The Republican party is never going to deal some crushing blow to The Left. The biggest justification for supporting the GOP is "lesser of two evils." That won't work if the GOP is the only evil in town.
There was one fellow way back in the day. Senator Joe Lieberman. He would vote for what was best for his constituents, didn't matter who proposed it. The Dems kicked him out of the party, of course, but he ran as a "third party candidate" & still won. He didn't make the jump to the Repubs though. :/
He ran as VP with Gore.
He backed some really stupid bills, but also was the nail in the coffin that killed Obama's "public health insurance option" which would have created a Government-run "health insurance company" which would have made Obamacare at least TWICE as bad as it turned out to be.
He died in 2024 :/
So... one! Lolz! I cannot think of another, except the chick who switched teams recently.
You heard the label thrown at Joe Manchin now and then. For the crime of for voting with Trump on policy 50.4% of the time. And sticking up for his state's coal industry.
I'd forgotten about Manchin, good catch!
He was generally deplorable, but wasn't fake about it. And he did keep his constituents as his focus, a lost art it seems.
I (vaguely) remember the "controversy" of his voting record. I was like, "Huh? What? Dems be crazy."
He'd also support what was good for America, yes.
Not that he was perfect or anything, he still held some hard-left views :/ But at least he was open and honest about them. Unlike 2/3 of current politicians. Maybe 3/4 :<
For that situation to work you need the confidence that both the conditions will remain as wonderful and that you can still score when the time comes.
The GOP and the Right can not even come close to claiming either, so the metaphor continues to work as the small percentage time it doesn't doesn't enter play to begin with.
Winning does not produce an equilibrium state, therefore there is selection pressure to tie eternally.
Losers lose and are eliminated from the game, obviously. But winners are also eliminated - because new contestants enter the game and fight them until they lose. The most stable configuration is to fight your opponent until you reach a stalemate and then hold that position as long as possible, effectively collaborating with your "enemy" to eliminate third party threats. Contestants that want to fight but do not want to win are selected. The extreme case of this is the arabs and the jews who have been "fighting" for ten thousand years.
I do not have a solution for this. It appears to be a property of the universe.
The Republican party is never going to deal some crushing blow to The Left. The biggest justification for supporting the GOP is "lesser of two evils." That won't work if the GOP is the only evil in town.
There was one fellow way back in the day. Senator Joe Lieberman. He would vote for what was best for his constituents, didn't matter who proposed it. The Dems kicked him out of the party, of course, but he ran as a "third party candidate" & still won. He didn't make the jump to the Repubs though. :/
He ran as VP with Gore.
He backed some really stupid bills, but also was the nail in the coffin that killed Obama's "public health insurance option" which would have created a Government-run "health insurance company" which would have made Obamacare at least TWICE as bad as it turned out to be.
He died in 2024 :/
So... one! Lolz! I cannot think of another, except the chick who switched teams recently.
You heard the label thrown at Joe Manchin now and then. For the crime of for voting with Trump on policy 50.4% of the time. And sticking up for his state's coal industry.
I'd forgotten about Manchin, good catch! He was generally deplorable, but wasn't fake about it. And he did keep his constituents as his focus, a lost art it seems.
I (vaguely) remember the "controversy" of his voting record. I was like, "Huh? What? Dems be crazy."
Like the Iraq War?
He spearheaded the attack against video games and music along with Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore too. Quite a hero.
He'd also support what was good for America, yes.
Not that he was perfect or anything, he still held some hard-left views :/ But at least he was open and honest about them. Unlike 2/3 of current politicians. Maybe 3/4 :<
Clearly not, as he supported the Iraq War.
Regularly. Joe Manchin, Kristen Sinema and now John Fetterman (even though he always votes with them).
lol, yes, they do it all the time. Step out of the ecochamber sometime.
As mentioned Manchin, Sinema and Fetterman get called DINOs for not towing the party line.
two cheeks of the same ass.
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Oh, I mean... rolf!
Honestly, "Power Bottoms" are more confident and aggressive than most of the establishment right.
You'd need to be in order to reverse-shit a meat suppository through your balloon knot
lol
That was... unnecessarily expressive
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For that situation to work you need the confidence that both the conditions will remain as wonderful and that you can still score when the time comes.
The GOP and the Right can not even come close to claiming either, so the metaphor continues to work as the small percentage time it doesn't doesn't enter play to begin with.
Go back to Reddit,
This is probably the gayest fucking post I've ever seen
Power bottom hahaha
Uniparty.
I mean, clock management is important
Up here the cpc would break their own ankle rather than dare become too popular.
Winning does not produce an equilibrium state, therefore there is selection pressure to tie eternally.
Losers lose and are eliminated from the game, obviously. But winners are also eliminated - because new contestants enter the game and fight them until they lose. The most stable configuration is to fight your opponent until you reach a stalemate and then hold that position as long as possible, effectively collaborating with your "enemy" to eliminate third party threats. Contestants that want to fight but do not want to win are selected. The extreme case of this is the arabs and the jews who have been "fighting" for ten thousand years.
I do not have a solution for this. It appears to be a property of the universe.