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This is such a depressing read. What is becoming of the USA? Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance ba
by flumpcakes 8mo ago
This is such a depressing read. What is becoming of the USA? Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership.
- 1024core 8mo ago[flagged]
- hungryhobbit 8mo agoThat seems to be a denial of reality. Democrats are already winning races all over the country, in places that (traditionally) have been Republican strongholds. But don't let me stop you from believing in a worldview that contradicts reality ... lost of Republicans (and some Democrats) do it too.
- 1024core 8mo agoLocal county races and dog catcher races do not matter. What matters is who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That is the only race that counts.
- vjvjvjvjghv 8mo agoHouse and Senate are probably more important than the president.
- dabockster 8mo agoFalse. Local races directly determine the day-to-day laws and rules you live under way more than a POTUS could effectively decree. I don't know about you, but I sure enjoy having reliable electrical, water, and sewer systems.
- esafak 8mo agoThey have that in Saudi Arabia too but I would not want to live there. Set higher standards.
- idiotsecant 8mo agoSo wildly inaccurate. If you disconnect yourself from the cable news outrage pornography cycle you'll find most things that actually impact you happen at the state and local level. A lot of spooky things on the TV to be afraid or mad about, but for the average person there is vanishly little real effect.
- jasondigitized 8mo agoThat's just not true. If you iive in Texas or California or wherever, your governor, state reps, judges, etc are all going to affect you far more than the President.
- scottyah 8mo agoThis is absolutely, in my mind, the opinion that has done the most damage to this country. If people didn't abandon politics that affect them at every level for a celebrity superbowl type show we wouldn't have this circus of Presidential campaigns.
- vjvjvjvjghv 8mo agoDemocrats are mostly winning because the republicans have totally lost it, not because they are bringing forward a political vision that makes sense. I guess that’s where we are.
- inigyou 8mo agoAnd after 4 to 8 years of Democrats running things and nothing improving, the people vote Republicans just in case it's better. It keeps happening. It's the circle of life!
- AuthAuth 8mo agoPeople only think nothing improved because thats what Republicans are saying. Anyone even mildly politically informed can see the progress that happens under Democrat leadership.
- inigyou 8mo agoProgress such as...?
- newAccount2025 8mo agoSadly apt. Democrats don’t make progress fast enough, while Republicans pull us backwards on vaccines, diversity, environment, abortion, healthcare, global prominence, naked corruption, oligarchy, theocracy, and military oppression.
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- cogman10 8mo agoDems have lost to Trump twice and it looks like they want to run the same campaign strategies in future elections. They are relying too heavily on "trump bad" to win and I worry about what that will ultimately result in down the line.
- cthalupa 8mo agoThis is a statement you can make. It's also a statement entirely divorced from reality when you look at the fact that those winning candidates are not in fact doing that, and neither are the candidates that are getting the most national attention like Talarico. Newsom has a vested interest in making it sound like he's the maverick here that knows the special formula, but it's been obvious to damn near everyone that they couldn't run out the same losing playbook.
- cogman10 8mo ago> neither are the candidates that are getting the most national attention like Talarico It's a pretty close race with some recent polling indicating that Crockett will win the primary. Impossible to tell though. I clock her as being a more traditional democrat ultimately policy wise. I'd expect she or Talarico has a good shot at winning in TX. They both have the potential to pivot to a more traditional position in the general election. My main concern is the current elected leaders of the democrats and how the incoming dems view them. Frankly, if a candidate isn't saying "we need to oust Schumer/Jeffries" then I take that as a pretty decent signal that they align close enough with the moderate position to worry me about the future party. I worry about the actions of the dems after election. I think they'll win the midterms, maybe even take the senate. I even think there's a good shot that they win 2028 presidental elections. The problem is that I think they'll run a biden style presidency and future campaigns once they get in power. That will setup republicans for an easy win in 2030 and 2032.
- cthalupa 8mo agoI'm a Texan so I'm following this pretty closely. I slightly prefer Crockett to Talarico, but I voted for him in the primary because I think he's got a significantly better shot to win. Texas is going to need moderate and centrist votes to swing blue - we're not making the state more liberal at a rate that is gonna hand either of them a victory. Both are actually fairly progressive. But Talarico is a lot better at selling those progressive values to everyday people. The hispanic vote is one of the biggest factors in Texas, and while they're obviously not a monolith, culturally a lot of them have much more mixed social values than other voting demographics. Statistically, way more likely to be heavily religious, and that's at odds with a lot of the social values from more progressive candidates. Talarico effortlessly refrains these issues in a way that aligns with stuff he can directly quote scripture on. I'm an atheist so I don't care what scripture says on the matter, but it's the sort of thing that plays well with a lot of a key voting demographic that Crockett just can't do.
- vjvjvjvjghv 8mo agoYeah. They really are trying hard to lose.
- jatari 8mo agoThe Democrats are currently overwhelming favourites to win the House with a decent chance of also winning the Senate in the 2026 midterms and strong favourites to win the 2028 presidency. I'm not sure why you think they are doomed.
- XorNot 8mo agoFox news is going to talk about trans people a lot is the thing. Journalists will turn up to press conferences about anything and ask about trans people. Any response at all will be all that appears on TV. Last election cycle the "niche issues" people complain about were overwhelmingly talked about more by people saying they opposed them. Controlling the narrative is very easy when you have a cowardly or bought media, and plan to traffic in rage and clickbait.
- jasondigitized 8mo agoTrans is so last year. People have moved on.
- cogman10 8mo agoIn a nutshell, this is the problem with mainstream dems (and I include Newsom in this) looks an appearance matters a lot more than actual policy leadership. The policies that actually affect people's lives, there's a lot of overlap for both mainstream dems and republicans. I live in Idaho, and school teacher here are also extremely underpaid (My kid's teachers all have second jobs). Yet our state has magically found $40M to give away to private school while it's also asking the public schools to find 2% of their budgets to cut. In I think both cases, the solution is simple, give the teachers a raise and probably raise taxes to pay for it. However, both parties are fairly anemic to the "raise taxes" portion of the message and so they instead look for other dumb flashy one time things they can do instead. Federal democrats have relied way too heavily on Republicans being a villain and vague "hope and change" promises to carry them through an election cycle. They need to actually "change" things and not just maintain the status quo when they get power.
- marcus_holmes 8mo agoIt's interesting that in the UK the traditional two-party system is broken, because everyone realises that both of the traditional parties have been bought by rich folk and business interests, only serve their own interests, and can't be trusted any more. The main contenders now are Reform and The Greens, a situation that no-one predicted five years ago. The same is true in Australia, though there's no charismatic left-wing leader emerging, and the Farage-equivalent is a laughing stock who struggles to be coherent at times. But because of billionaire money, she's still up there on the polls. The US system makes it much harder for new parties to form, so it's probably going to be factions in the existing parties. And, of course, MAGA is the new faction in the Republican party; effectively a new party itself. So the ground is fertile for a new left-wing faction in the Democrat party to rise.
- georgemcbay 8mo ago> Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership. Would be nice, but I have a bad feeling that the impact of widescale mostly unregulated AI adoption on our social fabric is going to make the social media era that gave rise to Trump, et al seem like the good ol' days in comparison. I hope I am wrong.
- saulpw 8mo agoHope is not a plan, unfortunately, so if that's all we've got, I don't have much hope.
- davidw 8mo agoThis isn't a one-election thing. It's going to be a generational effort to fix what these people are breaking more of every day. I hope I live to see it come to some kind of fruition - I recently turned 50.
- inigyou 8mo agoSome people are calling it the "American century of humiliation" No other country that went through a phase like this has ever recovered. Not even in a century.
- davidw 8mo agoI won't give in to doomerism. Germany, Italy and Japan are all wealthy, stable democracies right now. Not without their problems and baggage, but pleasant places in a lot of ways.
- inigyou 8mo ago[flagged]
- lovich 8mo ago> Germany is still extremely weird about anything to do with Jews > I've never been to Italy but they don't seem very productive either. Ok green poster. You need to look up more about world economies if you are going to confidently say things like Italy isn’t that productive. Combined with your comment on Jews in Germany I just assume you’re here to push propaganda, but if not please read up more on Italian economic output compared to, I don’t know, maybe the G7 countries?
- popalchemist 8mo agoJapan's economics are mostly rooted in population issues. Have you ever been? Even though wages are stagnant, the people are among the healthiest in the world and they're known for the way their society's public services ACTUALLY work. Not sure about Italy, but Germany, while not without its problems, is a beacon of democracy, progressivism, and self-correction.
- jorblumesea 8mo agoYou mean, what's been happening to the USA? this isn't a new trend. Militarization of police, open attacks on democracy, unilateral foreign policy moves. the country jumped the shark post 9/11 and has been on a slow rot since then.
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- hobs 8mo agoComplaining about the head of the government publicly so important that its included in the first amendment instead of one of those other ones.
- rjbwork 8mo agoYeah well my family's been here for hundreds of years and fuck him. They're more American than that piece of shit will ever be.
- krapp 8mo agoMy brother in Christ we shoot our Presidents for sport in this country. There's nothing more American than heckling the government and God bless any immigrant who doesn't put up with its bullshit.
- guelo 8mo agoThat's congresswoman "recently turned American citizen" to you sir. BTW she became a citizen 26 years ago. My favorite part of Ilhan Omar being an outspoken congresswoman who keeps getting reelected is how it drives islamophobes crazy.
- ypeterholmes 8mo agoThe current situation in the US is the depressing thing- articles like this give me hope. Real Americans aren't having these BS authoritarian violations of our constitutional rights.
- gitaarik 8mo agoWhat do you mean? You think any company should do whatever the government tells them?
- flumpcakes 8mo agoNot at all. It's a depressing read because the US Government is doing such things that would have been considered insane before 2016.
- this-is-why 8mo agoI’ve been called bad things on HN for suggesting there’s even a whiff of corruption in this administration. That alone scares me. Deeply.
- Quarrelsome 8mo agothere's more money and "don't rock the boat" mentality on here as a consequence of that and they try to keep the moderation light. So its just not discussed enough to give people still tragically mired in that tribalism, the appropriate levels of shame.
- lm28469 8mo agoAll of what's happening is a symptom, there is no reason it would change course with the next elections, all of this is the logical development of decades of cultural, political and morale rot in the US society. Trump isn't a bad moment we have to push through before we get back to the baseline, there has been no serious push back from anyone so far, it's here to stay
- hightrix 8mo ago> What is becoming of the USA? There was a coup by a foriegn adversary and Americans lost.