re: Every Election Is Portrayed As An Existential Threat If Your Side Loses

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You realize people say this every election also right?

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I'm not "people", I'm one person who just gave you his opinion on why this is different, rather than just saying its different.

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Its why we never escape the 2 party system. Every election is "too important to lose" so people bite the bullet, hold their nose, and pick blue or red. Every single time.

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I don't understand how this statement logically follows the previous one. People don't pick a side out of fear, they pick the side that at least claims to hold to their values. What difference does it make how many parties there are? At no time in the history of the world have all people agreed on everything. So should we just have one party with a bunch of people in it who don't agree with each other? Should we have three? What does it matter?

It seems like people just says things like this about "we can't escape the two party system", but never actually think about what that actually means, and never bother to articulate it.

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Yeah..that was odd. I live in Ga (sadly) and I've seen this coming.

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Georgia may be past the tipping point with Atlanta.

I never worried about midterms and I have been voting a very long time. It always ebbs and flows.

But, several of the Dems aren't your run of the mill Dems of the past. They are radicals with beliefs that aren't true to our nation.

If the majority of the Dems that don't hold the same beliefs aren't able to curtail them, our nation will suffer immensely.

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The reason 2 is a problem (as 1 would also be) is candidates have to sell out to a party to have a shot at being nominated. Even trump had to swap from Democrat to Republican because there was no chance of being elected without party support.

Requiring party support creates a gatekeeping effect with bribery because if you want the party to back your campaign, you have to do what they say. We are no longer electing candidates based on their individual ideals/values.

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So you're suggesting we don't have any parties, and people just run as people? How exactly will this change the ideology of people running for office, and the people who support the policies and beliefs of those running? Will they simply cease to spend money or speak publicly in support of their preferred candidates?

And Trump didn't switch to Republican for party support. He switched because his beliefs no longer aligned with that party. And he was not given great support by the GOP. They frankly never took him very seriously. But he's a billionaire, so he really didn't need their money, and we, the people, voted him in because he had a clear, no BS message that we all believed in.

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I've been able to vote since 1982 and I've hear this every election as if humanity will end if your side loses. People are wringing heir hands and clutching their people as if America has fallen...

Here's a clue...All that has happened is the GOP lost a mid term election as history shows would happen.

The voters got tired of the GOP sitting on their asses and Trumps bi-polar bullshite and they got their asses spanked for failing to listen to the people.

Trump was more interest in talking about bombing Iran, reflection pools, ballrooms, arches, how "hot" our economy was without addressing simple issues that the average person deals with daily.

People's perception may have not been in sync with reality and the GOP did a shitty job of addressing this issue.

Now the voters put the GOP in time out and got rig of a lot of dead weight. I don't like it but sometimes a reset is needed.

The Democrats will show to America that they were bullshitting about the things they campaigned on to get elected. When the voters catch up to their lies they too will get punished in the next few elections.

Just live your lives and let it play out.

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We just spent 12 years watching kids be mutilated, unfettered immigration, Debt go up, inflation go up and on and on, gender confusion running rampant. We just pulled out of most of that stuff - and we're going right back in.

The US was pretty messy from 2008-2024. Even with Trump's first presidency.

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I don't think every loss in elections is the end of our country, or potentially so. This one is very different because, if you haven't noticed, the democratic party has become so radicalized, they openly celebrate the death of an opponent. And they aren't just liberals anymore, they are communists. They have become so corrupt that they will try to make every law they can to make sure they never lose power.

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That's what I was going to reply.

If the Democracrats from 1962 had won it would be different... But not these blue haired, ring nosed kids who are rioting in the streets wanting to defund the police.

They openly say White peole are the problem, even if some of them are white. They also openly state that Republicans need to either be killed or put into camps.

And people voted for them because of Free stuff and we hate Trump because my mama said so.

This group voted in is not normal. We used to be a Christian nation and founded our principle upon it. Now they hate Christians because the bible says they can't be gay...

I agree with this. I'm ashamed to admit that I was a Democrat until 2020 when I started really paying attention and saw that they have gone absolutely nuts. This is not -- ha ha -- laugh it off politics as usual. They truly hate America and are out to destroy it and start over.