14 million isn’t something Harris could do on her own. They left because the Dem establishment gave no reason to show they cared about people. While the Republican were saying “it’s hard, we’ll fix it” the Dems kept insisting “it’s actually not that bad”.

Obviously the Reps “fix” will be worse, but the Dems just stuck their head in the sand and ignored everything the average American needs to get by on a daily basis. It’s why 14 million voters abandoned them. 1 million went to Trump, the other 13 million gave up.

Not the OP, but I started reading it, and the first sentence is starting the bullshit already.

Conservatives backed Trump by bigger percentages than in 2020.

There were 1 million more votes for Trump than in 2020, while there were 14 million fewer votes for Harris compared to Biden. So while it’s technically true it’s ignoring the damned elephant in the room. 13 million people didn’t sit out this election or switch sides because of Liz Cheney.

If the very first sentence is already this disingenuous, the rest of the article isn’t even worth wasting my time.

The Supreme Court already told them they can’t do that to get Trump on this ballot after he violated the 14th Amendment with his failed insurrection attempt last time. And they went with it. Why would they do this any differently?

The EU is made of individual, sovereign nations with each their own language and culture and political system and laws and regulations.

So are US States. The language is generally going to be the same, but culture, politics, laws and regulations all vary dramatically between US States. Most laws that people deal with in their daily lives are State laws, not Federal.

Most of these countries have very little in common except the fact that they happen to be on the same continent.

You could say the same about a lot of US States. Texas and California are dramatically different and likely wouldn’t be in the same grouping if things were being built today.

The only thing that keeps them from being at war with each other is trade. And that’s where the EU comes in.

Have you seen the divide between the various US States? Texas 100% would go to war with California if given the chance.

Don’t make excuses face reality or else you are as much to blame as them.

Get off your high horse. Attitudes like yours are part of the reason many of those people have decided to just go with the opposite viewpoint. There are a lot of Trump supporters that vote only out of spite, to “get back” at people expressing that type of attitude.

The Republicans just being obstructionists that do the exact opposite of whatever the Democrats plan didn’t come out of nowhere. It got them votes. A lot of them.

You assume people WANT to talk or even think about politics at all. Most people DON’T GIVE A SHIT. They actively try to AVOID politics. They don’t think it affects their daily lives. And to be honest, they’re right. 90% of government changes have no direct affect on their lives, nearly all effects are indirect. Unless the government is directly giving individual tax breaks, or stimulus payments, the effect of policy is hidden behind companies making changes in response.

They think various parts of the government have either a lot more, or a lot less power than they actually do. Many for whatever reason seem to think the President has ANY control on gas prices at all because that bullshit is repeated every time gas prices go up, a commodity with a price based almost exclusively on worldwide trading price. Very few Americans are able to see more than a year or so into the future because they’re too hyper-focused on getting through each week or month. It’s why Republican tax cuts work so well, they give a small tax cut to individuals that will expire in 3-4 years when might not be in power, and if they are, they just pass another. Meanwhile permanent cuts to those most able to afford it, are hidden behind that, and inflate the tax cut number so it looks like the tiny cut the average person sees is actually a lot larger.

And all of this is reinforced by a propaganda network through a nearly unregulated media landscape. The regulation is on old broadcast channels, regulated under the FCC, as little as that regulation is now. And even then, most of those shows now are opinion shows, not actual “news” segments, so the regulation is even lower. Cable channels, don’t have those regulations, and never have. Fox News for instance, not a broadcast network, it is a separate channel from Fox. Even then, Fox News only has “news” segments for an hour or two each day. Everything else is opinion shows, on a “news” channel. So it makes it seem like everything on the channel is news, which should theoretically not be an inherent lie. And every time they’re called out, they point to the actual hour or two of actual news as a cover. They try to hide any required apologies or corrections they couldn’t snake their way out of into a tiny sliver of time within in that hour with fewer viewers instead of the same show it happened.

There are the people you’re talking about, but they’re still a minority. Voter turnout in the US was only about 63.5% of the eligible population in 2024. Of that, Trump got about 50.2% of the votes. So that’s 31.8% of voting eligible Americans voting for Trump. That is a minority no matter how you cut it, regardless of reasons or individual issues. American politics is regularly decided by less than 1/3rd of the population because of how our election system operates.

It’s not about smart versus dumb, it’s even simpler than that. The majority of Americans don’t have the time to stay up to date on events and politics. They’re too busy working dead end jobs with stagnant wages living paycheck to paycheck worrying about everything else.

Then, the little bit of politics they see here and there comprises one party saying “things are bad, we’ll fix it” (never explaining what that means and never intending to follow through) while the other party saying “it’s not that bad actually” (which is technically true, in context).

So if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, maybe working multiple jobs to get by, with no visible career opportunities and maybe getting an annual raise just below inflation, being told “it’s not that bad” is a slap in the face, even if it really isn’t in comparison to where it could be.

Look at the actual number of votes, Trump didn’t actually get any more popular, 14 Million Dem voters just didn’t vote this time. All the Dem talked about was how bad Trump would be, and that it wasn’t that bad. They didn’t say they would try to make it better.

K…I’m sure nobody cares.

Well you’re objectively wrong, since clearly the one guy complaining cared enough to actually complain about it.

Step 1. Replace the top Dem leadership that has shown time and time again now that they have no idea what they’re doing anymore.

Oh 100%. But if there’s anything this election proved, it’s that the average American is fucking stupid, gullible as shit, and unable to determine propaganda from reality.

For many, actively supporting Israeli genocide is something they simply can’t support.

If there’s anything that this election has proven, it’s that there are A LOT of one issue voters in this country, across the board. They’ll ignore everything else for the one issue they care about above all else. And when you only have two viable parties, that forced a black and white decision.

The fundamental solution is eradicating First Past the Post and getting ranked choice voting so we have a multitude of parties that are all more nuanced instead.

But that won’t happen unless we abandon both of the major parties we have now, and they can’t let that happen because that means they lose power.

The DOJ will work for him starting January 20th. Even if they continued he would just have them drop it all that day.

They have. Because their sole purpose was to prevent anything the Dems wanted. It’s easy to do when your only goal is to obstruct.

I’m stating to see the perspective of Ye Wenjie in 3 Body Problem when she effectively tells the aliens to come destroy humanity, because we’ve fucked it up.

I have no idea how the Democrats do this shit every fucking time.

Oh it’s simple. They’re paid by billionaires not to.

The Democratic party hasn’t been like that for 30+ years, at least the 90s. They’re a fiscally conservative party, and socially liberal. The only “liberal” part of the party is on issues that affect people like LGBTQ support or abortion, not anything dealing with the country or economy. The US hasn’t had an actual liberal party for decades, as soon as they started accepting billions in donor funds.

Not only that, it was clear Trump was gaining voters because he said, “yeah, shit’s fucked, I’ll change it” and the Dems kept insisting “it’s really not that bad”. To people who have it hard, one party telling you that you’re just wrong and nothing will change, and the other saying they’ll change things for the better is a pretty obvious choice. Even if they’re lying about making it better, it’s already bad, and your other option is the same bad, why not give it a try?

From what I’ve seen it’s people angry at the status quo and looking for a change in a desperate effort.

This. Both the Biden and Harris campaign were focused on “it’s not actually that bad, but it’ll be worse under Trump”. And for a lot of people, it IS that bad. All they heard from Harris was that it will be more of the same, and the same isn’t working for a lot of Americans.

Wait, why would the response to the “woke left” cancelling Dr Seuss be to… Cancel his book?

Help me try to understand.

THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SENATE. It is the reason Congress is separated in two the way it is.

In the Senate, every State is equal, regardless of physical size or population. A foundational pillar of our Union has always been State equality. The Senate is working EXACTLY as designed, it is there specifically to prevent large States from dictating what smaller States have to do. Larger States have their bigger voice heard in the House. The two serve very different purposes.

The real issue is the House needs to actually be proportional again. The cap at 435 means it cannot be properly representative with States like Delaware and California both existing. A representative in Delaware represents a fraction of the number of people as a Rep in California because the cap limits how that apportionment works. Without the artificial cap from the 1920s, and proper apportionment by population again, our House of Representatives would be more like 1,600 members and actually representative of this country instead of being a glorified pseudo Senate.

That’s how the Senate is designed and intended. That’s not the issue. The capped House functions as a second Senate because it no longer represents population correctly, because of that cap imposed in the 1920s.