In the case of the open primaries, if you’ve got a state where one party regularly gets 55-60 percent of the vote, open primaries just opens up the possibility of the minority party voters plus 10-ish percent of majority party voters with independent/antiestablishment streaks banding around a moderate/independent majority party candidate. Which threatens the majority party, so they campaign against it.

In the case of RCV, in primaries there’s often several antiestablishment candidates and one establishment candidate. FPTP ensures the establishment candidate wins whereas in RCV it means the antiestablishment vote could be great enough to filter to one winning candidate. In the general, the same principle applies as in open primaries, so once again the parties campaign against it.

“I want Trump to force my grandkids to talk to me” neocons vs “status quo brunch” neocons

“I want Trump to force my grandkids to talk to me” neocons vs “status quo brunch” neocons

The conservative donor class is cutting out the middle man

This is the one appointment I’m hopeful for because if he can mismanage the armed forces into being even more incompetent than usual, I see that as a win.

The fascists did have the outfits

I read an highly granular analysis of the 2020 that found, among other things, that the demo Trump did best with was members of the 1% without college degrees. Obviously that in and of itself is a tiny demo, but it speaks to the MAGA base being petty bourgeoisie and labor aristocracy without higher education. Which like a lot of things, probably speaks more to the average age of the MAGA base than anything else.

While Harris was going broke paying movie stars and pop singers, Trump got more campaign leverage out of three hours on Joe Rogan and thirty minutes at McDonald’s.

Once again the Democrats run their campaign like it’s thirty years ago.

William Arruda covers personal branding

Yeah no she ran on crypto for black men as a major policy platform for minority empowerment. She was explicitly campaigning towards the top 20% of minorities, income-wise.

How dare those ideological leftists put the genocide of Palestinians over the emancipatory policy of protecting black men’s crypto investments?

The dust bowl was just a hoax invented by Big Arbor

First off, please refrain from using the phrase “Let that sink in” in the future. It’s cliched with heavy duty vibes.

Second, while I do think there’s a problem of willful ignorance affecting our political economy, I don’t think youth education and illiteracy are the fundamental issues. Younger generations are, relatively speaking, more likely to have college degrees or college experience. And the only youth who’ve swung right are young white men (plus youth in general are less likely to vote so it’s a murky demo to analyze). The anti-intellectual demonizing of higher education is slop for the boomers.

Likewise, illiterate people aren’t the right wing base; they’re largely non-voters and as illiteracy goes hand in hand with poverty, it’s more likely they see neither party as in their interests than siding with the right.

I think the bigger issue is that our educational system produces too many useful idiots. They can pass the standardized tests but lack the training in critical thinking to see anything past the surface level. Perfect example is the majority of Americans not understanding how marginal tax brackets work. Or just look at all the responses to the results of the election that reveal a completely inability to parse the data.

That’s the funny thing about proper leftist economy theory, it’s not especially esoteric. Most of it is common sense, you just need to think about how things work deeper that the immediate, morality play version of the analysis.

MFs need to learn what means

Hasn’t Hamas been calling for peace for months now?

Another issue is that many of these restaurants are now owned by private-equity groups that borrowed a lot of money for their acquisitions and are not seeing the cash flow they needed to come out even. TGI Fridays, Red Lobster, Hooters of America, and P.F. Chang’s were all purchased by private-equity groups in the last decade. TGI Fridays has 58% fewer restaurants than it did in 2019, and Hooters had 23% fewer, according to data from industry research firm Technomic.

“Wait, it’s the fault of greedy capitalists bleeding companies dry for short-term profits?”

“Always has been”

Winning for establishment Dems means keeping the big dollar donations flowing in. Which is the fundamental reason they suppress the left and progressive candidates, them winning causes the Mark Cubans to hold back on the big checks.

You’re Ohio

You have been banned for stating the texts of a ballot measure

Paul “the economy is doing great if you ignore food and housing costs” Krugman