(11-07-2024, 12:18 PM)purplefaithful Wrote: [ -> ]Ive had a couple days to process, listen and reflect:
An impressive political win
Trump is the first Republican Potus candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years
Lots of soul searching for Dems the next few years; how to (authentically) return to a party for middle and working class and for the bros voter too.
Not happy with Biden for not pushing for someone else two years ago at midterms and for the party to hold a true search for candidate
Harris wasn't the right choice and I would have said that back this summer, not sure our own Waltz was either in retrospect, may not have made a difference in the end. Harris wasn't willing to throw Biden under the bus and separate more from him, cost her a bunch
I honestly dont think we'll ever see a women POTUS in my lifetime - but Hilary and Harris were both weak candidates, so maybe I will be wrong.
The issues for this race were clear
Economy
Economy
Economy/Inflation
Womens Reproductive Rights
Immigration
Lots of stats out there, this one stuck with me the most:
70% of voters in one poll said the economy was bad or poor
- of those voters, Trump won by 40 pts
I hope he does well for the country's sake. He'll have a window till probably mid-terms. Everything is ALWAYS cyclical.
Found this summation from another source, but I tend to agree with much of what he is saying here:
Random Thoughts of the Day
Throughtout all the media meltdowns over the Trump win, the discussion inevitably has come back to why he won. As you might expect, it’s almost always some simplistic explanation that includes racism, sexism, misogyny, etc. as well as an explanation how different demographics voted, or should have voted, based on the media’s clueless identity politics image of the world. These statements are infuriating on so many levels. Human beings are diverse, complex individuals with endless influences — parents, friends, culture, education, media consumption, romantic relationships, traumas, and so much more. The vast majority of Americans think little about race, gender, etc., but the media can’t help but put everyone in neat little boxes. It’s condescending and snobbish to believe that maybe, just maybe, Americans considered all the facts, issues, and candidates, then independently settled on their election choices.
Unfortunately, that snobbery isn’t just a media problem. It’s infested most of the far-left liberals. Try an experiment — ask one why you think Trump got 73 million Americans to vote for him. You’ll find their answer isn’t “Well, there are a number of reasons….” It will be something like Trump supporters are stupid, uneducated, brainwashed, racist, sexist, gullible believers of “misinformation,” and so on. In fact, that condescending attitude itself was a big reason many Americans chose Trump.
It’s doubtful the Democratic party or mainstream media will ever learn from experiences like this, but maybe they should have been clued in a little that Trump’s team was packed with libertarians and former Democrats. After inflation, the top concern of voters was free speech. It was the top issue that drove Elon Musk to Trump, as Democrats are constantly looking for ways to control information, along with their co-fascists in Big Tech. The censorship and Covid tyranny drove the RFK and Joe Rogan wings of the party to Trump. Another issue I haven’t heard in any of the media election explanations is war. You don’t think an obsession with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, along with the alliances with Bush and the Cheney’s, didn’t drive a lot of Democrats away?! Tulsi Gabbard’s switch should have been a clue. And let’s not forget Ron Paul, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other libertarians who finally see some hope of a chainsaw being taken to the federal government. The Left has been too blinded by Trump hatred and artifically-created fear to see that Trump built the most diverse voter coalition in American history.
Trump won 92 percent of counties and 4.5 million more popular votes. Kamala outperformed Biden in exactly ZERO counties. And I believe the race wasn’t even that close. Just because Trump won doesn’t mean the Democrats didn’t cheat. However, this time Lara Trump’s anti-voter fraud organization plus millions of attentive Americans made sure the cheating was insufficient to win. It should tell you something that Kamala only won states where ID is not required to vote. But who knows how many local races were rigged. I highly suspect the Kari Lake and Eric Hovde outcomes were fixed. I watched our Wisconsin race until 2am or so, where Hovde led by 3 percent with 91 percent of the vote counted, then deja vu, an overnight ballot drop gave Baldwin the win. It should always raise suspicions when you have major split votes. In other words, how probable do you think it is that in states Trump won, hundreds of thousands of voters decided to vote Democrat on Senate, Republican for President?
The 2020 vote totals compared to other recent races should put to bed any belief the race was legit. It’s not just that Kamala got 14 million fewer votes than Biden. It’s that Trump himself got 1.5 million fewer votes. Putting aside population growth, did it seem there was less enthusiasm for Trump in 2024 than 2020, especially after he put together his dream team? Not to mention the vote totals that should have accumulated by Biden voters switching to Trump? The logical explanation is that in order to get away with faking millions of Biden votes, they had to plant plenty of fake Trump votes, since it’d be a tad suspicious if every ballot dump was 100 percent Biden.
Of course, I will acknowledge it’s possible a significant number of Trump voters stayed home because they figured Democrats would cheat again in 2024 enough to make their vote meaningless. But kudos to those who made it to the polls. You defeated a machine: mainstream media, Big Tech, the Deep State, the entertainment industry, $1+ billion of advertising, college indoctrination centers, and so much more.