Turning America blue - College towns pouring acid on the Repugs

[Muse]

Politico article details Wisconsin's, Michigan's and and other states' moves away from Repug relevancy:

‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP

Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers.

www.politico.com

In state after state, fast-growing, traditionally liberal college counties like Dane (Wisconsin) are flexing their muscles, generating higher turnout and ever greater Democratic margins. They’ve already played a pivotal role in turning several red states blue — and they could play an equally decisive role in key swing states next year.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Republicans are going after schools in places like Florida and Ohio for exactly that reason, to start indoctrinating kids with their nonsense.

 

[brycejones]

This is why the GOP in some states are trying to change voting rules and make it harder to vote on college campuses.

 

[hal2kilo]

Republicans are going after schools in places like Florida and Ohio for exactly that reason, to start indoctrinating kids with their nonsense.

FEMA camps in situ.

 

[Muse]

Republicans are going after schools in places like Florida and Ohio for exactly that reason, to start indoctrinating kids with their nonsense.

That could make a lot more enemies than friends. The kids aren't stupid, they know what they're going through.

 

[K1052]

That could make a lot more enemies than friends. The kids aren't stupid, they know what they're going through.

A number of red states would rather ruin the reputations and competitiveness of their high quality state schools than suffer even the remotest chance a Democrat could win an election someday. This doesn't just apply to students, faculty they want to recruit will avoid them too. There is a golden opportunity of other states who don't have their heads in their own asses to build up their own schools at their expense.

 

[eelw]

While I get the shift to the left by the next generation. But still plenty of MAGAtard young adults at R conventions.

 

[KMFJD]

You ought to have a look at the life expectancy differences between the traditional republican strongholds vs democratic strongholds....it's becoming a huge problem for the gop

How life expectancy in Republican states compares to Democratic ones

On average, Democratic states' residents see a lifespan of more than two years longer than those living in Republican ones, according to a Newsweek analysis.

www.newsweek.com

Republican Counties Have Higher Mortality Rates Than Democratic Ones, Study Finds

Mortality rates decreased by 22% in Democratic counties compared to 11% in Republican counties from 2001 to 2019, according to the study.

www.forbes.com

 

[hal2kilo]

You ought to have a look at the life expectancy differences between the traditional republican strongholds vs democratic strongholds....it's becoming a huge problem for the gop

How life expectancy in Republican states compares to Democratic ones

On average, Democratic states' residents see a lifespan of more than two years longer than those living in Republican ones, according to a Newsweek analysis.

www.newsweek.com

Republican Counties Have Higher Mortality Rates Than Democratic Ones, Study Finds

Mortality rates decreased by 22% in Democratic counties compared to 11% in Republican counties from 2001 to 2019, according to the study.

www.forbes.com

Ignorance of health science can be deadly.

 

[Thump553]

You ought to have a look at the life expectancy differences between the traditional republican strongholds vs democratic strongholds....it's becoming a huge problem for the gop

How life expectancy in Republican states compares to Democratic ones

On average, Democratic states' residents see a lifespan of more than two years longer than those living in Republican ones, according to a Newsweek analysis.

www.newsweek.com

Republican Counties Have Higher Mortality Rates Than Democratic Ones, Study Finds

Mortality rates decreased by 22% in Democratic counties compared to 11% in Republican counties from 2001 to 2019, according to the study.

www.forbes.com

Interesting point, but I think is more than counterbalanced by the life expectancy of the current Supreme Court justices. So long as they remain in power and continue to legislate from the bench it doesn't matter what the voters say. Especially when the Supreme Court decides what election laws are enforceable and how they are enforced. I don't think GWB will be the last President selected by the Supreme Court and not by the voters.

 

[Muse]

While I get the shift to the left by the next generation. But still plenty of MAGAtard young adults at R conventions.

As we learned in last general, convening mobs of MAGAtards does not guarantee Repugs winning elections.

 

[trenchfoot]

Interesting point, but I think is more than counterbalanced by the life expectancy of the current Supreme Court justices. So long as they remain in power and continue to legislate from the bench it doesn't matter what the voters say. Especially when the Supreme Court decides what election laws are enforceable and how they are enforced. I don't think GWB will be the last President selected by the Supreme Court and not by the voters.

Still, it seems to me that there isn't much that the MAGA crowd can do toward reversing the trend of their numbers shrinking while the Democrat's numbers are growing with the exception of their transforming the nation into a dictatorship run by those handpicked stooges that the Heritage Foundation chose to anoint.

The SCOTUS has made recent decisions that are despised by the majority of the nation. This trend toward favoring an autocratic/theocratic from of gov't will eventually catch up with these robber barons and the religious fanatics that want to force their heavenly decreed will on the rest of the nation because they think they have the ultimate authority to do just that.

Can't say how long it will take but for the fact that the GOP has chosen to be on the wrong side of history is something they will sooner or later be held to account for. The GOP has given control of their party to the likes of Boebert, Marge Greene, Gaetz, DeSantis etc. and all of them are Trump racist radical right wing spawn that will take the party by the nose and lead it to it's inevitable demise because the only direction they can lead the party is further and further to the right until it drags their party and the nation into a hole it can't dig itself out of.

 

[Leeea]

The SCOTUS has made recent decisions that are despised by the majority of the nation. This trend toward favoring an autocratic/theocratic from of gov't will eventually catch up with these robber barons and the religious fanatics that want to force their heavenly decreed will on the rest of the nation because they think they have the ultimate authority to do just that.

This really is the democratic parties only hope.

Abortion is one of those issues that gets people under the age of 30 hopping angry. It is not just abortion either.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Republicans are going after schools in places like Florida and Ohio for exactly that reason, to start indoctrinating kids with their nonsense.

Schools in the south have been indoctinating kids for decades. My high school textbooks in Texas made Martin Luther King out to be a guy who just wanted to eat at lunch counters and sit in the front of the bus rather than as a labor organizer who challenged our entire crooked economic system. I remember being shocked reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to find out it wasn't really about meat packing like my school whitewashed it to be when the book started off with housing fraud committed by the banks and was really a call to action for Communist revolution in the US.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

And I hope the youth go a lot farther than turning the nation blue. The current Democrats are basically like early 90s Republicans and I hope those ghouls are replaced by a genuine labor party as Millennials and Generation Z come to power.

 

[Moonbeam]

Lets hope they become classically inspiration driven liberals rather than authoritarian fear driven ones otherwise we will just ping pong back and forth or fall.

 

[Indus]

There are good things happening here but I'm not smiling because some blue states are turning purple.. more or less by stupidity of those elected:

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[dank69]

Republicans are going after schools in places like Florida and Ohio for exactly that reason, to start indoctrinating kids with their nonsense.

Republicans in every state want to restrict student voters anywhere they get enough power to do so.

 

[Stokely]

Good, that's more of that college "radical indoctrination" the Right likes to bleat about. The rest of us like to call it "critical thinking" and "understanding complex systems" (like the environment these kids are going to be living in long after most so-called Conservatives are gone.)

If more younger people got out to vote the Right would be screwed and they know it. That's why that one dingleberry candidate is proposing to raise the voting age to 25 (excepting military of course). All that radical indoctrination would have washed off by then. I'm sure he's not proposing to raise the military enlistment age though. You can die for your country but you aren't allowed to have a say in who is running it, sounds like a great plan.

 

[Muse]

And I hope the youth go a lot farther than turning the nation blue. The current Democrats are basically like early 90s Republicans and I hope those ghouls are replaced by a genuine labor party as Millennials and Generation Z come to power.

This is a very pertinent video to your points:

 

[SteveGrabowski]

This is a very pertinent video to your points:

I'll give the interview a listen in a minute. Like that he might actually vote for a national healthcare. Really hope the Millenials and Gen Z, unlike my Gen X and the boomers, are able to see past the corporate media's bullshit narrative to see private insurance nor ACA with or without a public option are centrist, but that Medicare For All is genuinely centrist in terms of what the people and not the American oligarchs want

 

[NWRMidnight]

This is why the GOP in some states are trying to change voting rules and make it harder to vote on college campuses.

It's also the main reason they want to raise the minimum voting age, to take Collage students entirely out of the picture.

 

[Charmonium]

Interesting point, but I think is more than counterbalanced by the life expectancy of the current Supreme Court justices. So long as they remain in power and continue to legislate from the bench it doesn't matter what the voters say. Especially when the Supreme Court decides what election laws are enforceable and how they are enforced. I don't think GWB will be the last President selected by the Supreme Court and not by the voters.

I would just like to point out that when the Warren Court "created" the right to "marital privacy" in Griswold v CT, this was decried by the "right" to also be 'legislating from the bench' - despite getting yea votes from 7 of the 9 justices.

Of course that "penumbral right" was expanded substantially in succeeding years.

The point is this: if you like a decision, well that's justice. If you don't, that judicial legislation.

edit: BTW, you know this is getting moved, yes?

Hahaha, never mind.

 

[Muse]

It's also the main reason they want to raise the minimum voting age, to take Collage students entirely out of the picture.

I hope there's zero traction for raising the voting age. What an ignorant, foolish, destructive thing to do! Republicans are a shameless lot.

26th Amendment - Right to Vote at Age 18​

The National Constitution Center
https://constitutioncenter.org › amendment-xxvi


SECTION. 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States ...

 

[Stokely]

They are also, on the whole, old. As am I, but I'm not afraid to say that my cohort is largely full of shit people. Old people have contempt for young people and their "book learnin'" aka "radical indoctrination" and they want their Leave it to beaver white world back when all the undesirables knew their place. The GOP would like to raise the voting age to 50 if they could, and it would be interesting to see a poll on who favors males only voting rights as it was before 1920. I reckon that would be a fairly large percentage and sickeningly a lot of Republican women would be among them.