POST-ELECTION REFLECTION ๐งต
So the race has now been called for Biden, and it looks like that call will hold. Many Trump supporters believe that Biden's victory was due to massive fraud/malfeasance, and that's possible - some stuff does seem quite dodgy, and there's certainly...
So the race has now been called for Biden, and it looks like that call will hold. Many Trump supporters believe that Biden's victory was due to massive fraud/malfeasance, and that's possible - some stuff does seem quite dodgy, and there's certainly...
...been a lack of transparency.
The spectacle that we've seen over the past several days has been, as @ggreenwald puts it, an utter disgrace:
Banana republic stuff!
There's no good reason why the richest & most powerful country in the world shouldn't...
The spectacle that we've seen over the past several days has been, as @ggreenwald puts it, an utter disgrace:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1323976056240558082
Banana republic stuff!
There's no good reason why the richest & most powerful country in the world shouldn't...
...be able to count its votes in a timely and transparent way that EVERYONE can trust and have faith in - regardless of whether or not THEIR SIDE is winning.
And you can bet that millions of Biden voters would be screaming that it wasn't legit now too, if Trump were winning!
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And you can bet that millions of Biden voters would be screaming that it wasn't legit now too, if Trump were winning!
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Realistically though, I don't think that any court challenge is likely to meaningfully affect the outcome.
In order for that to happen, the results in at least two states would need to be reversed, and I don't think it's likely in even one.
The courts would need...
In order for that to happen, the results in at least two states would need to be reversed, and I don't think it's likely in even one.
The courts would need...
...DEFINITIVE PROOF of large scale malfeasance/fraud - not a more general "this seems fishy," or some anecdotal cases.
So while there's unquestionably a very solid case to be made for major reform in how future elections are conducted - with MUCH MORE security & transparency...
So while there's unquestionably a very solid case to be made for major reform in how future elections are conducted - with MUCH MORE security & transparency...
...I don't think the results of THIS ELECTION, right or wrong, are at all likely to be overturned.
So where does that leave us?...
First, the bad news: The incoming Biden Admin will likely mean that all of the malfeasance by the "Deep State" against the Trump Admin will...
So where does that leave us?...
First, the bad news: The incoming Biden Admin will likely mean that all of the malfeasance by the "Deep State" against the Trump Admin will...
...probably end up getting swept under the rug.
And this is especially disconcerting,especially if one considers the prospect of someone like #Tulsi2024 ever becoming President - someone who would actually be much more serious about significantly overhauling US foreign policy...
And this is especially disconcerting,especially if one considers the prospect of someone like #Tulsi2024 ever becoming President - someone who would actually be much more serious about significantly overhauling US foreign policy...
...than Trump was.
Moreover, the incoming Biden Admin is likely to be more hawkish than the Trump Admin was, with a good chance of getting us into new wars or further escalating existing ones:
Pulling out of #Afghanistan can be all but guaranteed not...
Moreover, the incoming Biden Admin is likely to be more hawkish than the Trump Admin was, with a good chance of getting us into new wars or further escalating existing ones:
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1305331357745209344
Pulling out of #Afghanistan can be all but guaranteed not...
...to happen for the next four years.
And there are a number of other bad things that the Biden/Harris Admin can unilaterally do as the executive, such as undoing Trump's reform of the college campus tribunals to ensure some semblance of due process.
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And there are a number of other bad things that the Biden/Harris Admin can unilaterally do as the executive, such as undoing Trump's reform of the college campus tribunals to ensure some semblance of due process.
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Also, for those anti-neoliberals who orient more towards "the left," a significant piece of bad news is that there's unlikely to be a competitive Dem presidential primary until AT LEAST 2028, if not 2032.
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So what good news is there then?...
I'd say that, on a moral level, the fact that the election was close, in spite of the pandemic and recession, was something of a defeat for the neolib Democrats...
I'd say that, on a moral level, the fact that the election was close, in spite of the pandemic and recession, was something of a defeat for the neolib Democrats...
They wanted to be able to claim a big popular mandate, and argue that "Trumpism" - a label they would then apply to ANY populism and opposition to neolib technocratic hegemony, be it from "the left" or "the right" - had been decisively rejected by the American people, but this...
...didn't happen. At all.
Trump got more than 70 million votes, and Republicans actually gained House seats - likely due to voter anger at the BS impeachment.
Moreover, a very significant percentage of the Biden votes came from Bernie voters and others who also reject the...
Trump got more than 70 million votes, and Republicans actually gained House seats - likely due to voter anger at the BS impeachment.
Moreover, a very significant percentage of the Biden votes came from Bernie voters and others who also reject the...
...neoliberal "Washington Consensus," even if many of them had bought into "wokeness" or the #OrangeManBad narratives to varying degrees.
So if one considers these votes too, along with the 3rd party votes, a large majority of voters rejected the pre-Trump neoliberal status-quo.
So if one considers these votes too, along with the 3rd party votes, a large majority of voters rejected the pre-Trump neoliberal status-quo.
Additionally, with the GOP looking likely to hold onto the Senate, the neoliberal dreams of doing things like packing SCOTUS, or adding new states to pack the Senate, and thereby ensuring (they hoped) a permanent one-party neolib dictatorship, look to be DOA.
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Furthermore, with the economy likely to head into a worsening recession next year, the Biden/Harris Admin is likely to be DEEPLY UNPOPULAR.
If Republicans can do more stuff like this and become a more truly populist anti-Wall Street party, they've got...
If Republicans can do more stuff like this and become a more truly populist anti-Wall Street party, they've got...
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1324171689052299265
...a very good chance of winning in 2024.
As a left-winger myself, I'd prefer to see the Dems be the ones that took on that role they historically had, and being the party of the #NewDeal once again - and no, I DON'T mean AOC's BS "Green New Deal," but an actual working class...
As a left-winger myself, I'd prefer to see the Dems be the ones that took on that role they historically had, and being the party of the #NewDeal once again - and no, I DON'T mean AOC's BS "Green New Deal," but an actual working class...
...New New Deal, in the tradition of FDR - something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
But it may well be that the Dems are corrupt beyond all hope, and the Republicans returning to their Lincoln roots is more realistic...or perhaps the Dems will simply break apart as a viable party...
But it may well be that the Dems are corrupt beyond all hope, and the Republicans returning to their Lincoln roots is more realistic...or perhaps the Dems will simply break apart as a viable party...
...without the glue of hating Trump to hold them together anymore, and this might make it such that a 3rd party could actually become viable in our system. We'll have to see.
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One interesting development though is that Trump did quite well with POC voters. Despite the pervasive narrative that he's a racist,he actually got a higher % of the POC vote than any Republican POTUS candidate since 1960.
So I think this is a positive development in a couple...
So I think this is a positive development in a couple...
...of ways.
First, for the POC communities themselves, this means that if the Dems want to remain viable they're gonna have to try to actually EARN their votes...and with something more substantive than simply "wokeness" and screaming that the other side is racist!
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First, for the POC communities themselves, this means that if the Dems want to remain viable they're gonna have to try to actually EARN their votes...and with something more substantive than simply "wokeness" and screaming that the other side is racist!
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And second, for our nation as a whole, it's better if we're focused less on divisive racial issues, and more on substantive issues like class/economics and foreign policy.
Oh, and a 3rd - it crushes the neolib dream of achieving permanent hegemony via shifting demographics!
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Oh, and a 3rd - it crushes the neolib dream of achieving permanent hegemony via shifting demographics!
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Also, "wokeness" more generally was rejected in this election - with even DEEP BLUE California voting against a ballot measure to allow affirmative action by a wide margin.
So Bernie supporters and other lefties should take note of this!
If you want to be successful going...
So Bernie supporters and other lefties should take note of this!
If you want to be successful going...
...forward, you need to ditch the hyper-"wokeness" and bring the focus back to economics - i.e. be more like Bernie 2016 and less like AOC and her "Squad!"
Fail to do this, and it'll be the Republicans who will ultimately win America's multiracial working class, folks who are...
Fail to do this, and it'll be the Republicans who will ultimately win America's multiracial working class, folks who are...
...generally well to the left of "center" on economic issues, but more moderate to conservative on cultural/wedge issues.
Unfortunately though, I don't see this as likely to happen, but who knows, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised! ๐
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Unfortunately though, I don't see this as likely to happen, but who knows, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised! ๐
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Anyway, I could go on longer, in any number of directions, but this has gotten pretty long already, so I'll just wrap this up now by expressing the hope that activists who voted for and supported different candidates can now come together following the election, to form a...
...united movement against war and against neoliberalism.
God/Goddess/The Atheist Spaghetti Monster knows that we'll desperately need such a movement during a Biden/Harris Administration!
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God/Goddess/The Atheist Spaghetti Monster knows that we'll desperately need such a movement during a Biden/Harris Administration!
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