politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
Voters are responsible for their choices. Not political parties.
Hear hear! I mean, how dare they not vote for the democrats? Don't they know how this works? Do they think the parties are supposed to "earn" their votes by campaigning for policies that will benefit the electorate? That's fucking childish!
They did have policies that benefitted the electorate. Lots of them. But I guess when people can't look at anything but one single issue, and looking poorly I might add, considering that trump was known to be worse by far, it doesn't matter. But hey, keep blaming anyone but the people responsible for casting their votes. I'm sure it will fix the mess they created by voting with their feelings instead of their reason.
The part of the electorate that benefits from fracking, an even bigger border wall, children in cages at the border, and genocide is not big enough to move the needle. Plus, anyone who looks at those issues and considers them important is much more likely to vote for Trump anyway. Her platform was regressive dog shit, and that's why people didn't vote for her (and the genocide of course).
You can continue with the strategy of blaming the voters, but look where that got you. Just from a completely pragmatic perspective, look where that got you. The past three cycles you keep running candidates no one's excited about, on essentially republican platforms, with the main selling point being that they're not Trump (which is a veiled threat, at best). You managed to beat Trump only two out of the three times, and you had a massive pandemic helping you with the one time you did beat him with this strategy.
Eh, you know what, maybe you're right. Let's run on an even more right wing platform four years from now (maybe we can be anti-trans or whatever to attract more moderate republicans, like the 0% we managed to attract this cycle), let's tell the voters they're awful people if they vote for the other side, and maybe this time it'll work
You talk like I have any say on who gets to run. I don't like Harris' platform. I know it's centrist garbage. But you know what's worse? EVERYTHING that Trump is doing and planning. It doesn't take much to see that. And when you only have 2 shit choices, going with the less shit option is preferable. So yes, it's the fault of voters that we have trump. It's the DNCs fault Harris was their top pick and that the primaries were a joke. But in the end it's voters that pick and they decided between the living embodiment of "meh" and an orange cunt with muktiple felonies and a nasty track record of fucking over everything in his path, And the voters picked the orange cunt. The parties don't vote. People do. And people were narcissistic twats that went off "the general vibe of things" instead of using any reasoning whatsoever. Try to scapegoat this shit all you want, but people are responsible for their choices.
They thought they needed to also earn the majority which supports Israel as well which makes it awful hard to tell the truth and win everyones votes