Smart Democrat: “Quite literally voters tell us what they want and what they need. Dems’ problem is that we tell them they are wrong.
When someone says prices are too high, answer can’t be ‘You don’t understand, this is best economy ever!’” And that’s not candidate specific.
Deep sexism alone would probably have sufficed to yield this result, though it was aided by deep racism, deep homophobia, deep xenophobia, and an electorate deeply misinformed/misguided by a combination of deliberately malicious and impotently cowardly media.
Every situation will get considerably worse under his presidency and the communities that will be harmed extend far beyond my own. The only way to do that is to vote for Harris. A vote for Jill Stein does not further us on the path to saving lives.
A vote for Harris might.
RFK Jr is very good at doing what great conspiracy theorists do.
He makes stuff interesting.
"Did you know that in 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act changed liability rules for vaccine manufacturers, and since then, childhood vaccine production and autism have both gone up?" is a very interesting story. There's even truth to it. It will reliably spook parents who are worried about sticking a needle (scary) filled with goo whose substance they can't independently verify (scary) into their child.
But there is an important difference between conspiracy theorists and scientists. The former essentially traffic in storytelling, which is to say "this thing happened, and then this thing happened, isn't that ... ~interesting~?" Science, at its best, tamps down the part of our brain that sees the world as a set of spooky relationships and helps us see the relationship between variables more closely.
And the causation story between vaccines and autism is one of the most closely studied relationships in science. The verdict, as best we have it, is that childhood vaccines aren't causing autism.
Here are some sources
1. https://t.co/hbVccj9R0o
2. https://t.co/SU7JwNynrJ
3. https://t.co/h2t3zxzuAg
4. https://t.co/HaAgwjXcYf
“Writing ‘f*ck you Boeing’ is free speech and fully protected; preventing Boeing from discussing jobs with students is not. Calling someone a ‘kapo’ is offensive, but protected speech; breaking through a police line is not.”
Cornell President Kotlikoff explains free speech:
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Somewhere around 35 years ago my brother broke his arm. I was so jealous of the attention and everyone signing his cast, I made everyone sign my arm. All these years later, eat your heart out Mike