Hardkill

Fortunately, Musk failed to buy the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race that happened tonight: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

Oh, God! That is very tragic. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims and their closed ones.

Oh, yeah.... That definitely keeps me up at night. I hope that if that happens that widespread civil unrest, protests, and riots in Washington happen.

So, then how much was the idea of Trump and his party taking away your freedoms and opportunities overhyped? In retrospect, I realize that even people in authoritarian countries like China or Russia have a lot of the freedoms that we have.

I generally agree with the OP. However, at the same time, many older people tend to be more stubborn with old world views that are outdated and need to be replaced by new modern-day views.

But aren't millions of innocent people going to suffer and die under Trump if his administration and the Republicans in Congress cuts funding for essential government services like Medicaid, public education, vaccines, and medical research and guts important regulations protecting the environment, the economy, and human rights in our country this time?

Correction: 6 million more people who voted for Biden in 2020 than Harris in 2024. Also, I thought she ran a better campaign than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 and better than Trump's campaign in 2016, 2020, 2024. In fact, Trump's 2024 campaign was the worst ever. He just had a more clever media strategy than she did. Plus, the unprecedented misinformation, the right-wing propaganda machine, the rise of social media/internet, the rest of the anti-mainstream media in this day and age had brainwashed too many voters into believing that Biden/Harris and the Democrats didn't govern the country well. Moreover, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia our country is still experiencing has made it extremely difficult if not impossible for women of color like Harris to win the presidency. The US is still going through a conservative social backlash. Not to mention the historic levels of income inequality and unjust levels of affordability in country. All of those factors combined caused this anti-incumbent party sentiment in our country, especially amongst the less politically engaged and less informed voters out there in the country.

I know..... It's very sad. However, notice how much less neoliberal the Democratic party has gotten in policy. Remember, Biden shockingly turned out to be the most left-wing president in economic policy since LBJ in the 1960s and the most pro-union president since FDR or Truman. I honestly think that Democrats should stay about civil rights and anything else pertaining to social justice, except for climate change, while focus on bread-and-butter economics like FDR did. They may actually have to be racist in a subtle manner, but economically progressive like Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt were until the racism and xenophobia in our country cools down one day in order to win back the working class, especially the white working class.

I wonder how much the courts and the entire law enforcement want America to be governed by a true authoritarian regime like in Russia.

That's another worry. If the election gets rigged by 2028, then wouldn't he be able to escape responsibility for ruining the country including the entire economy by then? Then again, our country went through both the American Revolution and the Civil War and the victors of those wars ultimately defeated those forms of tyranny in America.

Yeah, that's what I thought too—that's basically how Biden and the Democrats defeated Trump and his party in 2020. I also remember you mentioned this earlier in one of my threads about propaganda used in the Soviet Union. However, year after year after year, we continue to underestimate just how conservative and frankly how stupid most Americans really are combined with how stuck numerous people are in so many of these brain-rotting echo chambers/epistemic bubbles in this day age. 2 to 4 years ago, we didn't think that Trump had any real chance of winning the presidency after he lost in 2020 and his party suffered a humiliating loss in the 2022 midterms overall. I mean even if his presidency ends with having failed to govern the country well including having an economic disaster, widespread civil unrest, very unpopular and bad policy changes made, and scandals like in 2020 under Trump, how we know that the majority of the people won't just be like "Yet, I know Trump is horrible, but the Democrats are still worse because they are too far to the left for me culturally and come off more phoney. So, I'd rather him or another Republican party him again running the country?"

But couldn't he get away with blaming it on wokeness and the radical left for cancelling SS payments just like how people will not feel or notice climate change or butchering of medicaid, given that we can't win this battle on facts?:

Democratic leadership needs a serious change:

This is what keeps me up at night. I fear that the Republicans from now on may continue to win every future big election going forward no matter how bad the next crisis under their watch will be because their media messaging machine, party brand messaging, and optics game are all superior to that of the Democrats. At this point, it looks like the combination of another Great Depression or Gilded Age Depression, an extremely violent nationwide labor strike movement, and a once-in-a-century inspirational political leader who has the spirit of a Roosevelt-style class warrior may be the only hope that Democrats have to win back the presidency and Congress. Maybe I am wrong.

Actually, Leftists like them have mentioned a number of times before that people do vote on vibes. That's why Cenk and TYT were some of the first Leftists to sound off the alarm that Biden would "lose" in 2024 because he came off as too old, too weak, and too unpopular. Then Kyle and Krystal conceded that Cenk and his crew were "right." Cenk, Ana, Kyle, and Krystal have even talked a number of times before about how Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because of his charisma and populist message and because. Cenk and TYT have said that Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate in 2016 because she came off as too pro-establishment, out of touch, untrustworthy, and unpopular. They also said that Harris came off as too much of a talking point machine and that her campaign needed to energize base and the swing voters by having her do more podcasts like the JRE and have Tim Walz out a lot more.