I want to show my appreciation for this fox. Fantasy authors are often told "don't do head hopping or get silly with PoV changes" but damn it, if Tolkien can get a bit silly with it, so can you
@admcrlsn To even have a chance at winning this election, Biden and dems would have had to understand that the ability to run someone who would be oppositional to biden was essential and have an open primary
They would have had to realize this by - mid-2023 at the latest? hard to imagine
@AdriTGomes Wow. That's bananas. that also tracks with the data, that shows the biggest factor in determining a voter's behavior was how tuned in they were to the news.
can't help myself. I'd argue to the extent this is a pattern, it demonstrates generalized populist anger at government as a whole. After decades of increased income inequality, and then the Great Recession, that anger coalesced into a general disillusionment with government
@castlehillmom@raylehmann@MattZeitlin@62884391A point remains. high property taxes are a tradeoff for low income taxes.
I barely have any property taxes in California - I pay like $3,000 a year; income taxes are higher.
@Robotbeat@raylehmann@MattZeitlin@62884391A what's funny about this statement, is that property taxes *in Texas* are "very high." It's a policy choice. Texas has relatively low income taxes, and the trade off is higher property taxes.
Tho google tells me that the rate is only 1.6%, so this person's house is worth ~$1mil
the only party that embodies the institution of government. That institutionalism is making it hard for them to succeed electorally now, when we're in an era of populism that is pissed at the government for what it perceives are a series of failures.
how these voting patterns are emerging. Trump-Biden-Trump, with each candidate barely winning, is just an expression of general antipathy towards government.
Because MAGA has consolidated anti-government sentiment, and very few traditional republicans remain, Dems are really