Posted on 11/17/2022 12:55:42 PM PST by millenial4freedom
Either way, they thought the Democrats were better.
This is important to work out. Independent voters are not merely people refusing formal party alignment. They are that great globular middle of American politics – respectable white people, that is, white people who care about looking respectable to white people, who themselves care about looking respectable to other white people.
I call this class of Americans “globular,” because they can be pushed and pulled, depending on the context at election time. They are fickle. They believe they are immune to the consequences of politics. But they can be shamed, as respectability among other white people, who are the people who really matter, is a key motivator for them.
I suspect abortion is central to their concept of respectability. After all, half are women. I think the other half associates respectability with the social status of businessmen, as this is an affluent class of Americans that identifies with owners more than workers, and while inflation is good for wages, it’s bad for the bosses who pay them.
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‘More women than men oppose abortion.’
uh, yeah, sure...
What is he?
This smug punk is an entirely soy-based life form.
Respectable my back humps! We just need to learn how to game the system like the rats do. And guess what we’re gonna do? …we’re going to do the harvesting we’re gonna go out and register people to vote go knock on their door election day and ask if they ready turned in their ballots if not we will take it in for them etc. etc. exactly the game plan that the rats use! THIS IS WAR!! We have two years to grow nails …Jungle red nails!
I’ve always maintained “Independents” are just self-absorbed people who like to be pandered to, discussed and courted for their ‘favors’. They’re really nothing more than Democrats with self-image problems.
John lives in a respectable zoo.
If you don’t vote for killing babies, then you ain’t white
‘young single women’
Yep. Republicans won married men 59-39, married women 56-42, single men 52-45, but lost single women 68-31. The Demonrats are smart in appealing to radical selfishness.
yep, democrats supporting womens “right” to murder their babies is no different than if they were supporting men’s rights to beat their wives, or the property rights of slave owners who don’t want their valuable slave property taken away from them.
Basically the Democrats are doing what they always have historically done.
Nonsense.
And you’ll have to argue with a number of the Founding Fathers. They were fearful about the development of powerful political parties.
It is Alternet, after all.
According to polls more women are pro
Life than men
“Independent” is just a play for power in and of itself.
How in the world is that? I’ve never been “pandered to, discussed and courted for ‘favors’.” Nobody even knows or cares, as far as I can tell. I don’t discuss it in real life.
I’ve been ‘independent’ for 50 years. It has nothing to do with ‘power’, but with the simple desire to not be officially affiliated with any party.
Now I see why you called my personal thoughts on idependents nonsense.
Try perusing this to get some perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_members_of_the_United_States_Congress
The fact is that most 'independents' are left-leaning and when elected and given the choice mostly caucus with Democrats.
Stupid people are returning to the Democrats.
There... I fixed it! if anyone is returning to Democrats, this would be the appropriate title.
Take some writing classes John
Well, I’m not left-leaning; so your link means nothing to me. I’ve voted Republican all of my life, except for two times when I was disgusted with everyone in the two parties who was running.
Do you vote Republican no matter who is running, and no matter what they’ve done previously?
That seems no different from the knee-jerk democrats that I know...
I never said specifically you are left-leaning. “most independents are.....” was the operative phrase. That said, the preponderance of ‘independents’ experienced with being seated in Congress and being left-leaning is unmistakable and beyond the “knee jerk” reaction you ascribe to it. You can take that however you want, but there it is.
“respectable” white people are the one’s who live above it all. Their voting choices are a superficial thing where things like, “he doesn’t mean Tweet” and “I support choice for women (not having a clue what that means)” are the kind of things that shape their vote.
Life for them is dropping the kids off at school or a sport. Yoga and latte with the gal pals. The consequences of their vote doesn’t quite touch them.
But it is getting closer and closer to touching them. Very soon, their kids who they drop off to sports will be dead from fentanyl, beaten by gangs, etc. Their car that they love to drop said kids off in will be stolen, their house broken into etc.
I am seeing signs of this happening where I live. It is starting to impact. But they just haven’t quite made the connection yet. They will sometime when they are wondering how little Susie Soccer Star ended up in rehab.
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