XPost: talk.politics.misc, sac.politics, or.politics
On 26 Apr 2025,
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com posted some news:vujvf7$pkg$
1@reader1.panix.com:
The demographic backstory of current voters is vastly different from
two generations ago. Folks come from different traditions and so see everything different. Both the left and right. There is no center and
no common belief or tradition. The decline in military service as
well as a common educational system also fragments us. Ocasio's
socialism matches the global left, and Trump's populism matches the
global right. The Madisonian Federalist ideals no longer hold sway. I
learned politics door-to-door and phone banking instead of mass
rallies, which were more common abroad. We are replacing the 1900
petitions with ranked choice voting and top-two primaries. Compare sites.google.com/site/rtdlies on left to jackreylan.blogspot.com on
right
TV media and social media have helped create the divisions. People
don't really talk to each other anymore. They talk at and expect their positions to be accepted as fact regardless of questionable accuracy.
Look at dinners in public. Everybody is playing with their stupid
phones.
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