I hope the Republicans can encourage voter turnout for the midterms.
Historically that is difficult as they are state led, so there’s more cheating going on.
Pretending the system still works?
I hope president Trump declares a state of siege and does what's necessary.
“I hope the Republicans can encourage voter turnout for the midterms.”
Both sides have dedicated voters who will reliably turn out for non-presidential year votes. But it’s the middle who often decide presidential votes and those people are only peripherally looking at politics. They have kids and jobs and other concerns that conflict with voting which is somewhere between a trip back to Publix because you forgot something you don’t immediately need and a routine dental cleaning in importance. It’s really hard to get them to turn out.
As for fully turning out the Republican base, how many people have you heard say, “If he doesn’t meet my every requirement I’ll protest by staying home?” Those people, with their unrealistic purity test, don’t understand the larger picture. Politics is rarely a win/lose. It’s an ongoing negotiation and you want your side to have as many seats at the table as possible.
Well the trouble is that people don’t really care how serious the problem is. Most people I know have their heads down and they vote for what appeals to their current sensibilities. They don’t care that they are being manipulated. In fact they kinna like it. They’re happy to be sheep herded by the media and they exist in a world where there approaches a utopia if only they can resist like they were taught in school. Where everything that makes sense is a shared cost and there’s not any corruption to speak of and anything that’s not their side of the aisle is wholeheartedly evil, or at least stupidly misguided. We exist in the roaring 20’s at the moment, and there comes soon a global economic and societal crash. There will not be an American engine to bail us all out this time. But the communists will be there to enforce their totalitarian utopia. It’s coming and there’s no stopping it. Generations will suffer under it and there will be no way out. The only option will be to fight and die, or live as a slave.
That’s where we’re at, said the cassandran..
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
― Winston S. Churchill