22% is not a "Spoiler"
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 11/08/2023 - 1:56pmLet's be clear: a candidate getting 22% is a contender, not a spoiler.
Let's be clear: a candidate getting 22% is a contender, not a spoiler.
I saw this on Jimmy Dore's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00g51_PfZrM
Donald Trump and his supporters have stoked rumors that he may run as a third-party candidate for president in 2024 if he fails to win the Republican nomination. However, because of the way the Democratic and Republican Parties have rigged state election laws, this was an empty threat.
Democrats deserve to lose this election. Republicans also deserve to lose this election.
Almost everything the Democrats are saying about the Republicans is true. It's just that the Democrats want Republicans that way, even to the point of paying big bucks to make it happen.
This headline is a perfect representative of democratic establishment spin.
We are approaching another election disaster for the Democrats, so establishment Democrats are already shifting into scapegoating the slightly less corrupt, non-corporate wing of the party - progressives.
The Democrats are about to get walloped. This is about to happen despite the Republicans running on NOTHING POSITIVE at all!
The first one that's right around the corner is in Honduras. While I almost stopped following this election because it seemed like a lost cause, it has now become the most promising.
As you know by now, I've been keeping an eye on South Americas election in recent years, and how it is leaning further to the Left (according to the polls).
When Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and finance minister who advocates shrinking the state and cutting taxes, defeated socialist Andrés Arauz by a narrow margin in Ecuador last month (after the Left won the legislature in convincing fashion), it appeared that the Left in Latin America was still too weak to challenge t