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Ken Harper's avatar

It's nice to see the Right isn't the only place where commonsense approaches to real problems go to die. Josh, you posited a fantastic little item about Democratic solutions to real world problems - affordable housing...hell, any available housing, and all you get back in the comments is DeathSantis, anti-vax cowards, etc. Love the idea of so little sympathy for unvaccinated people getting sick. The reality is there is way too much real world hard living for most everyone to give a crap about Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated. They have moved on. 85% of adults are Vaxxed. 10% of the left and 10% of the right are fighting it out, and the rest of the world is ignoring politics completely and trying to pay for dinner tonight, or getting a better job, or keeping the one they have.

The first political party to competently address these issues will clean up at the polls for a decade. Betting odds right now are "None of the Above" in a landslide...

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BenjaMean's avatar

It’s a great point! However I do think it’s just another of the plethora of intelligent arguments that makes perfect sense if you’re a rational, thoughtful, decently intelligent person. But that contingent does not generally think logically nor intelligently and they are easily distracted by emotion and wedge issues. Plenty has been written about this phenomenon - the strongest of which I believe is What’s The Matter With Kansas where it’s laid out with data explicitly that the vast majority of republicans vote against their own economic interests.

So while I completely agree with your post, I’m not sure it would translate to that base.

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