#Republican fallacy

[falseandrealultravival]

Abortion (verse)

Case 1 (in USA)

When a pregnant woman is an "unwanted pregnancy" as a result of rape, She cannot allow "others" to prevent her child's abortion. Since sex is automatic, if you get a child as a result, All children are equal. But that child is a "devil's child". There is a Republican fallacy here.

Case 2 (in Japan)

From 1948 to 1996, the "Eugenic Protection Law" was in effect. There, the intentions of the child's grandparents are reflected, and the reproductive capacity of the parents’s Robbery was encouraged by the Japanese government. In other words, it is a surgery to remove the genitals for the disabled. It was a lie, for example, that it was an operation for the appendix, and it was being carried out.

In this case, removal of the genitalia becomes an "advance" abortion.

妊娠中絶とその周辺（韻文）

ケース１（USAで）

妊娠した女性が強姦の結果の「望まない妊娠」であるとき、 その子の中絶を妨げることは「他人」にはできない。 セックスは自動的になされるため、結果として子を得た場合、 どの子も平等だ。でもその子は「悪魔の子」だ。 ここに共和党支持者の誤謬がある。

ケース２（日本で）

１９４８－１９９６まで、「優生保護法」が施行されていた。 そこでは、子どもの祖父母の意図が反映され、父母の生殖能力を 奪うことが日本政府によって奨励されていた。 つまり障碍者に、性器の削除をする手術であることを 偽り、例えば盲腸の手術だとして、実行していたのだ。

この場合、性器の削除は、「前もっての」中絶になる。

Rei Morishita

[tomorrowusa]

Looking for a Republican who is moderate on abortion???

Then definitely forget Nikki Haley.

It's a no-brainer: You don't get to be the GOP governor of South Carolina nor a member of the Trump administration by supporting reproductive freedom.

Paul Waldman at the Washington Post shines a light on Haley's views and how she'd act as president. (emphasis added)

[A]nyone tempted to believe Haley is a moderate on abortion should be warned: She isn't. Haley's approach is likely to be adopted by the GOP presidential nominee — even if that person isn’t Haley herself. But that will be just as misleading because no Republican administration will seek a moderate course on abortion. It will adopt an extreme right-wing stance in ways that right now are being ignored. [ … ] Haley, meanwhile, delivered lines she uses frequently, calibrated to sound sensible and sympathetic: "Don’t make women feel like they have to decide on this issue," she said, "when you know we don’t have 60 Senate votes" to overcome an inevitable filibuster of a national ban. She argued that legislation should focus on areas of potential "consensus," such as a ban on late-term abortions and allowing medical personnel to refuse to participate in procedures they object to. [ … ] Haley is on record supporting a national ban, even if she acknowledges it wouldn’t pass. That means her real plan is to enact a series of steps limiting abortion access, leading up to a national ban as soon as Republicans have the votes to enact it. [ … ] The judges President Haley would appoint would also not be abortion moderates; they would almost certainly come from the Federalist Society’s judicial pipeline to guarantee their conservative bona fides, especially on abortion. Even if she wanted to appoint moderate judges (and there’s no indication she does), it would trigger a revolt within her party. In fact, it’s unlikely anyone she appoints to any high position in the federal government with an influence over health care would be pro-choice.

No Republican president in this century has appointed a US Supreme Court justice who supports reproductive freedom. Despite the soothing double-talk we hear from Haley, she would be no different.

Supporting reproductive freedom means voting Democratic in federal elections and never missing an election. If there are any moderate GOP office holders left in DC they would only tell you so in some back alley after scanning the area for listening devices.

So let people know, starting now, that a vote for Republicans (including Nikki Haley) is a vote against a woman's right to choose.

[mademoisellesarcasme]

i come from a long line of engineers. it's clear i share the tendencies. so sometimes I remember to chuckle at and be grateful for the other tendencies of mine to be around folks who handle philosophy or theology because the constant grappling with re-grounding questions helps me avoid accidentally reinventing eugenics.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[whyoneartheven]

I am a little confused

Is abortion NOT killing babies? Because all evidence I’ve seen points the opposite.

[filosofablogger]

Open Letter To ALL Elected Republicans

Sometimes the angst builds and one just has to let off a bit of steam.  This is one of those times.  This letter is intended for Republican members of Congress, but also governors, state legislators, and ALL elected representatives who are failing us. It’s sad that so many people have put their lives in your hands, yet you are playing Russian roulette with them.  You have betrayed the people you…

[qqueenofhades]

i registered to vote for the first time ( i feel old) now that im an adult but my state has closed primary elections which i was wondering if you have an opinion about. my initial thought was that its bad because i had to register democrat (rather than my states green party which represents my beliefs more) just so i could vote between democrat candidates, which feels like being pressured into supporting the weird pseudo two party system we have. but then i looked it up and apparently a reason for this is so that people from opposing parties wont purposefully mess up the votes just so that their preferred candidates have an easier time winning, and i think that makes sense too. but is that actually the reason theyve closed it or is it just to force us dem/republican?? cause it feels strange

Okay, look. I respect the fact that you're a young person, and I appreciate that you have not only registered to vote, but plan to vote in the primaries, so I don't want to lecture you too much. That said: I am taking you out for coffee, I am sitting you down, I am looking into your eyes, and I am urgently telling you the following:

The Green Party is a scam. It is a scam. It has existed for decades in American politics as an empty shell corporation weaponizing the good intentions of young people like yourself, because all it theoretically stands for "it's good to save the planet maybe." Which is not something that any non-insane person seriously disagrees with, but there is no world in which that cause is actually furthered by registering/voting Green (you mentioned that you did vote for Democrats, which -- good, but listen to me here, youngun, okay?) It ran Jill Stein in 2016 to siphon more votes from HRC, and this election it plans to run Cornel West, a pro-Russian tankie who positively equated Bernie and Trump, as another spoiler candidate. It does not stand for "protecting the planet" or America in any real way. It has never elected a single senator or congressman, let alone a president. It stands for empty performance/grievance political theater by those people who feel too morally superior to vote for/affiliate with Democrats, often because the internet has told them that it's not Cool or Hip or Progressive enough.

If your main priority is climate/the environment, you're doing the right thing by registering as a Democrat and voting for Democrats. (Also: the adjectival form is Democratic. It is the Democratic party and Democratic candidates, otherwise you sound like the Fox News host who wrote a book literally entitled "The Democrat Party Hates America.") They are the only major party who has in fact passed major climate legislation and have made environmental justice a central tenet of their platform. As opposed to the Republicans, whose Project 2025, along with the rest of its nightmare fascist prescriptions, openly pledges to completely wreck existing climate protections and forbid any new ones, just because we weren't all dying fast enough under their death-cult rule already. That's the main logical fallacy I don't get among both the Online Leftists and the American electorate in general: "the Democrats aren't doing quite enough as I'd like, so I'll enable the active wrecking ball insane lunatics to get in power and ruin even the progress we HAVE managed to make!" Like. How does that even make sense?

On a federal level, the Greens have contributed nothing whatsoever of tangible value to American or international climate policy/legislation, environmental justice, or anything else, because as noted, they don't have any elected candidates and mostly focus on drawing voters away from Democrats. There might be plenty of good candidates on the local or city level, which -- great! Vote away for Greens if they're available, or the only other option is a Republican! But on the federal/primary level, please understand: once again, they are a scam. There is no point in affiliating yourself with them. You're welcome to register Green and vote Democratic, if that makes you feel better or if you prefer having another label next to your name, but once again, I'm telling you in my position as a salty Tumblr elder that they have done nothing but harm to the causes they claim to care about, because "environment" is such a nebulous priority and has demonstrably been hijacked to stop the American government entity, i.e. the Democrats, that is actually working to improve on it.

As for your question: nobody is "forcing" or "pressuring" you to vote in primaries. By your own admission, you made a conscious choice to register as a Democrat in order to vote for Democratic candidates. If you were just a regular registered voter of whatever party affiliation, you would vote in the general election for whatever candidate the primary process produced. But if you are sufficiently vested and committed to that process that you would like to have a say in who is running under that party label, it is not unreasonable that you would register as a member of that party. Nobody has twisted your arm behind your back and made you do so; you are taking a considerable level of initiative on your own. Likewise, open primaries can be both a good and bad thing. This falls under the "the political system we have is flawed, but we can't magically pretend it doesn't exist and act according to our own fantasyland versions of reality" thing that I keep saying over and over. So yes, if you want a role in shaping the Democratic candidates who emerge from a Democratic primary process, you will usually register as a Democrat, and nobody has forced you to do that. It's that simple.

Likewise as a general programming note: I'm trying to cut back on politics a bit right now, because I don't have the spoons/bandwidth/mental health to deal with it. I apologize. So if you've sent me a politics-related ask recently and haven't received a response, I'm not deliberately or maliciously ignoring you; I just am not able to handle it as much as usual and will have to put it on pause. However, I feel as if this is important enough to be worth saying, so, yeah.

[walks-the-ages]

I see people have decided to start demonizing Gen Z as somehow being uniquely responsible for the rise of Fascism in the USA, "gen z needs to reckon with its radicalization problem" like hey OP! Are you going to "reckon with" the people in OUR generation and our parent's generation doing the radicalizing?

"you are not a morally pure and superior generation come to save the world" LITERALLY WHAT GEN Z PERSON HAS EVER SAID THIS?

Like, excuse me??? You're really so caught up in a fake generational conflict you're gonna claim Gen Z is some monolith claiming moral purity?

You're not gonna talk about how literally all of the worlds problems are shoved onto the next generations shoulders from the day they're born and how we, the previous generations, always forcibly uphold them to rigorous, unobtainable standards or villainize them completely??

Get this shitass post off my dash.

You CANNOT blame the rise of Fascism and more specifically Trump winning the election on Gen Z, we are not playing this shitass game again.

YOUR peers in your age group are fascists.

YOUR peers in your age group are queerphobes.

YOUR generation is not immune to radicalization !

You do not get to sit there and act like fascists, queerphobia, and right-wing radicalization is a unique problem among "kids these days".

Joe Rogan is Gen X born in 1967.

Pewdiepie is a Millennial, born in 1989

JD Vance is another Millennial, born in 1984

Donald Trump is a Baby Boomer, born in 1946.

You gonna sit there and tell me Gen Z have a unique problem with radicalization when the people who are radicalizing them from young ages were born in the 40s and 60s and 80s??

Nope.

Shut the fuck up and stop spreading this stupid fucking post.

Try having a productive conversation where you're not blaming an entire generation ranging from 14 years old to 27 years old for every single one of your problems with the politics in this country.

The oldest members of Gen Z have literally had to deal with Trump their entire adult lives, and the youngest were just 6 years old when he became President in 2016.

Gen Z is not a monolith who uphold themselves as being "morally superior to the ones who came before" and if you honestly believe that then you've already succumbed to your own fucking fallacy of blaming "kids these days"

You do not get to blame Gen Z for Trump becoming president again because you're so desperate for someone to blame.

With more than eight million members of Gen Z becoming eligible to vote in the 2024 Presidential election, a new era is coming in politics: the Gen Z wave. In an independently conducted survey by The News Record, 42.9% of college students who engaged in the survey are registered as Democrat, 42.9% as Independent, and only 14.3% were registered as Republican.

[goemon-fan]

How to Help Palestine

This post is intended to guide those who have no idea on how to help Palestine. I am making this as quick as possible, so please inform me if there is another source you would like me to add, or if any of these sources are inaccurate.

According to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, what we, the average person, can do to help Palestine is:

Educate ourselves (reading and learning Palestine's history)

Advocate for change (writing to representatives, voting, protesting, and petitions)

Staying informed and engaged (reading reputable news sources, don't stop talking about Palestine!)

Supporting Palestinian businesses (and boycotting those businesses which do not support Palestine)

Donating to reputable organizations (the PCRF is a great one, however there is also gazaesims.com, Doctors without Borders, UNWRA, and these)

Notice how many of these are free and easily available.

Education

Decolonizepalestine.com, and more specifically its reading list, is a great start. I highly recommend this Palestine Masterlist Google Doc, it provides free resources and just about everything you need to be informed and educated. This Carrd is also informative and easy to understand. Pluto Books is having a sale on books about Palestine, and Verso Books even provides ebooks for free. Words without Borders provides free stories from Palestinian writers. This website also links to free resources. It is also worth checking out your local library to see if they have any available books about Palestine.

Advocate for Change

Email script; send the message as often as you can, and keep track of possible responses from your representatives. If they're advocating for Is---l (such as my representative is, however I do not want to doxx myself; however, they are Republican) vote them out.

Ceasefiretoday.com provides a master list of advocacy resources.

Staying Informed and Engaged

Aljazeera.com is a great resource for current news regarding Gaza, the U.S. government, and the victims of this violence.

As for staying engaged, don't stop talking about Palestine! Talk with your friends, family, anyone about what is happening, and use your newfound education to educate others! Make a stand and cut Z---ists out of your life!

Support Palestinian Businesses

This is a good beginning list, but feel free to branch out to other Palestinian brands.

However, make sure to boycott these companies, and remember to check any produce you buy (especially dates for Ramadan) to see if it is produced by Is---l.

Donating to Reputable Organizations

Here is this charity list again. Make sure that your charity of choice:

Is going to Gaza/Palestine and

Advocates for a ceasefire

Be on the lookout for scams, and if you want to help Palestinians directly without running the risk of a scam, eSims for Gaza is a great source; and, you're making history! You get to tell your ancestors how you fought for Palestinians!

What Now?

As a final note, every little bit counts. Please do not remain silent even if you run a fan account or have a particular "aesthetic," please do not allow your fandom to remain silent, please do not fall for the fallacy that there's no way you can fight against an entire government. There is strength in numbers, and every little action you make contributes, whether for better or worse. Please do not support Z-----t actors or media, please do not drink Starbucks or buy McDonalds because that is what is convenient for you, please do not choose ignorance and silence to what is happening. I am not asking you to sacrifice or put your life on hold, but you do need to care. Thank you.

[bucketxyz]

I think the reason the “they’re coming for you next!!1!” Thing TRAs direct at LGB People grates on me so much is because, like, they already are “coming for” us, they have already been coming for us; and pointing out the fact that republicans hate both gay people and trans people doesn’t actually logically validate transgenderism at all.

Like, Imagine there’s a guy next to me scooping egg salad into his shoes. Then there’s another guy threatening to punch both of us in the head… The fact that egg salad guy and I are both being threatened by the same dude doesn’t change my opinion that the egg salad thing is stupid, nor does it indicate that being gay is equivalent to scooping egg salad into shoes.

Obviously that example is extremely stupid/goofy, I’m just trying to use hyperbole to convey the point here. Does anyone know if there’s a name for that logical fallacy?? I don’t know how to describe it better

[yaophi]

Illymations

I really REALLY hate right-wing conservatives. Like its a genuine burning hate for the people who misrepresent their opposition and genuinely put their real lives in danger when you dont agree with them. Time after time I see people getting harrassed when they slip up against a republican who has nothing better to do then harrass and lie when going up against people. Its insane how two people can do the exact same thing and yet one person is villified and another person can just call up an army of dickriders to defend their every action, while completely ignoring the statements or arguments of the other person. Think Before You Sleep, get a real life job and stop bullying people on the internet, you used so many argumentative fallacies that my highschool teacher couldve used it to explain the concept in full. To anyone who agrees with this absolute gem of a person, please watch Illy's video without trying to take sides or being instantly biased. The dude you were listening to took clips out of context and completely misrepresented everything she said so he could push a narrative, and finally for the 4-chan dweebs who sit at home and dox people or make death threats, please go outside. Your mothers basement doesnt have proper air circulation and your losing oxygen to your brain.

[the-framed-maelstrom]

Puritanism? I am by no means dispos’d to condemn it utterly in the pageant of the world, for it is not life an art, and art a selection? The Puritans unconsciously sought to do a supremely artistic thing–to mould all life into a dark poem; a macabre tapestry with quaint arabesques and patterns from the plains of antique Palaestina … antique Palaestina with her bearded prophets, many gated walls, and flattened domes. The fatuous floundering of the ape and the Neanderthaler they rejected–this and the graceful forms into which that floundering had aimlessly blunder’d–and in place of slovenly Nature set up a life in Gothick design, with formal arches and precise traceries, austere spires and three interesting little gargoyles with solemn grimaces, call’d the father, the son, and the holy ghost. On shifting humanity they imposed a refreshing technique, and an aimless and futile cosmos supply’d artificial values which had real authority because they were not true. Verily, the Puritans were the only really effective diabolists and decadents the world has known; because they hated life and scorned the platitude that it is worth living. Can you imagine anything more magnificent than the wholesale slaughter of the Indians–a very epick–by our New-England ancestors in the name of the lamb? But all aside from that–these Puritans were truly marvelous. They did not invent, but substantially developed the colonial doorway; and incidentally created a simple standard of life and conduct which is, no apart from some extravagant and inessential details and a few aesthetic and intellectual fallacies in all truth the most healthy and practical way of securing happiness and tranquillity which we have had since the early days of Republican Rome. I am myself very partial to it–it is so quaint and wholesome. But not alone in Puritanism is the Nordic’s beneficent influence to be found. Who else could, after the decay of Rome, have revived the aesthetic of strength which in antique days reared to the heavens the colonnades of the Capitolium, the dome of Vesta, the splendours of the Palantine, the walls of the Colisseum, the balconies of the Septizonium, the altitudes of the Pantheon, the colossi and arches of conquering despots, and countless other stone and marble ecstasies of ebullient domination? True, we have never equalled those breathless marvels, for we own ourselves no match for the world-overtopping ROMAN CITIZEN; but alone of all races we have revived–in our master-achievement ENGLAND–that that resistless sway which gave them birth, and have enabled the modern world to share in that delirium of artistic excitement and surging pride which must fill’d every true ROMAN when, looking back from some crest in the road at sunset, he saw limned in flame the gold the domes and columns, vast, prodigious, multitudinous and induplicable, of earth’s supreme apotheosis of dominion — THE IMPERIAL CITY. “Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; Hae tibi erunt artes: pacisque imponere marem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.” H.P Lovecraft

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Job totals in millions in the US by party of the president. Those are apparently net totals which subtract losses from gains at the end of each period.

Republicans create catastrophes (i.e.: the Great Recession, the incompetent response to COVID, the Iraq Invasion, etc.) and when Democrats are subsequently elected, Republicans then complain that Dems aren't cleaning up the GOP mess fast enough.

Another useful stat regarding the economy and the parties in the past 35 years.

Number of recessions which began under Democratic presidents since 1989: 0 Number of recessions which began under Republican presidents since 1989: 4

^^^ Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Somehow, the fallacy that Republicans are "good for the economy" is still being circulated. Likely it's oligarchs and corporate billionaires who circulate it because the GOP is good for their economy. Republicans have passed three rounds of tax breaks for the filthy rich this century which have only made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

At the beginning of the Clinton administration in 1993, taxes on billionaires were raised. That began a period of innovation and prosperity not seen since the 1950s. It also led to the first budget surpluses since 1969 and a tapering off of the national debt.

If you want true prosperity, do something about income inequality. Filling the pockets of billionaires with loot only makes the filthy rich even more prosperous.

BREAKING NEWS: Did somebody mention the economy just now? 🙂

US economy added a whopping 303,000 jobs last month, far outpacing expectations

[leam1983]

US Elections - A Few More Thoughts

There's something YouTube Atheists taught me, over the years. For one, they've taught me that even someone who's objectively correct can be a raging cornhole who you would very much like to Shut Up, and secondly that education can lead to a strangely contradictory reaction in the face of things like Trump's re-emergence.

That would be the Fallacy of Incredulity; or the underlying thesis that as I, as someone who is educated, worldly, self-aware, cognizant of the world stage and focused on both my personal betterment and that of others, have the utter and profound disbelief that others might vote vore or otherwise perform actions that are detrimental to themselves.

In simpler terms, that gives you the billion comments across thousands of platforms, that typically go something like "I can't believe fifty million or more people could've voted for this guy!" or "I can't believe we've done this!" or, even more naively still, "This isn't us!"

First, that shows you that even the most Humanist, dyed-in-the-wool Blue voter with a noted track record of Atheism still has faith in something - namely in the idea that the people around him remember what E Pluribus, Unum actually means. It also shows you that the same person has rose-tinted glasses firmly stapled on.

You have to consider the fact that as of the eighties, the Democratic Party has become the party of the intellectual elite, of coastal company leads with feet firmly entrenched in the Tech and Political spheres. It's the domain of those who at least understand the threat posed by Global Warming, and of those who see how the Western world's commitment to Democracy has been waning, as of the past two decades. It's the party of Centrist Sensibilities, that tries to steer the country towards a more rational future while still trying to pat down concepts like American Exceptionalism or even the Dominionist school of thought stating that hey, even if we're trying real, real, real hard to be secular, y'still gotta leave some space for my man Evangelical Jesus, y'know?

As to why it does that last part, it's easy to understand. Either you placate the Rust Belt and the Southern States led by would-be theocrats by assuring them that nonononono, the whole concept of Creflo Dollar Megachurches is totes fine, or you lose the manpower. Which is ironic in and of itself, as most of these States now rely either on unpaid labor from inmates stuck in revolving-door work-release programs for those in the prison system, or on dubiously-documented immigrants.

So let's tackle the root of the problem, then. Why Trump? Because Democrats have forgotten how to speak to people that live from paycheck to paycheck, if they only do so much. If you're stuck down South in a food desert and the cost of a dozen eggs becomes a serious concern for you, you're absolutely not in the right headspace to discuss things like the climate crisis or LGBTQA+ rights. No, these people aren't ignorant rubes - just ask Jonathan Maslow.

People voted for Trump because their needs are not being met. They've voted for a fallacious response, sure, as the Republicans are the party of partisan Big Tech and corporations playing buddy-buddy for tax incentives and most assuredly not the Party of the Average Joe.

So. In the coming days, try and stop demonizing those Trump voters in your vicinity who aren't MAGAts fully lost to the idiot's rhetoric. Most of them latched onto the idea of lessened tarrifs, of slashed taxes, and voted primarily to feel less of a pinch in the wallet at dinnertime. Most of them aren't bigots; they're just scared and fail to see their other options. It also means that Dems have an exam of conscience to go through, as they can't simply coast on being the Party for the Guys Who Fit the Bare Minimum of Being Mentally Stable. There's a dearth of education to fix that is crucial to reversing your fate, as most Republican voters do not, in fact, have so much as a Community College degree.

If the elections' results mean one thing, it's that half of America's citizens are scared, kept wilfully ignorant and afraid - and these aren't those who voted Democrat.

[salamanderinspace]

election talk.

I didn't blog about it before this election but I think I blogged about it when it first happened. In 2016 I had this dreamvision - which I followed up with a tarot - that told me the first female president would be elected in 2060. I was very certain of it, and very certain that Clinton would lose, though I confess it seemed very unlikely to me that Trump would win a second time. I was surprised.

A lot of the conversation has been about "what went wrong" and I don't think that's completely useless because I think we can learn from it. Obviously Trump voters are a wide and varied group of people, they don't all think exactly the same... some people are just Not Online and have basically never heard him speak. Some people have heard him speak and respond to the racism. Some people think the racism is just circus acts and believe (fallaciously) that Republicans are going to do better on economics (they will not.) Some people are rich af and believe accurately that Trump will make them more money. And yeah, some people are disappointed with Biden, but historically disappointment and disapproval of a sitting president and high rates of inflation have not lead to ousting a first term incumbent.

Personally I think people just would not vote for a woman. It's not conscious misogyny. People can be kind and reasonable in all their conscious actions but still distrust women more than men. It comes out as a scrutiny that is not evenly applied. I mean, Biden beat Trump on the same exact policy platform that Harris ran on. The fact that she's a woman has got to have something to do with it. 18 states have never had a female governor. Never. And I'm sure these people are telling themselves they'd vote for a woman if it was the right one... and then the right one never comes. The standards are impossible.

IDK I just felt like complaining about the sexism and sharing that weird vein of divination. I don't think I'll live to 2060 but if you're reading this in The Future, like this post if I was right!

[kittyinshadows]

guys, as a queer from a rural area in a swing state, you NEED to push your representatives to switch presidential candidates. There is no fucking shot biden wins this after yesterday. listen, i get that he has our vote, we're captives here, we dont have a choice. but my friends, my family, my neighbors? there is no way in the world they will be convinced to vote for a man who, truthful or not, is perceived as senile. Not to mention the fact that he goes along with every talking point republicans have like theyre actually saying something reasonable, and the supporting a genocide. Biden has alienated so many voter pops. if this guy is the nominee we are fucking cooked.

i can convince my parents, my friends, my family, to vote harris or newsom. i wouldnt even have to ask them to vote whitmer or someone else slightly popular. the die hard blue votes are not enough. we need the independents, the swing voters, the aunt who just wont go because she doesnt feel like it would matter anyways.

so please, please, as devoted dems or otherwise progressive voters, tell your concerns. we cannot afford to sunk cost fallacy this!