Current Events > The GOP will win the Presidency again in the near future

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We probably should have gone with someone a bit more progressive than Mr. Reach-Across-the-Aisle on the Democrat side. We'll maybe get back to "normal" (Obama years) before ignorant Americans ruin it again by electing some Christian nutcase that wants to suppress everyone who isn't like them. The GOP already owns our justice system for the next 40-50 years. There is very little to be excited about when Trump loses.

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word?

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Some day, not likely anytime soon

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What's the point of this topic

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Boomer death is accelerating while gen z is getting more educated about voting. Women are rejecting 'traditional family values'

The conservative republican platform is temporally unsustainable

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hockeybub89 posted...

We probably should have gone with someone a bit more progressive than Mr. Reach-Across-the-Aisle on the Democrat side. We'll maybe get back to "normal" (Obama years) before ignorant Americans ruin it again by electing some Christian nutcase that wants to suppress everyone who isn't like them. The GOP already owns our justice system for the next 40-50 years. There is very little to be excited about when Trump loses.

Trump is going to win.

Doom_Art posted...

What's the point of this topic

some of the people here are just into being downers and being down about literally everything
perhaps you haven't noticed

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The Trent posted...

some of the people here are just into being downers and being down about literally everything

Not The Trent, though. Trent would never be pointlessly negative and antagonistic.
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Irony posted...

Some day, not likely anytime soon

You're underestimating how short term the American publics' memory is. It only took ~12years for Bush jr's to go from war criminal that doesn't care about black people to Ellen's fun friend that paints pretty pictures.

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and life will go on

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sad but true

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jon1012 posted...

and life will go on

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Doe posted...

Boomer death is accelerating while gen z is getting more educated about voting. Women are rejecting 'traditional family values'

The conservative republican platform is temporally unsustainable

Depending on where the party goes after Trump, they may just embrace the fascist wing of the party and go full crazy. Neocons are gonna put up a bit of a fight but the path forward is them moving more to the right, especially since they've basically locked up the judiciary for the next generation.

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that was tried with carter, it got us 12 years of republican president...

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Antifar posted...

Not The Trent, though. Trent would never be pointlessly negative and antagonistic.

not about EVERYTHING
c'mon b

wait: i won't take issue with antagonistic, i do love to poke a bear. but not negative, miss me there!

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monkmith posted...

that was tried with carter, it got us 12 years of republican president...

Carter election was a huge special case, not to mention Carter was relatively a political outsider whose ascension in the primary somewhat baffled the party

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justaguy3492 posted...

You're underestimating how short term the American publics' memory is. It only took ~12years for Bush jr's to go from war criminal that doesn't care about black people to Ellen's fun friend that paints pretty pictures.

I thought she received pretty large spread condemnation for this, then followed up with repeated stories about how she's a shitty/abusive person.

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Doe posted...

Carter election was a huge special case, not to mention Carter was relatively a political outsider whose ascension in the primary somewhat baffled the party

carter was "too left" for the independent voters.

the problem is insisting that we need to go for a strong progressive candidate in the biggest popularity contest in the country before voting them into the legislature.

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Carter was very "humanitarian" but was almost aggressively fiscally conservative, he came into the white house after fixing budgetary issues in Georgia expecting that he could just 'streamline' the US budget or something and would get really upset when his cabinet told him they couldn't improve programs without spending more. He didn't like spending.

Iranian revolution is what cost Carter the election, Reagan played it devilishly well. Well and of course dealing with stagflation

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jon1012 posted...

and life will go on

Except for the people for whom it won't, of course.

But y'know it is what it is. I got mine and screw all the rest of you.

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The Trent posted...

some of the people here are just into being downers and being down about literally everything
perhaps you haven't noticed

Have you seen the world? It's been awful for 4000 years. People are going to continue to suffer and die, but hey at least we brought fucking JOE BIDEN back to the White House! The women and LGBT communities made second class citizens by the Supreme Court will be so happy that we have an adult back in the White House. If we're really nice to the hateful bigots, maybe they'll compromise and change their ways in a few generations! The millions getting sick or dying from lack of affordable healthcare will be so happy to continue flailing.

Yet Joe Biden and whatever establishment pick that comes after him will be called radical communists that want to oppress Christianity, and millions of jackasses that struggled through high school will vote for some decidedly non-Christian pseudo-fascist because they get scared about "the gays" getting them before they do the opposite.

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It's very r/iamverysmart in here.

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The GOP will never win election again. Once Trump loses on Tuesday the Republicans will try to save face and start condemning Trump en masse publically, but it won't save them.

Their party has been hijacked by Trump and his radical followers. Trump Jr will try to run probably if he manages to not get arrested (and the rest of his family) once Daddy isn't able to protect him. There is no longer a Republican party. It's over.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Have you seen the world? It's been awful for 4000 years. People are going to continue to suffer and die, but hey at least we brought fucking JOE BIDEN back to the White House! The women and LGBT communities made second class citizens by the Supreme Court will be so happy that we have an adult back in the White House. If we're really nice to the hateful bigots, maybe they'll compromise and change their ways in a few generations! The millions getting sick or dying from lack of affordable healthcare will be so happy to continue flailing.

Yet Joe Biden and whatever establishment pick that comes after him will be called radical communists that want to oppress Christianity, and millions of jackasses that struggled through high school will vote for some decidedly non-Christian pseudo-fascist because they get scared about "the gays" getting them before they do the opposite.

oh

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jon1012 posted...

and life will go on

For the people too self-centered or unempathetic to care. One side's voters don't care about others and the other side's only care during the elections when it's cool to care

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Doe posted...

Carter was very "humanitarian" but was almost aggressively fiscally conservative, he came into the white house after fixing budgetary issues in Georgia expecting that he could just 'streamline' the US budget or something and would get really upset when his cabinet told him they couldn't improve programs without spending more. He didn't like spending.

Yep. People forget this.

He and Tip O'Neil argued quite a bit on this sort of thing. Specifically with regards to universal healthcare. O'Neil wanted to go forward with it but Carter wouldn't play ball

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Also a lot of conservative Boomers and Gen Xers are dying right now from old age. People between ages 18-40 are mostly Liberal in their beliefs and they're just going to keep becoming more and more the majority group in the US

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The near future being once the count is over in the coming weeks.

COVxy posted...

It's very r/iamverysmart in here.

I actually compromised my morals and voted for Biden. But it's just minor relief while this miserable ball of water and rock continues to spin.

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The two parties have been trading off power for nearly 200 years. It doesn't matter whether it's boomers, gen x, whatever... You would have to be incredibly naive to think that Republicans won't eventually hold the presidency again or that young liberals won't ever turn conservative and the entire country is just going to shift hard left.

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The GOP needs to shift back towards center or it can be rendered unviable by the simple and popular plan of increasing voter accessibilty. They're currently too far right to capture even the conservative centrist vote.

Doe posted...

Boomer death is accelerating while gen z is getting more educated about voting. Women are rejecting 'traditional family values'

The conservative republican platform is temporally unsustainable

Which is why they are rigging the courts and gerrymandering the fuck out of the legislatures at state levels.

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