Just spoke to my mom who is a centrist liberal and never talks to me about politics. she said “I don’t think I’m going to be voting. I feel sick to my stomach about both these two.”
Two of the easiest elections in the history of this country and the dems just blew em both.
I think the Democrats are going to fall ass backwards into a victory, but they’re gonna bomb when it comes to the midterms
I think Biden is going to win and probably in a blowout. He’ll win the EC which is all that matters.
Over 30 million people have already voted early by mail in ballots. I am sure most of that is going to Biden.
We just have to face it; Trump is unpopular within the establishment and with the ruling class. Yes, they benefit from him, but he has caused them more pain than they wanted. Trump has ripped the mask off the empire and shown the entire country the real face of our government and what America is all about. They desperately want to put the mask back on with a Democrat, but I’m not even sure Biden can accomplish that cause he is so out in the open about how right wing he is and you see it with how he don’t even pay lip service to popular ideas, he has to shout them down. The only difference is, under Biden the media will stop covering things that outrage people and they’ll move to normalize it, much like they did during the Obama era. But will this work at restoring liberalism? That’s the big question and the answer is probably no. Cause people have had enough of the system and neoliberalism, they’re slowly awakening and realizing how fucked they are.
Only 1 in every 3 generals of the military supports Trump. That’s low for a Republican president. And no, don’t give me any of this stupid bullshit about how “Actually, Trump is anti-war! They hate him cause he isn’t invading countries left and right!” it’s not that simple. Trump managed to piss off the Pentagon back in June when he was trying to push for martial law at the height of the riots. There were rumblings of anger when he moved troops to the US-Mexican border, and none of this is counting all the other dumb shit he has done with the military and his stunts. They don’t like him as much as people think.
The riots back in June scared the living shit out of the ruling class. This was evident with all the corporations turning Black Lives Matter into a trendy marketing slogan and all the empty talks about ending racism you see in advertising now. It scared them cause it showed that people are really pissed off and don’t believe in the system anymore. They have to save face by turning it back over to Team Blue and trying to restore liberalism. Will it work? Probably not, but that’s what they’re trying to do. They can’t have millions of people out marching and protesting again. Hurts their profits and shatters the illusion of America being a quote on quote ‘democracy’.
None of this counts Trump’s poor COVID response which is the real thing that is sinking him. Republicans turned wearing a fucking mask into a culture war talking point, and Trump’s last 3 weeks since becoming infected, have pretty much sunk him with the poor COVID response. That stupid mother fucker couldn’t even take advantage of the situation when libs were crying over him and wishing him well. He just had to play the tough guy to his dumbass base and rush himself out. That will come back and bite him in the ass.
As for Biden, he will have a year to figure out the situation we’re in. The highest unemployment numbers and worst economy since the great depression. He’ll have exactly a year to make progress and fix this. When he don’t, you’re going to see the shit hit the fan fast with the next reactionary far right populist movement that arises as a backlash to his austerity.
My parents are liberal Clinton-stans in a swing state, and I don’t think I’ve heard them mention Biden once this election cycle. I’m sure they are going to vote, but the supposed enthusiasm is not there.
The amount of voter suppression in key states is genuinely disturbing to me. I don’t know why people are voting early- wouldn’t it be easier to count them later (ie, let the media decide who wins based on ‘Irl’ voting).
Counterpoint as mentioned by Chapo is the idea that the military elite/CIA/Deep State thought they could ‘endure’ Trump, but he wasn’t nearly as keen to keep the wheels moving overseas. So whatever control they have they’ll probably utilise it. I don’t imagine Fox etc NOT calling the election early/forcing all other media stations to fall in line 2000 style.
I watched 2016 live out of pure curiosity, but 2020 will genuinely be must watch tv. So much important shit will happen so quickly, as opposed to 2016 where both HRC fucking bailed on her convention and Trump arrived late af to his convention.
Libs will blame OP’s mom on msnbc for losing.
