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As a guy who follows sports it's really baffling to me how with politics there is not one iota of self-criticism among the political party voters and especially
by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
As a guy who follows sports it's really baffling to me how with politics there is not one iota of self-criticism among the political party voters and especially among single issue voters.
Like, sure maybe Twitter and all social media are part of a giant conspiracy, but had Republicans presented Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio as the nominee in 2016, there are 70% chances are they'd still be in the WH.
In sports you first focus on the low hanging fruit which is the stuff that you can control, this is why Trump's friend and legendary coach Bill Bellichick has 8 SuperBowl rings.
If you are at the SuperBowl and field a QB which lasts only one half then having referees which penalize you becomes much less relevant.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> it's really baffling to me how with politics there is not one iota of self-criticism among the political party voters and especially among single issue voters. Uh, there's a whole lot of internal, including self, criticism within political parties. There are strategic reasons much (but very much not all) of that is deliberately done in a way to be outside of the public eye.
- McLaren_Ferrari 4y agoWhen HRC lost I maybe heard 5% of Dems voters saying that she was a bad choice. When Trump lost 0% of Republicans voters admitted that they fielded a QB which lasted one half in the SuperBowl. It's all about referee blaming and accusing the other team of deflating footballs, not one iota of self-criticism.
- BaseballPhysics 4y agoI can't help but be impressed by the remarkable hoops people will jump through to make everything about US politics. Here we have a simple story about Twitter's financials, but nope, apparently we gotta debate US political party structure...
- TMWNN 4y ago>had Republicans presented Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio as the nominee in 2016, there are 70% chances are they'd still be in the WH Cruz or Rubio might have been like every other Republican candidate since 1988, in being unable to win the midwestern swing states PA, MI, and WI that Trump won for the first time in three decades.