Thread by @JonBowzerBauman

@joshtpm OK, here’s view from over 50 years of shows in every state & now almost 20 years of elections on the ground.

It’s really always about us trying to move things forward toward a more egalitarian, multiracial democracy vs. them trying to maintain white male supremacy at all costs.

@joshtpm Issues kind of come & go, but underlying them all is the coalition of greedy business goons manipulating bigots to accumulate enough votes to make sure the rich don’t pay taxes & minorities stay in urban areas “where they belong.” So the real fight is urban/rural.

@joshtpm That of course disadvantages Democrats because rural areas occupy vastly more land than urban areas & our system is structured to favor land over people. Not surprising, since the founders were all white male landowners, who, while relatively enlightened, still took care of #1.

@joshtpm So we limp forward incrementally, 3 steps forward, 2 steps back. Progressive ideas always triumph eventually, at least so far. Enslaved peoples are free, women can vote, gay people can get married. But we’ve now arrived at the most serious crisis since the Civil War.

@joshtpm I would actually argue, more dangerous than the Civil War. If we’d let that set of traitors go, there would have still been an America, it just would have been smaller & its neighbor would have been a shithole. Now, the traitors have a different goal. They want to end democracy.

@joshtpm The next two elections are democracy vs. autocracy. America vs. Trump/Putin. Pick a side. And fight. I know I will. What some data analyst thinks about a set of details won’t matter. End.

@joshtpm To be clear, by “some data analyst,” I mean Shor. Never the actually insightful @joshtpm.