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2024-07-20 13:42:43

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Not sure about the "impeach", but at the very least "don't vote for this Russian asset".

Gatekeeper schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:08:45 +0200

2024-07-20 15:14:57

daise_flowers@diasp.org

MAGA is all about getting their feelings hurt, then using vengeance on everyone who doesn't see it their way to get revenge. Pretty much the same as sore loser revenge vengeance.

2024-07-20 21:53:28

daise_flowers@diasp.org

No worries mate @Hans van Zijst we will do the right thing to save the country and defend American democracy or end by the hand of wealth driven religious authoritarianism. The Republican Party is dead. Nixon started the process and Trump finished the job. MAGA GOP only offer dishonesty for American Liberty, for they want to collectively destroy American democracy and take the country for billionaire leadership coupled with extremist Christian nationalist authority. Remember, CEOs and businesses are dictatorships by nature, not democratic institutions. We need democratic leadership for the people by the people. Not a corporate president, CEO, and board of directors telling Americans how to live so they can forever profit off all of us.

2024-07-21 13:56:37

daise_flowers@diasp.org

My hope comes from what Americans call “the silent majority.” The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. @Hans van Zijst

2024-07-21 14:41:28

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

I'm too old to believe in the "the silent majority" anymore. Reason in humanity exists only as small islands in a sea of madness.

2024-07-21 14:52:18

daise_flowers@diasp.org

We do have the numbers to win for democracy.

The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades. About two-thirds (66%) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900. The 2018 election (49% turnout) had the highest rate for a midterm since 1914. Even the 2022 election’s turnout, with a slightly lower rate of 46%, exceeded that of all midterm elections since 1970.

Adults who voted in at least one election during the period divide evenly between Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party or Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in their current party affiliation (48% each). The subset who voted in all three elections are similarly divided (49% Democrats, 50% Republicans). Citizens who did not vote in any of the three tilt Republican by 46% to 41%.

Democrats outnumbered Republicans among the 8% of adult citizens who voted in 2018 and 2020 but not 2022 (55% Democratic, 40% Republican). A similar-sized group (8%) voted in 2020 and 2022 but not 2018, and this group’s composition tilts Republican (57%, vs. 40% Democratic). The 12% who voted in 2020 and opted out of both the 2018 and 2022 midterms were roughly evenly divided among Democrats (46%) and Republicans (43%).

Given the sizable number of intermittent voters and chronic nonvoters, as well as the fact that this group, collectively, is fairly evenly divided in partisan affiliation, both parties have plenty of potential supporters on the sidelines in any given election.

Pew Research Center

2024-07-21 16:44:02

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Again, I really hope your optimism is justified ?