The Pit and the Pendulum: The GOP's Descent into the Maelström

[schmidlap]

Poelitics, A Horror Story for Republicans

It Don't Mean A Thing, if You Ain't Got That SWING!​

Politics exhibits a compensatory property, a swing in one direction augers a swing in the other.

When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restorative force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

Unlike the precise, predictable properties of the pendulum (the eternal return), an equilibrium in politics is continually redefined by progress over time - manumission, women's suffrage, child labor laws, workplace safety standards, civil rights, social security, medicare, ending gender discrimination in marriage contracts, etc., etc. etc.

There are also retrograde motions, to be sure, but the point of equilibrium has moved a bit leftward with every swing.

The GOP's recent reversion to authoritarianism, the weird worship of one dude, the intrusion of rabid statism into the womb, etc. portend a significant leftward compensation:

[P]redictions may bear out in the next campaign cycle, but in the longer term, things look quite different for the two parties — and any Republicans sanguine about their prospects a decade from now aren’t paying close attention.

The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters.

Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate. Gen Z Americans, a cohort that includes today’s college students, now make up almost a quarter of the nation’s population. They are in line to be the nation’s most formally educated generation, with higher high school graduation rates and lower dropout rates than earlier cohorts.

But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September ... shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the Republican Party represents them in any capacity. Sixty-six percent of students today cannot imagine registering as Republicans in the next 10 years, when their voices may be even stronger. And a striking 43 percent of respondents think the Republican Party is flat-out racist...

Young, educated voters have favored Democratic candidates for decades, but the gap has grown much larger than before...The survey showed the Republican Party has become directly associated with racist, unconstitutional attitudes that strike most students as beyond the pale. They perceive Republicans as a threat to their own future, and democracy in general...

The recent poll shows a path forward for Republicans — if they embrace moderate reforms around race, women’s health and the environment. This poses a conundrum for a party that has hardened itself behind positions that motivate the aging Republican base: Those are exactly the policies it will have to slowly abandon if Republicans want to have a chance in the future.

The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years, leaving the party with a small and aging electorate. The party’s nominees have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — and with Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio becoming younger and more educated, Republicans are at risk of losing their advantage in the Electoral College as well.​

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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...y-gains-temporary-young-voter-strategy-524086

THIS TOO SHALL PASS.​

 

[Circe]

What an ugly and unpleasant OP. Leftist, of course.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

I think this is true.

Pro gun types are rabid supporters of trump.

But over half the NRA's membership is over retirement age, 65+

In a few years, they'll be dead.

It's like that with most of the GOP's issues.

Within 30 years, Republicans won't have the votes to elect anyone.

 

[konradv]

What an ugly and unpleasant OP. Leftist, of course.

Bad news is always unpleasant. I notice you didn’t say it was false!

 

[Circe]

Bad news is always unpleasant. I notice you didn’t say it was false!

Oh, sorry, it's also false.

 

[konradv]

Oh, sorry, it's also false.

Too late! Your true feelings are evident. Truth isn’t as important as loyalty to the right’s new demigod.

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Oldestyle]

Poelitics, A Horror Story for Republicans

It Don't Mean A Thing, if You Ain't Got That SWING!​

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Politics exhibits a compensatory property, a swing in one direction augers a swing in the other.

When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restorative force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

Unlike the precise, predictable properties of the pendulum (the eternal return), an equilibrium in politics is continually redefined by progress over time - manumission, women's suffrage, child labor laws, workplace safety standards, civil rights, social security, medicare, ending gender discrimination in marriage contracts, etc., etc. etc.

There are also retrograde motions, to be sure, but the point of equilibrium has moved a bit leftward with every swing.

The GOP's recent reversion to authoritarianism, the weird worship of one dude, the intrusion of rabid statism into the womb, etc. portend a significant leftward compensation:

[P]redictions may bear out in the next campaign cycle, but in the longer term, things look quite different for the two parties — and any Republicans sanguine about their prospects a decade from now aren’t paying close attention.​

​

The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters.​

​

Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate. Gen Z Americans, a cohort that includes today’s college students, now make up almost a quarter of the nation’s population. They are in line to be the nation’s most formally educated generation, with higher high school graduation rates and lower dropout rates than earlier cohorts.​

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But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September ... shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the Republican Party represents them in any capacity. Sixty-six percent of students today cannot imagine registering as Republicans in the next 10 years, when their voices may be even stronger. And a striking 43 percent of respondents think the Republican Party is flat-out racist...​

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Young, educated voters have favored Democratic candidates for decades, but the gap has grown much larger than before...The survey showed the Republican Party has become directly associated with racist, unconstitutional attitudes that strike most students as beyond the pale. They perceive Republicans as a threat to their own future, and democracy in general...​

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The recent poll shows a path forward for Republicans — if they embrace moderate reforms around race, women’s health and the environment. This poses a conundrum for a party that has hardened itself behind positions that motivate the aging Republican base: Those are exactly the policies it will have to slowly abandon if Republicans want to have a chance in the future.​

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The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years, leaving the party with a small and aging electorate. The party’s nominees have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — and with Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio becoming younger and more educated, Republicans are at risk of losing their advantage in the Electoral College as well.​

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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...y-gains-temporary-young-voter-strategy-524086​

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS.​

I hate to break this to you, Schmidlap but the pendulum IS swinging and it's swinging back to the right! People have seen what happens when you let far left ideologues run things and they don't like it! Crime is up. Inflation is rampant. The shelves aren't full. The border is a sieve. You're witnessing a generation that was raised on liberal indoctrination get cold water dumped over their heads as they see that they've been lied to all along by their teachers, the Hollywood elite and the main stream media. It's taken idiots like Joe Biden, AOC and the rest of the "Squad" to make that happen but it has happened.

 

[Oldestyle]

I think this is true.

Pro gun types are rabid supporters of trump.

But over half the NRA's membership is over retirement age, 65+

In a few years, they'll be dead.

It's like that with most of the GOP's issues.

Within 30 years, Republicans won't have the votes to elect anyone.

Check the statistics, Otis...one of the reasons that gun sales are through the roof since the whole Defund the Police movement started is that people of color are buying guns at record rates because they KNOW how unsafe their neighborhoods are going to be when the Police can't do their jobs!

You might want to hold off on writing the obituary for the Republican Party, my friend! They're about to destroy the Democrats in the upcoming midterms. Part of the reason for that happening is that Hispanics are deserting the Democrats because they see liberals taking them down the same road that led to disaster in the countries that they fled!

 

[JGalt]

Poelitics, A Horror Story for Republicans

It Don't Mean A Thing, if You Ain't Got That SWING!​

View attachment 574433

Politics exhibits a compensatory property, a swing in one direction augers a swing in the other.

When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restorative force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

Unlike the precise, predictable properties of the pendulum (the eternal return), an equilibrium in politics is continually redefined by progress over time - manumission, women's suffrage, child labor laws, workplace safety standards, civil rights, social security, medicare, ending gender discrimination in marriage contracts, etc., etc. etc.

There are also retrograde motions, to be sure, but the point of equilibrium has moved a bit leftward with every swing.

The GOP's recent reversion to authoritarianism, the weird worship of one dude, the intrusion of rabid statism into the womb, etc. portend a significant leftward compensation:

[P]redictions may bear out in the next campaign cycle, but in the longer term, things look quite different for the two parties — and any Republicans sanguine about their prospects a decade from now aren’t paying close attention.​

​

The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters.​

​

Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate. Gen Z Americans, a cohort that includes today’s college students, now make up almost a quarter of the nation’s population. They are in line to be the nation’s most formally educated generation, with higher high school graduation rates and lower dropout rates than earlier cohorts.​

​

But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September ... shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the Republican Party represents them in any capacity. Sixty-six percent of students today cannot imagine registering as Republicans in the next 10 years, when their voices may be even stronger. And a striking 43 percent of respondents think the Republican Party is flat-out racist...​

​

Young, educated voters have favored Democratic candidates for decades, but the gap has grown much larger than before...The survey showed the Republican Party has become directly associated with racist, unconstitutional attitudes that strike most students as beyond the pale. They perceive Republicans as a threat to their own future, and democracy in general...​

​

The recent poll shows a path forward for Republicans — if they embrace moderate reforms around race, women’s health and the environment. This poses a conundrum for a party that has hardened itself behind positions that motivate the aging Republican base: Those are exactly the policies it will have to slowly abandon if Republicans want to have a chance in the future.​

​

The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years, leaving the party with a small and aging electorate. The party’s nominees have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — and with Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio becoming younger and more educated, Republicans are at risk of losing their advantage in the Electoral College as well.​

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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...y-gains-temporary-young-voter-strategy-524086​

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS.​

I got a chuckle out of that. It was just more wishful thinking and whistling past the graveyard from Politico, a rabid unhinged leftist publication. They're scared shitless because they know the Biden presidency is a dismal failure, and Trump is waiting in the wings for a 2024 win.

 

[Flash]

Poelitics, A Horror Story for Republicans

It Don't Mean A Thing, if You Ain't Got That SWING!​

View attachment 574433

Politics exhibits a compensatory property, a swing in one direction augers a swing in the other.

When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restorative force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

Unlike the precise, predictable properties of the pendulum (the eternal return), an equilibrium in politics is continually redefined by progress over time - manumission, women's suffrage, child labor laws, workplace safety standards, civil rights, social security, medicare, ending gender discrimination in marriage contracts, etc., etc. etc.

There are also retrograde motions, to be sure, but the point of equilibrium has moved a bit leftward with every swing.

The GOP's recent reversion to authoritarianism, the weird worship of one dude, the intrusion of rabid statism into the womb, etc. portend a significant leftward compensation:

[P]redictions may bear out in the next campaign cycle, but in the longer term, things look quite different for the two parties — and any Republicans sanguine about their prospects a decade from now aren’t paying close attention.​

​

The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters.​

​

Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate. Gen Z Americans, a cohort that includes today’s college students, now make up almost a quarter of the nation’s population. They are in line to be the nation’s most formally educated generation, with higher high school graduation rates and lower dropout rates than earlier cohorts.​

​

But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September ... shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the Republican Party represents them in any capacity. Sixty-six percent of students today cannot imagine registering as Republicans in the next 10 years, when their voices may be even stronger. And a striking 43 percent of respondents think the Republican Party is flat-out racist...​

​

Young, educated voters have favored Democratic candidates for decades, but the gap has grown much larger than before...The survey showed the Republican Party has become directly associated with racist, unconstitutional attitudes that strike most students as beyond the pale. They perceive Republicans as a threat to their own future, and democracy in general...​

​

The recent poll shows a path forward for Republicans — if they embrace moderate reforms around race, women’s health and the environment. This poses a conundrum for a party that has hardened itself behind positions that motivate the aging Republican base: Those are exactly the policies it will have to slowly abandon if Republicans want to have a chance in the future.​

​

The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years, leaving the party with a small and aging electorate. The party’s nominees have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — and with Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio becoming younger and more educated, Republicans are at risk of losing their advantage in the Electoral College as well.​

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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...y-gains-temporary-young-voter-strategy-524086​

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS.​

We will find out in a few months when the failed Democrats lose 50-70 seats in the House and three or four seats in the Senates, won't we?

 

[Circe]

Too late! Your true feelings are evident. Truth isn’t as important as loyalty to the right’s new demigod.

Loyalty is indeed very, very important. And yes, we are loyal to Trump and those like him, too bad for you.

We are not such fools as to suppose anything the Left says is true. They all lie like carpets.

 

[schmidlap]

We will find out in a few months when the failed Democrats lose 50-70 seats in the House and three or four seats in the Senates, won't we?

I have no doubt the Party of Trumpery will have a Last Hurrah, but its rendezvous with the younger better-educated, more diverse electorate is inevitable. The Grand Old Potty is on a downward trajectory.

Politics isn't the weird worship of one dude.

 

[Oldestyle]

I have no doubt the Party of Trumpery will have a Last Hurrah, but its rendezvous with the younger better-educated, more diverse electorate is inevitable. The Grand Old Potty is on a downward trajectory.

Politics isn't the weird worship of one dude.

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"Better educated"...is that another way of saying "Thoroughly indoctrinated"?
Sorry to break THIS to you as well, Shmidlap but people have woken up to what was being taught to their kids in school and they're not happy about it! The curtain has been drawn back at what the left has been doing with "education" and they're not going to be able to operate with the same impunity that they did before.

 

[Flash]

I have no doubt the Party of Trumpery will have a Last Hurrah, but its rendezvous with the younger better-educated, more diverse electorate is inevitable. The Grand Old Potty is on a downward trajectory.

Politics isn't the weird worship of one dude.

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The Democrats have failed America. They have proved they are crummy at running this country. Potatohead has been a disaster. The Democrats in Congress are dipshits.

Unless they come up with a way to steal elections it will be a long time before they get control of the Congress after the upcoming midterms.

 

[schmidlap]

"Better educated"...is that another way of saying "Thoroughly indoctrinated"?

Sorry to break THIS to you as well, Shmidlap but people have woken up to what was being taught to their kids in school and they're not happy about it! The curtain has been drawn back at what the left has been doing with "education" and they're not going to be able to operate with the same impunity that they did before.

That is the customary revilement of the educated. The uneducated are much more vulnerable to the weird worship of one dude, authoritarianism and rabid statism - such as politicians and bureaucrats arrogating power over wombs to themselves. An increasingly well-educated electorate is a safeguard against such usurpations, unless excuses can be contrived to prevent them from voting.

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson, 1820.​

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The demographic change in the electorate is ineluctable: The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

What an ugly and unpleasant OP. Leftist, of course.

It's SHITlap. Have you ever seen otherwise from it?

 

[Lastamender]

Poelitics, A Horror Story for Republicans

It Don't Mean A Thing, if You Ain't Got That SWING!​

View attachment 574433

Politics exhibits a compensatory property, a swing in one direction augers a swing in the other.

When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restorative force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

Unlike the precise, predictable properties of the pendulum (the eternal return), an equilibrium in politics is continually redefined by progress over time - manumission, women's suffrage, child labor laws, workplace safety standards, civil rights, social security, medicare, ending gender discrimination in marriage contracts, etc., etc. etc.

There are also retrograde motions, to be sure, but the point of equilibrium has moved a bit leftward with every swing.

The GOP's recent reversion to authoritarianism, the weird worship of one dude, the intrusion of rabid statism into the womb, etc. portend a significant leftward compensation:

[P]redictions may bear out in the next campaign cycle, but in the longer term, things look quite different for the two parties — and any Republicans sanguine about their prospects a decade from now aren’t paying close attention.​

​

The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters.​

​

Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate. Gen Z Americans, a cohort that includes today’s college students, now make up almost a quarter of the nation’s population. They are in line to be the nation’s most formally educated generation, with higher high school graduation rates and lower dropout rates than earlier cohorts.​

​

But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September ... shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the Republican Party represents them in any capacity. Sixty-six percent of students today cannot imagine registering as Republicans in the next 10 years, when their voices may be even stronger. And a striking 43 percent of respondents think the Republican Party is flat-out racist...​

​

Young, educated voters have favored Democratic candidates for decades, but the gap has grown much larger than before...The survey showed the Republican Party has become directly associated with racist, unconstitutional attitudes that strike most students as beyond the pale. They perceive Republicans as a threat to their own future, and democracy in general...​

​

The recent poll shows a path forward for Republicans — if they embrace moderate reforms around race, women’s health and the environment. This poses a conundrum for a party that has hardened itself behind positions that motivate the aging Republican base: Those are exactly the policies it will have to slowly abandon if Republicans want to have a chance in the future.​

​

The Republican base of older, non-college, white voters will shrink rapidly in the coming years, leaving the party with a small and aging electorate. The party’s nominees have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — and with Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio becoming younger and more educated, Republicans are at risk of losing their advantage in the Electoral College as well.​

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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...y-gains-temporary-young-voter-strategy-524086​

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS.​

 

[cnm]

It's more fundamental than that I'd say.

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Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems (Pew)​

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One can see how dissatisfaction with capture by an apparently unalterable antediluvian system fuels political tension in the US.
The horror of being held hostage to a (goddamned) piece of paper...

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[schmidlap]

Three hours later:

"We love you! You're very special! Go home!"​

What an ugly and unpleasant OP. Leftist, of course.

From your unipolar remote corner of the galaxy, everything is to the left, certainly the majority of Americans.

In this sector of the galaxy, Trumpery has passed its expiration date.

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Despite Trump's campaign promises (that resulted in his losing the popular vote by only 2.9 million in 2016) - building his "big, beautiful wall!" and making "Mexico!" pay for it, replacing "ObamaCare" with "something terrific!" that covers "everybody!", resurrecting coal mining, reviving the steel industry, restoring manufacturing (He only increased the unemployment rate by two percentage points!), reducing the deficit, rebuilding the nation's crumbling infrastructure,(and, presumably, contriving pretexts to "Lock up Hillary!"), over seven million Americans voted to dump him at their first opportunity. (His braying that he had the pandemic "under control!" with everyone "getting better!" as it decimated the populace may have ben a factor.)

He lost.

He lacked and still lacks the integrity to respect the will of the People. His January 6 goons who swallowed his lie about a stolen "Landslide!" were only one ugly expression of his contempt for American democracy. He is a chronic whiner when it come to election results he doesn't like. The mainstay of our self-governance must be "fake!", "fixed!" if he doesn't win.

He lost recounts. He lost audits. He lost dozens of court appeals. He lost his attempts to pressure Republican governors and Republican secretaries of state to alter their states' certified votes.

Over a year later, not a single suspect in his alleged nationwide conspiracy has been named. No explanation has been offered as to how this vast network of subversive enemies - Republicans conspicuous among them - had pulled off their diabolical caper. Not a clue.

The most pithy, succinct, sage advice for the Loser at this overripe stage was offered by a conservative Republican, the longest-serving congressman, 88-year-old Don Young of Alaska, who acknowledged the futility of his patriotic injunction, indifferent as he is to adding his name to the Cry Baby Loser's already teeming personal vendetta list.

"Just shut up — that's all he has to do.
He's not going to. I know that."

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