porous_grey_matter

And the appetite for change is so great that even those minor details are enough for people, but this campaign couldn't even do that.

No it's not, it's a great policy, it just needs to be supplemented by incentives to build or direct government building programs.

A populist won the election, yes, and that's much more relevant than left or right.

The solution is absolutely for the democrats to move left, but not because it's left, because people want to hear things about how their lives are going to improve.

Instead of blathering about an "opportunity economy" and more fuel for the war machine, they should be talking about higher wages, cheaper healthcare, cheaper housing, and cheaper eggs.

People who want to vote for the right wing already have a party to vote for, they're not going to switch. This strategy just alienates people whose lives suck.

Political violence has sometimes led to good things

As a European, we shouldn't be so quick to judge, we are only a few years behind them, and who is the greater fool, the fool or the one who follows the fool?

In 20 years millennials and gen z will be 30-60 year olds, you know, the people mostly in control of stuff

If someone "perceives they are losing out" because of doing something positive for women or minorities then that says a lot about their worldview, they are the ones responsible for polarisation there.

Agreed on the campaign though, it was the dems' to lose and they royally fucked it up.

Yeah, the demographics of voters are just made up, huh? They are the overwhelming supporters of the far right. Don't wanna be painted like that? Don't vote for fascists.

I'm a cis white guy too, for the record, and I'm not saying it's something inherent in skin colour or having a penis that makes someone an asshole. But it's classic bully behaviour to tell people lower on the hierarchy "look what you made me do". You want things to be less divided then you should start by accepting the simple facts.

Germany has some more solid institutions in place than America, so the situation now is not as drastic yet, but your election results aren't looking so hot either. If you want to know how it can look like this, you should already know...

No, straight cis white men will get hurt economically and through living in a degraded society, but they will not be forced to carry pregnancies, or be murdered because of their race or their sexual orientation.

And they know that. As long as he hurts those others even more they're fine with what he does to them.

Yeah the thing is the average trump supporter will be hurt less than everyone else (and that's the whole point)

The UK is not better than America haha, just outwardly a little more subtle