Americans Flock To The Democratic Party!
Yes, that is a real headline, but it's only one example from today.
PoliticusUSA: Americans Flock To The Democratic Party As Trumpcare Is Killing The GOP
The Hill: Democratic affiliation at two-year high: Gallup
AmericaNow: Poll: Democratic Party Identification At Two-Year High
Wow! People must be love, Love, LOVE, LOVIN The Dems!
Amirite! Can't you just feel it?
What's not to love?
There's just one little problem: It's a total misrepresentation of the results of the poll.
The growing Democratic advantage in recent months is mostly attributable to a decline in Republican affiliation rather than an increase in Democratic affiliation.
People aren't more or less fond of the Dems now than before.
What has changed is that people are getting sick of Republicans.
And that, by itself, is a good story.
So why the bullsh*t conjob spin?
Could it be because this is the real story?
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So now it must be "trending"
All you Millenials who #Demexit'd...please come back!
I want a Pony!
When both are firmly embedded below the 30% level
even around 20 to 25% that would be a huge positive for real change to occur.
Gives and Indie more incentive to run
imagine if an indie like Bernie won the plurality yet tptb
gave the title to a 30%er, maybe then the republic would
wake up.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Trump lied about "draining the swamp"
I think all the swamp creatures, Republican and Democrat, are happy about that. Today they got to vote on repealing Dodd-Frank. MAGA.
Beware the bullshit factories.
I Pity The Fools who still think
Trump is pulling for them. There are dumbshits in my apartment building who still defend Trump to me. They usually walk away from the discussion with a frowny puss on their face.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I just look at both
Trumpanzies and Clintonistas like they have a 3rd eye in the center of their forehead...
You idiots did this to us...
Don't you know there was more than 2 people running for president?
You let the media say someone had no chance so you voted for a "Winning Team" that sucked!
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Three eyes?
I presume you meant cyclops--or that two of the eyes are blind and the other is closed.
Nothing will change until people give-up on
the dumbass notion of voting for the lesser of two corrupt assholes. I won't vote for a corrupt asshole no matter what party. Maybe Stein would have been a weak president because she is not a Washington insider. But at least she would be honest and on our side. Trump is not on the side of the commoners. And Hellery would not have been on the side of the commoners. Pick your lesser asshole.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I wonder if this message is getting through?
More people may turn away from party affiliation, but I have to wonder how many of them will have the guts to vote outside the duopoly that doesn't even pretend to represent their interests anymore. The Democrats seem to be banking on notTrump being good enough and, I hate to say it but, I think that's a pretty safe bet.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Watch the Virginia Dem primaries for a clue
If Northam wins, "NotTrump" is still good enough. If Perriello wins, it's no longer a sure thing.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I call bullshit.
It is what it is.
When you want a rise you pay a fluffer.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Flock. Sheep. Bah.
Flock. Sheep. Bah.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
The song the Dems need to sing to Millennials and Progressives
And they'd have to mean it, of course.....
[video:https://youtu.be/DnfSoaJxe3Y width:500 height:350]
"Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you"
For the DLC types are wrong and to blame; and the Dems really just can't live without us! (As any recent election results demonstrate painfully obviously!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
It is time.
It is time.
People need to vote on issues and how we can be helped and who is looking out for us not because of the "sure thing" BS due to the usual lazy "America Likes a winner" and vote outside the box and go Indy for once! we have to shake the corrupted duopoly loose and get free of their bought asses! I voted for Stein, knowing it would help her, and not change the outcome of my state which voted heavy for Trump.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Confusing data
The Gallup Party Affiliation data (scroll down for the data with leaners) seems to show opposite trends, namely support for the Dems (including leaners) falling and the support for the Repubs (including leaners) increasing. I can't reconcile the two datasets.
Hillary Clinton n/t
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I agree. NotTrump(tm) will work for them
If not in 2020 then certainly in 24. I just hope that the oscillation of voters desperately seeking a safe harbour in the storm is dampening over time. I don't expect the general pattern to stop any time soon.
What I find hopeful is how the wheels are coming off the bus for TPTB. As we push, they must push back... and they do... and they win. But in doing so they show their hand. Hillary's campaign was a perfect example of that. Sure, she crushed Bernie... but look at the cost in credibility. They had to say up was down and black was white to screw with him and it was pretty obvious to anyone who was on the verge of "waking up".
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
I didn't think it was that confusing
I just saw it as the same old cooked books the Democrats like to run with. I clearly remember during the primaries how I (an Independent) was told that there are no Independents... just Democrats or Republicans who were too prissy to sign up. That's the same thing baked into that "Lean Democratic" thing.
If someone asked me I might well say I "leaned Democratic". That doesn't mean I'm going to vote for any Democrats until they start leaning Democratic also.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
leaning Democrats
Like your Democrats to be democrats, do you?
(I do, too!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
So for grins, I put together this chart
Full Image: http://i.imgur.com/gqhP0oX.png
The way I read that is that there is some small reason for optimism in a sea of despair. Sure there's that tiny little uptick at the end but the picture is pretty clear... a lot of squabbling among two relatively small groups while the independents stand by in disgust.
Here's a zoom in of the tail end:
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Ugh!
The Democratic party does not deserve to remain a viable party. They have destroyed what little credibility they had during the 2016 primaries. The party is totally corrupt and does not deserve to remain as it is.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
The Dems did achieve a poll bump since Dec 2016, but a small
one. Looks like from 44 to 45%? That's not statistically significant, but I'm wondering if I'm reading the graph wrong b/c the lines show a much more significant bump than 1%?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver