Republican town hall drowned out by "tax the rich" chants

Yup! The issue is the dems are supported by, you guessed it, the rich. Aside from a few outliers who put their beliefs and morals ahead of their wallets or power, most of the dems would never turn their back on their oligarchic stakeholders.

I mean, fuck, they make $174,000 a year and work like 130 days a year. Assuming 8 hour work days, that's ~$167/hour, before any sort of lobbying or bribes gifts. They can just sit there and do fuck all and be happy as a cow, so that's what they do. For some reason, we (the people) keep voting for them, usually just out of fear of the other guys getting the spot.

I hate this fucking system.

Had states like Nebraska with unproportional representation actually voted for more progressive candidates we wouldn’t be in this boat.

Omaha, Nebraska is fully owned and operated by Berkshire Hathaway. The state's legislature is fully in their pocket. The statewide representation is entirely Buffett/Munger pilled.

People will tell you these guys are liberals, then get all google-y eyed when the states put up straight fascist representation decade after decade, while the billionaire class goes on TV and says "Gee, I wish this wasn't happening to you all."

Stop acting like this is some moment of Nebraska having progressive clarity.

The issue is that Democrats, and the neoliberal caucus in particular, have gone out of their way to misunderstand and therefore give up on, or to run in an entirely wrong manner, for seats that are very, very winnable.

As you point out, Nebraska has a 20:1 ratio of people to Senators relative to California. That means your electoral "dollar" goes 20x farther in Nebraska than it does in California. And as is evidenced above, they hate their Republicans almost as much as they hate Democrats, like most of America.

Also, Kamala didn’t lose because she was a moderate. She lost because she’s a mixed race woman.

Miss me with this neo-liberal fucking dipshit take. Get the fuck out of here with this. She lost 100% because of her rightward step, and sure, being a mixed race woman would have been an uphill struggle, but America elected a black man named Barrack Hussein Obama, in the fucking war in the god damned middle east, because they thought he represented what he campaigned on: change. Yes its a sexist and racist country, but far, far more-so, it is a country desperately trying to change the status-quo politics which quite literally aren't working for anyone.

If you are so pudding brained this is the lesson you learned from 2024, you will never win another election in this country again. Before Kamala pivoted to right wing positions (prior the convention), her polling was on headed straight to the fucking moon. Why? Because the only things people had to go off of to estimate who she was, was her 2020 primary platform: And its a super fucking popular platform. Its the platform that Bernie ran on. Its the platform that got Biden elected.

She was cruising on a rocket ship to be in the range of 53-56% by election day. And then the fucking moderate Democrats stepped in. With their fucking "well reasoned" arguments about centrism and courting the "moderate Republicans". And she stepped to the right. She cut a speaking position for a Gazan delegate to give space to a "moderate Republican". She chose to platform Liz fucking Cheney, who lost her primary with 25% of the vote. Harris quite literally said that she would "do nothing fundamentally different" and that "nothing would change" under her Presidency.

Get to the back of the fucking bus with this shit, because if this is the political wisdom you coming to the table with, we can not afford to have you leading.

I'm not an american, but man did Kamala and Biden look washed up as fuck. The same thing is happening in Europe/Romania too: washed up politicians that are tone deaf to the majority of people and then are surprised pikachu face when they lose. It boggles my mind almost no one comes up with (and is LOUD about it) things that favor the middle/working class.

Well yeah, from Chuck Schumer to Nancy Pelosi winning the stock market with insider trading.

Which is why I keep referring to the US as a one party state ... the Democrat/Republican Party ... which is owned and controlled by the oligarchy it is beholden to.