Random political thought thread.

[Virtual ghost]

I know what I said about posting polls but this one is truly a turning point.
Harris takes the lead in the national polling average on 270 to win. It is clearly visible that the top of the column is blue and bottom is red.


National 2024 Presidential Election Polls

This is getting quite blue.

 

[Hypatia]

I saw Kamala Harris on TV speaking about Joe Biden's resignation and I liked how she stayed loyal as well as vowed to continue in his footsteps regarding certain things associated with policies but I didn't hear her speak concretely about what policies she'll be supporting thus far.

It says on Wikipedia she used to make reproductive care (pro-choice) rights the lodestone to her political campaign but I don't know how that might change into a different central point.

I think Kamala Harris should discuss trade agreements and make that the pivotal point between her and Trump.

 

[Coriolis]

I saw Kamala Harris on TV speaking about Joe Biden's resignation and I liked how she stayed loyal as well as vowed to continue in his footsteps regarding certain things associated with policies but I didn't hear her speak concretely about what policies she'll be supporting thus far.

It says on Wikipedia she used to make reproductive care (pro-choice) rights the lodestone to her political campaign but I don't know how that might change into a different central point.

I think Kamala Harris should discuss trade agreements and make that the pivotal point between her and Trump.

I wouldn't call reproductive rights a lodestone for Harris. That gives it too much emphasis relative to other issues that concern her. It has, however, been something she has consistently supported, along with LGBTQ rights, health care access/affordability, environmental protection, consumer rights, and corporate accountability.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Arizona could become the blueprint for Democrats looking to build state power

Democrats are alert to the problem of “down-ballot roll off,” where voters go to the polls mainly to weigh in on high-profile national races but lose interest in local ones and simply stop completing their ballots. This phenomenon is more common among Democrats: 80 percent of Democrats fail to completely fill out their ballot, compared with 32 percent for Republicans, according to research from progressive group Sister District.

That actually explains certain results.

 

[Hypatia]

I think it's a good thing Kamala Harris takes more private donations and supports a single paying health insurance which seems more leftist to me.

 

[Red Herring]

I think it's a good thing Kamala Harris takes more private donations and supports a single paying health insurance which seems more leftist to me.

Today it probably is. Many don't seems aware though that the modern wellfare state was first introduced by arch-conservative Otto von Bismarck in the 1880s to keep workers from rioting or turning into socialists.
The British NHS might have been introduced by a Labour government but until Maggie Thatcher there was a post-war consensus in the UK on these things.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in a letter to his brother

 

[The Cat]

Harris/Walz 2024.
Think of the Future.

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[Virtual ghost]

Tim Walz calls Viktor Orbán a dictator. For JD Vance, he’s a role model.


This kinda random piece is actually pretty good example of what I was saying. Today you don't really have national elections and inside and outside is pretty blurred due to modern global dynamic and the internet. Therefore across the map politicians are actively helping one another to win elections through ideas, influence, trade etc. What means that the actual game is what I called "global college". What means that the whole world is basically one giant game of electoral college between autocracy and democracy, while countries are states. What would mean that the US as a whole is basically the California of the world and without it the democratic world has problems with volume. Which is exactly why some global players are trying to make it as messy as possible.

In other words this is that 4D chess some were mentioning over the years.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Can't this millennium just be over already? It's been such a drag.

 

[The Cat]

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Can't this millennium just be over already? It's been such a drag.

You'll be over before it even notices.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Famed zoologist jailed for sexually abusing dozens of dogs

Police found weapons, sex toys and the remains of decomposing puppies at his property.

Saying that the dude had issues is evidently an understatement.

 

[The Cat]

I hate to be the one to say it, but his career prospects have just gone to the dogs.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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You'll be over before it even notices.

It's the small miracles to be thankful for.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Virtual ghost]

German voters have high hopes for Kamala Harris


Germans would have solved this pretty quickly.

Harris 77%
Trump 10%



That is 67 point gap.

 

[Red Herring]

German voters have high hopes for Kamala Harris


Germans would have solved this pretty quickly.

Harris 77%
Trump 10%



That is 67 point gap.

Germans would have voted Dems with a similarly large majority ever since George W. Bush (maybe longer but that's when I first saw numbers like that).

Edit: Actually, most surveys of the last two decades show Germans preferring Dems over Reps by roughly 9:1 (in the presidentials). Sometimes 70-80 Dem, 10-20 neither, but rarely more than 10% for the Rep candidate. At least in this century.

2. Edit: I googled and found results fitting this pattern going backwards in time till 2000. No numbers before that. I was only a teenager when Clinton ran for reelection in 1996 (actually, that's the year I lived in the US) but remember people in Germany overall liking and preferring Clinton.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Germans would have voted Dems with a similarly large majority ever since George W. Bush (maybe longer but that's when I first saw numbers like that).

Edit: Actually, most surveys of the last two decades show Germans preferring Dems over Reps by roughly 9:1 (in the presidentials). Sometimes 70-80 Dem, 10-20 neither, but rarely more than 10% for the Rep candidate. At least in this century.

2. Edit: I googled and found results fitting this pattern going backwards in time till 2000. No numbers before that. I was only a teenager when Clinton ran for reelection in 1996 (actually, that's the year I lived in the US) but remember people in Germany overall liking and preferring Clinton.

I am pretty sure the same goes for almost all of Europe. The Republicans are simply pushing stuff that in Europe fell out of the loop about 100 years ago. In the case that people know details it is possible that difference could be even larger. Even democrats are free market extremists by European standards but they at least have various elements with which you can work when it comes to economy. Plus not denying science and basic human rights are a clear plus.

 

[ygolo]

It is quite possible to be both pro-Union and pro-small business. Having to choose between the two is a false dichotomy.

Explain why it is a false dichotomy to be forced to choose between being...

The notion that one must choose between being pro-union and pro-small business is a false dichotomy because it oversimplifies the complex and multifaceted...

www.perplexity.ai

 

[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Health insurance in this country really is a racket. If you think taxes are theft....