I've never understood how so many voters could earnestly think that increasing the overall amount of condescension would ever actually net them more allies & supporters.

So the key to getting a better government is to lower our expectations.

People still underestimate the damage the GWB presidency has done to the US' international standing and the living conditions of the average citizen. But sure, Gore was a huge bore with a giant stick up his arse.

Unpopular opinion: These smarmy hot takes do more harm than good.

Think how boring the world could be with Al Gore. US taking proper actions against climate change two decades ago.

You can't claim world wide pandemic followed by the world war three is boring.

Al Gore would have stopped 9/11, preventing two massive land wars in the middle-east, and the subsequent hollowing out of the US middle class.

But don't worry. We the people don't actually get to vote the new fucker in chief into office. We're too dumb. The electoral college composed of some random people who we don't know is the small group that actually gets to vote for the president. Our ballots are just suggestions.

I think the Great Recession was bound to happen regardless of who was in office, but everything else is correct.

“Boring” “Unlikeable” “Stiff”

“Can sit down and have a beer with him” “Tells it like it is” “I like him ‘cause he’s not a politician”

I wouldn’t be too hard on the electorate, although I 100% agree with the problem description and that counter-educating them out of being duped by these framings is important. But they didn’t come up with the framings. There’s a whole ass science of how to resonate with people emotionally and produce behaviors you want, and professionals have been studying it for over a century now to sell toothpaste and beer and deodorant, and it works. It’s actually one of the primary focuses of hard scientific study in our society, much much more so than addressing climate change. And so, when they turned that whole machine in favor of particular candidates and against other candidates, it’s not surprising that it worked on a whole fuck of a lot of people.

Now let’s start to talk about how “I could NEVER vote for a genocide” and “Here comes the biggest election of our lifetime, just like every other one before that 🙄” fits into that framework…

Democracy is when your government holds your (and many others around the world) life, health, and welfare hostage.

Yep it is all the voter's fault

What a stupid fucking post. Like yeah, I'm voting for Biden. But the rest of that is bullshit. Remeber when we used to have primaries and people decided who would run? Yeah me neither, I guess that was before I was born.

Al Gote not only could not differentiate himself from GWB, he also had a wife who led a censorship campaign against artists.

More brain rot Liberal crap. DNC should run better candidate instead of blaming the people.

#Jill2024