Why the Left Loses elections

Post Reply New Topic

I would rather be an NT with a physical disability than having Aspergers and no physical disability. The person in wheel chair gets sympathy, us Aspies are told to man up or get over it! Aspies/Autistics have very high rates of unemployment and there is little or no help for people with Autism. The right wingers do not care about the disabled or Autistic rights, we need a Left wing government that can implement the social changes when they get into power.

as much as i detest our armed society, i wish the democrats would just stop NOW with the gun activism, as horrible as that sounds, because their greater need is just to get elected at all levels and form a critical mass in the first place, for getting progressive things including gun control, done. but now is not the time for them to throw so much energy and attention into it, the amuuurican people have not evolved sufficient for that politic to become a given reality. but, there are still enough working class folk who are pining for and would vote en masse for, a reliably humane and affordable health care regime [that only the democrats care about] if there were no gun control strings attached to it.

I am not saying that playing smart is not the correct thing to do, trying to avoid controversial subjects. Just that compared to many of us in countries where the gun debate is over in terms of letting anyone and everyone have them, it honestly looks ridiculous. And also it runs a risk of playing politics with lives, where the politicians are doing what is better for themselves rather than innocent lives. Not even wanting an appearance of what they consider as controversial subjects, which could not bode well if afraid of actually bringing any change.

Wouldn't it be necessary to get rid of all the GOP voters for the GOP to be dead? It's ultimately going to be those people that the enforcers come up against. How can a thing be dead if a significant portion of a population believe in it?

What is GOP?

Well, I have a different perspective of remembering our not working socialism and old people voting to virtually bring it back, just without the Soviets and with the church in power.
Anyway, whichever party gets most votes, that's how democracy works. Most of the known alternatives for democracy are not great, either.
Politics is dirty.

obscenely dirty, and i hate the hell out of it and wish i didn't have to pay attention to it, but if i don't vote i can't complain, so i vote repeatedly against the GOP as they never pretended to address working class concerns other than appealing to our worst instincts [racism]. in the words of president LBJ, "If you can convince the lowest white man that he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." that is the appeal of the present white house crook, in a nutshell.

The Bible I read tells me to take care of the orphan, the widow and the sick. But that if a man won't work, he shouldn't eat. I also believe that if a homeless person is begging on the street, I should help and I do. I also really enjoy helping street performers, etc... It takes a lot to stand outside all day and work or beg for your keep. They are working, providing a service, entertainment, or something that makes the perceptions of another more enjoyable. The vast majority of poor people don't get out and ask personally for assistance. They vote so that they can force another to take care of them. There is no honor in that. They are not even willing to expend the energy to personally ask for help, face to face with another individual. They fill out forms and force people.

If I am able bodied, sitting inside of a home complaining that everyone who professes to believe in the Bible but isn't taking care of me is a hypocrite. That's a scam and immoral. Poverty isn't an institution, a movement, a job. It's a state of being. I've been poor. It's a circumstance and it required my participation to change it.

I think Democrats who use 'selfishness' as the label for GOP'ers, refuse to take into consideration that the GOP'ers simply cannot fathom what it would take to recline into a position of expectations, with regard to the wealth of others.
Meaning, " I'm poor. You are not. Give me what you have or you are greedy and don't really believe in God..." Baffling, to me anyway.