My sense is that many of the "defecting" Democrats have switched to vote for the Republican candidate in the primaries who would be the most likely to be beaten by the opposing Democrat in the general election. So far, it hasn't seemed to work.
On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 10:33 AM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > *"The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA > party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent > authoritarian cult which worships a conman."* > > Absurd!! > > Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican > this year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became > deluded cultists? > > The absolute worst thing about the American political system is the, *de > facto*, two-party system that forces voting *for *something when you > simply want to vote *against* something else. > > And it is the party apparatchik that personify "something" into a living > breathing candidate. The vast majority (80+%) of voters then"hold their > noses" and "swallow their disgust" and appear to vote for a 'person' when > what they really want to do is vote against "something." [I am being > deliberately vague about something, but it would be a mix of philosophies, > beliefs, policies, laws, appointments, actions, oratory, etc.] > > It would not even be accurate to say that politicians and party > apparatchiks "lost their way;" as they never had a "way" to begin with. To > a person they are cynical amoralists who care nothing about acquiring power > and winning the next election. McConnell and Pelosi are but the two faces > of same Janus god. *(Yes, I recognize that my rhetoric here is just as > absurd as the quoted rhetoric that began this post.)* > > davew > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 12:33 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the > Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of > integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman. > > Corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their > own mummy cling to power by embracing this dangerous cult and by > manipulating voter districts (gerrymandering). The GOP needs to renew > itself. Here in Europe Green parties begin to replace the conservative > parties. > > -J. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> > Date: 7/2/22 08:58 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] self-care > > The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. > > For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced > abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their > puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and > outright lies. > > These pills are highly toxic / carcinogenic and Guttmacher was caught red > handed by us for using fake accounts on Wikipedia to shape the "self > induced abortion" article to depict it as safe and as an at-home remedy. We > got Guttmacher delisted in India for about a year, but they made their way > back through the USAID RMNCHA programs used to bribe foreign government > servants to shape policy > > Sarbajit > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up > in my feed: > > How to Give Yourself an Abortion > https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion > > I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to > my oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, > I'm poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the > people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post > came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient > after surgery: > https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11. > (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.) > > Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And > while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. > *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even > mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite > the excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? > Despite my sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated > follicular lymphoma? Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, > shovel dirt, drink 5 pints without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job > with a bit of time for hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't > reflect what I feel on the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the > slightest bad event would topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" > is at best a misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: > https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf > > Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, > cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering > veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. 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