“I’m looking at all the polling, and I’m amazed that it has so little to do with reality. [...] A big part of it is just pure ageism. The American people are prejudiced against old people.”
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“It’s not just about which president can get through the day without tripping or stumbling over their words, which everybody is going to do, but which president is going to lead this country forward in a way that helps people solve problems and keeps American democracy intact.”
Hexbears are cynical about r/politics and of course I agree but if you actually hang out there - you notice something that happens like clockwork. Redditors there can be (very) critical of something like Biden's age and the age of the other dinosaurs in congress. But once an election is "close" in time like clockwork they start to close ranks and they begin to sound like dem operatives. They won't go as far as....
But they do make things binary - "Look, Biden's not perfect but nobody is and you don't want Trump to win - do you?"
Before Trump - close in time to an election was ~6 months out. Now "close" can be more than a year out. A few weeks ago I started a Hexbear thread about a front page r/politics post that already had a binary vibe. Although astroturfing in that sub exists - I think many of the redditors were real people. For me - it makes it worse if many comments are real.
I wonder if you used that in a r/politics comment if you'd get a warning (or even a ban) from the mods. It's such a shit sub. They act like every thread is equivalent to a debate in a large room with expensive wood paneling and the quality of the discourse must be policed accordingly.
I see the principal skinner meme being quoted there once in a while. As far as I can tell, it flies under the ban radar, but the libs will just say "yes. It is the voters who are wrong". If I see another one, I'll come back and link it. I swear I saw one today
Edit: here it is
We should switch to six year terms with a confidence vote at 3 years. Dont pass the confidence vote? You dont get to run for a second term.
Oh and the confidence vote has to be raw numbers no electoral fuckery or congressional approval.
I mean, the midterms are already a vote of confidence.
If you changed it to be a single six year term, then maybe that would work, but we already have that for senators and they suck shit.