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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's mostly marketing, from what I understand. Reagan put a nice veneer on ugly things.
Also yeah, this whole "IT'S RIGGED!!!" thing with trump is unlikely to sway the election. Trump's lawsuits aren't even going to reach the Supreme Court like he wants, and even if they did, it's questionable whether they'd validate him. They're mostly conservative partisans yes, but they're much more liable to care about what Mc Connell wants than what Trump wants, they have no loyalty to him.
The reason why it's bad is because it damages people's trust in the process and sets a bad precedent for presidential behavior. There was a survey posted just now that if accurate, suggests their trust in democracy was considerably eroded by this election - although it's for entirely the wrong reasons.
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Regan I think gets a lot of credit for being President at the end of the Cold War.
While obviously the end of the Cold War was bigger then Regan, given that the failure state of the Cold War was "the destruction of human civilization, if not the human species", ending it without the failure state occurring was kind of a big deal.
If these last few years have taught me anything, it's that coming across as personally "nice" and friendly doesn't mean someone is really a good person.
Example: Utah. I've been there. Almost everyone I met was pretty kind and generous, but that state mostly voted for Trump. It's almost hard for me to reconcile.
It goes into people being thought "Republicans axiomatically good, Democrats axiomatically bad" I think.
Here we talk a lot about Republicans having no standards but, strictly speaking, I don't think that's the case. They have standards but because of the media bubble they're likely to live in, they're highly predisposed to believing literally any bad thing about any Democrat, and disbelieving it about any Republican.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:20:30 AM
That's why I've been saying that a lot of this problem is on right-wing media that just keeps feeding them hatred and fear 24/7. It's not a coincidence that there's a lot of anecdotes from people that feel like they're "losing" their older relatives to Fox News.
Once you get deep into that bubble, it's hard to come out because you essentially start living in an alternate reality where up is down.
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If Risk teaches us anything, it's not to underestimate the power of Australia.
I mean, wouldn't that have happened after Mc Cain and Romney lost to Obama, if it were ever to happen?

Trump has no out right now. The military isn't siding with him, and neither are the courts.
All major news outlets and 99% of world leaders have recognized Biden as President-elect.
Edited by RAlexa21th on Nov 9th 2020 at 5:47:59 AM
Continue writing our story of peace.