LibertyLizard

Weirdly despite her otherwise repugnant and fascist positions she was one of the more anti-surveillance members of congress. Hopefully some of the new members can keep carrying that torch.

They’re in the process of forgetting, it hasn’t fully happened yet.

I’m not denying that democrats won in 2026. Jesus people are so ignorant about how politics work it amazes me. This one election is not a trend. It’s a reflection of a specific mood among the electorate, reflecting the conditions that exist here today. It does not mean that Americans have suddenly become philosophically left overnight. You have to look over several years to see those types of changes. This is literal snowballs prove climate change isn’t real level logic.

Could this be the beginning of a seismic shift where things never go back right again? Anything is possible but that seems extremely unlikely. Trump is unpopular so 2028 could also be a pretty blue electorate but beyond that I expect reversion to the mean.

Florida did not move left as much as the rest of the country. Again, this means, setting aside this one election, that Florida over the long term is continuing to become more conservative over time.

I don’t see that in your comment at all but ok. My bigger point was the state isn’t swinging left, it’s continuing its shift to the right, that longer term change is just being masked by a temporary left electorate that came out this year.

Important questions. My sense is not on their own but with pressure from the public maybe.

Iran seems more likely as it has more economic salience. Plus I think the unfortunate reality is that most Americans are in the process of forgetting about Palestine. If they ever paid attention in the first place.

I mean let’s see what the democrats actually do before getting too smug…

I’m not so sure… is the American public even aware of the boat strikes?

2/3rds of the senate is a big hill to climb, especially when many of the R’s that survived are from far right states.

Reading this as a permanent realignment is wrong-headed. This is one election where the electorate punished an extremely unpopular president. It’s unlikely we see another democratic win like this for some time.

What this tells me about Florida is that it is a far right state now. It’s about as red as South Carolina, Mississippi, or Montana. In an election where republicans aren’t as hated it will not be close.

Yeah I mean I alluded to that but I just want to point out that in this era of being blackpilled about the polls, if you watched and trusted them this wasn’t a complete shock.

The race was within the margin of error according to polling. Maybe a major upset from a political geography perspective but not if you believe polling.

Thank goodness the Benevolent Socialist People’s Censors are here to protect us simple minded workers from such dangerous counterrevolutionary information we would not understand. 🙈🙉🙊