So, you’re saying that voter suppression is so rampant that we’ve already lost our democracy? Voter Suppression, as I’ve seen it in the news, is designed to suppress Black/liberal voters, so that would imply that only the white right wing voters are keeping the “real nasty fuckers” in office? I’m afraid I can’t accept that argument.
Let’s say the Texas Taliban, which at the moment is the ruling government of Texas, is reelected at the next election. Since roughly half the voters in Texas are women, does that mean all their votes were suppressed? If so, that would be truly astounding. I think it would mean that a majority of women are perfectly happy with a male chauvinist government that oppresses them.
We aren’t supposed to use partial quotes, words out of context, to take cheap shots at one another. Also, your post didn’t criticize my points, it was designed to insult me.
Democrats are, for better and worse, held to a higher standard that Republicans for some reason.
Newt Gingrich, at the same time he was attacking Bill Clinton for his dalliances, was engaged in yet another in a long line of affairs and had literally visited his first wife in her hospital where she was being treated for uterine cancer to tell her he was divorcing her. He materially failed to provide her with alimony and child support either until finally ordered by the courts. And yet it didn’t impact his political career at all.
Mark Sanford’s dalliance - on the public dime - led to some short-term unpleasantness but he re-won his previous seat in Congress in the 2013 special election and again in 2014 and 2016, before he discovered in 2018 that while you could cheat on your wife (and later illegally stalk her), the one thing you couldn’t do was fail to wholeheartedly support Donald Trump.
And as far as “personal lapses in marital ethics” go, Individual-1 was a whole new category of vices that didn’t hurt him at all.
I’m not defending Edwards in any way. I just wish Republicans actually cared about this stuff instead of merely pretending to when a Democrat is involved.
In some parts of the country? Yes. Gerrymandering has been accomplished so successfully that electoral outcomes do not match voting demographics.
In NC, where LHoD lives, Republicans only got 50% of the vote in the 2018 midterm elections but received 75% of available congressional seats. The same stuff happens at the state level.
I have lived and worked in the south for most of my life, except for a couple of stints in Asia. I’ve visited most parts of it. I’ll be here until my elderly parents no longer require care.
The south sucks. As a lifetime resident, you have my permission to pull out that broad brush and hate on it all you want. The very nicest thing you can say about the nicest southern city is that it’s nearly as good as some other city up north or out west. That’s all the south will ever be, all it aspires to be (to the extent that it has any aspiration at all).
Yes, we do have tiny little “weird” enclaves, tiny little artistic/creative/queer zoos where the inmates can forget the crushing reality outside the city limits. That’s not the south. It’s a wildlife preserve where provincials can come gawk at the exotic abominations of the liberal lifestyle, such as women with double-pierced ears serving expensive coffee.
Do not speak to me of Georgia being a blue state. 2020 was a one-time fluke that will be aggressively, decisively addressed via gerrymandering and voter suppression. It will never, I repeat never happen again.
All of that aside, if you can swallow the prospect of living in a consumerist cultural desert, the cost of living is very low, and it is (or was) a good place to get in on the ground floor of being a homeowner. Many educated young people buy their first house here, and when it’s time to have kids, cash in and get the hell out.
What a shitty take on the years of organizing that went into the 2020 success. Your blithe disregard for the people actually doing the work in the South shines through real clear. If the South is shitty, it’s because of snotty do-nothing liberals who find it easier to sneer at the region than to get their hands dirty doing the work of making things better.
How bout you stop cursing the darkness and light a goddamned candle.
Dyed in the wool Yankee here. I grew up in Greenwich, CT, spent years living in Maine (both $$$ Coastal and very, very rural). I’ve lived in Pittsburgh and Indiana and Chattanooga TN. Now I live in SC. And I love it.
There’s a lot I miss about the Northeast. But I’m really, really happy here despite being an ultra-liberal Democrat. Of course South Carolina has problems, but so does Every. Other. State. I adored Maine too, but there was a lot there not to love as well.
Hey, you’re preaching to the choir. I despise the Republican party. I’m just really disappointed how NC Democrats dropped the ball when they could have countered the corrupting influence of the GOP.
Your shitty reading comprehension doesn’t make it a shitty take.
The people who organized the 2020 electoral victory in Georgia did a great job. For federal office. This one time. They failed to make substantial gains at the state level, which remains in hands of Republicans.
That’s why it will be reversed in the future, and voter-suppression barriers will be erected to ensure that it never happens again. You can’t out-vote the opposition if the opposition suppresses the vote, and that’s what is on track to happen right now.
NJ is an odd state to mention. We have more access to varied culture than most places in the US. Easy distance to NYC, Philly, AC of course and Cape May. We do have the Shore. Our music scene has managed to be vibrant and diverse for many decades.
Lost in the suburban sprawl are gems like Princeton & Red Bank.
Lost in our urban areas are places like Hoboken.
We still have vast rural areas in South Jersey & NW Jersey.
I live on the Bay Shore and that’s pretty damn nice. We’re the best educated state in the US if I remember correctly. From mountains to great beaches all in a short distance with plenty to do.
So while we have sprawl and snarls of traffic, we have more going for us than most places.
We also have hidden gems like Grounds for Sculpture.
2 NFL teams & an NHL team, many minor league baseball teams.
We also have great and varied food.
And by the way, we still grow a lot of food. It is just more marginal now.
We have one of the top Amusement Parks that as a bonus is also within 60 miles of over 20 million people.
Granted, we don’t have the luxury of passing acre upon acre of farmland to have dinner at Shoney’s, we just take a train to NY to spend the day at the Met, or the Goog, followed by fine dining and a Broadway show. We can hike the AT to High Point, go rafting on the Delaware, and be home in our own beds at night. My town has a concert hall, museum, a half dozen parks and more restaurants than you can keep track of, but yeah there’s traffic outside the shopping center, so there’s no culture here.
Remind me how Stacey Abrams’s run for governor went? What governmental position did her opponent hold, and what happened during that election?
2020 happened after all that, and despite all that. Your willingness to give up the war immediately after a battle is won is the worst sort of liberal impulse.
That’s a odd way to put it. He could have been as faithful as a saint and his wife would still have died. He was acting like an asshole, no doubt about it - his determined attempts to cover up to save his career and using campaign funds to do so make that that pretty clear. He’s a little weasel of a man. But certainly not guilty of causing a death (that we know of, I guess I should add).
