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Because no Republican would ever be elected to national office ever again?
by matthewdgreen 2y ago
Because no Republican would ever be elected to national office ever again?
- rbanffy 2y agoI don't think societies have such long attention spans, or the rationality, to follow through that.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoEvery single democracy in the world is facing the same problem of gerontocracy. The old people (or about to be old) vote the most, they have the most numbers, and they cannot enact any policies that will help the young by cutting old people entitlements.
- rbanffy 2y agoLuckily, this is a problem that solves itself. Medical science, of course, is delaying it somehow.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoHow does it solve itself if successive generations are smaller and smaller?
- rbanffy 2y agoThe current ones will eventually retire from public life.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoBut that’s not the problem. The problem is disproportionate share of society’s resources going to old people.
- rbanffy 2y agoHopefully they leave their inheritance to a number greater than 1.
- throw0101c 2y ago> Because no Republican would ever be elected to national office ever again? People regularly vote against their own interest out of spite: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness
- hypeatei 2y agoSorry if it wasn't clear, but that was a rhetorical question. We all know why they don't do it: because a significant percentage of their voter base are boomers who rely on that stuff.
- anonymousab 2y agoYou severely underestimate Trump, the GOP and a tamed media and tech industry's ability to spin things as the Democrats' fault. They can also trivially rig elections by just organizing things to criminalize the majority of your opponents, but that's overkill. At the end of the day, their win was total and permanent. There are no realistic fears of reelection issues to ever worry about.