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In CA it appears to be like

Orion — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:00:00 +0000

In reply to at the federal level what you

In CA it appears to be like how you describe the federal level. You will hear right wing radio playing in Uber cars fairly often and then Newsom wins in a landslide. He literally ran against a right wing talker.

Or non-college families

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:19:36 +0000

In reply to AOC thinks canceling student

Or non-college families seeing college grads get huge bailouts

Most borrowers have between $25,000 and $50,000 outstanding in student loan debt. But more than 600,000 borrowers in the country are over $200,000 in student debt, and that number may continue to increase.

Though I was surprised avg debt and % of residents with debt were relatively close across states & regions

https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-student-loan-debt

AOC thinks canceling student

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:55:10 +0000

In reply to San Francisco Shows Democrats Have a Seismic Challenge Ahead

AOC thinks canceling student loan debt is the way to win

“I can’t underscore how much the hesitancy of the Biden admin to pursue student loan cancelation has demoralized a very critical voting bloc that the President, House & Senate need in order to have any chance of preserving any of our majorities,” @AOC. https://t.co/FZJfQ7kOB4
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) February 21, 2022

I'm no expert political analyst and I'm sure she's right that would inspire those affected to get out and vote for the Dem in their district. I'm just not sure that's every district needed. BUT what I'm pretty sure of that it would also inspire a lot of backfire voting by people extremely angry that their taxes are going to pay to bail out these loans while they and their kids worked scrimped and saved to pay their own tuition at lesser colleges without loans.

I do get the sense that she's kind of clueless about swing districts. And I trust Joe Biden for one to understand them better.

at the federal level what you

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:58:07 +0000

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at the federal level what you say maybe true-because there's so GOP many asshats doing performance art, that ends up on social media talk radio and voters may like the performance but when it comes down to getting in that voting booth, they go for the quieter guy

BUT take it down to people voting for their state legislators or city councilmember, oftener than not, it's the GOP guy and not the librul Dem (raging about Palestinians or the like) who seems more practical and level-headed and sounds like he is going to care about the bodega owner concerns about taxes, the pot holes in the roads, and how the kids are educated;;;

Federal reps have very little effect on people's lives, it's more just a kabuki show. Which guy or gal's kabuki show they enjoy, that's it. For that a trillion tax dollars are spent, and local GOP make hay out of that, too. Here I think of my own Bronx neighbors and Long Island people. Lots of them really don't trust elite white liberals to do the right thing, really they don't. There are major effects to the national picture in just that once a state legislature is GOP majoriity, they gerrymander to benefit the GOP in the national offices, when that might not be the case if the districts weren't changed.

The GOP has Hispanics big

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:15:43 +0000

In reply to Maybe. It seems to me like

The GOP has Hispanics big time - especially Texas - we've discussed quite a bit.
If those are "white", well, the Dems made a horrid calculation in uncontrolled Mexican immigration the last 30 years.

Maybe. It seems to me like

Orion — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 03:11:08 +0000

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Maybe. It seems to me like Democrats just dominate so much that they have several sectors. I don't see them losing anything any time soon. All this Putin stuff makes a Trump resurgence unlikely.

The Republican Party has a really hard time appealing to anyone who isn't upper middle class, white and male and there's not much they could really ever do to change that. They win elections by just pulling a couple single digits from other demographics. I've met people who listen to right wing talk radio and still vote Dem. That's how bad it is.

yeah, everyone still pretends

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:08:37 +0000

In reply to In the old days it was the

yeah, everyone still pretends there are only 2 main parties, but there are really 4.

Homelessness is quite

Orion — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:23:41 +0000

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Homelessness is quite literally sanctioned and promoted in many major cities. The city will give you nearly $1000 a month, food stamps and subsidized housing often requires that tenants be homeless for six months to qualify, instead of being based on low income.

There are none available.

Orion — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:18:46 +0000

In reply to In the old days it was the

There are none available. They're all on the couch.

That was a joke. I was kidding. :P

In the old days it was the

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:58:01 +0000

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In the old days it was the Republicans that did this