• @stevedidwhat_infosec
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    126 days ago

    You’re comparing apples to oranges here. The circumstances have changed since 2020 and to ignore 4 years of hearings, charges, additional threats (much less vague now) and libertarian distain for trump is significantly different from what it was when he ran in 2016, and when he had that momentum in 2020 (Covid year, don’t forget)

    Donald Trump is going to bite the curb this election and I’ll bet you a bunch of people still vote for RFK.

    • @ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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      026 days ago

      Yeah this sounds a lot like pollsters claiming that Clinton had a 99% chance of winning in 2016.

      Biden seems to be going out of his way to alienate progressive voters and conservative voters will never vote for him. The ‘fence sitters’ who don’t pay attention to politics will simply see inflation and high prices and blame whomever is currently holding office due to all the conditioning and rhetoric they hear regarding it.

      Any election should see a guy like Trump defeated in a landslide, but that’s not the reality we live in and the guy running against him is doing such a poor job that Trump might actually win again.

      • @stevedidwhat_infosec
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        126 days ago

        I agree with your final paragraph. He isn’t a perfect candidate.

        But I don’t think there will ever be a perfect candidate and when they’re running against a literal fascist dictator, I know who I will vote for. I’ve said this before but a primarily 2-party system is dangerously naïve. Simplifying the insanely complex reality that is the US into 2 options is stupid. Not to mention how much it alienates minorities (of all types not just race, religion, sex)

        How are we to represent down to the minority level via a popular-vote. It doesn’t make sense to me.