Hardkill

Tonight's midterm election results are absolutely remarkable! Jon Ossoff has decisively won reelection in Georgia, Roy Cooper has crushed his Republican opponent in North Carolina, and Annie Andrews has pulled off a stunning upset in South Carolina, a state that Trump won by nearly 18 percentage points in 2024! Meanwhile, Democrat Zach Dembo has flipped a Republican-held congressional district in Kentucky that Trump won by approximately 15 points in 2024. Think about how extraordinary this is. Not too long ago, much of the South was considered an almost impenetrable Republican stronghold. Now we're seeing Democrats becoming increasingly competitive in states that were once regarded as safely Republican. Of course, this doesn't mean the entire South is suddenly turning blue. Much of it remains deeply conservative, and one midterm election doesn't establish a permanent political realignment. Nevertheless, Georgia and North Carolina are becoming major battlegrounds, and even South Carolina is demonstrating that Republicans can no longer take every Southern state for granted. The Republican Party's dominance of the South may be far less secure than many people assumed. If these political shifts continue beyond the Trump era, we could be witnessing the beginning of a significant long-term transformation of the American electoral map. James Talarico won his Senate race in Texas! Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, just lost his seat in Texas!

All outlets have now called the Mississippi Senate race for Scott Colom! He's now the very first Democrat to be elected to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate since John C. Stennis in 1982 and the very first black US senator of the state ever since about 140 years ago! Stennis was a true believer in racial segregationism. I bet he and every other white racist back then or any time before that in Mississippi would've lost their minds if they had witnessed this.

CNN has projected that Democrat Scott Colom will defeat Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race!

Yes! She is like MTG. Also, that's another US House seat flipped for the Democrats!

I knew that his congratulating of the Democrats would be too good to be true.

I want to say to him "You know what? maybe you're right this "election" not being honest. If it wasn't for the cheating that you and party did over the past 2 years including you and your party's widespread disenfranchisement and denial of voting rights, widespread gerrymandering, illegally throwing away hundreds of ballots, etc. then the Democrats would've won by A LOT MORE!"

Don't worry about that. Unchecked capitalism is only going to get worse and worse until we either have an incredibly massive strike on the elites or we have another Depression on the order of the 1890s or 1930s.

I would agree with that. As would Lincoln and TR.

Yeah, I am made a thread about this a few years ago:

Couldn't agree more! In fact, I thought about making a thread like this on here. Everybody has to read and study up on the history of mass movements such as the labor movement, the abilition movement, the civil rights movement, the Jewish Reform Movement, the Indian independence movement, the feminist movements, etc. Also, we became more atomized because the places that once bundled people together such as big workplaces, unions, churches, temples, local civic groups, dense neighborhoods, meetings in libraries, and shared local media, all weakened at the same time, while work, housing, media, and daily life became more dispersed and individualized. We need to rebuild all of those civic institutions in order to most effectively restore that solidarity our country used to have in the 1900s, especially in the mid 1900s.

Then, why do most people say that they are sick and tired of Congress, the establishment, and the institutions not working for them? The early 1900s progressive era programs, the New Deal, the Great Society, and so on were able to fundamentally change the system from a more unjust laissez-faire kind of capitalism into the most regimented, most free, and most fair version of capitalism we ever had. We can and must make US capitalism into more of a social democracy. Otherwise, there could be untold national instability that we have never seen before including another 1890s depression or Great Depression. Also, if the capitalism is only going to worse, not better then why did these newly elected Democrats bothered to run on fixing income inequality, ending corporate domination, busting monopolies, and ending corporate lobbying? What would even be the point of having Democrats in power again if they are just going to nibble around the edges again and do useless hearings and investigations on Trump, the Republicans, big-tech, oligarchs, and what have you that won't lead to anything?

You mean incremental progressive-leaning changes to the extent that were made during Biden's presidency? What the results of these midterms have shown is that the people aren't just rebuking Trump and his party. They have also given a major middle finger to the entire establishment. People want real change to the system, because they are getting sick and tired of the system not working for them.

I didn't say that these areas will be permanently blue, but they should be competitive for the long-run. Republicans can't dominate the South forever. In fact, Democrats used to dominate the South for nearly 90 years before Republicans eventually dominated it. Like you've talked about before, nothing lasts forever, and progress in the long-run doesn't stop. Yeah, I get what you're saying about how capitalism is never going to be fixed for decades. But do you think that the Democrats won't get anything done at all even if they win back the presidency in 2028?

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, who just won the governorship of Georgia, hasn't just become the very first woman, the first black person, and the first black woman to serve as governor of Georgia. She has become the first Black woman ever elected governor of any U.S. state in American history. She defeated billionaire Republican opponent, Rick Jackson. She's also the first Democrat elected Georgia governor since Roy Barnes won in 1998.

Another Stunning Democratic Upset in the South: Progressive Populist Richard Ojeda Wins in North Carolina! Another remarkable development from the 2026 blue tsunami! Richard Ojeda, an outspoken working-class progressive populist and retired Army major, just defeated Republican Congressman Richard Hudson in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District! And here's what makes this victory particularly extraordinary: Donald Trump won this district by approximately 16 points in 2024. Hudson won reelection by nearly 19 points in 2024. Hudson wasn't just another Republican incumbent. He was the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), responsible for helping Republicans retain their House majority. Ojeda defeated him despite being substantially outraised. Ojeda is also a strong supporter of organized labor, workers' rights, getting corporate money out of politics, and challenging the wealthy political establishment. This is another example of how Democrats don't necessarily need to run timid, establishment-friendly campaigns to win in traditionally Republican territory. And it's particularly encouraging to see an unapologetic economic populist like Ojeda successfully appeal to voters in a historically conservative Southern congressional district. The bigger picture is that Republican dominance across much of the South is becoming increasingly vulnerable, and progressive economic populism may have considerably more electoral appeal than conventional Democratic strategists have assumed.

Democrats will now control a majority of both governorships and state legislative chambers following the 2026 midterms. And that is historically significant, especially considering Republicans' dominance of state governments since the 2010 Tea Party wave! Democratic Governorships: 28–30 of 50 That means that there will be Democratic governors in 56–60% of all states in the country Democratic Controlled State Legislative Chambers: 50–51 of 99 51 of 99 will be Democratic-controlled Just over half of chambers This will be the first time Democrats have controlled a majority of state legislative chambers since before the 2010 elections!

As much as I still like and respect Obama, he wasn't enough of a fighter like FDR and the New Deal Democrats were. Hopefully this new crop of Democratic leaders truly fight like hell against the oligarchy and corporate extremism in a real class war.

I know you said recently that hypercapitalism in America is only going to keep getting worse and worse for probably around 20 something years, and I get that now. However, is it still possible for Democrats in Washington pass any major laws that would make the economy more fair and affordable to a significant degree, if they win back the presidency in 2028?

He has already blamed Fox News for his party's disastrous defeat. lol. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/trump-fox-news-gop-midterm-losses.html

Yes! Finally! My dad and I couldn't stand her. Troy Jackson was the progressive populist candidate who pulled it off, but I think that Graham Platner deserves credit for paving the way to his victory before he was forced to drop out.

Nevada in fact turned blue again. Congrats to you and your state for electing Aaron Ford, the next Democratic governor of Nevada, and for Democrats in your state winning both of the state legislative chambers! Btw, did you see this from this pollster, Lakshya Jain? "If you managed to sleep last night, you may wake up to some more upsets. In NV-02, David Flippo got HAMMERED in this Trump +14 seat. He's down by 7 at the moment, with >95% reporting. No Republican has lost this district since its creation in 1982. WOW."

Hopefully, if Democrats win back the presidency, they will be able to put a major check on corporate tyrants like him. Well, Trump is saying that he is now regretting the war. So, perhaps he might call an end for this war. However, some are saying that he may decide to further escalate the war to cause enough of a crisis to help Netanyahu win re-election in Israel and to create chaos and fear in the world and in America. He's also very unpredictable in many ways. So, I don't know.

Not gonna happen, unless by some real miracle enough Republicans decide to vote alongside the Democrats in the Senate to convict and remove him.

I certainly hope so. I personally wouldn't take any money from Elon Musk. Not even if he paid me 10 million dollars to work for him.

Hell yeah! The very first Muslim in US History ever elected to the US Senate, and he's a hardcore progressive populist capitalist!