Daniel: I forget the name of the book but I recall here in the UK a political scientist who wrote a book that argues just this. That right wing politics has run out of anything they can deliver, is intellectually bankrupt, and all they have left to hold power are the things you've just enumerated.

I'm not being a dick here I can also say with statistical certainty that certain heavy caliber guns with a spin chamber, when spun, will spin with the single bullet on the bottom, with three empty chambers before it. I'm still not playing Russian Roulette with that information.

I can say with statistical certainty that who I vote for at the presidential level will not change any political outcomes.

I have to say, the efforts of the Republican Party in the US to convince left-wing voters that voting doesn’t matter have been astonishingly successful. The number of people on here who say their vote doesn’t make any difference . . . so autocracy it is, I guess?

It's not just that, and I say that strongly for those outside the United States. We, in this country, have had historically AND TO THIS DAY a very very real problem with voter suppression. So much so that North Carolina has not been considered a democracy for over a decade I think. So the point

of people feeling like their vote doesn't matter, isn't a feeling or propaganda, but has been true. Many voters who are suburban and white have never experienced this or a voting line where they had to stand in the hot sun where they cannot access water all day to cast a vote.

It's not to say the GOP doesn't hold the popular vote in some areas, they do. But by and large they have won through fuckery in maaaaany places

i firmly believe that the GOP is entirely cooked, demographically. They will continue to utilize gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, judicial fuckery, youth indoctrination, and ultimately violence in their death throes.

I forget the name of the book but I recall here in the UK a political scientist who wrote a book that argues just this. That right wing politics has run out of anything they can deliver, is intellectually bankrupt, and all they have left to hold power are the things you've just enumerated.

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