Quote from: TwitchySeal on October 26, 2024, 04:10:53 AM

I really don't think who the democratic candidate is or what their policies are matters very much at all in this election. You'd be convinced they were a communist also, and not even Karl Marx would be able to convince you that you were wrong.

Man, TwitchySeal, don't make me laugh because after all, not even Karl Marx could convince you that you made a blunder by not distinguishing between private property and private means of production.

Quote from: TwitchySeal on October 26, 2024, 04:10:53 AM

The reason Trump has as much support as he does is enough people believe enough of the lies required to justify voting for him. Like the election being stolen, or that Trump didn't try to steal it, or that all of the felonies he's been charged with are examples of him being a victim. Or that democrats want to destroy the country, that immigrants and gays and trans are their enemies that want to take from them, that Biden is corrupt, or Kamala is a communist, or that the the economy is in the gutter, and the country is going to hell.

No, rather what you are reflecting is a kind of intellectual superiority, which is what the left is selling today. They divide the world into good guys and bad guys, and if you are a leftist it is because you are one of the good guys, while the others are racist, sexist, conspiranoid and in this particular case that you comment, that there are 80 million people who are assholes and do not realize how well the country is doing with the economy and how positive mass immigration is.

Quote from: TwitchySeal on October 26, 2024, 04:10:53 AM

And it appears to have had zero effect on the race, you still believe "Trump = Free World". Kamala doesn't matter.

Well, in this case it's not so much Trump as the policies he proposes. You can check my posts on the forum. I never liked Trump myself, which I find the economic policies he proposes much better than those of the Democrats. If Trump dies the day after he takes office Vance's policies are going to be pretty much the same and that is the free world, rather than the world of increased state control, censorship and widespread impoverishment.