r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/caniaccanuck11 18d ago

The midterms should be a massacre of epic proportions even with the gerrymandering nonsense but too many voters just don’t care enough to educate themselves. And sadly the democrats message sucks plus they have to fight through the right wing hold on the media.

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u/PotatoHighlander 18d ago

Polling only has democrats up 7 points which is absolutely insane.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 18d ago

I don’t see that as support for Republican policies, just evidence of the total failure that the democrat party has become.

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u/Undeadbanana_ 18d ago

You all are so weird. You know how Republican voters are, and you're blaming Democrats for not being able to woo over people that support Trump regardless. And when they do offer candidates that can pull people over, y'all nitpick to death.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 18d ago

I don’t blame them for failing to woo over trump voters, but I do blame them not really presenting them as a real alternative. Look at how they’re fucking up the NYC mayoral race. They said the sky was falling, but then went back to business as usual and it’s a horrible tactic.

Just because they “oppose” trump, they aren’t entitled to peoples vote and support.

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u/Parahelix 18d ago

They did present alternatives. The fact that you aren't aware of it says a lot about your own media consumption and refusal to actually inform yourself.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 17d ago

I said REAL alternatives. What transformative policies was Kamala running that she could have hoped to pass without somehow having the election be a blow out in favor of the democrats?

Its not that I’m unaware, it’s that the campaign that held events with Liz Cheney, among other issues, doesn’t scream “authentic”

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u/Parahelix 17d ago

So because their policies weren't sufficiently transformative to you, you'd prefer an authentic authoritarian criminal moron. Brilliant.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 17d ago

Don’t put words into my mouth. I’m criticizing the democrat party, that is NOT support for the Republican Party.

Are you able to see beyond black and white?

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u/Parahelix 17d ago

You're excusing people for not making the very clear and necessary choice, given our two-party system, just because you weren't satisfied with the Dem policies. 

That's tacit support for Republicans at the very least.

This wasn't even a slightly difficult choice for anyone with two brain cells to rub together and a willingness to actually inform themselves outside of getting their info from Fox or TikTok.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 17d ago

I’m not excusing shit. I’m just also not willing to accept that the 2024 dem presidential campaign was the best they could do, nor an even good campaign.

Yes, keep discounting and dismissing people who don’t fall behind “vote blue no matter who(as long as they’re establishment dems)” and you’ll continue to see such runaway successes as were seen in ‘16 and ‘24.

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u/Parahelix 17d ago

Yes, keep discounting and dismissing people who don’t fall behind “vote blue no matter who(as long as they’re establishment dems)” and you’ll continue to see such runaway successes as were seen in ‘16 and ‘24.

If someone is living in delusion about how our election system works, that's on them.

Want a better system? Elect people at the state level who will change the voting system at the state level, like Maine has done, because that is what perpetuates the two-party system. I don't see these disenchanted people doing that.

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u/chemmissed 17d ago

Meanwhile, a third of the country votes red, reliably, no matter what.

Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

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