jerakor

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[–] jerakor@startrek.website 11 points 1 hour ago (6 children)

He is 78, in awful health, and has no interest in a legacy or supporting a successor. He keeps everyone around him at odds and maintains enough infighting that no clear heir apparent could really show up.

So like, he really only will hold power long enough to make everything terrible. So we got that goin for us.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

The US has literally 0 third party representation at the federal level and 10 state senators all libertarian. Even Bernie isn't technically a third party he just is no party. So to be clear, having no party is far far better in the US than representing a third party even in a local election.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

I'm an independent that voted for Jill in 2016 and Kamala in 2024. What is your issue with me? You think the country ever could recover if people like us didn't work together?

None of this hurts me, I'll be fine. I just question if I want to raise my family with American values now but I have the freedom to easily move anywhere. Others don't.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They are short about 4 states right now. That isn't as huge a gap as I'd like. And they have the ability to get the item out to the states.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Yea, if you want more leftist policies than right, vote and work with Democrats at the federal level and try to get Ranked voting in more places. Exactly like Bernie has. Continue to support your third party in local until they become able to actually get folks elected to even a Senate post. As long as the Green Party can't even manage to get the most hippy district in the nation to get a single House Rep elected you might as well just cast your vote for Bob Ross.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The we made some mistakes but we are proud of our heritage deal only works when you're not massively losing due to being out of touch with the morals of your base. It's easier for me to not see the parallels when they are not sending troops to cleanse Gaza. When you look at the votes for them and realize that it is a combination of both the people who want Democrats and the people who just don't want Trump and they STILL can't win it is a huge issue.

It's the oldest political party in the world, maybe it is time to rebuild it in a cleaner image.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's cool though, no way that a President that awful would still be ingrained in our modern politics. Well except for the fact that he is the Founder of the Democratic Party, you know... the "good" guys.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

The Republican party is policy wise to the right of both National and the NZ First party as a comparison. They will also control all arms of the government and it is potentially possible for them to amend the constitution without any recourse but it isn't easy.

So to be clear, they could change our Freedom of Religion and Speech to a Freedom of Christian Religions and "Truthful" Speech and there isn't a ton that anyone could do to stop them just to give you an idea of the level of power they have taken in this election. It wouldn't be easy, but the fact that it won't be impossible should be terrifying.

The goals they have of criminalizing providing abortion services in all cases for the entire country is entirely possible. They could round up every person in the country of a certain nationality and put them in camps like we did with the Japanese during WW2, Trump already cited this act as being something he is considering to deal with immigration.

Historically we killed 90% of our indigenous population. When NZ was signing the Treaty of Waitangi, America was executing the Trail of Tears and rounding up 60,000 Native Americans and making them march 100km to live in a desert, a quarter of them died during the move. We're not even starting in a similar place here and we're moving far to the right.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago

The American people spoke and helped clarify what it means to be an American. It's fair that some folks who last week felt proud to be an American now would prefer to be almost anything else.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A second loss should be a death knell of the current Republican party. He won't transition any of his power to Vance or any other Republicans. He could die and we still would see 10% of the Americans to vote for him in 2028 because his death was just media propaganda as far as they are concerned.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

We all have happiness, it's just hard to see it past all the other stuff we got going on in our heads.

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