Looks like no. She's running about 5 points worse on average. In deep blue state the erosion is even bigger, New York and New Jersey swung 10 pts to the right.
Ah yes "you guys". No I can't with you because you clearly measure with two different cups and then excuse it by saying "I voted for Kamala" when leading up to this you gave Trump a pass on so many other issues in this very thread.
Depression
Yeah people can post about the stock market doing well or high GDP but I was recently reading an article which showed suicide rates hit a all time high in 2022.
This would be consistent with how the US acts internationally.
It's strong enough for another round of the Trump tax cuts. The public will be grateful to him for it due to a temporary boost in their income, and when an overheat economy predictably crash in a few years, he won't care because he's gone.
But his proposed tax cuts won't even benefit the people who actually need it. Id gladly pay more to benefit the have nots. I don't need more money. But no - me me and more more is what people want. Especially the ones who already have a lot. I will benefit more from the cuts than the poor sod who can't afford a home.
You forgot an i in that sentence
Yes I agree with all that. I just had very little hope climate change would be properly addressed under Harris, and under Trump there is no hope. But we can barely even vote in a few climate-conscious parties ourselves in Europe, so it is a trend overall - people just don't care. Or can't care, if we're being generous.
Currently we have north hecking korean troops marching on sovereign European nation and largest conventional war since ww2, some are really detached.
It’s incredibly hard to launch effective messaging when the vast majority of people are so overwhelmingly stupid. Might as well run all future presidential races on Tik Tok with 8 second sound bites, because a candidate has just won - for the second time - with no discernible policies, a raging case of dimwittery. Sexual assault incidents, open racism, felony convictions….the list goes on. If people were intelligent, even remotely, and understood anything about the economy or geopolitics, Trump would win about 20% of the vote. But they don’t. They vote on ridiculous single issue items, which they often don’t even understand. It’s like trying to teach Shakespeare to a Llama. There’s no point.
Buttered sausages
This is relative.
It always is. It is always easy to be "smart" from outside and talk about human rights for example but if you are a person who is living from paycheck to paycheck with family to feed and in need to give them what is needed for decent living then you don't care for most of things in which democrats are above republicans. You ask yourself one question; "under which candidate our economy will be better?"
“We finally beat Medicare!”
You have no idea of how weak Europe is militarily. The entire UK army can fit in Wembley stadium and that's one of the stronger ones. Italy can sustain an Ukraine type of war for 1 week.
It exists, at least to the extent where certain policies (vaccines schedules, water fluoridation to name two topical ones) are put in place for the good of public health.
I'll admit I'm extremely fired up right now because I continue to be frustrated how insular the vast majority of people tend to look at these candidates and elections. And the complete lack of morality that goes along with it. No I don't agree with Harris or the Dems on a variety of things - some very strongly in fact - but the extremely long list of everything Trump and co have already brought about and the complete destruction of civility is something I cannot swallow at all. I apologize if I am overly combative. I probably need to step away.
