1) The fact that Trump still has a shadow of a chance proves that nearly half of America's voters completely lack the capacity to make a rational and informed decision.
2) The fact that Biden still has a shadow of a chance proves another (slightly overlapping) near half are too easy to manipulate.
Surely there is a middle ground of intelligent, socially aware, culturally aware, and rational part of the population along with a neutral means to locate them.
There is no middle ground, the intelligent socially aware and culturally aware people are already voting for Democrats.
Actually, that's my question:
Why participate in a dog&pony show just to choose between Mr Magoo and Tangerine Hitler with the deciding factor being who has the bigger fan club?
Because that's who is running and that is the system we have to deal with.
So, why not vote for one of his competent statesmen? Cut out the middle man who can't tell up from down.
Because THEY are NOT running.
Having the people picked by the president pick the next president who will pick the next people who pick the next president.
That's not how it works, that's not how any of this works.
All the more reason. Why aren't we giving this job to someone who doesn't want it?
Civics...do you speak it. That's not how any of this works.
Had to Google both.
Deflection looks like a bait&switch tactic to me, maybe?
Kami was referring to YOUR deflection.
Primaries looks like a friends-only vote for who to dictate everyone else to vote for, maybe?
That's not how it works, that's not how any of it works.
Joke's on you. I never paid attention in school. Dropped out somewhere around the 9th grade. Flunked too often to be fully aware of which grade I was actually in at the time. =^-^=
Get yourself one of those GED civics books about the Constitution and government. Read it. Learn how the system we have came into be, and how our Constitution defines how our government works and how it has evolved over time.
We don't have a parliamentary system with coalition governments, so essentially that's how it works. You want a parliamentary system? Good luck with getting that in a polarized nation.
Thank the 'everyone should vote' mentality.
Everyone SHOULD vote. Part of the problem is how LOW American turnout is compared to other developed democracies.
I dunno, so have a cherry on top of a kitten here.
Pusheen! Thanks Free!
but if Trump and his ilk get in, you’ll have much more to worry about than stuttering and shuffling.
I'm trans so you know I'm worrying.
Because the solution to a nuclear meltdown is not a dumpster fire.
Look, let me be perfectly clear. We have to live with the system we have. That system has given us the choice we have. If you refuse the choice, because it isn't the "perfect" choice, you are part of the problem. I'll take a dumpster fire, which Biden is NOT, over a nuclear Meltdown any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.
It's not something someone is allowing. People are actively voting for a fascist dictatorship. Apparently half of the population. Who are they and why are they allowed to vote? Really, why should any overrepresented majority be permitted to vote?
Voting rights are a thing that exists, even for bigoted assholes who have been led astray by lies to make them feel better about their lot in life.
Actually... How would someone deprogram a Trump cultist? I have one at home and it's getting pretty painful to hear the bodacious conventions, speeches, lectures, Fox news whatevers, endless smug vitriol streaming...
You don't, best to bail out.
Biden is tough. It's difficult to see him as anything other than a dumpster fire.
If you can't bring yourself to support the one we need to support to keep The Orange One out of the White House, there is no hope for you and you are part of the problem.
