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You make some good points, but in the end, exit polling doesn’t reveal the amount of racial bias, homophobia, and misogyny baked into the electorate. Their mango messiah promised them their anti-liberal dreams would be realized. Combine that with a lot of ignorance about how the economy works, and you have the results we’ve seen.

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Female, black, smart. How will we change that?

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Naturally, we can’t. Nor can we un-bias the right wing. So we’re at an impasse. I have no idea to break it.

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They have to hit rock bottom... Again.

As if the end of Trump Part 1 was not horrific enough.

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Remember that the writer said that we can write off that far right 30% so these excellent observations and suggestions are valid and well thought out for appealing to the remainder of the electorate including independents.

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Let’s assume 30% is correct (I think it’s higher than that, TBH). Let’s also assume Dems failed to educate the other Trump voters sufficiently about the economic impact of years of artificially low interest rates after the Great Recession followed by the impact of a global pandemic. Then add to that the influence of price-gouging and collusion by big businesses after Covid, which further drove up prices. Finally, throw in the unexpected oversized influence by certain billionaires on public perception to protect their own self-interests. How does that translate to β€œlet’s vote for the guy who overtly hates us and failed miserably the first time to make our lives better?” Or, forget women’s right to bodily autonomy, the price of gas is too high, so let’s choose the clearly elderly mentally ill candidate over the younger, smarter, more experienced, and certainly more vibrant one. Voters had only one job, and they failed at that. Sadly, we’ll all suffer.

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WE, THE PEOPLE, must DEMAND a hand recount beginning in Pennsylvania--

It will reveal that all the numbers are OFF

Was it an undetectable Virus?

Of course this should be have been done automatically when we are up AGAINST the biggest techies on Earth.

They re-engineered the Blue Wave into a Red Wave

Please stop wasting this precious time focusing on analyzing false numbers and false trends!

All of it has been CORRUPTED!

Instead of all these long cerebral articles

MTN needs to focus on THE SOLUTION

which is everyone demanding a hand recount in Pennsylvania

I've been contacting governors, senators, reps offices, the White House and everyone I can for 2 days

If EVERYONE would do this together it would be a lot more helpful than BELIEVING this corruption! Begging MTN and all 3+ million followers to get on board with this solution

With me.

Does anyone know how to start a petition?

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Its easy and I don't mean this in a patronizing way but you have to dumb down the explanation of complicated subjects like immigration and the economy. Both are highly technical things that don't fit well in a sound bite on IG or MUSX and that's what DonOLD did (not personally because no matter how many added IQ points journalists have given him post-election, his only talent is grifting). But a great spokesman like Pete could do it and though he's gay has enough street creds to counter that.

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Its easy and I don't mean this in a patronizing way but you have to dumb down the explanation of complicated subjects like immigration and the economy. Both are highly technical things that don't fit well in a sound bite on IG or MUSX and that's what DonOLD did (not personally because no matter how many added IQ points journalists have given him post-election, his only talent is grifting). But a great spokesman like Pete could do it and though he's gay has enough street creds to counter that.

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Its easy and I don't mean this in a patronizing way but you have to dumb down the explanation of complicated subjects like immigration and the economy. Both are highly technical things that don't fit well in a sound bite on IG or MUSX and that's what DonOLD did (not personally because no matter how many added IQ points journalists have given him post-election, his only talent is grifting). But a great spokesman like Pete could do it and though he's gay has enough street creds to counter that.

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