The Issues

What’s crazy is that this polarization is pretty new in a lot of ways

like last 20-30 years new. Americans always had their disagreements but in the past most people could at least agree on the problems we needed to address. Now we can’t agree on the problems much less the solutions.

Polarization in the house:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VBIRAXKYPYYQTMDV3LAWFREIDA.png&w=530

There was always a lot of polarization and differences – they were just regional in the past. And not tied to party affiliation, either. A Democrat in Alabama would be quite different than a Democrat in New York City. Probably more different than Democrats and Republicans in the same state.

Now everyone is all mixed together, and identify more with groups they connect to online than to their neighbors.… Continue reading

How can 42 percent of Americans still support the worst president in our history?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/13/how-can-42-percent-americans-still-support-worst-president-our-history/

I sure have made use of this quote a lot recently:

His fans don’t care that he didn’t pay taxes. His fans don’t care if he cheated on his taxes. His fans don’t care that he lies about his taxes. His fans care that he hates, and tries to hurt, the same people they hate.

Trump has made the confirmation of 200 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices, a significant part of his reelection campaign. But Hawley said religious conservatives right now are “very depressed,” particularly after Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump pick, wrote the decision providing LGBTQ workers with federal workplace protections.

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Minnesota’s 0.000004% Voter Fraud Cited as GOP Suit Tossed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-12/minnesota-ballot-suit-tossed-by-judge-citing-000004-fraud-rate

Conservatives can’t prove that widespread voter fraud is real. The Heritage Foundation, at Trump’s insistence, already tried in 2017 and this was the result: Less than 1,100 individual cases spanning from as far back as 1982 found:

http://thf-legal.s3.amazonaws.com/VoterFraudCases.pdf

That’s THEIR report, by the way.

But hold up–there was an update to that number in march. According the Heritage foundation, that number “swelled up” to a whopping 1,285

Trump himself set up a commission to prove his claim that there was widespread voter fraud and that’s why he lost the popular vote. You remember what happened?

The commission found so few cases they disbanded without producing a single report.… Continue reading

Fuck the hypocrisy of Republicans saying, “The government has no business in the religion of citizens and there shall be no litmus test for Amy Barrett’s,”

while in the same breath, be confirming this Handmaid’s Tale bitch under the silent acknowledgement that she is solely there to merge Government & Religion while resetting the bodily rights of women back 50 years.

This is what you get with nonsecular government. Religious fanatics and Fascists gaslighting the world and making us all feel bad that we would even think to test the most fundamental beliefs that will go on to effect every decision made by this LIFELONG appointment to SCOTUS.

Anyone who doesn’t see through this by now is exactly the type of sheep these false Shepherds love to take for all they’ve got.… Continue reading