As a Democrat, it all feels hopeless.

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Anonymous wrote:When the 60+ crowd are gone, the dems will be panicking as to how to run more progressive campaigns rather than resenting anyone whose marginally more left than a conservative 10 years ago. The republicans will be great though.

Pretty much, yeah. Democrats really have no unifying policy or ideal that steers them well. They fundamentally disagree on LGB{T especially} rights, climate change policy, immigration, etc. The Democrats also love killing progressive candidates in local races and showing young people that the party abhors them.

Based on votes around the world right now, this is a spectacularly wrong take. Youth worldwide are voting more to the right than in years past. I expect this year to be no different in the US.

Well, in the US young women have steered more and more the left, and men are stable. The countries you're thinking of have a right leaning male populace for different reasons...
Korea is weird, because the "left" party isn't exactly left leaning and doesn't support liberal policies like Gay Marriage. I'd learn about their political system, because the views are generally different from the West's left/right split
UK is in a mess right now and is losing the conservative party fast. The country has not done well under 14 years of Conservative rule, but the labour party is awful and putting up a bad candidate whose milquetoast at best.
Germany/Finland/the Europe you're thinking about is currently undergoing an "ethnicity" crisis. It is not the same concerns as the Republican party. Well, I guess the white nationalists may agree. But, they have an issue with immigration in terms of assimilation and inequality. The youth have "leaned right," as in they want the government to back their ethnic culture, but if you had these youths list out the policies they want, they are left of the American center.
But if you seriously think American youth are in any significant numbers moving right, I'd have you wait and see how many will be not voting this election due to a bad Democrat candidate/will vote for Biden.

Okay, if you are so sure that the youth vote will entirely vote extreme progressive for the next fifty years, just keep steady on that path and see where it gets you. Feel free to ignore global trends if you’d like.

It's not ignoring global trends, but staying in the context of American trends, which is the discussion. Do I really care if Georgian or Austrian youths are becoming conservative? No I really don't.

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You can't exclude how youth feels about the economy. Anyone coming of age now is hurting. Social media is filled with new adults who say they can't afford kids or rent. Trump would be change and he's taking some votes from Biden.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a massive disconnect with politicians and their voters in 20 years. When the 60+ crowd are gone, the dems will be panicking as to how to run more progressive campaigns rather than resenting anyone whose marginally more left than a conservative 10 years ago. The republicans will be great though.

What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

I don’t believe that the Democrats believe in women’s rights any more.

Why?

And the R's who took away the right to choose do? Really?

The Rs don’t believe in women’s rights either. But the Democrats have gone all in on destroying women’s rights as well. They have prioritized men at every turn.

Pick your poison, though. One of these parties leads towards continued free and fair elections, courts, and civil rights.
One wants to end all of those American ideals.

I don’t think the Democrats are the party of civil rights any more. I certainly don’t believe your hysteria.

Candidly I just don’t believe the Democrats on anything at this point. They lied about Biden’s health, as we can all see.

Trump and the GOP lie as well. But I never trusted them. Now I distrust the Democrats the same way I distrust the Republicans.

Do you believe that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election?

Up until this debate, yes. But it’s now clear that the mainstream media has been shockingly deceptive in their reporting and now I am questioning everything. I don’t know what to think or who to trust as this point.

But you saw it on TV. It's clear that Biden is an 81 year old who has good days and bad days. I wish that there was another candidate running. But there's not. There's no way I would vote for someone who tried to overthrow the US government. I just wouldn't. I am voting for him because I like what Biden is actually doing. Not how he talks. And I'm also voting against Trump because he hates the American people and doesn't believe that their votes matter. Either one of those would be good enough reason for me to make my voice heard through voting.

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What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

They don't give an eff about women. They want men pretending to be women in women’s spaces.

Actually Democrats have fought for women's rights through the decade, most importantly the right to choose.

Oh how they’ve shifted - choosing to put delusional biological males in women’s/girl’s sports and locker rooms against the wishes of women.

+1 dems throwing girls and women under several buses and then claiming to fight for women. They have no shame.

And Donald Trump is pro-woman? In what way.

Ask Ivana Trump, Stormy Daniels, Rosie O'Donnell or even his own daughter how he does on women's rights. They won't have much good to say.

Hilarious. A party against female genital mutilation and in favor of Title IX sports policy moves 180 degrees because of blind activism and must have "a cause".

Yes, I'm sure climate change affects LGBTQIA++WTFBBQ disproportionately. Got any other pearls of wisdumb for us?

Even more tiresome. Start a thread for the 2 posters that are freaked out about the tiny number or trans people in this country. Stop polluting all the threads as nauseum with your transphobia.

Add phobia to get your way in an argument. Xenophobia. Transphobia. I'm senilemanphobic.

You equate the issue of fairness in a tiny number or women's sporting events because of of a small number of transgender athletes with the destruction of roe. It is tiresome. These problems are not in the same universe.

Have a discussion about transgender people but it has nothing do with the catastrophic loss of reproductive rights.

Obviously your purpose is just to distract from the disaster of overturning roe. You simply can not do that. That disaster happened. The majority are aware of it. The majority are not distracted by your lazy nonsense .

Relegating women to second-class status to favor men affects 50% of the population. This is a foundational shift in belief and support for women. You can’t gaslight me into pretending this is anything other than a widespread adoption of an overtly misogynist belief and political structure designed to disenfranchise women.

Women are so disenfranchised that anyone can join the group. And menstruation, child birth, hormones, and other unique things about being a woman are adopted by people who don't know what its like to be a woman and never will. No matter how many tampons they stick up their ass.

Okay, but you're really telling me that your strong belief that trans-women are not women makes you want to vote to close the door on the expansion of women's reproductive rights for the foreseeable future? That's the part that seems a little messed up to me. Can you clarify?

DP, not worth the effort. That is not the person they say they are.

You're probably right, but I know two people who are in this camp in real life. And I really just don't get the eagle-eyed focus on this one small issue.

Because it’s not small! That’s what you and the other gaslighters do not get, at this point I think willfully. We are watching a Democratic embrace of a quasi-religion that relegates women to second-class body parts. It’s an explicitly de-humanizing and grossly sexist belief structure designed to preference men.

I — and many women — want nothing to do with a neo-religion that is as anti-woman as the Taliban. And that affects 50% of the population, not a few people.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a massive disconnect with politicians and their voters in 20 years. When the 60+ crowd are gone, the dems will be panicking as to how to run more progressive campaigns rather than resenting anyone whose marginally more left than a conservative 10 years ago. The republicans will be great though.

What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

I don’t believe that the Democrats believe in women’s rights any more.

Why?

And the R's who took away the right to choose do? Really?

The Rs don’t believe in women’s rights either. But the Democrats have gone all in on destroying women’s rights as well. They have prioritized men at every turn.

Pick your poison, though. One of these parties leads towards continued free and fair elections, courts, and civil rights.
One wants to end all of those American ideals.

I don’t think the Democrats are the party of civil rights any more. I certainly don’t believe your hysteria.

Candidly I just don’t believe the Democrats on anything at this point. They lied about Biden’s health, as we can all see.

Trump and the GOP lie as well. But I never trusted them. Now I distrust the Democrats the same way I distrust the Republicans.

Do you believe that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election?

Do you believe Joe Biden has been mentally sharp for the duration of his presidency, and he is functioning as our nation’s chief executive and making day to day decisions in the oval office independently?

If you believe that Donald Trump did indeed try to undermine the votes of the American people, and then you vote for him, you are voting for the dismantling of our electoral system. Period.

Democrats are right now undermining the votes of the American people by installing a shadow government that functions in place of Biden. They have done it for the last 3 years, are doing it as we type, and will continue to do so for the duration of Biden’s fake presidency.

Democrats ARE undermining the votes of the American people in secret and lying to the American people.

Yes, the Dems have played right into the hands of the beings from another world who are really running our government. Or we could just be in some parallel reality like on Truman Show. It's starting to make sense...

The Matrix is real!

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Anonymous wrote:You can't exclude how youth feels about the economy. Anyone coming of age now is hurting. Social media is filled with new adults who say they can't afford kids or rent. Trump would be change and he's taking some votes from Biden.

Hope they like the change they get.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't exclude how youth feels about the economy. Anyone coming of age now is hurting. Social media is filled with new adults who say they can't afford kids or rent. Trump would be change and he's taking some votes from Biden.

Do you know how much I earned straight out of college? Less that what the minimum wage is now. Young folks are okay. They are poor now, and they will be less poor later.

If you look at wages, they are up.

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I'm totally depressed, fearing the worst. Democrats have won seven out of the last eight popular votes so we are being defeated by a well-managed minority playing the long game. Leonard Leo and his supporters are killing us. Welcome to the Christofascist nightmare. The quality of elected officials has collapsed over the last thirty years.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't exclude how youth feels about the economy. Anyone coming of age now is hurting. Social media is filled with new adults who say they can't afford kids or rent. Trump would be change and he's taking some votes from Biden.

Do you know how much I earned straight out of college? Less that what the minimum wage is now. Young folks are okay. They are poor now, and they will be less poor later.

If you look at wages, they are up.

A bag of fries costs $6 at Target

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Anonymous wrote:I'm totally depressed, fearing the worst. Democrats have won seven out of the last eight popular votes so we are being defeated by a well-managed minority playing the long game. Leonard Leo and his supporters are killing us. Welcome to the Christofascist nightmare. The quality of elected officials has collapsed over the last thirty years.

Same. But we've got to keep pushing. What other choice do we have?

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Anonymous wrote:You can't exclude how youth feels about the economy. Anyone coming of age now is hurting. Social media is filled with new adults who say they can't afford kids or rent. Trump would be change and he's taking some votes from Biden.

Do you know how much I earned straight out of college? Less that what the minimum wage is now. Young folks are okay. They are poor now, and they will be less poor later.

If you look at wages, they are up.

A bag of fries costs $6 at Target

And?

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a massive disconnect with politicians and their voters in 20 years. When the 60+ crowd are gone, the dems will be panicking as to how to run more progressive campaigns rather than resenting anyone whose marginally more left than a conservative 10 years ago. The republicans will be great though.

What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

I don’t believe that the Democrats believe in women’s rights any more.

Why?

And the R's who took away the right to choose do? Really?

The Rs don’t believe in women’s rights either. But the Democrats have gone all in on destroying women’s rights as well. They have prioritized men at every turn.

Pick your poison, though. One of these parties leads towards continued free and fair elections, courts, and civil rights.
One wants to end all of those American ideals.

I don’t think the Democrats are the party of civil rights any more. I certainly don’t believe your hysteria.

Candidly I just don’t believe the Democrats on anything at this point. They lied about Biden’s health, as we can all see.

Trump and the GOP lie as well. But I never trusted them. Now I distrust the Democrats the same way I distrust the Republicans.

Do you believe that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election?

Up until this debate, yes. But it’s now clear that the mainstream media has been shockingly deceptive in their reporting and now I am questioning everything. I don’t know what to think or who to trust as this point.

But you saw it on TV. It's clear that Biden is an 81 year old who has good days and bad days. I wish that there was another candidate running. But there's not. There's no way I would vote for someone who tried to overthrow the US government. I just wouldn't. I am voting for him because I like what Biden is actually doing. Not how he talks. And I'm also voting against Trump because he hates the American people and doesn't believe that their votes matter. Either one of those would be good enough reason for me to make my voice heard through voting.

What I saw on TV was shocking. What I realized immediately is that the Democratic Party and the mainstream media have been actively suppressing and lying about the state of Biden and who is actually running our country. I’ve been lied to, as badly as the GOP has. And now I do not trust anything that I was told previously.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a massive disconnect with politicians and their voters in 20 years. When the 60+ crowd are gone, the dems will be panicking as to how to run more progressive campaigns rather than resenting anyone whose marginally more left than a conservative 10 years ago. The republicans will be great though.

What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

I don’t believe that the Democrats believe in women’s rights any more.

Why?

And the R's who took away the right to choose do? Really?

The Rs don’t believe in women’s rights either. But the Democrats have gone all in on destroying women’s rights as well. They have prioritized men at every turn.

Pick your poison, though. One of these parties leads towards continued free and fair elections, courts, and civil rights.
One wants to end all of those American ideals.

I don’t think the Democrats are the party of civil rights any more. I certainly don’t believe your hysteria.

Candidly I just don’t believe the Democrats on anything at this point. They lied about Biden’s health, as we can all see.

Trump and the GOP lie as well. But I never trusted them. Now I distrust the Democrats the same way I distrust the Republicans.

Do you believe that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election?

Up until this debate, yes. But it’s now clear that the mainstream media has been shockingly deceptive in their reporting and now I am questioning everything. I don’t know what to think or who to trust as this point.

But you saw it on TV. It's clear that Biden is an 81 year old who has good days and bad days. I wish that there was another candidate running. But there's not. There's no way I would vote for someone who tried to overthrow the US government. I just wouldn't. I am voting for him because I like what Biden is actually doing. Not how he talks. And I'm also voting against Trump because he hates the American people and doesn't believe that their votes matter. Either one of those would be good enough reason for me to make my voice heard through voting.

What I saw on TV was shocking. What I realized immediately is that the Democratic Party and the mainstream media have been actively suppressing and lying about the state of Biden and who is actually running our country. I’ve been lied to, as badly as the GOP has. And now I do not trust anything that I was told previously.

There have been a lot of references to "who is really running the country" in this forum since the debate. I'm doing to know. Who is actually running the country?

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What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

They don't give an eff about women. They want men pretending to be women in women’s spaces.

Actually Democrats have fought for women's rights through the decade, most importantly the right to choose.

Oh how they’ve shifted - choosing to put delusional biological males in women’s/girl’s sports and locker rooms against the wishes of women.

+1 dems throwing girls and women under several buses and then claiming to fight for women. They have no shame.

And Donald Trump is pro-woman? In what way.

Ask Ivana Trump, Stormy Daniels, Rosie O'Donnell or even his own daughter how he does on women's rights. They won't have much good to say.

Hilarious. A party against female genital mutilation and in favor of Title IX sports policy moves 180 degrees because of blind activism and must have "a cause".

Yes, I'm sure climate change affects LGBTQIA++WTFBBQ disproportionately. Got any other pearls of wisdumb for us?

Even more tiresome. Start a thread for the 2 posters that are freaked out about the tiny number or trans people in this country. Stop polluting all the threads as nauseum with your transphobia.

Add phobia to get your way in an argument. Xenophobia. Transphobia. I'm senilemanphobic.

You equate the issue of fairness in a tiny number or women's sporting events because of of a small number of transgender athletes with the destruction of roe. It is tiresome. These problems are not in the same universe.

Have a discussion about transgender people but it has nothing do with the catastrophic loss of reproductive rights.

Obviously your purpose is just to distract from the disaster of overturning roe. You simply can not do that. That disaster happened. The majority are aware of it. The majority are not distracted by your lazy nonsense .

Relegating women to second-class status to favor men affects 50% of the population. This is a foundational shift in belief and support for women. You can’t gaslight me into pretending this is anything other than a widespread adoption of an overtly misogynist belief and political structure designed to disenfranchise women.

Women are so disenfranchised that anyone can join the group. And menstruation, child birth, hormones, and other unique things about being a woman are adopted by people who don't know what its like to be a woman and never will. No matter how many tampons they stick up their ass.

Yawn. We will fight in until we get back are reproductive rights. You panic over nothing.

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What?
The Dems will adjust. They believe in civil rights, rule of law, making the environment sustainable, women's rights, abortion rights.

The R's used to believe in fiscally conservative policies, state's rights, and ending abortion.

Now, their main unifying policy (abortion) is off the list, and they no longer believe in state's rights or fiscally conservative policies.

Neither policy has a clear vision for foreign policy.

In 20 years, the D's have something to build on / build up / build towards.

The R's have dismantled the entire government, made the tax structure unsustainable, and totally eliminated our leadership position in foreign policy. They've made us an unreliable partner and even have brought into question whether we have or support rule of law.

In what way are the R's in a better position to have an agenda for the future?

They don't give an eff about women. They want men pretending to be women in women’s spaces.

Actually Democrats have fought for women's rights through the decade, most importantly the right to choose.

Oh how they’ve shifted - choosing to put delusional biological males in women’s/girl’s sports and locker rooms against the wishes of women.

+1 dems throwing girls and women under several buses and then claiming to fight for women. They have no shame.

And Donald Trump is pro-woman? In what way.

Ask Ivana Trump, Stormy Daniels, Rosie O'Donnell or even his own daughter how he does on women's rights. They won't have much good to say.

Hilarious. A party against female genital mutilation and in favor of Title IX sports policy moves 180 degrees because of blind activism and must have "a cause".

Yes, I'm sure climate change affects LGBTQIA++WTFBBQ disproportionately. Got any other pearls of wisdumb for us?

Even more tiresome. Start a thread for the 2 posters that are freaked out about the tiny number or trans people in this country. Stop polluting all the threads as nauseum with your transphobia.

Add phobia to get your way in an argument. Xenophobia. Transphobia. I'm senilemanphobic.

You equate the issue of fairness in a tiny number or women's sporting events because of of a small number of transgender athletes with the destruction of roe. It is tiresome. These problems are not in the same universe.

Have a discussion about transgender people but it has nothing do with the catastrophic loss of reproductive rights.

Obviously your purpose is just to distract from the disaster of overturning roe. You simply can not do that. That disaster happened. The majority are aware of it. The majority are not distracted by your lazy nonsense .

Relegating women to second-class status to favor men affects 50% of the population. This is a foundational shift in belief and support for women. You can’t gaslight me into pretending this is anything other than a widespread adoption of an overtly misogynist belief and political structure designed to disenfranchise women.

Women are so disenfranchised that anyone can join the group. And menstruation, child birth, hormones, and other unique things about being a woman are adopted by people who don't know what its like to be a woman and never will. No matter how many tampons they stick up their ass.

Okay, but you're really telling me that your strong belief that trans-women are not women makes you want to vote to close the door on the expansion of women's reproductive rights for the foreseeable future? That's the part that seems a little messed up to me. Can you clarify?

DP, not worth the effort. That is not the person they say they are.

You're probably right, but I know two people who are in this camp in real life. And I really just don't get the eagle-eyed focus on this one small issue.

Because it’s not small! That’s what you and the other gaslighters do not get, at this point I think willfully. We are watching a Democratic embrace of a quasi-religion that relegates women to second-class body parts. It’s an explicitly de-humanizing and grossly sexist belief structure designed to preference men.

I — and many women — want nothing to do with a neo-religion that is as anti-woman as the Taliban. And that affects 50% of the population, not a few people.

Preach