Hmm. Opening new offices and hiring people seems more like a way to keep the cycle of donor money moving, rather than a strategy to winā¦absent any actual messaging or policy changes from Democratic leadership.
When I read the article I expected the regional initiatives to have some sort of mechanism to change messaging and policy. It doesnāt seem to me that ālisteningā is whatās neededā¦we know exactly what these potential voters want.
Bingo. Socializing profits or whatever this is calledā¦āneoliberalismā āprivate public partnershipsā is exactly what destroyed everything good about western society.
I love that.
In Canada the eyecare industry is a capitalist hellscape. We just got national dental care and now the opticians and eye doctors are jealous and revolting against their own system because people are buying their contacts and glasses online and not going to the eye doctor. Less and less people have jobs that cover eye care so the ones I talk to want their industry socialized like everyone elseās in the health industry.
I was being sillyā¦and I thought I agreed with most of your points. Iām really not tying to fight.
Mehā¦if itās devolved to complaining about my writing structureā¦this isnāt happening in good faith.
Rock on, eh.
Not Minnesota, no. Itās not in the Bible Beltā¦they love hockeyā¦they endure the cold. I think thereās more in common there with much of Canada than there are differences. Itās not the only differenceā¦but we couldnāt just move the border because weād get flooded with gunsā¦and half of them would literally revolt if they had to follow our gun rules. Itās a small stateā¦but thereās 6 million of them and theyād overwhelm us.
Yeahā¦Canada has pretty much lost sight of itās roots of being distinct and different from the US. We slide more and more into a capitalist hellscape. Most of our stores are Americanā¦Canadians consume less and less media thatās culturally Canadianā¦our right wingers tend not to differentiate themselves from American right wingersā¦and an increasing number of them prefer American right wingers to Canadian left wingersā¦and vice versa. Itās happened mostly in my lifetime and itās depressing. Very recentlyā¦20-30 years ago Canadians understood your message: that American left wingers are to the right of Canadian right wingersā¦but thatās all changedā¦I donāt know exactly when it happenedā¦but weāve become more homogenized.
Everybody in my circles is educated about politics, and we generally understand it better because of our education and complicated party systemā¦but yeahā¦weāre miles from being educated enough
Is the Intercept any good any more, generally speaking? Earnest question.
I used to read it when Grimm and Scahill were aroundā¦but I realized I havenāt read an article there in years. This one seems OK.
No, I dont think that. Are you just trying to find things to argue about? Sounds like we generally agree but you want to fight?
I wouldnāt say āCanadians are quite ignorantā, speak for yourselfā¦or maybe just conservative Canadians.
You didnāt engage with anything I wrote and just ranted about what you wantedĀ to reply to.
Iām Canadianā¦and I stayed no opinions in my reply, just the lay of the land as I see it. I agree that the US sucks, agree that Canada is mediocre and getting worse, and I absolutely do not want Americans joining usā¦especially the gun nuts, fundamentalists etc.
All I was saying is that weāre a lot closer to each other than all this hyperbole and combative rhetoric would have us believeā¦Minnesota and isnāt some monolith of conservative boogeymenā¦theyāre mostly nice and reasonable people, and thereās many who would appreciate what makes us better than them.
I think the reason that Democrats are in trouble is because they donāt represent their voters. Thereās a chasm between policy and opinion. That, and they need to win elections by at least 3 and up to 10 points because of how corrupt the US āDemocracyā is.
Iām Canadian and Iāve spent some time down in the USā¦I donāt consider myself to have radically different viewsā¦even from many American conservativesā¦except on a couple wedge issues. The problem, as I see it, isnāt that weāre differentā¦itās that there are people paying big bucks to convince us that we are.
Thatās basically what AI is tho. Itās a misleading term for the evolution of auto complete.
Yeahā¦although heās often a thoughtful dude and heās surprisingly knowledgeable about politicsā¦heāll always be the bloviating sensationalist.
Weāre in strange timesā¦and who knows what will happenā¦but these separation anxieties on both sides of the border are just heightened because of the age we live in.
I spent years in British Columbia, and if you ran in my circles you might actually be convinced that the Cascadia movement had legs, for example. It doesnātā¦it just goes to a fever pitch when the other people are in charge.
Sure it canā¦Minnesota and US-wide. Even though voter turnout in that state is relatively highā¦the last federal election saw higher than average Republican turnout and lower than average Democrat turnout.
Furthermore, voting intentions for Trump have fallen dramatically in Minnesota for obvious reasonsā¦while voting against him has seen almost the same rise.
Additionally, voting for Trump isnāt the same as being conservativeā¦thereās are very large cohorts of people who were for example: low information/previously apolitical, the Trump left, and independents and libertariansā¦it was a motley coalition.
Iād put actual hard conservative support in Minnesota in the 30-35% range. There are far too many people who would benefit from cheaper and higher quality healthcare and education immediately to maintain a number anywhere near 47%.
Itās not a secret that Republicans and conservatives in general can win elections with these low numbersā¦and round we go.
Youāre saying heās doing it for the money? Or that by virtue of being rich he was always doing it for the money?
I have another song for you.
The whole thing is silliness to make a pointā¦like Alberta separation. Butā¦
ā¦I wouldnāt be so sure with this positioning of Minnesotans, or any Americans, so far right of Canada. The American system has been gerrymandered and moved away from democracy in various waysā¦to the point where the actual people might be more aligned with Canada than you believe.
The only hardcore sticking point, in my estimation, would be guns. It would be a non-starter for too many on both sides.
I meanā¦itās Jesse Venturaā¦but itās hyperbole to make a point, Iād imagine.
Itās no more silly than Alberta joining the US.
Hyperbole asideā¦the fascists have already taken strong steps to suppress, disqualify and gerrymander away Democratic votes to extend the large advantages they already had.
Before Trump Dems needed to be +3 to win, when he was elected they needed +5ā¦just to overcome Republican cheating. Weāre looking at as much as a 10% margin required going forward.
42%, if thatās even a real numberr, coupd more than enough to secure a victory. This isnāt even accounting for the fact that Trump and his cult will just change the numbers if they lose.
The only reason he hasnāt is Democrat capitulation. They should have forced a crisis long ago.
Thereās about a 106% chance that Trump is going to use one āwarā or another to try to avoid any future election.
I think youāre getting downvoted into oblivion because people are reading your headline and not your post?
Thereās nothing to argue with in your message. I donāt know the particulars of your income/tax situationā¦but, yeah, if the people with all the money paid appropriate taxesā¦then many actual working people wouldnāt need to, and society would be more healthy. Youād still be paying a ton of excise taxes.