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There are millions of Americans who really want a non-crazy conservative to vote for. There are millions of people who just want to have a non-crazy person win an election, so their idea is that the only way the opposition to crazy Republicans to be able to win over some of those people on the right is by moving closer to them. They just want to stop losing to the crazies. There are millions who are OK with gay people but hate that the government spends too much money on everything.
America is a very conservative country, and even the Democrats are basically very conservative.
Those people who complained that the Democrats would have beat Trump if they had just moved more left have no idea how much the rest of the country doesn't feel like them.
This is what I hear and it's not a dig at you but the Democratic party: "Let's try the things that didn't work harder, rather than something that worked for Roosevelt to Nixon?!”
I have no idea what the solution is, but whatever the Democrats are doing right now isn't working. I would LOVE for them to move further left AND win because of it. It would not only take the country in the right direction but would also feel less like the country is permanently fucked up. I would ACCEPT for them to move further right in order to win back control. I wouldn't be happy, but at least we could get some sane people back in control.
This country has 100 million people who don't care enough about anything to bother voting at all, 80 million of whom aren't even registered to vote even though they are eligible. I can't even imagine what it would be like to see what's going on right now and not care about voting to fix it. There are 70 million people who are HAPPY about what Trump is doing. Our country is fucked if 170 million people are either happy or don't care about what is happening.
70 MN who are happy? Is that why the sitting president felt the need to tweet that republicans showing up at their R reps town halls were paid troublemakers? These are bipartisan turnouts.
Even if they're pissed off, they're still happy they got to "own the libs".
They will always vote for that over their own self interest.
Did you miss the bit where I said "whether thats what people want or not"? IF what you are saying is true then we're all fucked already climate change is coming for all of us.
Did you miss the bit where you said,
And yes, we are straight fucked already.