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  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 9,395


    The context is NY is a deep blue state. I did provide a national poll that had too woke at 53%, but that wasn’t good enough. Assuming the Rep, Dem, Ind split is 40/40/20%. That’s almost everyone who is not a D believing the party is too woke.

    right before the election, I had a medical procedure where I needed a lot of rehab. I met many therapists helping my recovery. Many who benefit directly from increased health spending and ACA. This was around the time of Musk chanting on the MSG stage he was going to cut two trillion dollars in USA spending. I know, more anecdotes.

    So a few of my therapists were undecided in those last few weeks. I pointed out their industry would be significantly hurt, because I’d they’re cutting two trillion dollars, a lot of that money is coming from their pockets.

    i had about as much success arguing that the dems were a reasonable choice as I do on here pointing out their extremism. I am stating without doubt the brand was perceived as toxic. Go ahead and memorize some of those Hal jokes on here  mocking everyone who disagrees with them. Try those jokes in public who are not dems.

    maybe trumps terrible job gives the dems a reprieve, but that’s on trump, not the reasonableness of the dems. Five years ago I stopped watching that hbo comic because I thought he was insane blaming the dems for wokeness. I was right where you are. This election changed that perception. America voted for the Jan six guy, and ignored the he is a convict argument. Because groceries were up ten bucks? Cmon, the brand was deemed as toxic.
    The poll you’re relying on wasn’t linked in the earlier article, which is a red flag
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    The poll you’re relying on wasn’t linked in the earlier article, which is a red flag


    Y’all are proving my point about bias and dem extremism. Wasn’t linked in earlier article. It’s a Guardian story. Are they also lying. That’s a lot of hoops to jump thru.

    took two seconds to find the poll. All I did was use the search function for 53 with in the last week and the guardian article in this very topic, pg 30. Here is the polling agency article, PPI. Guess they’re lying too


    but it’s much easier to clutch pearls and make disingenuous attacks than look in the mirror



  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870
    Thank you for the link
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    Again. You keep presenting anecdotal evidence and painting it as widespread fact. If you have polling that says moderate democrats are turned off by wokeism gone too far, then fine. 

    We probably won’t have definitive exit polling for 2024 until later this year, but right now, the decreased turnout and party shifts seem to be Economic concern driven.

    I posted the poll above for a second time, but that will not be good enough for you.

    polls aren’t good enough. Two long time solid professional democratic commenters aren’t good enough (with both those videos posted on amt more than once). Overwhelming anecdotal evidence isn’t good enough. Overwhelming across the board electoral defeat to a convicted felon and insurrectionist aren’t good enough.

    but yeah, let’s flood to record breaking red state rallies for AOC and Bernie because that’s what’s gonna get the senate and White House and the related Supreme Court back, lol.
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870
    I guess we’ll see. 

  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 9,395


    Y’all are proving my point about bias and dem extremism. Wasn’t linked in earlier article. It’s a Guardian story. Are they also lying. That’s a lot of hoops to jump thru.

    took two seconds to find the poll. All I did was use the search function for 53 with in the last week and the guardian article in this very topic, pg 30. Here is the polling agency article, PPI. Guess they’re lying too


    but it’s much easier to clutch pearls and make disingenuous attacks than look in the mirror



    Pump the brakes. You’re not being attacked when someone wants to see a data source (which isn’t in the link). Your link is an opinion takeaway. This is significant though: ‘Overwhelmingly, change focused on two issues: inflation and ­immigration’

    And also one person thought the party was “going in a weird direction”. 
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    edited April 22
    I guess we’ll see. 


    Dems should win the house, but that doesn’t help much with power to change. They dems need the senate and White House again to have a chance for a more balanced Court


    There’s also that famous  cnn poll from march that had Dems at an all time low approval rating. The poll did not ask spefically about woke, but considering how extreme trump is, I find this excerpt from their article with the original poll results as telling…Dems went from57% mainstream to 48% out of the mainstream in one cycle. 
    ..


    “Both the Democratic and the Republican parties are viewed by about half the public as having views and policies that are too extreme, rather than generally mainstream. That’s a change from 2022, when most Americans – 56% – called the Democratic Party’s positions mainstream. Views of the GOP have remained effectively unchanged over that time.

    Political independents remain likelier to see the Republicans as out of the mainstream – 57% call the GOP too extreme, while 48% say the same of the Democrats. But 16% of Democrats call their own party too extreme, while just 9% of Republicans say the same of the GOP.



    https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html



  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870
    Its a shame that trying to be inclusive and kind are now problematic.

  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,980
    I thought all polls were wrong 2016-present? Now they’re all correct? 

    Interesting. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,533

    I posted the poll above for a second time, but that will not be good enough for you.

    polls aren’t good enough. Two long time solid professional democratic commenters aren’t good enough (with both those videos posted on amt more than once). Overwhelming anecdotal evidence isn’t good enough. Overwhelming across the board electoral defeat to a convicted felon and insurrectionist aren’t good enough.

    but yeah, let’s flood to record breaking red state rallies for AOC and Bernie because that’s what’s gonna get the senate and White House and the related Supreme Court back, lol.
    Why wasn’t “woke” the number one issue for voters if that’s the problem?  Why was it the economy? In fact, according to this Gallup poll conducted in October, “woke” isn’t anywhere on the list. Funny how close the 49-47 number is close to how it played out. But sure, keep acting like woke is the problem. You can read the top 22 for yourself. 

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The economy ranks as the most important of 22 issues that U.S. registered voters say will influence their choice for president. It is the only issue on which a majority of voters, 52%, say the candidates’ positions on it are an “extremely important” influence on their vote. Another 38% of voters rate the economy as “very important,” which means the issue could be a significant factor to nine in 10 voters.

    Voters view Donald Trump as better able than Kamala Harris to handle the economy, 54% versus 45%. Trump also has an edge on perceptions of his handling of immigration (+9 percentage points) and foreign affairs (+5), while Harris is seen as better on climate change (+26), abortion (+16) and healthcare (+10). The candidates are evenly matched on voters’ impressions of who would better address gun policy.

    Just under half of voters overall agree with Trump (49%) or Harris (47%) on the issues that matter most to them.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-2024-presidential-vote.aspx


  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    mrussel1 said:
    Why wasn’t “woke” the number one issue for voters if that’s the problem?  Why was it the economy? In fact, according to this Gallup poll conducted in October, “woke” isn’t anywhere on the list. Funny how close the 49-47 number is close to how it played out. But sure, keep acting like woke is the problem. You can read the top 22 for yourself. 

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The economy ranks as the most important of 22 issues that U.S. registered voters say will influence their choice for president. It is the only issue on which a majority of voters, 52%, say the candidates’ positions on it are an “extremely important” influence on their vote. Another 38% of voters rate the economy as “very important,” which means the issue could be a significant factor to nine in 10 voters.

    Voters view Donald Trump as better able than Kamala Harris to handle the economy, 54% versus 45%. Trump also has an edge on perceptions of his handling of immigration (+9 percentage points) and foreign affairs (+5), while Harris is seen as better on climate change (+26), abortion (+16) and healthcare (+10). The candidates are evenly matched on voters’ impressions of who would better address gun policy.

    Just under half of voters overall agree with Trump (49%) or Harris (47%) on the issues that matter most to them.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-2024-presidential-vote.aspx



    Do you know if they specifically posed that question?

     If you want to blame inflation , fine, the Democrats did a terrible job pinning inflation on Trump, who allowed the supply chain to break during covid.

     If you want to blame immigration, fine. Then blame democrats for the failure to defend Biden's immigration record, including a reasonable explanation as to why New York City was overrun with migrants, and why they were handed luxury hotel rooms. And why the southern border was an absolute disgrace on the evening news for 2 years before biden did anything about it. Who's feelings were they afraid of hurting?

    And then the million-dollar question, why were they so dishonest about Biden's condition. The absolute worst debate performance of all time , completely incompetent. A story they're doing their best to suppress, even now.

    But hey, we got Bernie and AOC unfurling Palestinian Flags now, in front of tens of thousands of roaring fans in red states. Why does it smell like something funny is going on. Again.

  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870
    Because the last 10 years have damaged us all and we are all cynical and don't expect good things anymore so anyone in charge is already suspect.


  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,533

    Do you know if they specifically posed that question?

     If you want to blame inflation , fine, the Democrats did a terrible job pinning inflation on Trump, who allowed the supply chain to break during covid.

     If you want to blame immigration, fine. Then blame democrats for the failure to defend Biden's immigration record, including a reasonable explanation as to why New York City was overrun with migrants, and why they were handed luxury hotel rooms. And why the southern border was an absolute disgrace on the evening news for 2 years before biden did anything about it. Who's feelings were they afraid of hurting?

    And then the million-dollar question, why were they so dishonest about Biden's condition. The absolute worst debate performance of all time , completely incompetent. A story they're doing their best to suppress, even now.

    But hey, we got Bernie and AOC unfurling Palestinian Flags now, in front of tens of thousands of roaring fans in red states. Why does it smell like something funny is going on. Again.

    Good call.  I could blame things like the economy and immigration which are both tangible and poll tested.  Or I can believe your constant stream of complaining about woke and decide, by virtue of you being relentlessly annoying about it, that it must be true.  
  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 9,395

    Do you know if they specifically posed that question?

     If you want to blame inflation , fine, the Democrats did a terrible job pinning inflation on Trump, who allowed the supply chain to break during covid.

     If you want to blame immigration, fine. Then blame democrats for the failure to defend Biden's immigration record, including a reasonable explanation as to why New York City was overrun with migrants, and why they were handed luxury hotel rooms. And why the southern border was an absolute disgrace on the evening news for 2 years before biden did anything about it. Who's feelings were they afraid of hurting?

    And then the million-dollar question, why were they so dishonest about Biden's condition. The absolute worst debate performance of all time , completely incompetent. A story they're doing their best to suppress, even now.

    But hey, we got Bernie and AOC unfurling Palestinian Flags now, in front of tens of thousands of roaring fans in red states. Why does it smell like something funny is going on. Again.

    Polls that ask about transgender rights have the answer placing the least important. You seem to think this was one of the top issues. 
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    Polls that ask about transgender rights have the answer placing the least important. You seem to think this was one of the top issues. 

    Polls like that are not proof the brand had gotten tarnished.
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    “My barber said he hates woke, and trump won, so he’s right”. 

    “If trump loses it will be his loss, not a dem win”. 😂 

    everything the republican party has become you try to label the democrats as. It’s just so silly. If you think bill maher is ahead of his time, you’re as out of touch as he is. Mainstream dems are not woke. Unless you’ve been brainwashed into thinking anything centre/left is woke. 

    People mainly vote one or both of 2 things: their wallets and their fears. 

    Trump somehow convinced 74 million dopes he’d bring the price of groceries down, and end all conflict and get rid of all the scary brown men. 

    The indies and moderate republicans will realize how they were duped in 26 and 28. 

    The pendulum will continue to swing, while “experts” try to convince everyone how smart they are. 


    Again comments proving lack of complex thought, lack of context,  pretending the first step here was my anecdotal story


    Context meaning, we’d been thru polls, expert commentators, election results, so the next step was anecdotal. Keep pretending that was the first and only step. And you insist on not quoting. Guess yer looking for plausible deniability. Ha!


    And those comments keep demonstrating complete lack of critical thought. My anecdotal story was regarding my rehab and developing specific expectations of the folks I was talking with. I did say therapists, occupational and physio, related to a significant recovery, who depend specifically on the American care system and benefit greatly from it. I did mention discussing musk and the two trillion promised cuts right before the election? There’s an expectation developed there, it’s not just a simple anecdote. Those cuts most definitely would need to include our care system that they depend their livelihood on.


    Further, if your comments had the ability to apply one percent critical thought, you’d realize the majority of these type of therapists are female. At least here in the blue state NY region (which again, enhances expectations), if you know anything about that from Socialandia. So I am talking about mostly females in the wake of the Dobbs decision, if you could show any idea what that means. And rely on the USA care system, expectation they’d at least identify a tiny bit with what the Dems are trying to sell the public. That’s the point, you completely missed but had to go out of your ways to bend the rules here by taking personal shots and also embarsss yerself.


    And your mocking anecdote, a barber? Really? Do your comments demonstrate the ability to develop an expectation? Any critical thinking? A barber is probably self employed, cash business who in most cases the expectation would be someone who hates democrats because of? It’s a three letter word. That one you gotta know up there in the great north social land.

    Keep demonstrating a lack of critical thinking while insisting on mocking, when clearly the critical thinking is significantly lacking. Cuz u gotta get those zings in!

    But, please, continue on from your Socialandia, where you are challenged to think in order to make ends meet, while taking  great risk if you are wrong. Ha!

  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    mrussel1 said:
    Good call.  I could blame things like the economy and immigration which are both tangible and poll tested.  Or I can believe your constant stream of complaining about woke and decide, by virtue of you being relentlessly annoying about it, that it must be true.  

    The point is dems should be trying to win the center. Showing trump is bad from the center has much more power with voters that matter than running to the socialist healthcare and Hamas crowd. we used to agree on this point. Until you went to loving the extreme of the party. Why don’t you forget what I have to say and run out to another record breaking red state AOC Bernie rally! Cuz that’s gonna win the senate next year!
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870
    You seem to be taking the curves tail and mistaking it for the mean. You don’t have to look any further than party leadership to see where the party truly stands. And it’s not universal HC. And it’s not Palestinian flags. 
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,870


    Further, if your comments had the ability to apply one percent critical thought, you’d realize the majority of these type of therapists are female. At least here in the blue state NY region (which again, enhances expectations), if you know anything about that from Socialandia. So I am talking about mostly females in the wake of the Dobbs decision, if you could show any idea what that means. And rely on the USA care system, expectation they’d at least identify a tiny bit with what the Dems are trying to sell the public. That’s the point, you completely missed but had to go out of your ways to bend the rules here by taking personal shots and also embarsss yerself.


    This is bringing up the conversation from a couple of weeks back. IDK how you can have these interactions with people and then conclude, it’s the Woke that got to them, and not the gigantic misinformation machine looking to create confusion, anger and distortion of facts. 
  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,533

    The point is dems should be trying to win the center. Showing trump is bad from the center has much more power with voters that matter than running to the socialist healthcare and Hamas crowd. we used to agree on this point. Until you went to loving the extreme of the party. Why don’t you forget what I have to say and run out to another record breaking red state AOC Bernie rally! Cuz that’s gonna win the senate next year!
    Wait what? I went to the extreme? Please go find a comment where I opined positively on woke or Hamas. You won’t find it. You’re full of crap, continuously, thinking you speak for the motives and thoughts of others. 

    The energy of any party is on the extreme wing. It’s true for both parties. So seeing Bernie and AOC hold rallies doesn’t freak me out. It’s what I expect. When it comes time to vote the center left has won out since 1972. Until that changes you’ll excuse me for not freaking out and living my life like a normal person. 
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,980

    Again comments proving lack of complex thought, lack of context,  pretending the first step here was my anecdotal story


    Context meaning, we’d been thru polls, expert commentators, election results, so the next step was anecdotal. Keep pretending that was the first and only step. And you insist on not quoting. Guess yer looking for plausible deniability. Ha!


    And those comments keep demonstrating complete lack of critical thought. My anecdotal story was regarding my rehab and developing specific expectations of the folks I was talking with. I did say therapists, occupational and physio, related to a significant recovery, who depend specifically on the American care system and benefit greatly from it. I did mention discussing musk and the two trillion promised cuts right before the election? There’s an expectation developed there, it’s not just a simple anecdote. Those cuts most definitely would need to include our care system that they depend their livelihood on.


    Further, if your comments had the ability to apply one percent critical thought, you’d realize the majority of these type of therapists are female. At least here in the blue state NY region (which again, enhances expectations), if you know anything about that from Socialandia. So I am talking about mostly females in the wake of the Dobbs decision, if you could show any idea what that means. And rely on the USA care system, expectation they’d at least identify a tiny bit with what the Dems are trying to sell the public. That’s the point, you completely missed but had to go out of your ways to bend the rules here by taking personal shots and also embarsss yerself.


    And your mocking anecdote, a barber? Really? Do your comments demonstrate the ability to develop an expectation? Any critical thinking? A barber is probably self employed, cash business who in most cases the expectation would be someone who hates democrats because of? It’s a three letter word. That one you gotta know up there in the great north social land.

    Keep demonstrating a lack of critical thinking while insisting on mocking, when clearly the critical thinking is significantly lacking. Cuz u gotta get those zings in!

    But, please, continue on from your Socialandia, where you are challenged to think in order to make ends meet, while taking  great risk if you are wrong. Ha!

    the fact that you chose to dissect my random choice of personal care profession is telling. An anecdote is still an anecdote, no matter how you dress it up. You do understand sample sizes, right? Cross regional? National? Yeah, and I'm the one lacking critical thinking. You're searching for a boogieman that isn't there. You are attributing stances to people who don't hold them, to try to win an argument no one is making. You are posting word salad diatribes that means basically nothing. 

    Socialandia? Did you come up with that all by yourself?
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    mrussel1 said:
    Wait what? I went to the extreme? Please go find a comment where I opined positively on woke or Hamas. You won’t find it. You’re full of crap, continuously, thinking you speak for the motives and thoughts of others. 

    The energy of any party is on the extreme wing. It’s true for both parties. So seeing Bernie and AOC hold rallies doesn’t freak me out. It’s what I expect. When it comes time to vote the center left has won out since 1972. Until that changes you’ll excuse me for not freaking out and living my life like a normal person. 

    Full of crap dude? My comment is referring to your constant condensation and nastiness. You used to be better and were willing to consider more moderate paths.
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    edited April 23
    the fact that you chose to dissect my random choice of personal care profession is telling. An anecdote is still an anecdote, no matter how you dress it up. You do understand sample sizes, right? Cross regional? National? Yeah, and I'm the one lacking critical thinking. You're searching for a boogieman that isn't there. You are attributing stances to people who don't hold them, to try to win an argument no one is making. You are posting word salad diatribes that means basically nothing. 

    Socialandia? Did you come up with that all by yourself?

    Wrong. It featured expectations based on specific data. There is no specific proof here. It’s an opinion based on data and other inputs, and it’s extremely telling how the dem supporters here feel the need to be so condescending rather than consider their little darlings have gone too far the last number of years.

     

  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,980

    Full of crap dude? My comment is referring to your constant condensation and nastiness. You used to be better and were willing to consider more moderate paths.
    Condensation? I always figured mrussel was a tall drink of water; just wasn’t aware he’s got droplets running down his legs. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,980

    Wrong. It featured expectations based on specific data. There is no specific proof here. It’s an opinion based on data and other inputs, and it’s extremely telling how the dem supporters here feel the need to be so condescending rather than consider their little darlings have gone too far the last number of years.

     

    Again, another meaningless word salad for “anecdote”. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,533

    Full of crap dude? My comment is referring to your constant condensation and nastiness. You used to be better and were willing to consider more moderate paths.
    “Until you went loving the extreme of the party” is what you said. I’ve lost respect for you based on your comments in the Ukraine thread and comments like you just made. You said I went loving the extreme and then the next comment you change your charge and say I’m being nasty and deny you meant what you literally just said. 
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315

    This is bringing up the conversation from a couple of weeks back. IDK how you can have these interactions with people and then conclude, it’s the Woke that got to them, and not the gigantic misinformation machine looking to create confusion, anger and distortion of facts. 
    That’s taking my opinion way out of proportion. The dems have gone too far left making them difficult to identify with moderate voters and trump can be doing a terrible job, both can be true. And IIRC my anecdotal story regarding my rehab was from not a week ago, but maybe yesterday? And the only reason it wasn’t in the quote chain is because that commenter likes to attack and cast shade without quoting. 
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,218

    Full of crap dude? My comment is referring to your constant condensation and nastiness. You used to be better and were willing to consider more moderate paths.
    Hey, you're clearly passionate about these things and also have you considered you've changed and that's why you don't like the responses you're getting here? You're arguing with everyone and anyone and then labeling their responses as an attack. People are going to become less and less cordial and willing to even respond. It's not worth their time or energy to get in to these back and forths.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,980
    mrussel1 said:
    “Until you went loving the extreme of the party” is what you said. I’ve lost respect for you based on your comments in the Ukraine thread and comments like you just made. You said I went loving the extreme and then the next comment you change your charge and say I’m being nasty and deny you meant what you literally just said. 
    Bingo was his name-o. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,315
    mrussel1 said:
    “Until you went loving the extreme of the party” is what you said. I’ve lost respect for you based on your comments in the Ukraine thread and comments like you just made. You said I went loving the extreme and then the next comment you change your charge and say I’m being nasty and deny you meant what you literally just said. 

    I don’t think you’ve invested a single comment that perhaps the dems have gone too far left in recent years and after devastating losses in both chambers and White House they have done zero self reflection publicly, and instead prefer to defend a rather extreme aggregate viewpoint on amt. It’s an opinion, and I don’t need to be nasty to share it. Woke is only one piece of the story. And as far as Ukraine, the only thing I recall saying is I don’t believe they have a path to getting the Russians out of their seized territory, which seems to be a solid opinion. As much as I’d like that to happen.
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