact fraud. It’s why it’s called “disability”.
Edit: ok I know I went aggressive. But 30 days pretty much proved my point that you aren’t allowed to attack military benefits as a fiscal issue. And if I’m being honest military disability is a “fuck you” issue to me. In policy wonk circles it’s a well-known abuse of the system. If you want to defend soldiers then abuse of a good program should be a “fuck you” issue to do rants on.
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5d ago
I think I’m right-wing. Demographically I’m nearly identical to the current pope except he has a rejection letter I never received.
The only time in my entire life I would have voted for the Democrat would be in Viveks race if I was eligible to vote in Ohio. I cried the day Obama was elected that America had fallen.
I’m not sure how much more right wing I need to be to be right-wing.
The only thing lefty about me is I probably talk to too many non-white people regularly.
I’m assuming you are American. It’s not some made up definition. It’s what Anglos mean by fraud. Using Anglo definition in an Anglo country is fine. So Yes it is in fact fraud.
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5d ago
I mean I’m open to a Trump military dictatorship but if I take anything from this election we need Hispanic votes to win in a Democracy and once Trump wasn’t just “strong man Brazil” and actually did deportations we lost the Hispanic vote.
I’ve thought with the population shifts that Texas would be in play for a while. Texas going Dem isn’t a surprise to me though the timing is early.
You kind of can dump people into demographic groups. GOP wins basically everywhere on the white vote. The four grandparent US citizen vote GOP dominates.
Regardless if politics are just gasoline prices then neither side will ever have more than 2 years in power. You went from GOP winning the popular vote in decades to a complete wipeout 2 years later. Like what bigger things are we actually governing on.
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5d ago
Trump voters aren’t going to abandon him because the rest of the GOP let them jail him. They will stay home and 2028 is a slaughter. Somehow they will need to engage the Fuentes vote and pull Hispanics into the fold.
For that reason Vance is dead. A Hispanic like Rubio will help even though he’s almost pure European or you have to bet on Desantis who might even do well with boomers who see him as a true adult. Either one needs blessed by Trump.
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5d ago
I think Trump has removed a lot of Venezuelans status. If you want less risks of immigration from Americas where they can just walk here then America needs to be doing war on this side of the globe when there are bad governments.
So I think war in Americas is completely different than Middle East Wars.
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5d ago
In theory nothing. In practice the wealthy large states have adopted similar Democratic machines. NY and Cali seem to be similar. Illinois tries to do it to without the super rich high margin tech/finance.
Yes you’re right I misread the libertarian comment. I thought it meant we still had a lot of liberals in America today. They were dominant for a long time, but seem extinct on the left and right now.
Edit: personally I think conservative/progressive are not the dominant ideologies today. I think it’s much more identitarian political breakdown us versus them. Boomers think we are still playing left/right games
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5d ago
I’m fairly certain when the data comes out it’s going to be the Hispanic vote with the big move. I hope you update your opinion that it wasn’t “gasoline” prices that caused the midterms.
Because gasoline prices should have roughly the same effect on voters regardless of race.
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5d ago
Can you tell me what policy could have helped the white men? Removing labor market competition they tried to do and was partially successful at. They did a solid job at hitting DEI which removed some roadblocks to jobs. Cutting food stamps and other UBIs in the economy would help with inflation and they should ramp that up.
But for 2 years in power they an ok jump at the “help the white man” levers.
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5d ago
Isn’t this saying you want “Texas to do Texas things” but swap their politicians from “Old Money white Texas to California Democrats”? Something tells me it’s unlikely both can be true at the same time.
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5d ago
The point of politics isn’t to get your team jobs it’s to do IMPORTANT things. Voter mandates don’t matter.
I think when all the data comes out it’s going to be Hispanics being the biggest swing. And yes the GOP is going to have some serious political questions to think about when like 40% of voters are not Americans. That’s the problem.
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5d ago
That Europe is now 25 years ago and no longer exists. If you look up things like fighting men and equipment they don’t have it anymore to do 9/11 nor then political will to respond in that way again.
Yes you got old.
This is same as the Holocaust. Maybe Europeans owed Jews a debt in 1945. Now they’ve had 80 years to build and should be on their own.
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5d ago
Didn’t Trump announce cutting funding to Israel yesterday? This looks to me like the admin together admittedly a mistake. Which shows the ability to adapt.
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5d ago
These “wars” end up in America whether you like it or not. Iran I guess you can say wouldn’t. Venezuela we already had millions getting US benefits here on asylum. While they also destabilized other neighbors.
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5d ago
If it’s about deportations is it fair to describe Texas as getting bluer? That’s purely an ethnicity interests battle and nothing to do with conservative or liberal. If the choice is go back to Mexico or weekly drag queen festivals in schools their choosing not to go to Mexico.
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5d ago
I’m not making a mistake on gasoline prices (and your $500 calculation seems super high). Voters are possibly stupid on things like this - or it’s just pure copium and something else so going on.
And to your second paragraph the point of politics is NOT gainful employment. It’s wielding power. My point is once immigrants are here there is no way to prevent more. They will always side with their non-American tribal outsiders. Hispanics hate Dems because simplistically they are gay. They hate GOP because we wanted to deport their illegals. I’d rather shoot our shot at fixing the country than just have some dude with GOP next to his name sitting in the White House.
To the latter point I guess Im a fascists now. I think as a native my vote should count more than someone who showed up yesterday most likely illegally. I’m not sure what solution we have now. If Trump could figure out how seize power I have no problem backing him.
And my reading of the political scene is technologically the State has more power to protect itself than ever before but the electorate is more fractured than ever before. There is no silent majority to back America anymore. It’s tribe versus tribe now.
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5d ago
You can’t say both “a lot of people libertarian by nature” and welfare is broadly popular. If I had to guess 95% of voters are conservative by nature but differ on what they want to conserve. Boomers want to conserve that ‘90’s to 2004 America nirvana before neoliberalism problems surfaced. NYC want to conserve their communities which is why rent control. Same with Cali and property taxes. The rest of America is some kind of tribal enclave that is voting for what is best for their tribe which is often the lefts easy immigration. People forget that NYC and Cali real estate policies are essentially a super powerful ICE keeping non-rich whites from moving there.
There are basically no libertarians. Argentina style welfare state you are correct and it’s quite popular. We haven’t done that because America was Weird.
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5d ago
I think this is mostly true except for when the economy has high unemployment/low inflation. Policy levers can fix that
But that’s just not a lot of money to most workers. Like 5-10 a week. It’s copium to say the election swung on a minuscule expense. Gasoline just isn’t a big budget item like it use to be because of fuel efficiency.
Plus Americans get all that money back since we now produce our own oil. Texas elected a Dem and all the oil money significantly goes to texas.
This feels like copium blaming gas prices
The big swing in Texas was Hispanic voters. I think the takeaway is once you have immigrants you can’t keep out more of them in a Democracy. Your only choice is fascism or figuring out how to run ethnic politics.
We probably need to make a deal with Hispanics to block immigrants from any other country.
There are a lot of things that need to be done at the federal level today.
Here’s one example. Let’s call it California. At the state level they experiment with ways to highly encourage technology start-ups. To pay for it they have very high capital gains taxes. So a bunch of people build great tech start ups in California. Two years before they IPO all the big founders move to Florida with 0% capital gains tax.
Do you see the issue? A lot of modern governance issues have similar things that they need to be at national versus local level.
To Clarify: I don’t think Cali has special infrastructure that helps tech start-ups as a policy choice. It was more like a gold mine in California. Agglomeration effects etc happened to start there and are strong. But for the hypothetical I needed to design it like Cali does something special policy wise .
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