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Goodguy  7d ago (text post)   Edited 7d ago   11104 thread views

Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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Now let's see if Democrats learn the lesson of "we do well if we focus on the economy, we avoid turbo-woke stuff, and we take advantage of the other side's unforced errors".

Or if they instead decide "ahhhh, 2016-2026 was just a bad dream... the voters are telling us that what we really need to focus on is electing history's first black transwoman President".

I'll be pretty heartbroken if the dems take this result as a mandate to return to Woke 1. Going by my conversations with right-leaning family and friends, most of the ones who voted democrat this election were doing so because of the egregious amounts of hoe-scaring on the online right, from the anti-Indian vibes to the nutty ICE videos. Also Iran. Lots of people who queasily edged right are now going the opposite direction.

If we go back to kneeling with Kente cloth and land acknowledgments the centrists are going to mosey rightwards again and nothing will get done.

If the Dems are smart, they keep their stuff in their pants until 2028, resist the temptation of sacrificing swing voter appeal to feed their base, and their victories yesterday could turn into a 2028 trifecta with a strong Dem senate, maybe even a filibuster-proof one?

Problem for them is that they don't have a unifying leader, their civil war over Israel is not over, and either side winning it will probably have to mean feeding the base.

Eh, that's like "if the religious right are smart they will shut up about abortion" -- I don't think it's in their nature. (lol, lmao)

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