The article was “The”.
Those countries used to be The Ukraine and The Congo. For reasons that I completely understand, they prefer just Ukraine and Congo.
Didn’t you notice the pronoun I used?
Because of an overwhelming support for liberal policies.
But it requires an overwhelming support, because the game is rigged in their favor.
You will note that it is republicans who “win” elections while carrying the lesser of the popular vote. If Trump wins this one, that will be twice that the rigged electoral system put into place a person who was rejected by the most voters.
Just because a game is rigged doesn’t mean that you can’t win. And just because you won doesn’t mean that the game wasn’t rigged. It just means that you were that much better than they were.
But the OP didn’t use the word “the”. Not sure what set you off here.
Yeah, you used the pronoun “us”. But your complaint is to an OP who used the letters US to distinguish US-Americans from Canadian-Americans or Mexican-Americans or even Chilean-Americans.
As far as the article in “The United States of America”, or the USA, I was not aware that there was anyone offended by the use of it. Did “we” as a nation ever ask anyone to stop using it?
Ukraine and Congo asked it to be dropped, but that I am aware of, we have not made any such request. Is this just your pet peeve, or do you have some sort of citation that this is something that our country has requested that has not been followed by others.
I note on our Constitution, it says “We the People of the United States” and then goes on to say, “do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Every subsequent reference to our country in the Constitution uses the article as well.
I think I remember hearing some sort of similar complaint back when I paid attention to sovereign citizens. Is that what you are going for here?
Too many Americans became convinced by their own foundational myths. They convinced themselves It Can’t Happen Here.
Many American liberals came to believe that there was an agreed upon consensus that the USA was primarily all about social enlightenment and maximizing liberal democracy. They failed to understand that for half or more of the people, it is not. That to that segment of the people it is just the homeland of their identity group, and why are they being told to change the way they live and see the world?
Yup. I was imagining that already back in the early 90s when the end-of-history fallacy first circulated.
Around the world, Enlightenment Liberalism is under siege from nationalist populism. And a huge part of humanity thinks, Hell Yeah That Is A Good Thing.
We live in Interesting Times.
Fuck.
[cough] QAnon [cough,cough]
I mentioned this one to my wife last evening. She wasn’t familiar. When I told her about it … she began to get physically ill and had to walk away from the election coverage.
I think QAnon is yet another case of the greedy and the ignorant dynamic. I think the promulgators are evil, not stupid or schizophrenic, and are just working hard for the Republicans either directly or indirectly.
But – just like all other demagoguery – they found a ready and willing audience among that [much-coveted by big advertising firms] same old demographic.
Most likely because things weren’t so polarized then, and more stares were in play. As it us we need considerably more than a simple majority popular vote to win the EC. Whereas, the Republicans not so much.
It’s worth revisiting the sage words of … Jim:
TBF, it was @urbanredneck2 who has the “Facebook friend.” But, point taken. It’s just that this soi disant friend would hardly be unique in that single-issue tunnel vision that voters, mostly Republican but not all, seem to have. It’s a close cousin to the “Fuck You, I Got Mine” mentality.
Thanks.
I was getting at the idea that it’s usually considered expedient to style the name of a counrtry as its people prefer, and to use the demonym that they prefer.
I’m sure Canadians are all eagerness to be lumped in as Americans, since they don’t all wear or carry Canadian national emblems when traveling, so as not to be taken for one. I sure can’t say I blame the ones who do, though.
More likely people for whom “good and honorable” doesn’t have what it takes to be a WINNER!!, and have abandoned the concepts.
Oh sorry. He’s a hateful liar too. Peas lying in a pod. Almost interchangeable, and easy to mix up, except @Magiver very occasionally has something interesting to say about airplanes.
Agreed on the point that there are a number of Hispanics who voted for Trump, and while I am disappointed by that number, I will note that it is still a very strong majority who did not. I certainly would not throw the 60+% out due to the actions of the <40%.
Not sure what your point was about an article, then…
Anyway it’s the pit, if the OP chose an insulting way to refer to our country, then that’s probably meant to be that way.
Trump has been getting away with it for 4 years. It’s already happened.
I know, but at the moment, I want to bitch-slap the 40%. WTF is wrong with these people? At the risk of invoking the Elder Demon Godwin, these are Jews voting for the Nazi party because at least they’ll make the trains run on time!
(Yeah, yeah, I know, Mussolini, not Hitler, get outta here, kid, ya bodda me…)
Slight nitpick, he was getting away with it for at least 6 years - he had to lie for a couple of years before being ‘elected’ to his Presidency.
I knew that there were people like this for a long time. I just didn’t know how many of them there are.
We got an inkling in 2016 when Trump was elected, but I figured that a LOT of Democrats didn’t vote and was able to sneak their man into office. There just couldn’t be that many deplorable people in America. But now it’s obvious - there ARE that many deplorable people in America.
I think you’re making this a binary issue, when it’s not necessarily so.
Lots of voters are concerned with all sorts of stuff- they just don’t prioritize social justice and eliminating racism over all else. That doesn’t make them hateful or racist, just that they prioritize things differently.
I mean, just because someone is really hung up on say… abortion and voting Republican, it doesn’t also mean that they’ve got a pointy white hood in their closet as well. It might well mean that they did a lot of soul-searching and decided that voting Trump is the rightest of a bunch of bad choices, even if it sets back social justice and equality.
By the same token, someone could be voting Democrat for environmental/climate change reasons without giving half a shit about social justice or racial issues. The Republicans would be just as wrong to claim they’re on board with everything that the Democratic party stands for.
In large part, it’s a consequence of having only two parties, and a lot of issues, and every person’s fit isn’t 100% with one party or the other.