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Are you a Democrat? Hi. Pull up a seat.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:47 pm
I'm not a Democrat, but I want to get your thoughts on what's going on with your party.
Right now, in 2017, the conditions are as favorable as they've ever been for your party to win elections:
-Demographics have been trending your way for decades
-The majority of the political media is comprised of people who lean left
-College professors are typically leftist
-Sports coverage is now filled with leftist assumptions
-Late night talk shows, movies, tv shows come from a left-leaning point of view
Despite all of this, you currently hold:
-15 of 50 Governorships
-46 of 100 Senate seats
-194 of 435 House seats
-4 of 9 SCOTUS appointments
-Do not control the White House
Just from a purely logical approach, you have to ask yourself "What is the problem?" You've got every advantage a major party can ask for, but nothing to show for it.
Is it possible that your ideology is inherently inferior in some way to that of your opponents? Is there something about your ideology that, when expressed out loud, does not pass the common sense test?
Because honestly, you should be dominating.
Right now, in 2017, the conditions are as favorable as they've ever been for your party to win elections:
-Demographics have been trending your way for decades
-The majority of the political media is comprised of people who lean left
-College professors are typically leftist
-Sports coverage is now filled with leftist assumptions
-Late night talk shows, movies, tv shows come from a left-leaning point of view
Despite all of this, you currently hold:
-15 of 50 Governorships
-46 of 100 Senate seats
-194 of 435 House seats
-4 of 9 SCOTUS appointments
-Do not control the White House
Just from a purely logical approach, you have to ask yourself "What is the problem?" You've got every advantage a major party can ask for, but nothing to show for it.
Is it possible that your ideology is inherently inferior in some way to that of your opponents? Is there something about your ideology that, when expressed out loud, does not pass the common sense test?
Because honestly, you should be dominating.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:49 pm to RidiculousHype
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Despite all of this, you currently hold: -15 of 50 Governorships -46 of 100 Senate seats -194 of 435 House seats -4 of 9 SCOTUS appointments -Do not control the White House
muh Virginia! (Blue state)
muh New Jersey! (blue state)
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:50 pm to RidiculousHype
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-15 of 50 Governorships
That still surprises me TBH. With how cucked our country has become, the will of the people are still standing skrong.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:52 pm to RidiculousHype
They would rather protest than vote. #VictimSyndrome
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:01 pm to jlu03
They don't care about change so long as they feel like they are being heard when they complain about it.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:07 pm to RidiculousHype
Are you a democrat? Why don't you have a seat over there?
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:14 pm to RidiculousHype
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Because honestly, you should be dominating.
The problem with the Democrats is that they aren't Democrats.
This current party has about as much to do with the one that stayed in power from the 30's to Reagan as the Republican party does.
Really they are exactly the same as the Republican Party. They used different hot button issues, gun control versus abortion, that sort of thing.
But at the end of the day, on important issues like never ending wars, taxes on billionaires, free market ideology, they were exactly the same.
Heck the elites of both parties were totally in tune on social issues as well. You think Lindsay Graham has something against man-love?
Currently they are selling an ideology that has no clients. Well they do, but there aren't many of them. If they didn't have the brain dead of Antifa, and reflexive bloc voting by blacks, they wouldn't have anything.
The North Shore of Chicago, and the Upper Sides of Manhattan, ain't enough to win nationwide, even if you through in Assachusetts.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:23 pm to RidiculousHype
You know what they say...
If you've never been young and a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you're never old and a conservative, you don't have a brain.
If you've never been young and a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you're never old and a conservative, you don't have a brain.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:32 pm to Sunbeam
quote:i think you mean mass-of-two-shits
Assachusetts
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:38 pm to idlewatcher
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cucked
Someone explain this phrase to me. Is it used because it's a popular term for a specific porn in which wives are being satisfied by a black man? (Most southerners I know worst nightmare)
Or does it mean something else? Are people using it ironically? Because the way I've seen it used, from the folks I've seen it used by, seems ironic.
Are people calling other people a "cuckold" because that's their biggest fear?
Really in the weeds with this one.
In before someone calls me a cuck.
Any serious answers would be appreciated.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:47 pm to BurtReynoldsMustache
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Are people calling other people a "cuckold" because that's their biggest fear?
Really in the weeds with this one.
In before someone calls me a cuck.
Eh, I really didn't like the term. Warmed to it though.
I think the essence of it is the simplicity.
You know four letters, short like most great concepts we use a lot like "Love," "Hate," and the like.
And it has synergy with a famous four letter word that starts with "F."
You know you can say "That guy, he's a stupid Cuck."
Has elements of noun, you can verb with it. "That guy, he's going to Cuck out on this Confederate Monument issue."
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:54 pm to RidiculousHype
quote:
Are you a Democrat? Hi. Pull up a seat.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:54 pm to Sunbeam
The I just like the way it sounds thing is legit for me. Cool. I was just wandering if there was a deeper meaning.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:56 pm to BurtReynoldsMustache
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deeper meaning
Based on the actual meaning, both parties have made us cuckolds unfortunately. Both imposing their will on us while we watch.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:10 pm to RidiculousHype
quote:
Despite all of this, you currently hold:
-15 of 50 Governorships
-46 of 100 Senate seats
-194 of 435 House seats
-4 of 9 SCOTUS appointments
-Do not control the White House
Their numbers aren't as bad when you consider most Republicans these days are about like Democrats from the 1990's. Very few conservatives around anymore.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:12 pm to BurtReynoldsMustache
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Someone explain this phrase to me. Is it used because it's a popular term for a specific porn in which wives are being satisfied by a black man? (Most southerners I know worst nightmare)
Nothing to do with race, maybe the videos you've been watching make it seem that way.
A cuckhold in this context pretty much means "A man who willingly encourages his wife to sleep with other people because it brings him pleasure." Though by definition it can mean any man who's spouse is having an affair
I think it's used in this context politically to refer to self loathing liberal as beta, who among other things, would rather invite Islam to America while speaking down on American Christians. Basically an inferiority complex that leads to pleasure in being submissive/beta.
"If you can't please your wife then get off to someone alpha doing it for you." - selling out your country/values because you hate yourself
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:27 pm to RidiculousHype
Bah. Politics schmolitics.
I just post shite on here. I don’t vote ever.
The majority of liberals. Don’t care to vote.
The country can go fuq itself. Even while it is doing that and crashing and burning in all your sacred issues, I’ll be having a good time.
MAGA
I just post shite on here. I don’t vote ever.
The majority of liberals. Don’t care to vote.
The country can go fuq itself. Even while it is doing that and crashing and burning in all your sacred issues, I’ll be having a good time.
MAGA
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:38 pm to RidiculousHype
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Is it possible that your ideology is inherently inferior in some way to that of your opponents? Is there something about your ideology that, when expressed out loud, does not pass the common sense test?
Considering that we are the majority and have won the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections... no, that's not the problem. That's just just the conservative lie that they themselves to pretend like they really are the "silent majority" because they can't hand reality.
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-15 of 50 Governorships
-46 of 100 Senate seats
-194 of 435 House seats
All explained by geography. Wyoming has the same number of governors and senators as California and is even overrepresented in the house. It's silly that you would pretend like democrats have an advantage in our political system when it so clearly isn't the case based on the overrepresentation of rural red states.
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-4 of 9 SCOTUS appointments
-Do not control the White House
Those two are tied together. The Senate, which is majority Republican despite those republican senators representing a minority of Americans, stonewalled a Democratic president's SCOTUS nominee. Then, an election occurred in which substantially more Americans wanted and voted for Clinton to be the president, but again, due to geography, the Republican who was clearly not the people's choice was declared the winner, and his nominee was approved by the Republican majority (who again, in case you forgot, represents a minority of Americans).
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:48 pm to Lsuchs
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I think it's used in this context politically to refer to self loathing liberal as beta, who among other things, would rather invite Islam to America while speaking down on American Christians.
It originally referred to GOPe and NeverTrumpers but now it's used against liberals and anyone who disagrees with Trump.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 11/12/17 at 3:23 pm to BluegrassMiracle
quote:
BluegrassMiracle
I appreciate the solid, well-thought out reply. I disagree with a few of your points, as outlined below:
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All explained by geography. Wyoming has the same number of governors and senators as California and is even overrepresented in the house. It's silly that you would pretend like democrats have an advantage in our political system when it so clearly isn't the case based on the overrepresentation of rural red states.
Geography plays a role, no doubt. But I don't think geography hurts the Democrats as much as you think: Of our 10 most populated states, Trump won 7 (Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina) and Clinton won 3 (California, New York, Illinois).
Geography still doesn't address the dropoff over the past 40 years, either:
Governorships are not better for Dems, either: in 1977 Democrats held 37 Governorships and now hold just 15.
Over the past 40 years, despite a demographic tailwind, majority control over political media, and more recently, sports & entertainment, smartphone "news feeds", all of these societal advantages, look at the carnage:
Since 1977
Governorships: Dems had 37, now have 15
House seats: Dems had 292, now have 194
Senate seats: Dems had 61, now have 46
There's more than geography going on here.
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