I understand what you're saying, but why Trump? He and a lot of his associates, they scare me as much as the crazy Democratic ones, like Biden, Richard (Rachel) Levine and others. Somehow I think the two party system has to go -- it's kind of narrow and meaningless to so many voters, but what to replace it with... maybe coalition governi…
I understand what you're saying, but why Trump? He and a lot of his associates, they scare me as much as the crazy Democratic ones, like Biden, Richard (Rachel) Levine and others. Somehow I think the two party system has to go -- it's kind of narrow and meaningless to so many voters, but what to replace it with... maybe coalition governing or a parliamentary system like the UK, at least w/o the imperial presidency that the US has. Too much power and influence in the hands of one man (and yes, man, since I think the US has an unaddressed aversion for the idea of a woman as president).
I really believe it was less about Trump and more about voting against the current administration.
If you look at the voting map of NYC, the red areas are primarily where crime is rampant and migrant shelters were placed. I’ve spoken to women who live in a Queens neighborhood and they told me the neighborhood now has rampant prostitution trafficked from South America and they do not feel safe coming home after work late at night in the subway anymore. This is just a small example but if this were your day to day experience and a vote for Harris means four more years of your neighborhood getting worse, what would you do? I’ve spoken to other people in Queens and Staten Island with the same experience.
But according to people I know on FB, these women are misogynist and racist for voting for Trump. This from predominantly wealthy people who don’t take the subway home late at night into a neighborhood that was once good and is now failing. It’s a class divide that not enough people are acknowledging.
These are small examples of what I think has happened here, Mildred. I know a lot of people who were blue their entire lives who voted for Trump not because they’re in love with him but they voted against four more years of nonsense.
Careful what you wish for. A parliamentary system can act essentially as an elected dictatorship if the party in power has a majority. In Canada at least (don’t know about the UK) there are no checks and balances like we have in the US: the (unelected!) Senate is essentially a rubber stamp on whatever bills are passed by Parliament.
I get that, sure. But that doesn't defend the American system either. We have an imperial presidency, now and in the past, a politicized Supreme Court, and legislators who are more often than not bought and paid for by big money. What checks and balances are there on that, other than the voters, who can be ignorant and as foolish as their leaders? Sorry for sounding so cynical, I'm old and have seen and heard it all before.
I understand what you're saying, but why Trump? He and a lot of his associates, they scare me as much as the crazy Democratic ones, like Biden, Richard (Rachel) Levine and others. Somehow I think the two party system has to go -- it's kind of narrow and meaningless to so many voters, but what to replace it with... maybe coalition governing or a parliamentary system like the UK, at least w/o the imperial presidency that the US has. Too much power and influence in the hands of one man (and yes, man, since I think the US has an unaddressed aversion for the idea of a woman as president).
I really believe it was less about Trump and more about voting against the current administration.
If you look at the voting map of NYC, the red areas are primarily where crime is rampant and migrant shelters were placed. I’ve spoken to women who live in a Queens neighborhood and they told me the neighborhood now has rampant prostitution trafficked from South America and they do not feel safe coming home after work late at night in the subway anymore. This is just a small example but if this were your day to day experience and a vote for Harris means four more years of your neighborhood getting worse, what would you do? I’ve spoken to other people in Queens and Staten Island with the same experience.
But according to people I know on FB, these women are misogynist and racist for voting for Trump. This from predominantly wealthy people who don’t take the subway home late at night into a neighborhood that was once good and is now failing. It’s a class divide that not enough people are acknowledging.
These are small examples of what I think has happened here, Mildred. I know a lot of people who were blue their entire lives who voted for Trump not because they’re in love with him but they voted against four more years of nonsense.
Careful what you wish for. A parliamentary system can act essentially as an elected dictatorship if the party in power has a majority. In Canada at least (don’t know about the UK) there are no checks and balances like we have in the US: the (unelected!) Senate is essentially a rubber stamp on whatever bills are passed by Parliament.
I get that, sure. But that doesn't defend the American system either. We have an imperial presidency, now and in the past, a politicized Supreme Court, and legislators who are more often than not bought and paid for by big money. What checks and balances are there on that, other than the voters, who can be ignorant and as foolish as their leaders? Sorry for sounding so cynical, I'm old and have seen and heard it all before.