re: The conversation no-one wants to have, "the people are the problem"

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If the GOP wants to have a better chance of winning this election, they’re gonna have to soften their stance on abortion.

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Too late. Everybody remembers how the GOP rigged the court and enabled red states to shove extreme vigilante laws and near-total abortion bans down everybody's throats. This shite is deeply unpopular.

The GOP worked for years to get Roe overturned. But everything has a cost. You finally got your way, but now the bill has come due.

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They enable, support, and vote for this destruction of the country.

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I respectfully disagree.

The American public is generally less-informed about many issues that they would prefer to know more about. They form their opinion based of the information that is made available to them ..... we are what we consume.

And therein lies the problem. It requires a lot of extra effort to research independent sources for information and the average voter doesn't have time to root through the garbage.

Of course, this is entirely by design from the administrative state that "manages" governance. The government utilizes third-party tech companies - IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION - to control narratives, create distraction and chaos, and spy on US citizens.. And then they rely on the Big Media cabal to message, control and shape public perceptions and bury negative news.

We need to hold elected leaders strictly accountable, but first ... the mess in DC needs to be cleaned up.

Let's put the Legislative Branch back to work .... return to writing legislation instead of abdicating it to lobbyists.

Let's fix the immigration and crime issues by enforcing laws. And speaking of laws, let's begin enforcing them equitably while respecting Due Process.

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There’s no data showing that a GOP candidate will ever “roll” to a win with the current electorate

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It won't happen. Romney was correct in identifying that 47% or more of the Democrat vote is basically baked in automatic. These votes have already been bought and paid for, and they have the machine perfected to go get these ballots at a very high rate. The Republicans essentially have to thread a needle in specific key states, I'm specific districts with enough to compensate shenanigans in the urban districts to pull off an electoral victory. But the popular vote is cooked and finished, and this will not change.

We are very close to nearing a baked in electoral advantage in permanence with their new replacement soldiers. We will be following in the footsteps of Canada and UK in approximately 5-10 years without immediate drastic action like mass deportation, that likely won't happen.

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People have tried to fight me

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You have over 420,000 posts in 20 yrs, you're averaging +55 posts/day. People are sick of you.

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What I just described is a form of totalitarianism.

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-Tracking women's menstrual cycles with mobile apps
-Preventing women from driving on highways toward state borders
-Deputizing neighbors to punish neighbors for things that don't involve them
-Reclassifying birth control as dangerous controlled substances, and presumably imprisoning people for possessing them

Totalitarian indeed, Kiwi.

Wanna know how I know this thread struck a strong nerve of truth?

BamaAtl, SFP and Leto II had multiple posts each on page one.

Yeah, true conservatives are not about any of that. What you list is more oppressive than anything else.

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I am curious how much gerrymandering plays into that, b/c that was one of the few electoral strategies where the GOP was innovative and effective.

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Generally speaking, gerrymandering shouldn't have too much of an impact on nationwide votes for Congressional candidates, right? Both parties enjoy the fact that most of their seats are safe, and gerrymandering certainly cuts both ways.

For instance, in the South generally and Louisiana specifically, it is the Democrats who benefit from gerrymandering in the House districts, not the GOP.

I also suppose that this point should only apply to the House, since the staggered nature of Senate elections will skew those numbers one way or the other.

ETA: For instance, the GOP recieved 3 million more House votes in 2022 than the Democrats did. The GOP also got more House votes in 2016, 2014, 2010, and every election from 1998-2004.