Hardkill

Yeah, I get that now.... but half of the country, including good people like you and me, don't deserve this at all. Besides, working on my life purpose and self-development how am I going to be able to fight back against the upcoming tyranny? Aren't you afraid that Trump and MAGA could come after people like you and take away everything you've accomplished? I hope that no crazy Trump supporter or anybody in the Trump administration finds out where I live. I'm starting to see some validity in the 2nd amendment, especially now.

Thank you. Now, Even if this sentiment for anti-mainstream populism is relatively short-lived, what about the dominance of conservative messaging that continues to metastasize in this media landscape? How from a practical standpoint can centrist liberals win against conservatives/Republicans again at this point?

You obviously didn't watch the vid I posted. The polls predicted that Hillary Clinton would win both the popular vote and Electoral College easily in 2016, but she lost. Lichtman and Moore were the very few forecasters who correctly predicted that she would lose back then. The polls in 2020, predicted that Biden would defeat in a near landslide (approx. 8%+ margin in popular vote and 370+ Electoral votes) including winning Texas and Florida. Yet, Biden won 306 Electoral Votes and won the popular vote by 4.5% margin. Lichtman and Moore predicted Biden would definitely win in 2020 months in advance. The FiveThirtyEight state polling aggregate also predicted that Biden would win Michigan by about 8% points and win both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania by a much greater percentage than he actually did. The polls showed that Harris would win the popular vote and probably eke out a win in the Electoral College. They were wrong. The polls predicted that Romney would the popular vote in 2012 against Obama, but Obama beat him easily winning the popular vote by 3.9% and winning the Electoral College decisively. Forecasters, including once again, Lichtman and Moore, predicted that Obama would win well ahead of the election. Despite predictions of a disastrous outcome for the Democrats in the 2022 midterms, the Democrats actually secured a historic victory in the 2022 midterms overall, defying Biden's low approval ratings. Their win back then was among the greatest for an incumbent White House party in U.S. history! Truman in 1948 was predicted by all of the pollsters and pundits to lose the presidential election and yet he too defied those predictions by not only winning another presidential term, but also helping his party successfully retake control of both the US House and US Senate in Congress after the 1948 general elections. It was a real slap in the face for the Chicago Tribune when they prematurely said in their headline "Dewey defeats Truman." That's only a small set of instances of how many times the polls got it wrong. Btw, even though Michael Moore again predicted this election wrong he also pointed out how many other times the polls and pundits were wrong: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/stop-obsessing-over-the-polls Professor Lichtman's 13 Keys system is by no means a perfect science, but his record is still undoubtedly unsurpassed by any other Model, Forecaster, pundit, or pollster out there. Michael Moore also has had a better long-term record of predicting elections than virtually every pundit and pollster out there.

Even Michael Moore, who correctly predicted every presidential election from 2008 to 2020 also predicted the 2024 election wrong:

On what planet does Cenk really think that Trump and everyone around him are even seriously considering enacting even one iota of any of those true populist policies?

Ever since the 1990s the Republican party has become increasingly more anti-immigration. The last time real comprehensive immigration reform and border security was ever passed into law was either in 1986 under Reagan or 1990 under George HW Bush.

Actually, the top independent economists said that Biden’s stimulus bill turned out to be the least to blame for inflation. The main reasons for inflation were: Global supply disruptions, the war in Ukraine which caused a major oil price shock, the Federal Reserve being very late with handling inflation, and corporate profiteering.

That's misleading. She only said that she wouldn't have done anything differently than Biden just that one time. She campaigned a lot on a number of things that would've been progressive leaning such as: building affordable housing at a mass scale for lower-income and middle-class folk Expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care, vision, and hearing Expand Medicare to negotiate even more drugs Raise corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% Universal Pre-K renew and extend the child tax credit Paid Family Leave Continue addressing climate change Pass a nationwide abortion rights bill Voting rights Act for racial minorities, ending gerrymandering, and getting dark money out of politics and more

Hmm, I see... Well, I suppose I have been overreacting. Sorry. This really has been very, very hard for me to process all of this given how much of a major setback this really turned out to be for our society. Trump's regime is also going to be like hell given how insane, unstable, and chaotic it will be. Having to endure another four years of this freakdom is undoubtedly going to suck.

Well, do you think that it's actually possible for centrists and/or liberals to ever regain power even in this defected media landscape?

So, even the dominance of the right-wing propaganda/disinformation machine will come to an end before we all pass away?

So, then that's it. It's game over for humankind.

Wait a minute, you've been saying that what's to come is even worse than any of us can imagine and that Trump's presidency will by far be the most corrupt and worst presidency ever, etc., etc., etc. I now can't see any compelling reason as to why I really shouldn't believe that such dark times are coming. Also, why aren't we having a serious discussion about how American society will ever get out of this absolute godforsaken media environment? If Republicans/conservatives continue to win the messaging war and keep gaining or holding on to too much power then how will there be any more hope for the future?

It seems highly probable that all of this will happen as far as I am concerned if not get even worse than I expect. I really hope that I am wrong.

I am being brutally honest. At this rate, we are headed for another economic depression, untold widespread violence, many more climate change disasters, and nuclear warfare I don't see how there is anything positive to look forward to in this world. I don't even know if I can continue on with my Life Purpose, whatever that means.