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‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress
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Yup. Combined with a few other things (e.g. gerrymandering, electoral "college", citizens united) and our election system is basically a fucking scam.
That is not to say that you should sit on the sidelines during the election, just understand that the game is rigged.
Honestly, I think voting Republican would be the best course of action to further my preferred Democrat agenda. On the whole, the elections average out to be about 50-50. I don't understand why, but both parties seem to seek equilibrium.
Maybe the Democrats will be forced to make more popular policy decisions (i.e., universal healthcare) if they start losing by a landslide. Too many major losses would call into question the integrity of a two party system.
The problem is that they wouldn’t see that as a failure due to not adopting a given agenda their base cares about, they’d see it as a loss due to people liking the republican agenda more, and they would then alter their agenda to be closer to the republicans.
Republicans move to the right. Democrats respond by ... moving to the right.
Ratchet effect in action.
Honestly, you smell like a coward too afraid to admit you want to vote republican regardless of agendas.
Your bigotry is on display no matter how much you try to dress it up with what you probably think is clever writing.