The polling showed that Fetterman was at +68 with Democrats in Pennsylvania back in 2023.
“He was a Democrat liberal darling,” Enten said.
That is no longer the case.
“Look at how low he has fallen, down to negative 40 points,” Enten said showing the new data. “He’s down there with the Titanic among Democrats in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
You like many Americans are trying to solve cultural rot by putting in more rules. “If only we had a rule that ___” this wouldn’t have happened. That’s not going to solve this. Being a congress-person is a skill. It requires actual skill, and it takes time to get to know how to be most effective. You can put in this rule if you want, and it might solve the problem you’re targeting, but it will create many more. You can’t solve problems caused by cultural rot (literally tens of millions of voters being okay with this) by putting in more administrative rules. Ultimately , democracies grant the people the power to destroy democracy. That is what the US is choosing.
That also doesn’t fix the problem of an administration that freely ignores the rules with complete impunity.
Thank you for putting into words what has seemed obvious to me for decades, but I don’t think I’ve ever put it quite this well.
I could never tell by looking at them.
All I see is incompetents at best, and corrupt profiteers at worst. Often both.
Americans love rules. Now I live in England, which has more rules on paper, but where most rules are widely disregarded.
I visited friends near Bath last year and they decided to take me canal boating. They signed one form to rent the boat and then a guy came on board and taught us how to drive it. I didn’t sign anything. They didn’t check my license or sort out any insurance or anything. I drove it for over 3 hrs lol. I was thinking how much paperwork such a thing would take of this was in the US or Canada.
Not sure how big a canal boat is, but all it took was a small chunk of change and I was given a boat big enough to dent a cargo ship, near a major shipping channel. I told the fella renting the boat that I was going to teach my family/friends how to use it, and off we went! So, at the very least, the statement that it would take a bunch of paperwork over in the new world is not universally correct.