US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.
"[Trump] means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’.”
Mr Trump’s comment that it would “be a bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.
The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trump’s political opponents and others had been “viciously” misquoting him.
Your initial misunderstanding is that you’re only thinking within the acceptable terms. Two things I think you might want to consider.
First you’ve alluded to it multiple times which is the Overton Window. Which is shifting, but not only to the right in American politics. If you read the links I posted earlier, political violence in America is becoming more acceptable to the left as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
The other is that there is such a thing as manufactured consent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
You’ve also referenced that there’s lobbying and wealthy interest that gain undue power in a political system through what amounts to corruption but is called lobbying and regulatory capture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
The best bet to defeat all of these. Believe it or not is ranked choice voting. Be prepared though, what follows is a special interest fire hose.
A primer on what it could start as in the US https://www.npr.org/2023/12/13/1214199019/ranked-choice-voting-explainer
How it can make lasting change https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/politics/ranked-choice-voting-ctzn/index.html
How it leads to more moderate candidates https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-02/ranked-choice-voting-can-result-in-more-moderate-candidates
And finally if you have the bandwidth for it a very wonky deep dive into plurality politics and their historical outcomes, and how the wealthy often fight them. https://brill.com/view/journals/copr/14/4/article-p416_416.xml
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You’ve been here only 3 days and already are so defensive. I’ve decided that you’re willfully ignorant, unwilling to read sources, and are unable to post supporting sources for your points.
I hope you heal your ego and reconsider your position. Have a calmer night. I’m not going to engage further with you about this as you are not able to support your argument or consider a viewpoint outside of your own. I don’t want to contribute to the divisiveness of the situation, no matter how much I shit post here. I think this might be of interest to you. I’ll give you some sources for the United States, since you as a Canadian have such a strong rigid opinion on our politics.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-tech-platforms-fuel-u-s-political-polarization-and-what-government-can-do-about-it/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-social-media-makes-us-more-polarized-and-how-to-fix-it/
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I’m lost, you can read my responses but not my sources… I think it might be reading comprehension and not literacy that is your problem.
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That’s a good start, now follow up with the rest of the context of the many links I posted.
Also I’m curious you haven’t answered any of my question about why your account is only 3 days old and have such a strong opinion on American politics.
I dont’ know who’s doing it but please stop down voting @[email protected] . You’re only hiding the slow progress they’re making.
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I think you might, because you’re parroting the point of the very people you’re saying are "poisoning the pool "as you say.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/ranked-choice-voting-elections.html
And again, here you can read this one in private. I won’t tell anyone.
https://triblive.com/opinion/tyler-cowen-want-more-moderate-candidates-demand-ranked-choice-voting/
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I’m not downvoting you, and I didn’t say anything about you downvoting me.
No I’m suspicious of young accounts that have such strong opinions on countries they don’t live in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57558028
https://theconversation.com/political-trolls-adapt-create-material-to-deceive-and-confuse-the-public-135177
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-13-social-media-manipulation-political-actors-industrial-scale-problem-oxford-report
I’m sure you can understand why