This is such a bizarre type of person. I've legitimately never met one. Like why not be a republican? Does he just want the rich to pay slightly higher taxes or something?
i think we are the weird ones for having any sort of consistency/coherence in political beliefs
you'd think smokeing weed would chill him out a bit, especially on the racism stuff. guess not. always surprised how many fucking racist stoners there are
Yeah, almost everyone is just a grab bag of ideas and beliefs. It's so easy for the general populace to be swayed by propaganda and just personal experience. There are plenty of folks left, right and center that can have all very overlapping ideas on all sides.
I also love the dumbasses who say they are "socially liberal but fiscally conservative" just the biggest bird brain phrase to say to sound smart or just don't want to identify as a typical right wing bigot
Because there's nothing inherently ideological about the two parties, especially historically, it's really a recent phenomena that parties at large are this ideological. Political parties in america are mostly just demographic things, and people just vote for the party their parents voted for, especially for down ballot stuff.
I mean to an extent, but the culture wars have been going on for decades. Now that I think about it I have met some old head union Democrat voters that are racist as fuck and only vote Dem because their union tells them to, so I guess I've misspoke.
This happens everywhere, and it's why dem enter is still a meaningful political tactic for winning seats, it only becomes a problem when these folks bend the knee to party leadership, but the goal should always just be about winning seats.
Political parties in the US are totally incoherent and are entirely horizontalist. The only thing that makes a person a democrat or a republican is self labeling of such, there's not a single ideological line you have to sign onto.
Yeah, and that's going to still be easier than winning a general as a third party candidate.
Entryism is a failed strategy lmfao. We've been doing entryism for years and it's gotten approximately nothing done
there is literally no vetting process to running as a repub or dem, you can just do it
just run for a sweet 60+k a year city council seat as a left populist, the new grift
In my rural neck of the woods it's not uncommon for chud facebook boomers to run for local office as democrats, yeah. I think they just do it to own the libs
BLM are antifa Marxist neo liberals and are coming to take our money!!
nice
Is this a new tactic of the right?
... The right? It's a tactic for the libs/Dems.
That's like the six democrat mayors in Northern MN endorsing Trump. The GOP doesn't spend on those races, DFL funding is available so chuds run on the democrat ticket.
Except those people are also voting for democrats for federal seats. Look at Colin Pederson, Klobuchar won every congressional district in the state.
Fuck Colin Peterson, he's the poster boy of all things bad with the democrats. I hope he loses, but chuds will vote for him to prevent any further left candidate challenging Fishbach in two years.
My loser brother will vote for Klobuchar for the same reason, it stops anyone further left from getting a shot.
Except there's no way a further left candidate can win there, once that seat is gone, I'd be shocked if it went blue again anytime soon. Klobuchar is a different story as a further left democrat can definitely win a statewide race.
If Minnesota loses a seat and the district lines around the metro and St. Cloud are carefully drawn, it could be possible. I don't expect the DFL to resort to any big moves like this to secure the state, they have civility poisoning.
In the state where I'm at now...
A few cycles ago a state level politi-ghoul ran with a D by their name and as soon as they won, switched to the Republican party.
And this cycle, a neo-lib Dem and a Berni-crat were running against each other in the primaries. Neo-lib wins.... the minute the deadline ends for getting on the general election ballot he drops out without filing the paperwork, so that even the other democrat candidate wouldn't have time to get on the general election ballot. *chefs kiss
