RE: Bad News with a silver lining
November 5, 2014 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2014 at 10:41 am by Heywood.)
(November 5, 2014 at 10:31 am)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(November 5, 2014 at 5:39 am)A Theist Wrote: YEEEEE HAWWWW!!!!! WE WON! WE WON! HEY MIN! Your commie buddies are in the minority now! HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!!!! Now all Barack has to do is piss the voters off even more by signing executive orders and veto every bill the Republicans bring forward. Everyone will see how arrogant and obstuctionist Barack and the demshits really are. The Republicans will be set to take both the Congress and the White House in 2016! You far-left radicals suck at running a government! WE WON! WE WON! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!
Hahaha, yeah, enjoy your two years of rented Congress. Hopefully, it will make younger voters aware of the fact that the Republican party is their worst enemy. Either way, it'll be two more years of old conservative fucks dying with no one to replace them.
Honestly, it's not quite the victory for the GOP it appears on the surface. With Citizens United, voter suppression tactics across the board and low turnout in midterms, this is about as good as it will ever be for the dinosaur party.
There will be tons of worrying on the left, and it is disconcerting that the uneducated and stupid turn out best in midterms, but it's just the final gasp of a party fast becoming obsolete on a national level. Remember, in 2004, the Republicans galvanized their Christian base with nightmare warnings of gay marriage, and that was enough to re-elect America's dumbest president. In 2014, gay marriage is legal in most US states.
It'll be a rough couple of years, but I'll outlive most Republican voters. I'm not concerned.
I've heard people spew this shit for more than 20 years. The truth is there will always be 2 parties which fairly evenly matched. If voter demographics change the parties will adjust.
(November 5, 2014 at 10:39 am)ManMachine Wrote: I have seen the Republicans have taken effective control of the two chambers of Congress, but for the benefit of interested UK observers, what's a 'Teabagger'?
MM
"Teabagger" is a derogatory term used by the left to demonize people in the Tea Party. The strategy of the Left is to win by selling hate instead of on the issues.
