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Mad_Machine76's JournalDemocrats' chances in the 2022 midterm elections are better than doomsayers predict
Saw this article on MSNBC a few weeks ago- if it helps at all to hear a less negative or not-quite-hopless take on the upcoming midterms:
Anyone else sick and tired of hearing so-called political experts predict that Democrats are going to lose badly in this year's midterms? Apparently it doesn’t matter that in President Joe Biden’s first year, 6.6 million new jobs were reported, the strongest first year of job gains of any president since our government began collecting such data in 1939. Nor does it appear to matter that unemployment is down from 6.7 percent in former President Donald Trump’s last full month in office to 3.8 percent and that wages are up 5 percent over the past year.
There are multiple signs that tell us Democrats could not only hold on to the House but even pick up a few Senate seats.
Pundits tell us it’s an “ironclad” rule — as Fivethirtyeight.com put it — that the president’s party loses congressional seats in midterm elections. Hence, headlines that predict Democrats will lose this November in a “wipeout” and a “bloodbath.” If you listen to these people, you might be tempted to cancel the 2022 election and simply crown the GOP the winners of the House and the Senate............
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democrats-chances-2022-midterm-elections-are-better-doomsayers-predict-n1290695
That was my take on it too
Wondering if Tucker is about to come out? #justaskingquestions
I just don't understand
How can so many things that we've all taken for granted for years, or in some cases, decades, are now suddenly in question now, in 2022 AD, and that list seems to be growing daily.
Abortion: We know that right-wingers/evangelicals/Republicans have been after Roe for decades, chipping away at it, getting Justices on to SCOTUS that are sympathetic to their position and it looks like they may finally succeed (and soon) in eliminating any guaranteed constitutional right to an abortion.
Birth Control: Once they get rid of Roe, their next target, inexplicably, seems to be Griswold, which guaranteed the right of people to use birth control without government interference. This seems like the stupidest move of all because you won't find hardly anybody nowadays who doesn't use birth control or at least doesn't want government telling anybody that they can't. How this would be considered a political winner beggars belief.
Gay Rights: Right-wingers/evangelicals/Republicans have been trying to figure out ways to not have to comply with Obergefell and seem to want to get rid of that as well as soon as possible so that they can ban it or severely limit in states they control. The fallout from overturning Obergefell and states reinstituting bans would be considerable. Not that they care much about the ensuing chaos, however, again, this is another move that would be massively unpopular among most Americans and even some Republicans, whom have come out in the years since then. This is, of course, to say nothing of somehow overturning Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized consensual sex between members of the same sex would go down in 2022
Interracial Marriage: Indiana Senator (one of mine, sorry) Mike Braun acknowledged that there are almost no limits on how much power states should have over individual and human rights, which even includes being able to have the power to tell mixed-race couples that they shouldn't be allowed to get married, a monstrously racist position that should be enough to drive every last POC from the Republican Party for all eternity. Braun tried to walk back his statements, however, when you're basically arguing state supremacy over just about everything in terms of individual and human rights, this is just the logical extension of that philosophy.
To me
he is just emblematic of the deterioration and degeneration of the Republican Party in general into a syncophantic, anti-democratic, Trumpian white nationalist Q-Anon-based party steeped in conspiracy theories and nativism, racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, etc. We all saw how ugly they've become with the KBJ hearings. These things have always been there more or less, but now they're becoming more open about it all because of Trump
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