My personal takeaways after this election cycle
Some political points
- Dems really screwed up with Gaza. They should've just come out against the Genocide right away and not wait for the election. It just made them look weak. Forget all the arguments that say 'well GOP would do the same' - Dems are in power, so it's on them to act. They cannot claim to be morally better than Trump/Republicans somehow when they openly aid and abet a textbook genocide.
- KH wouldn't even publicly take a stand whether she'll keep Lina Khan as FTC chair if elected. If she's unable to take a stand or comment on her own administration's appointee while she is in power, then she's effectively a blackbox and no one really knows what her really policies are.
- The Obama doctrine (center to right fiscal policies, quasi neocon foreign policy mixed with highly visible and left leaning social policies) is done. They need to embrace populism. Bring more Bernie/Warren types into the fold and keep Obama/Clinton/West Wing Boys far away from any real policy making. It's really telling that people who make more than $100k overwhelmingly voted for KH but people that earn less than that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
- Dems should go back to their roots of playing the game tough & hardball like FDR/LBJ instead of compromising on every legislative agenda for the sake of "reach across the aisle" and "when they go low, you go high" platitudes. They're losing more blue collar voters than any potential gains among centrist republicans.
- Neocons are radioactive. Ditch all the neocons like David Frum, Kristol, Cheney etc that infiltrated into the party apparatus.
- Biden should've ditched Powell, instead of extending his term. He was too late to raise rates and then too late to cut them. High interest rates, did take a huge toll on many families.
- Dems/Media should stop criticizing Trump on his personal shortcomings and stick to only policy related criticisms. Of course people already know he's a racist & a conman but they still put him in power. No use beating a dead horse.
- MAGA is here to stay, even after Trump.
- Republican strategy of side stepping abortion and have every state have their own ballot initiatives helped them stem the potential losses in swing states. Many midwest red states voted to legalize abortion while the south mostly did not. I think Democrats need to move past abortion in the future.
Personal Note
- Going forward, I'll stop following the news, political podcasts and ignore all the rage bait. I don't care what Trump does and there's nothing really I can do to stop them. I'll vote D in midterms and then again in 2028 but that's about it. Until then, I'll be tuning out completely. It's funny how my own initial thoughts looked remarkably prescient (barely influenced by media, mostly original) but later on, my views changed thanks to the overwhelming narrative spun by the media.
nodegree wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 12:45 pm
SAPPORO wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:01 pm
nodegree wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:29 pm
JD Vance is the VP pick for Trump, who wants to break up big tech and is quite popular with Independents and even some Democrats. I'm sure a lot of corporate donors are happy to get rid of him from the Senate where he's actually doing some damage to become the VP where he has zero power.
I think at this point Trump is all set to get back into the White House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
There is no way in hell that any democrat would support JD Vance who thinks rape and incest are "inconvenient" and he is a big conspiracy theorist and worse than Trump in many ways. MAGA dislikes him too for his 2016 "never trump" leanings, wrong pick by Trump!
On a side note, I wonder what they teach in these Ivy league law schools! The only saving grace is that he used it to good effect to find a desi bride!
Teamsters president spoke for the first time at a RNC after 121 years of its founding. If you had told me last month a Pro-Union Labor group president would headline at an RNC event, I would've thought you were delusional. On top of it the Teamsters president slammed Chamber of Commerce (a key GOP backer) and called for breaking up Amazon and curtailing Walmart. JD Vance (anti-trust, breaking up corporate power), Teamsters "non-endorsement" at RNC and giving people like Hawley key policy portfolios - Trump is going directly after the Bernie voter (not the urban professionals with the "Co-exist" stickers on their cars) but rural working class Bernie voter.
This is all making Reagan types in the GOP squirm and the odds of Trump passing any significant pro-worker legislation if elected is probably close to zero but you cannot deny the political shift that's happening right before our eyes.
After 2 months of following political news closely and drinking the kool-aid...
nodegree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:38 am
It's still very early but I think Trump fever is slowly breaking (like Pete Buttigieg framed it). KH should have worked out something with the Teamsters to get their endorsement but oh well.
It's all down to turn out now. Dog whistles vs Abortion!
