So, this should come as no surprise, but the GOP plans to run on literally nothing for 2022. No policy, nada, just...dems bad. And you know what? Sadly, it will probably work. With this two party system, voters are locked into choosing between 2 parties, and often times who wins is just a referendum on the other side. If one side is in office, the other side starts winning because people hate them. Then things shift the other way. No one cares about actually appealing to voters any more, it's just running on "not the other guy."
Given the hole the dems have dug themselves into, themselves being light on policy. Failing to have an ambitious agenda (in my opinion) in the first place, and then failing to accomplish even a sizeable fraction of that, and then having to contend with covid as science deniers refuse to take their medicine (unless it's horse dewormer) while claiming any attempt to force them to is tyranny. And the disease spreads, and they lift the restrictions anyway, and people stop caring, and inflation rages on as turning the economy off and on again caused the finely tuned machine to no longer be so finely tuned, it's a mess. Biden has very few notable accomplishments under his belt. He's been sabotaged at every turn, often by the most conservative members of his own party. The dude doesn't even try. He's been ineffectual. And there are real issues that need to be addressed that aren't being addressed.
The GOP is best to just keep their mouth shut and run on nothing. Why? Well, anyone who follows politics closely beyond cults of personality and actually cares about policy will know that the GOP is ideologically bankrupt. If they announced any goals at all, the public would by and large protest and oppose them. Because they're not popular either. The only thing that held them together was trump and his populism and cult of personality. The GOP isn't particular policy wise. Because they don't do anything. Like literally, they're the anti government party (unless convenient for them). They run on "small government", they dont believe in policy any way. They want people to figure stuff out by themselves, as long as it fits within their predominantly white judeo christian worldview. Unless they can wave Trump around or someone like him, they just lose elections, unless the dems are in and people hate the dems for failing and refusing to do anything.
Our system is a mess. This is why I end up voting for third parties. Maybe third parties suffer a MASSIVE electoral disadvantage due to the presence and popularity of the two parties, but I'm under the impression things will only improve unless the people stand up, say no, and vote for policies they like. At this point the dems are the timid and ineffectual lesser evil party, with the GOP being the big bad, but you know what, as we enter the second year of the biden presidency, I feel like very little has actually changed for the better. I knew I'd feel like this. because I knew how the Obama administration went. Keep in mind, my views radicalized into what they are now under not a republican president, but a democratic president. Because I knew the democrats couldn't accomplish any meaningful goals in their current state. But the GOP helped push me left too, mainly by pushing me out of their party due to their own insanity.
Honestly, this is why I don't focus much on mainstream political issues. It's so boring, and so depressing, and hardly anything of real value happens. The dems pretend to push for watered down band aids, and then they fail to have enough voters to do anything, and then the GOP actively sabotages any attempt to reasonably govern, if they aren't trying to make things actively worse. The GOP is the worse party, but at this point, I feel like if the dems were really rearing to go and beat them, they would've done so. They would put more effort into it. They wouldn't have run hillary, and they wouldn't have run Biden.
Andrew yang regularly says that he used to think the problem was that we needed new policies and a new direction, but now he thinks the problem is the politicians aren't listening to people at all. And they dont. They treat them like children. And given how low the bar is for education in this country, a lot of them are mentally like children in politics. As George Carlin once said, just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, but too dumb to actually understand how badly they're getting ####ed.
It's really sad to see.
Anyway, I'm just gonna say this, to any republicans reading this, DON'T vote republican. They aren't good for the country. I understand why you hate democrats to some extent, but the GOP isn't the solution. To dems...do better. You should be able to beat these guys even with them running on nothing. But it actually requires putting in the effort with governing. I know my standards are high. I have specific policy goals I want implemented, and I won't be happy until someone implements those specific goals. But seriously, do better. Even if you ran a Bernie like candidate with bernie like policies, we'd make some progress. THis centrist stuff doesnt work. You run on stuff not fundamentally changing to appeal to moderates, and then the moderates go and vote GOP anyway. It's a joke.
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