“You have to see the hole in the ship. And if you don’t see the hole in the ship, we’re all going to go down.”

To use political jargon, Nikki Haley—who has lost primary contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and her home state of South Carolina—does not have a snow ball’s chance in hell of winning the GOP nomination for president. Still, she is apparently intent on not going down without a fight, and to that end, the former governor has a message for voters: Anyone who votes for Donald Trump has a death wish for America.

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
    512·
    10 months ago

    I’m not a Republican or a Democrat. I just firmly believe in government working for the people. I don’t play party politics.

    You have to realize that at the end of the day, we’re all people and that treating people like individuals is better than treating government like a competitive sport.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1010·
      10 months ago

      The “big tent” is just an excuse to move the democratic party right so no matter who wins the billionaires never lose…

      That’s why the party fights any movement to the left, and takes every opportunity to move right.

      I’m sorry you can’t understand that, but as a “conservative moderate” I’m sure this isn’t a new experience.

      Have a nice life

      • hddsx@lemmy.ca
        310·
        10 months ago

        I’m not trying to be a Democrat. And I also don’t believe democrats should move right. That’s something Obama did wrong.

        If the middle is 0, one side should be -5 and the other side should be +5. Obama had too much faith in republicans, offering 0 right off the bat, allowing republicans to go to +10.

        What should really happen is that the Republican Party should be split into far right crazies and center right, and the Democratic Party should be split into center left and far left.

        It is absolutely ridiculous for the Republican Party to characterize the Democrats as “the far left” and throw terms like “communist” and “socialist”. The US NEEDS a socialist and communist party such that the Republican Party can stop mis-using these terms and come back to reality.

        I’m sorry if you think I misunderstood, and I welcome any corrections

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          TL;DR: you’re a reasonable person, but one who has no understanding of the game theory of how our political system works.

          Here’s the thing: you can’t just want the Overton window to not be skewed and for all ideologies to be represented by political parties; you have to understand the current fucked-up framework we have that structurally suppresses all but the two most popular parties in order to figure out how to change it to be fairer.

          The only alternatives to developing that understanding and strategy – sitting around whining about it, or trying to burn it down and start over – range from ineffective to foolhardy.

          • hddsx@lemmy.ca
            21·
            10 months ago

            TIL that there’s a term for the concept I’ve been trying to explain what’s wrong with American politics.

            By framework, do you mean FPTP naturally becomes a two party system? Because honestly, we need RCV. And it might be prudent to go back to the system at founding:

            Most votes is President, second most is vice.

            To be honest, I’m not sure why we have to vote for a ticket.