MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:40 pmno, the 'hyperbolic nonsense' is the twaddle being fed to you by the right wing media machine.tech37 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:36 amCovid has certainly helped your cause in getting rid of Trump but all of things you so smugly blow off as "hyperbolic nonsense," certainly hurts you cause.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:27 amJust telling you how its viewed by the middle of the electorate, tech. Including the folks who are going to cross over and vote for a D, perhaps for the first time ever.tech37 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:24 amNothing hyperbolic regarding that statementMDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:09 amAgain, that's a lot of hyperbolic nonsense in the short term, not remotely accurate of what would be the case in the Biden administration.6ftstick wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:59 amSo you're gonna vote to defund the police, eliminate history, expand infanticide, accept violence in the streets, confiscatory taxation and replace capitalism with Marxism.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:56 am argue all you want, 6ft, about the Dems. You're talking to and for a rapidly shrinking part of the electorate.
I'm a registered Republican, have never voted for a D for POTUS before, many times voted a straight GOP ticket, sometimes mixed.
And I, like many millions of others, including some on here, will be crossing over to vote D in November.
The GOP won't get me back until they wash out Trump and Trumpism.
But do so, and then we'll again have a choice as to where we want to lean, conservative or progressive, issue by issue, candidate by candidate, with neither extreme ascendant.
Gotcha.
That's just deep, far right OAN, Q-anon sorts of talk. Shrinking, though currently very, very loud part of the population.
However, if one is actually worried about a huge pendulum swing to the left occurring over the next decade or two, then clean out the Trumpist garbage, reorient the GOP to actually compete for the electorate of the future, and compete for the middle of the electorate.
Hyperbolic nonsense is not a long term winning strategy, it's the dying gasp of the dumb and angry.
Let the far left be the ones who alienate the center, instead. But gotta wash out the 'white supremacist, nativist, whining, corrupt, incompetence' first. It's overwhelming.
Of course, like any such 'twaddle', it has elements of truth.
Those truths will ultimately hurt the Dems, not my 'cause'.
I reject the extremes on both ends.
Trumpism relies upon, has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the extremes of the hard right.
And coupled that with corruption and incompetence.
Get rid of Trump and Trumpism and compete for the middle and the electorate of the future, not the electorate of the past...all I'm saying.
On COVID, Trump had a perfect opportunity to demonstrate competence and empathy, both from himself and from his Administration.
He flunked miserably. We're ALL paying the price.
That massive 'right wing media machine' MD fears is the three late night opinion shows on Fox.
Notice how he never fears the left wing media machine consisting of NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT, and so forth. Why, you might even think MD is full of shinola...