ill-defined? more like ill-understood. y'all will be begging for that establishment status quo when Trump gets his vision of Gilead realized. you're not intrigued by socialism, well how about serfdom? that's the GOP dream. corporate towns and company scrip and you're all but slaves fattening King Donald the Cravenhearted. you can row row fight the power when the power isn't beating back a return to the Middle Ages.

these are all examples of people supporting something they don't fully understand. whether it's the benefit to communities (migrants actually lower crime rates), the real human cost (migrants fleeing violence or public schools losing funding to "charter" schools w/no standards), the self-sabotage (more militarized police = more Breonna Taylors), or the flat-out disinformation (trans athletes CAN'T "choose" m/f sports, they TEST HORMONE LEVELS).

this is pure ignorance in voting.

ok but committed conservatives are even MORE disproportionately white so... fuck off?

and what even are those other categories? "Democratic mainstays"? "ambivalent right"? "stressed sideliners"? that doesn't tell me anything about their actual BELIEFS. of all of those categories, progressives seem to be the closest to a representative sample of the population.

it is the responsibility of the Democratic party to: (a) represent those who ARE that left; (b) pull the rest of the moderates to the left; and (c) remind people that the consequences of sliding too far to the right vastly outweigh those of going "too far" left. a genderfluid socialist utopia might be confusing & scary for the moment but a fascist kleptocracy will literally kill you.

the question is what faction of conservative ideology, and more importantly whether that one facet outweighs all the other shit the GOP pulls. blacks are still uncomfortable with LGBT identities, but is that worth all the ways the GOP wants to subjugate & abuse them? Hispanics are anti-abortion but does that justify the dehumanizing treatment of migrants? this is why single-issue voting is so dangerous.

ehh not exactly? let's be real, if you're attending an evangelical church, you're probably not a liberal. but as a liberal who lives around a bunch of conservatives, that doesn't make me lie about who I support - I'm not gonna wear my Nasty Woman t-shirt to the parent-teacher conference or a pussy hat to a birthday party, but if they ask me who I'm voting for, I'll be honest.

"no longer" is a pretty wild claim when we dropped to 23rd from FIFTEENTH. we weren't exactly medaling in happiness before

gee, CONSERVATIVE media is LYING to women to get them to quit birth control to increase UNWANTED pregnancies while simultaneously BANNING abortion, what a fucking mystery

Reddit's journey FROM toxic cesspool?! Reddit is literally Checkpoint 1 on the Toxic Manosphere Journey to Radicalization and Domestic Terrorism. any content moderation is being done by the UNPAID VOLUNTEER subreddit mods while the admins and their bot-run "anti-evil operations" greenlight all sorts of misogyny, transphobia and harassment.

you can't say that they're frustrated with "political correctness" and immigration and "modern liberalism" in one breath, and "not all hateful and ignorant" in the next. and you especially can't define a CLASS by their EDUCATION and then say the uneducated ones aren't ignorant. words have meanings, and the dictionary does not fucking work that way.

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THAT'S CALLED RACISM

or bigotry, more generally. or the stupidity of the uneducated, whom Trump has explicitly said he loves. gee I wonder why he likes stupid people so much?

(as an aside, how is trade restriction a LEFT-wing idea? righties only like free trade for the rock-bottom slave-labor wages, I don't see anybody on the left calling for tariffs and trade restrictions because that's fucking STUPID)

you've gotta be an extra-special breed of self-hating idiot to wear a hentai shirt with the face of a man who openly hates you

probably because it doesn't make a goddamn bit of sense, outside of stupidity and internalized racism. the real story is how the Uncle Ruckuses and Clayton Bigsbys are increasing in number.

again I must express my frustration with defining "working CLASS" by EDUCATION level. your economic CLASS is not determined by how many years you spent in college. it is determined by how much MONEY YOU MAKE. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, all billionaires, no college degrees. you wouldn't call them working class, would you?

there were Jewish Nazis too, you're not making the point you think you're making.

yeah that's not the racism vote, that's the SEXISM vote. that's the group that voted for Obama in 2012 not because they actually liked Obama, but because they utterly despised Sarah Palin as VP. not because of the things she said or believed in, just because they're the "women don't belong in politics" crowd. because outside of that, there is absolutely nothing consistent about the beliefs of Obama-Trump voters. Trump literally campaigned as Obama's opposite!

so, just to recap, the Supreme Court banned abortions and abortions went UP. now what did we learn, pro-lifers...?

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even fiction can't let us escape the reality that a woman will never be elected president of this godforsaken hellhole.

also what's wrong with a woman being ultracompetent?!