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My outsider's POV: the fact that there's a Gestapo-analogue in place already tells me that an electoral solution alone is almost certainly no longer sufficient
by _verandaguy 9mo ago
My outsider's POV: the fact that there's a Gestapo-analogue in place already tells me that an electoral solution alone is almost certainly no longer sufficient (or at least, unlikely to be effective) at this point.
The Democrats have also had very weak messaging ahead of the midterms. Like, pathetically weak in the current context.
This is to say nothing of the hypothetical where the US makes moves against allies' territories before the midterms.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> the fact that there's a Gestapo-analogue in place already tells me that an electoral solution alone is almost certainly no longer sufficient (or at least, unlikely to be effective) at this point Read up on the American Whig Party and President Andrew Jackson. Or, more recently, Poland. This is absolutely still in a reversible field. > Democrats have also had very weak messaging ahead of the midterms Utterly leaderless. In part because a lot of the party is compromised in having covered up Biden.
- _verandaguy 9mo agoThe Whigs would be new ground for me, but I'm quite familiar with modern Poland. The closest they've come was probably under the living Kaczynski's tenure as premier, or during Duda's early days as president, and neither have come close to what's going on with the police state in the US as it is today. I'll read up on the Whig party, though if you have ledes that'd be good to start with, I'd love some links.