Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.
Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.
The party is the DNC. When a Dem wins the vote for chair is mostly ceremonial. So it’s a very small amount of people running it, especially since the “victory fund” means those few people control the flow of money to I think around 25 states?
The good news is it’s not some huge organization like people assume. And it’s easy to change.
2/2/25 is the chair election, since a Republican won the presidential it’s a pretty fair election and there’s a couple great front runners.
They’re liars. They ditched the party when Obama beat Hillary, but it didn’t matter. It’s a very small but vocal contingent of voters. And some of them are just copying party leadership and won’t stay like that.
But if they do go to the Republican party and moderate them while we gain more from non voters?
That’s a win/win. They can hang out with Liz Cheney and try to save the republican party, I’m all for it.
Because it works on republicans and neoliberals blindly copy Republicans.
With
over 70%82.9% accuracy an untrained volunteer can predict the political affiliation thru nothing but a brain MRI. It’s down by looking at the relative size of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala.Large amygdala is higher adrenal reactions and more likely to be conservative, larger prefrontal cortex means more liberal.
Which is very impressive when you remember 1/3 roughly just stay out of it.
Pandering to the part of the population with the larger pre-frontal cortex. Where things like critical thinking, long term planning, and empathy come from.
Which is essentially progressive policy.
But what direction the party takes really comes down to who becomes chair in February.
Most likely I expect to be 100% behind the DNC in a month and I’m fucking psyched. But I might be wrong
Edit:
I was wrong, that study I remembered was 82.9% accuracy, not 70%
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percent-accuracy-17536124/
Let’s hope that they get somebody in charge of the DNC who knows how to fight, like Bernie or FDR did. That’s how the party can motivate the Democratic-leaning voters, and seemingly paradoxically, actually win over those right-center voters they covet so much. Honestly, I haven’t paid attention to who’s in the running, aside from Ben Wikler, and based on what I’ve seen of his work in Wisconsin, that’d be a disaster.
Eh, that’s my pick, he’s who I hope wins.
But the worst realistic case is Martin O’Malley. Not great, but still a huge improvement.
No where to go but up, silver lining I guess.