That’s a pretty good point. I don’t know if I would use “majority” though but it is certainly used to push people away.
The extremists in both parties are too chickenshit to form their own party and prefer to ride the coat-tails of the main parties...its the flaw with a two party system that results in more difficulty in the main parties trying to pass their agenda because they're being held hostage by a handful of individuals with extremist ideology. The traitors in each party are the ones that jump ship because they feel/see their extremist egos aren't being massaged...they then jump to the other party to later discover (even though they already knew it) they aren't welcome there too. I started seeing this in the founding of the Tea Party or the beginning of the Obama years...the extremist ideology picked up steam going into the 2016 Election year. Today, it's more radical than ever, and they are too stupid to understand why the country is so divided nor will they understand the reasons behind the growing number of hate crimes. wrbtrader
Id rather the guy who's honest about being my enemy than the guy who tells me he's my friend but is my enemy.
I didn’t watch much of Biden’s state of the Union but apparently people liked it. What I will say is that a lot of what y’all are criticizing Biden for, problems speaking well, was endearing to people during the election. I can remember warning you guys calling his stutters and misspeaks a form of dementia would backfire. A lot of people either sympathize with this or relate to it.
A major problem is the candidates lying to the so called extremist. If Biden had been saying we need more police and we need to fund,fund,fund the police during the Floyd protests his ass wouldn't have gotten elected.
Biden is your enemy? He has made his positions clear from the get-go. There were no surprises. And, while they may fall short of your expectations, his positions are more closely aligned to what you want than anything the Right has to offer. And yet, you want the other side to rule? Sorry, I see a disconnect here.
Third parties or 4 parties have formed in the history of the U.S. political system but I will say that it's gamed so that only one of the two main parties (democrat or republican) can win. I think it was the Tea Party or maybe the Reform Party that made the most embedded entry into politics in my lifetime. In fact, Sarah Palin came from the Tea Party and she later tried to run for Vice President of the United States as a Republican but she was a failed trojan horse. Then there's Donald Trump that came from the Reform Party as a successful trojan horse to the Republican Party. There lies the problem...other parties outside of the two-party system...fail to gain access to the Oval Office but then one of their leaders decides to gain entry to the Oval Office as a trojan horse in one of the main two political parties. It results in a lot of chaos for most Americans...resulting in them mean reverting back to the two-party system...typically away from the trojan horse as in a one-term President. wrbtrader
He never went with the defund mantra. Which is stupid, anyway. If something isn't running properly, I don't see how cutting its resources will make it any better. I was as outraged as you by the various examples of one-sided police brutality. Cutting resources will only ensure that you get more of the bad. A rethinking and realignment is in order. And that costs money. P.S. If Tsing Tao likes your post, you know that means you have to rethink it.