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caze

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  1. Democratic Socialism is anti-free market, socially owned means of production; Social Democracy is free market capitalism with a beefy social welfare system and progressive taxation.
  2. Biden's platform is well within the bounds of left-wing social democracy, it's the most left wing electoral platform since the new deal. Much of it would seem extreme even in Europe among non-crazy left wing parties.
  3. America in general has not articulated these distinctions well at all. 'Liberal' no longer refers to actual Liberalism, it means left-wing social democracy. Bernie didn't help by calling himself a Democratic Socialist, which does have more in common with Communism than Social Democracy (if you want to own the means of production you're a commie, basically), and Social Democracy was more in line with what his actual platform was (what Americans mistakenly refer to as liberal). Americans in general seem to have a poor understanding of these ideological categories, and the politics of other nations and their relations to such categories - hence the common misconception that all of Europe is Socialist and that Scandinavian countries in particular are some kind of socialist utopia (this is a misconception from the left and the right), in many ways European countries are more free market oriented.
  4. The only thing that would see America establish a multi-party system is widespread voting reform, and that would require the Democrats to win an unprecedented-in-modern-times landslide of the presidency, both congresses, a majority of the governorships, and most of the state legislatures. Things that would need to be changed: remove first-past-the-post, replace with some kind of proportional representation (a single-transferrable-vote or something similar would be best); remove/reform the electoral college and other aspects of federal elections, fix gerrymandered districts at state level, proper campaign finance reform. This would probably require several constitutional amendments, hence the need for a massive across-the-board majority. A simple split in one or the other party would just leave the other to pick up the pieces, they wouldn't have any incentive to fix the system as long as that situation remained in play, they'd need a comfortable majority across the board, not just a freak and undeserved win because of the flawed system itself.
  5. Biden has won very clearly, with a massive margin in the popular vote, and a massive margin in Pennsylvania and Michigan, states Trump won last time. Yes there were a few other states which were close, within 10-20k votes, just as they were close in 2016 when Trump won them, but Biden didn't need all of them in the end, because he also flipped Georgia. It only appears close because the delay in counting mail-in ballots due to differences in rules in certain states (Pennsylvania and Wisconsin vs Florida and Ohio, which is thanks to the Republican state senators blocking legislation in the former) meant the race wasn't called on the night, allowing the GOP time to construct this fake fraud narrative. Trump was an incumbent, the economy was doing well pre-covid, his approval ratings were relatively high for such a divisive figure; he went into this campaign with a massive advantage and Biden did remarkably well to defeat him. Sanders and Warren would have done worse, just look at how badly Biden did with Latinos in Texas and Florida (compared to Clinton, who much better), if they managed to paint a boring centrist like Biden as an evil socialist there, imagine what they would have done with an actual socialist nation-wide. The democratic primary voters didn't even like Warren or Sanders, you really think they would have been able to attract more independents and never-Trump republicans? They wouldn't have, and this is what swung the election for Biden, he won back white voters who voted for Trump or didn't vote at all last time (both blue collar and middle class, men and women) - this was especially evident in Georgia and Pennsylvania.
  6. They can't withdraw their certification though, tough shit dipshits. The state certification board sits on Monday.
  7. It's total garbage, I was hoping the new season might be better thanks to the jump into the future, at least they can stop fucking up the original timeline. But no, it's still garbage. The writers are just all terrible, the dialog is cringe inducing, and every moment of every episode is imbued with needless import, there's about 6 inspirational speeches per episode, everything operates at 100%, so when they need to ratchet up the tension there's nowhere left to go, and as a consequence it ends up being interminably dull. I mostly watch it while browsing twitter at this point. What isn't total garbage though is The Queens Gambit, which is instead really good, excellent writing and top performances from everyone. Looks great too. Anya Taylor Joy is like some kind of weird sexy alien too, which is nice.
  8. nah, if anything it would make it less likely, it would split the right wing vote and the dems would remain in power indefinitely, why would they implement electoral reform then?
  9. That's still on the cards, both Georgia seats look set to be going to a runoff election in January, those two plus Mark Kelly (who looks set to win in Arizona) would leave it 50-50, with Harris as the tie-breaker.
  10. The race isn't going to be close by the end, it just looked that way because it was counted slow because of the mail ballots. He's going to win the popular vote by ~5m votes. 300ish EC votes, if he wins AZ it'll be more than Trump won, and all this against an incumbent, who have only been beaten 3 times previously IIRC. If Pennsylvania mail ballots were processed first, as they were in Ohio, then the election would have been called for Biden on the night of the election.
  11. Hopefully as a 3rd party candidate because the GOP abandons him and it really pisses him off.
  12. Nevada has around 140,000 votes left to be counted, and has the tightest margin of any remaining state, so it's probably less likely to be called before Georgia and Arizona and even Pennsylvania (which has a lot more votes, but is a much bigger state with a bigger counting operation, so will probably get through them quicker, and the margin for Biden might be a lot larger too meaning they can call it quicker).
  13. There are too many characters in S4, it's well made, acting and writing good, but a bit too much stuff crammed in there.
  14. Probably better to wait 'til they're finished counting the votes to compare to the polls, but it looks like, as in 2016, most of the polling was pretty accurate.
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