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I agree with your list, I'm just going to make an addition.

There will never be another 'wave' election again, at least assuming the media/internet narrative machine doesn't significantly change. This should have been obvious after covid, which would have united the country 20 years ago, divided us. The culture war is too deep for there to be 'wave' elections.

There will be wave elections again, but I think mostly for the democrats for the time being. The culture war has indeed divided us, the democrats have been the most successful in exploiting it. They'll continue this success unless Republicans/conservative-leaning people figure out how to do a few things, I'll highlight what I feel is most important right now.

Combat the 'voter fraud'. What the right calls 'voter fraud' the left calls 'voter rights' which both actually mean vote farming.

Traditionally, democrats had issues with voter turnout, especially during Midterms. "If only our side woke up and voted" they said in the not so distant 2000s. With COVID they got their golden wish to combat this disadvantage, early voting and mail-in voting.

The left will tell you the natural result of these two election policies being implemented is that people who otherwise couldn't vote now could, and the outpouring of support for democrats is the natural result of expanding voter access.

What actually is happening is that the democrats have created a very large political machine that essentially farms votes. They canvas areas known to lean democrat, pump up the local democrat base and scoop some independents in on single issue stump speech, get them to vote then and there, submit the ballots well before election day where they cannot be changed, and rinse-wash-repeat in the next town/district/whatever.

There is a reason why "Can I change my vote?" peaks on Google searches around these times. People cast their vote, either through the democrat's party machine or organically, in advance of election day, then get a new piece of information which changes their mind and they can't change their vote.

Republicans have not countered the democrat's political machine in any meaningful way, except a few states where they enacted laws that limited the scope of how ballots could be cast. Nationally, the GOP has done nothing meaningful to combat the democrat's strategy.

Republicans may have had a chance to squash it in the wee hours of COVID, but they've since lost any chance of limiting the democrats through legal means. Political power and messaging are both on the side of "expanding voter rights". Without being able to combat them through legal channels, the GOP should instead start their own "get out the vote" campaigns, but every attempt is either limited in scope or much too obvious to work effectively. That needs to be fixed. There are still large pools of non-voters and independents that can be swayed with the same tactics that democrats use.

And I truly believe that if the Republicans started to do this effectively, the democrats will hate it and in their power destroy their own chances at using this type of voting exploit. Ironically giving us what we always wanted, a secure fair election.

2 years ago
2 score
Reason: None provided.

I agree with your list, I'm just going to make an addition.

There will never be another 'wave' election again, at least assuming the media/internet narrative machine doesn't significantly change. This should have been obvious after covid, which would have united the country 20 years ago, divided us. The culture war is too deep for there to be 'wave' elections.

There will be wave elections again, but I think mostly for the democrats for the time being. The culture war has indeed divided us, the democrats have been the most successful in exploiting it. They'll continue this success unless Republicans/conservative-leaning people figure out how to do a few things, I'll highlight what I feel is most important right now.

Combat the 'voter fraud'. What the right calls 'voter fraud' the left calls 'voter rights' which both actually mean vote farming.

Traditionally, democrats had issues with voter turnout, especially during Midterms. "If only our side woke up and voted" they said in the not so distant 2000s. With COVID they got their golden wish to combat this disadvantage, early voting and mail-in voting.

The left will tell you the natural result of these two election policies being implemented is that people who otherwise couldn't vote now could, and the outpouring of support for democrats is the natural result of expanding voter access.

What actually is happening is that the democrats have created a very large political machine that essentially farms votes. They canvas areas known to lean democrat, pump up the local democrat base and scoop some independents in on single issue stump speech, get them to vote then and there, submit the ballots well before election day where they cannot be changed, and rinse-wash-repeat in the next town/district/whatever.

There is a reason why "Can I change my vote?" peaks on Google searches around these times. People cast their vote, either through the democrat's party machine or organically, in advance of election day, then get a new piece of information which changes their mind and they can't change their vote.

Republicans have not countered the democrat's political machine in any meaningful way, except a few states where they enacted laws that limited the scope of how ballots could be cast. Nationally, the GOP has done nothing meaningful to combat the democrats has been done.

Republicans may have had a chance to squash it in the wee hours of COVID, but they've since lost any chance of limiting the democrats through legal means. Political power and messaging are both on the side of "expanding voter rights". Without being able to combat them through legal channels, the GOP should instead start their own "get out the vote" campaigns, but every attempt is either limited in scope or much too obvious to work effectively. That needs to be fixed. There are still large pools of non-voters and independents that can be swayed with the same tactics that democrats use.

And I truly believe that if the Republicans started to do this effectively, the democrats will hate it and in their power destroy their own chances at using this type of voting exploit. Ironically giving us what we always wanted, a secure fair election.

2 years ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

I agree with your list, I'm just going to make an addition.

There will never be another 'wave' election again, at least assuming the media/internet narrative machine doesn't significantly change. This should have been obvious after covid, which would have united the country 20 years ago, divided us. The culture war is too deep for there to be 'wave' elections.

There will be wave elections again, but I think mostly for the democrats for the time being. The culture war has indeed divided us, the democrats have been the most successful in exploiting it. They'll continue this success unless Republicans/conservative-leaning people figure out how to do a few things, I'll highlight what I feel is most important right now.

Combat the 'voter fraud'. What the right calls 'voter fraud' the left calls 'voter rights' which both actually mean vote farming.

Traditionally, democrats had issues with voter turnout, especially during Midterms. "If only our side woke up and voted" they said in the not so distant 2000s. With COVID they got their golden wish to combat this disadvantage, early voting and mail-in voting.

The left will tell you the natural result of these two election policies being implemented is that people who otherwise couldn't vote now could, and the outpouring of support for democrats is the natural result of expanding voter access.

What actually is happening is that the democrats have created a very large political machine that essentially farms votes. They canvas areas known to lean democrat, pump up the local democrat base and scoop some independents in on single issue stump speech, get them to vote then and there, submit the ballots well before election day where they cannot be changed, and rinse-wash-repeat in the next town/district/whatever.

There is a reason why "Can I change my vote?" peaks on Google searches around these times. People cast their vote, either through the democrat's party machine or organically, in advance of election day, then get a new piece of information which changes their mind and they can't change their vote.

Republicans have not countered the democrat's political machine in any meaningful way, except a few states where they enacted laws that limited the scope of how ballots could be cast. Nationally, the GOP has done nothing meaningful to combat the democrats has been done.

Republicans may have had a chance to squash it in the wee hours of COVID, but they've since lost any chance of limiting the democrats through legal means. Political power and messaging are both on the side of "expanding voter rights". Without being able to combat them through legal channels, the GOP should instead start their own "get out the vote" campaigns, but every attempt is either limited in scope or much too obvious to work effectively. That needs to be fixed. There are still large pools of non-voters and independents that can be swayed with the same tactics that democrats use.

And I truly believe that if the Republicans started to do this effectively, the democrats will hate it and in their power destroy their own chances at using this type of voting exploit.

2 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

I agree with your list, I'm just going to make an addition.

There will never be another 'wave' election again, at least assuming the media/internet narrative machine doesn't significantly change. This should have been obvious after covid, which would have united the country 20 years ago, divided us. The culture war is too deep for there to be 'wave' elections.

There will be wave elections again, but I think mostly for the democrats for the time being. The culture war has indeed divided us, the democrats have been the most successful in exploiting it. They'll continue this success unless Republicans/conservative-leaning people figure out how to do a few things, I'll highlight what I feel is most important right now.

Combat the 'voter fraud'. What the right calls 'voter fraud' the left calls 'voter rights' which both actually mean vote farming.

Traditionally, democrats had issues with voter turnout, especially during Midterms. "If only our side woke up and voted" they said in the not so distant 2000s. With COVID they got their golden wish to combat this disadvantage, early voting and mail-in voting.

The left will tell you the natural result of these two election policies being implemented is that people who otherwise couldn't vote now could, and the outpouring of support for democrats is the natural result of expanding voter access.

What actually is happening is that the democrats have created a very large political machine that essentially farms votes. They canvas areas known to lean democrat, pump up the local democrat base and scoop some independents in on single issue stump speech, get them to vote then and there, submit the ballots well before election day where they cannot be changed, and rinse-wash-repeat in the next town/district/whatever.

There is a reason why "Can I change my vote?" peaks on Google searches around these times. People cast their vote, either through the democrat's party machine or organically, in advance of election day, then get a new piece of information which changes their mind and they can't change their vote.

Republicans have not countered the democrat's political machine in any meaningful way, except a few states where they enacted laws that limited the scope of how ballots could be cast. Nationally, the GOP has done nothing meaningful to combat the democrats has been done.

Republicans may have had a chance to squash it in the wee hours of COVID, but they've since lost any chance of limiting the democrats through legal means. Political power and messaging are both on the side of "expanding voter rights". Without being able to combat them through legal channels, the GOP should instead start their own "get out the vote" campaigns, but every attempt is either limited in scope or much too obvious to work effectively. That needs to be fixed. There are still large pools of non-voters and independents that can be swayed with the same tactics that democrats.

And I truly believe that if the Republicans started to do this effectively, the democrats will hate it and in their power destroy their own chances at using this type of voting exploit.

2 years ago
1 score