Americans, before you vote, please read this 1 essay by Andrew Sullivan - it's absolutely brilliant

Watch the MSNBC clip:

Cool story, bro.

Exactly.

We get rid of threads like this, we'll also get rid of posters like you.

Win, win.

I don’t care that much about history thinks of me, whatever that means. I care about doing the right thing. And secular liberalism’s idea of progress will lead us to ruin.

Every democrat must be voted out of office on Tuesday.

Vote Red and stop the madness.

“What Biden has done, by showing that even an alleged moderate like him is just a vehicle for the extreme left, is accelerate the moment when we are faced with that horrible choice. And if that is the choice, I have little doubt that Americans will pick the far right. We’ll have a premonition of this next Tuesday.”

Why does every dem immediately characterize republicans as the far right? The majority of Republicans are simply right. Not automatically far right.

The Sullivan thesis that it has been the "woke" left forcing the GOP to the right simply does not comport with history-- even very recent history, in fact.

The modern history of American conservatism can be divided into two major phases: The businessmen's opposition to the New Deal, which culminated in the Reagan revolution (1935 to 88); and the social conservative reaction to the "bipartisan compromises" of Reagan and his failure to engage fully in the nascent culture war (1988 to 2016), whose key figures are Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan (whose positions were identical to those of Trump, terminology included-- e.g. "American First").

From the mid-90s to 2016 the GOP establishment had been able to both gin-up and control its reactionary base. But this base became increasingly dissatisfied with the leadership on offer (and think of how far out of step with the party base figures like McCain and Romney now appear). Thus, when the Trump candidacy revived the old Buchanan tropes (borders, economic nationalism, and toying with open racism) the base went apesh*t for his message.

None of this was the result of a leftward drift of the Dems. What we have seen in the past 30 years is not a story of increasing polarization; it has been a story of increasing GOP radicalization, entirely independent of anything the Dems have done (and they have consistently thrown up centrists candidate--from Clinton, to Obama, and now to Biden-- willing to compromise on just about everything). That conservatives see figures like Clinton, Obama, and Biden as dangerous leftist radicals, or as enabling them, is symptomatic of their own right wing radicalization not a reflection of any actual historical reality.

The deeper cultural force driving this radicalization on the right has been a blind panic on the part of some elements of US society at the prospect of having to live in a truly modern America-- a liberal, multiracial, multi-ethnic, religiously pluralistic America. For the increasing majority of citizens, this is a welcome-- indeed, inevitable-- America, if the place is going to preserved in anything like its current form. But, for a panicked minority, it represents the end of the world as they know it, and they'd rather destroy the country's liberal democratic foundations than live in it.

It's all here in:

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Partisans

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A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s Ronald Reagan has...

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Rojo, don't be so easily brainwashed.

First off, super woke defund the police mentality is stupid. I agree on that.

Now, consider the facts:

ny1.com

Biden lays out $37B policing, crime prevention strategy

The plan includes hiring thousands more police officers

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Biden spends 37 billion to fund the police and add 100,000 officers. Is that the libs being weak on crime?

vox.com

House Democrats’ sweeping gun control package could be even bigger

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Lawmakers have a chance to send an aggressive message about the measures they support.

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Those libs want more strict gun control to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and psychos who do mass shootings. But they are weak on crime.

We already tried out your idea. It was called "The Dark Ages."

Under his eye.

Good analysis, I'd have to agree. I become frustrated whenever people equate the far right with the far left, because, as you said, it really is a matter of percentages. BOTH far-left and far-right groups devolve into tribalism and ridiculous insulated discourse, and both seem to find violence increasingly applicable for their political views.

But here's the difference; MOST people broadly on the left are not supporters of this ridiculousness. The 'Woke' that the right likes to rage about are just disproportionately loud twitter sh!t-posters. Whereas on the right, a substantially greater percentage seem to countenance, if not outright endorse political violence. People like to 'whatabout' the riots of 2020 (a real glimpse at underlying social problems), but the fact remains that only one party is dominated by ideas of politics as 'war', voting as merely a (disposable) means to an end, and the sanctimonious religious nature that they can retreat into for self-approval.

Biden added over a trillion dollars per year to the federal budget and the media won’t report it. Congress passed over 6 trillion dollars in covid relief, off the books emergency spending, with very little accountability. The total amount of money spent last year was triple what the federal government spends in a year.

Runaway government spending has historically destroyed nations and there is absolutely no sound economic policy that supports it. Ask yourself what is Biden’s economic policy? Why is it so difficult to find any articles, research, college classes etc that challenge the extraordinary spending that has never been done at this magnitude ever in the history of the world?

The biggest story that the media refuses to report, is a story by Lee Fang (one of the top investigative journalists of our time, and a liberal) for the Intercept. The article provides evidence that the Dept. of Homeland Security met with leaders in tech and the media to tell them what stories to censor, including stories on the origins of the covid virus and articles about the economy. These meetings were attended by executives from JP Morgan Chase who do not want Americans to know about how the super rich are enriching themselves through the corruption of government spending.

It’s a form of money laundering. It’s being done by republicans and democrats. And you, my dear friends will pay for it in the end.

While the Democrats’ plan is to increase taxes on professionals and blame orange/white men for everything…

Democrats tolerate open bigotry and racism, and they actually support it openly. They want even more affirmative action to achieve “balance”, while not taking IQ differences into account at all.

Any black person with above average IQ starts on third. For Americans with 114 IQ or higher (1 SD for whites, 2 for blacks, ~1.4 for Latinos) in 1994, 68% of blacks had a college degree, compared to 50% of whites and 49% of Latinos.
Of course, I haven’t even gone into job hunting. While elite jobs (think the best trading firms and private equity companies) tend to want the best people, they’re practicing affirmative action more and more. My company (trading) just hired on merit, which is reflected in our demographics, but other companies have had to add less qualified blacks which just results in other people having to do more work but not getting promotions as easily.

does that include the weekly mass shootings in Chicago, which are committed by certain groups?

Biden was elected in 2020. Your links shows a proposal made in August 2022.

So after two years of Dems defunding the police and the consequent increase in crime he proposes a big spending package at the start of election season. The majority of Americans are not so easily fooled.

The "thousands more police officers" comes with a caveat. Federal funding runs out after a few years, leaving state and local governments on the hook for the salaries and benefits of the newly hired cops.

I disagree respectfully. 50 years ago it would’ve been unthinkable for main stream leftists to be a50 years ago it would’ve been unthinkable for mainstream leftist to be in favor of partial-birth abortion. It would’ve been unthinkable for the establishment of a party to be in favor of gay marriage, transgenderism, etc. Today, these are fairly main stream ideas for the left. No, the left has radicalized along with the conservative right.