Why has this Election Caused so much Hysteria?

[Failzero]

Most recently, a judge ruled that Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, had violated state election law. Between 2008 and 2010, Pritchard voted nine times while on probation for a felony sentence, which is not allowed in Georgia.

Dude your like 6 weeks late to this gaslighting thing your doing here

 

[postman]

Dude your like 6 weeks late to this gaslighting thing your doing here

And you're six weeks late in proving any of your allegations.

As I said, in 2020, 80% of voter fraud were convicted republicans.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Here's some breaking news from the pro-Trump Daily Mail

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A final poll by the New York Times has Donald Trump behind Kamala Harris in four critical swing states: Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

They are tied in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Trump is up by one point in Arizona. It's a razor-thin race with just two days to go to Election Day.

Fuck Trump !

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

The man is utterly unhinged, he's coming apart at the seams:

The more he opens his dumb trap the worse things get for him and since being quiet is something he cannot do, we can just watch as he destroys himself!

 

[dblack]

But the media is far more powerful than either party, and the MSM is largely radically left, proclaiming orders from the DNC currently as a propaganda arm.. Pravda

That seems a tad overblown to me. Though I have to admit I consume very little mass media. When I feel the need, I get in and get out, as quickly as possible, because all of it is such a circus. But it seems there's plenty of right wing media out there. MAGA people are getting their "news" somewhere.

In any case, pop media is a fear machine and, for the most part, for sale to the highest bidder. The media amplifies whatever is ugly and salacious in society - so it serves as a tool to amplify the partisan fear mongering. But I don't think it's the source. The parties choose fear mongering as their go-to strategy because it's easy. And because they have a captive audience. They don't have to offer ideas and leadership because their marks have no where else to turn. All they need to do is scare people, to convince people that the other side is "evil" and must be stopped at all costs.

That's why I've become so laser focused on the lesser-of-two-evils scam as the core of what's wrong with our politics. Outside of partisan cheerleaders, most people have come to accept elections as "horrible vs. even worse". So we have an electorate largely voting for bad candidates as a deliberate strategy (to block worse candidates). That will never produce good results. Until we can find a way to change that, we're going to continue our downward slide, with the fear mongering (and the candidates) getting worse and worse with every cycle.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I can see these in Trump's future

 

[Mr. Friscus]

But it seems there's plenty of right wing media out there. MAGA people are getting their "news" somewhere.

The issue is there is an establishment media class (NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The View, NYT, WaPo, AP, etc) that is promoted, referenced first, at the top of search engines, and played on public TVs in airports, nursing facilities, etc that are all radically leftist.

A conservative will always be aware of leftist ideology because it is promoted everywhere. Leftists are barely exposed to conservative ideology, and only know the caricature created (Nazis, Etc).

This is how leftists continually get caught in bubbles over and over, and get busted spreading so much misinformation all the time. They preach their own activist narratives to each other, and reference each other.. all on the same team, participating with the DNC and big tech.

 

[postman]

The man is utterly unhinged, he's coming apart at the seams:

The more he opens his dumb trap the worse things get for him and since being quiet is something he cannot do, we can just watch as he destroys himself!

Demanding results by a certain time is undemocratic.
Because our overseas military ballots, coming from all around the world, land sea and air, have two weeks to make it back to the US. Which means a state can't call the election if there are enough outstanding absentee ballots to change the outcome.

Besides. Georgia tried to change it's election rules, to require all votes in the state be counted by hand.
A process that takes several days or weeks depending on the size of county.

 

[postman]

ideology because it is promoted everywhere. Leftists are barely exposed to conservative ideology, and only know the caricature created (Nazis, Etc).

That is utterly untrue. The difference is how radical the conservatives have become. Seeking to inflame, rather than debate.
I go back to when you had conservatives like William F. Buckley with their own TV show.

Firing Line is an American public affairs television show. It first ran from 1966 to 1999, with conservative author and columnist William F. Buckley Jr an hour-long public affairs television program on commercial television.

 

[dblack]

The issue is there is an establishment media class (NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The View, NYT, WaPo, AP, etc) that is promoted, referenced first, at the top of search engines, and played on public TVs in airports, nursing facilities, etc that are all radically leftist.

A conservative will always be aware of leftist ideology because it is promoted everywhere. Leftists are barely exposed to conservative ideology, and only know the caricature created (Nazis, Etc).

This is how leftists continually get caught in bubbles over and over, and get busted spreading so much misinformation all the time. They preach their own activist narratives to each other, and reference each other.. all on the same team, participating with the DNC and big tech.

I know partisans don't want to hear it, but the "other side" isn't the problem.

 

[Mr. Friscus]

That is utterly untrue. The difference is how radical the conservatives have become. Seeking to inflame, rather than debate.
I go back to when you had conservatives like William F. Buckley with their own TV show.

Firing Line is an American public affairs television show. It first ran from 1966 to 1999, with conservative author and columnist William F. Buckley Jr an hour-long public affairs television program on commercial television.

Conservatism hasn’t moved much. Todays left views JFK or Clinton democrats as conservatives. The left radically sprinted away from political normalcy with their woke, identity politics, and their rejection of American exceptionalism

 

[Mr. Friscus]

I know partisans don't want to hear it, but the "other side" isn't the problem.

If one side controls the media, then it’s not an even imbalance you can just ignore

 

[Failzero]

Conservatism hasn’t moved much. Todays left views JFK or Clinton democrats as conservatives. The left radically sprinted away from political normalcy with their woke, identity politics, socialist desires

And Marxism is not palatable in todays American Political Landscape

 

[postman]

Conservatism hasn’t moved much. Todays left views JFK or Clinton democrats as conservatives. The left radically sprinted away from political normalcy with their woke, identity politics, and their rejection of American exceptionalism

Conservatism hasn't moved?

Five of the votes for Roe V Wade came from justices appointed by Eisenhower and Nixon.

That's from a republican nominated majority.

 

[postman]

If one side controls the media, then it’s not an even imbalance you can just ignore

Then republicans shouldn't have thrown out the equal time rule.

 

[Failzero]

Then republicans shouldn't have thrown out the equal time rule.

SNL should be fined 2.9 Million

 

[postman]

SNL should be fined 2.9 Million

Why, they had Alec Baldwin on the show.

 

[Luckyone]

Unlike most elections, most voters have already experienced the differences between the last two administrations. In neither case did the world end or the U.S. cease to exist, so why has the hysteria reached such high levels during this election? I think the unprecedented legal prosecutions of Donald Trump have a lot to do with it. On one side, people believe that he is an evil criminal who deserves his just deserts. On the other side, people believe that he is a martyred victim of government oppression. The truth may lie somewhere in between, but these two beliefs seem to have no room for compromise or concession. As a result, each side has dug itself into a position where fear of being wrong is greater than the satisfaction of being right.

I hope that that the hysteria caused by this unique situation will not repeat itself during the next election.

 

[Mr. Friscus]

Conservatism hasn't moved?

Five of the votes for Roe V Wade came from justices appointed by Eisenhower and Nixon.

That's from a republican nominated majority.

Not much. How does this one minute stat prove they have?

 

[postman]

Not much. How does this one minute stat prove they have?

Because the conservative justices of 1973 decided Roe v Wade.
The conservative justices of 2022 overturned Roe v Wade.

That certainly show the state of conservatism has changed.