Conversely, 20% of voters declared legally brain dead.
For reference, only 84% of Americans believe the Earth is round. . That this statement has about as much agreement is not surprising, but it’s worth keeping in mind that 15%-20% of people are going to disagree with literally any statement you poll them on, even basic facts.
Didn’t Universal Background Checks have like 91% support after Sandy Hook?
I remember it because I’d never seen anything poll so high in the US.
Clears that up.
An entirely self created one
The beloved Patriot Act 20 years later.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
The funny thing is yes 80% may say that we are in a political crisis. But it depends on which side of the aisle you’re on as far as what you consider that political crisis to be. Well yes we may agree there is a political crisis there are many that are calling for stricter controls in many of us that are calling for the leaders to be given the French treatment.
Political crisis?!? They just transitioned from a democracy to a monarchist authoritarian regime.
Political Crisis created by billionaires.
By billionaires, by trump, by right wing extremists, by religious idiots, by general idiots, by…
By fascists. Don’t forget them they are the same people you are talking about.
For sure
Can’t talk bad about fascists in America anymore.
I’m not American so I will say it for you. MAGA are fascists, billionaires are supporting it and are thereby fascists, religious groups are all in as well; they view him as a messiah who will lead your nation to greatness, all fascists. Over 25% of your nation is outright fascist at this point.
What the heck do the other 20% think? All is fine? Or are they just off-grid for months?
TIL 20% of Americans live in a persistent vegetative state.
Yet 50% of the 80% won’t actually vote.
It’s 80% of voters so they already took 1/3 of the country out.
that’s too generous, this is closer to 3/4 of the country out
It’s definitely frightening how one “influencer” being killed seems to have made things worse. They not only didn’t learn from the consequences of stoking the flames of divisiveness, but keep piling on the fuel. How does it not hit them that their own actions are what is causing this crisis, and how do they not think it might have gone too far? How are they so cynically exploiting the situation without the slightest hint of awareness that “this could be me next”?
Kirk was the excuse they pounced on - the escalation was coming regardless.
As designed by the GOP, for the GOP. They are the terrorist organization Donald trump is so worried about, but he keeps mixing it up and calling them “the radical left.”
The dementia is spreading across the entire GOP base. They all forgot what being a conservative was.
Cooked, deepfried.
On July 4, 2026, the
US Army[REDACTED]On July 4, 2026, nothing happened in Lafayette Square, Washington D.C. Absolutely zero university students died. Its was just a routine military parade with tanks. Anyone spreading false rumors is a foreign agent ANTIFA attempting to destablize our big beautiful democracy, and will therefore be charged with “Subversion of State Power”. GOD BLESS 'MURICA 👊🇺🇸🔥
The voters created this mess. The real argument should be for education.
Mass manipulation by social media is why we are where we are. Stupid voters have been around for all of democracy.
Critical thinking skills and being able to form your own opinion and back it up with evidence should be taught in grade school. Most people don’t get an introduction to this until college.
I’d be pretty happy if elementary logic was a high school requirement.
I mean, half of voters did. But I agree about education
The voters did what they were supposed to do: vote.
The fact that the system of democracy has been slowly eroded over time and never updated with new knowledge is the failing of Congress.
Well. It is.
No, really?
People vs politicians. The people need to clean house.
What should we try doing differently?
Step one is to purge neoliberals from the Democratic party. It needed to be done about ten years ago though, but I guess now is the second best time.
I’ve been told to vote for better Dems for 25 years, while they ratfuck anyone even slightly progressive.
They either ratfuck them in the primary with some rigged primary process, or ratfuck then after the primary by allowing Dems to run independent and split the voter base, withholding endorsements, giving half hearted endorsements and when the progressive candidate loses use the outcome of their ratfucking to justify moving further right because anyone left of Nixon is “unelectable”
If one miraculously makes it through those two ratfucks, they will then do anything in their power to make sure they have as little influence as possible on the party, David Hogg found this out firsthand, or in the halls of power, like when they passed over progressives to put a cancer riddled and dying Neolib into a committee chair.
If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, it’s not clear to me how continuing to support the Dems is going to start working. The neolibs own the party and they don’t seem very interested in divesting their power.
Maybe it’s time for a new party. The danger of splitting the vote when you are already losing and even in the face of authoritarian christofascism somehow less popular than authoritarian christofascism makes me think there’s not much to lose
Why a new party, and not one of the existing third parties?
A fresh start. Branding is all about conceptions, and retro-fitting an old party brings baggage. Green party for example being ecologically focused, for example.
Interesting… What branding do you think would get the most votes?
Change. It is what got Obama into office, and the same for Trump. Ordinary Americans are fed up with the status quo - ghost jobs, bad pay, not enough time to be a human, the malice of ICE, and more.
I suspect that people won’t accept Hope. Depending on how it is worded, maybe Drain the Swamp 2.0, if it targets Trump and friends specifically.
If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, it’s not clear to me how continuing to support the Dems is going to start working.
So, you think we need a brand new approach and a 3rd party is it? I’m not interested in political strategy from someone who doesn’t realize that third parties have run in every election since forever.
Your “new” strategy has its own track record, and it’s even worse than the one you want to abandon. At least the inside strategy hasn’t helped any Republicans win. You are either ignorant, or a Republican.
The inside strategy has given us two trump presidencies and has directly led to the current situation we find ourselves in.
The progressive caucus is the group that needs to divorce itself from the DNC.
Progressive policies are widely popular and the progressive brand is not marred by the same unpopularity as the democrats.
They should continue to run under the democratic ticket while converting their caucus machinery into a viable replacement party that can displace the DNC. Instead they currently act as an organ of a failed party that has proven time and again that they are unable to win elections.
The inside strategy has given us two trump presidencies and has directly led to the current situation we find ourselves in.
How are you not getting this? The outside strategy was also in play, and it also led us to where we are today. The only difference is that the inside strategy has actually made some progress while the outside strategy has achieved exactly dick.
You don’t get to restart the clock on the outside strategy every single election. It’s not new. It has a track record, and it’s nothing to be proud of. In theory the outside strategy is bad, and on reality it’s even worse. Grow up
You aren’t revealing some mystical secrets of the universe I’m too dense to understand.
I know the DNC would love to blame their electoral failure on third parties. They aren’t a shitty uninspiring party that cant articulate an authentic compelling vision for the future, it’s the stupid voters. These dumb dumb voters just won’t vote for them because they got tricked, hood winked into voting for, I forget who was the spoiler that cost Harris her victory. I know people like to blame Bernie for 2016, even though the actual data clearly showed Bernie voters loyally voted along with the party in greater numbers than Clinton voters did for Obama.
You think you are being the adult in the room stamping your feet and throwing a tantrum that the dumbass voters dont want to vote for the garbage neolib party that offers them nothing. I’ve got an adult sized wake up pill for you PARTIES HAVE TO WIN VOTES! And if your solution is to tell everyone, the party is fine we just need these dumbass voters to fall in line, you’ve got bigger problems than arguing with some guy on Lemmy.
Ranked. Fucking. Choice. Voting.
The states should work together to run special elections to replace everyone in house, senate, courts and then president. Any president level decisions shall be approved by the states of the people till someone is elected…… in a very broad explanation.
