I Feel that the Republicans Need Representation in the Liberal Media
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 27, 2021 2:40pm CST
Democrats (led by Lawrence O'Donnell & Rachel Maddow & Ali Velshi & the rest of MSNBC's anchors) have the presupposition that Republicans are pirates trying to tear America apart.
I don't think Republicans want to do that; I think that 'something they DO want' kinda makes them BLIND to "what they're destroying" in order to get it.
So I guess I'm wanting to know 'what Republican politicians want' (NOT "what Democrats & Liberals SAY Republicans want").
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@Vikingswest1 (6305)
• United States
27 Jul 21
While another responder chose to share hate, I'll choose to say you make a great point.
I actually think that most of the GOP is liberal too and conservatives barely have a voice in their own party.
The media is a scripted show and no longer reports news and instead, writes stories based on opinion.
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@Vikingswest1 (6305)
• United States
27 Jul 21
@topffer
Agreed. News has become entertainment.
Journalism and Journalists are rare today. A dying breed.
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
28 Jul 21
What might be good for the US, in my humble opinion, is a third party.
One that can appeal to centre ground where elections are more often won...at least in the UK.
It'd get members with centrist views from the right and left which would moderate and hard left/right policies.
American politics is different from most of Europe because it doesn't actually have a hard left...what you'd call a hard left would be a joke in somewhere like France
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
Oh, there are several 'Third Party's (There were at least three Third Partys in the last election). The closest a Third Party ever got (that I can remember) was Ross Perot (Independent) in '88.
And that wouldn't work in America, where you don't need a majority to win if you've got a plurality (maybe more people DON'T want you to be President than DO, but the other votes are so divided among your competitors that YOU have the highest individual number).
In America, it usually works out that 'a vote for a Third Party' actually counts as a vote for the more popular of The Two parties. (Unless they change it to Ranked Choice voting like they have in Maine.)
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
@Mike197602 Well, he was Rich ... I wasn't old enough to vote, but I get the feeling that he didn't have to 'beat the other candidates in his party' (like Republicans & Democrats do) in a primary ballot.
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
29 Jul 21
@mythociate the only parties I have ever heard of in the US are reps and dems.
I mean an actual third political party rather than a third party individual candidate.
Did Ross Perot actually have an actual party behind him or was he just and indi single person?
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@kaylachan (57687)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Jul 21
This ongoing war between the two parties is just insane. It's what's tearing the country appart.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 Jan 22
@anniepa I respond to this the same way I respond when I hear people who want to "Defund the Police."
"No! We need them, but we need to reform their operations!" For The Electoral College, we need to ... i dunno, maybe 'merge them into the Senate/House' (or 'make Senators/Representatives take over for them'). That way, the Reps/Senators (who we still vote for one-by-one) will more fully do their job.
Incoming New York City Comptroller Brad Lander will have an NYPD security detail – even though he advocates defunding the police, according to a report.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
No. Because their parties are what make the people strong (for better or worse)
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
I guess I don't normally watch or hear those.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jul 21
@sallypup I would disagree; it's like saying "My brother (who LIVES in Portland) doesn't know Portland if he doesn't watch [b]Portlandia[/i]."
Maybe PORTLANDIA offers information about Portland that he hadn't considered, but I doubt it ...
And NPR & The BBC are probably two of the MANY places where MSNBC gets its news.
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@sallypup (57888)
• Centralia, Washington
29 Jul 21
@mythociate Then you don't have the entire picture. Me, either, cause I don't watch TV.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
No, they don't. I'll admit, they DO have a lot of parrot-brains (who believe what they hear repeatedly on TV, where Trump and his goons love to trumpet out their message); but ... without TV, they don't care WHERE Trump finds his next paycheck.
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
29 Jul 21
I honestly think the republican party as a whole want no part of trump.
They may have supported him in ways but that was due to, in my humble and non US opinion, party loyalty.
He was a car crash waiting to happen from the word go and he did not disappoint.
From a domestic US point of view I know nothing but from an international point of view he wasn't a great president...he just didn't seem to get reality.
The main thing he did that was good in my opinion was to meet the north korean pres...it's better to at least try to talk than go to war.
Honestly got to say though...Biden is no good either in my opinion.
Although he wasn't a fan of the UK and wasn't a supporter of brexit (I am) President Obama was a pretty classy man and his wife wasn't bad either...in my opinion Trump didn't come anywhere near and neither does biden.
Maybe time you changed the term limits in a genuine democracy...if it isn't broken why fix it...by that if you have an effective popular President why end their leadership...have fixed term elections of course but end the time limit on a President.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Jul 21
@Mike197602 I HEAR (from Michelle Obama) that life in The White House (the Presidential mansion) is like a prison-sentence ... with Secret Service men as your warden (you can't 'go anywhere or do anything' without permission, and most of your days are all planned out by your 'handlers').
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