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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

eh, I feel like "won" is an exaggeration. The Republicans have discovered that you can keep like a third of Americans on your side just by being racist, even if your policies mostly hurt that 33%. That's terrifying, sure, but if Democrats hadn't sold out the working class in the 90s to corporate interests, the remaining 66% could successfully keep them out of power.

What we're seeing is the natural end result of ignoring many different issues. It looks good for the Republicans now, since they have no competition, but that other two-thirds keeps growing and getting angrier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That's the problem with the 2-party system, isn't it? One party can decide to be objectively terrible, and the other party discovers that it only needs to be ever-so-slightly better, because what are the 66% gonna do— vote for the greater evil?! And there's a lot of personal benefit to the party insiders to be had! Trouble is, when the margin between the two parties is so small, electoral fuckery by the terrible party, and stochastic events mean that they sometimes win.

Which seems awfully familiar.