When I was very young we would rent audiobooks from the library and copy them to tape (or eventually disc).
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Makes sense, although sadly for real people in person, the elder you look the more likely they are to be pro-Israel. If I'm lucky, the person I'm interacting with recognizes that Hamas are not the people of Palestine, and even then it's a dicey conversation.
This has been my experience in Oregon at an elder care facility, at least.
Yes, I said the morningstar link was unrelated
People can vote for local elections and not vote for a president. There's often local measures and ballots that make meaningful change, such as ranked choice. Which failed. Because people didn't vote for it.
Enthusiasm for a president should not affect your local elections when the local elections are specifically meant to change how you vote for the president. Among other things, at least. Not having ranked choice was the thing everyone was complaining about, no one showed up to vote for it.
The Green Party having no political candidates in meaningful elected positions is propaganda?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Green_politicians_who_have_held_office_in_the_United_States
Okay.
Unrelated, just more mega donors with names https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240618164/meet-the-10-biggest-megadonors-in-the-2024-election-cycle-so-far
And forgive me for thinking that the Leader of the Green Party should probably not have investments in the oil industry and Home Depot, index/retirement fund or not. If I can reallocate my inherited investments, the leader of the Green Party can too.
I doubt the conservatives will restructure the American government. When Trump dies, if it's in office, J.D. Vance will be president.
If they continue with Project 2025, well, then I guess Christians will never have to vote again.
So Putin is better for Ukraine?
And if you do make it, like the people of Tulsa did, then the racists will bomb your city.
I'm sad to see this, because they shouldn't be. It's the 20 million people who voted 4 years ago who didn't this time around. They didn't vote at all, regardless of president, so there's really no specific group to blame.
You can't blame the Harris campaign for not getting voters to vote for local elections. Ranked choice initiatives didn't pass, because people didn't vote for them. Republicans got Senate because people didn't vote against them. No one had to vote for president, but they surely could have voted at all.
Of course they did, nobody who would have voted in support of it went to go vote for it.
From another article,
At a recent campaign stop, Trump himself floated two potential candidates who he said could oversee the dismantlement of the education department: Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who ran for the GOP nomination before dropping out and endorsing Trump, and former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York, who left Congress last year after an unsuccessful bid for governor.
“I’m going to close the Department of Education and move education back to the states. And we’re going to do it fast. We’ll get somebody great,” Trump said Sept. 23 in Indiana, Pa. “Lee Zeldin is here with us tonight. I think that’s a job for Lee or Vivek, or we’ll get somebody. We like Vivek. We need somebody with a lot of energy, a lot of strength, energy, and intelligence.”
It’s uncertain if Trump really sees Ramaswamy or Zeldin as potential education secretaries, or if he was simply giving the two of them a shout-out because they happened to be on the scene. (Ramaswamy has been a warm-up act for Trump at other campaign events, though it’s not clear if he was present that evening.)
Trump has also mentioned Ramaswamy for other key roles in his administration, including suggesting this month at a campaign stop in Scranton, Pa., that he’d be great at negotiating trade issues with French President Emmanuel Macron.
At this point the only thing I'm hoping for is that this happens in 4 years when Trump can't legally run as president again. No figurehead, no MAGA.
Wishful thinking, but possible.
As for the democratic party, yeah pretty much. I think it's been clear for a while that voters are unhappy with the DNC and reluctantly accept the lack of actual progressive policy. Much like the Republican party has been split from MAGA and "classical conservatism" for lack of a better phrase, the Democratic party has been split between liberals and leftists.
The difference is that classical conservatives will always vote in party lines, making the MAGA figurehead their guaranteed pick.
Democratic don't always pick their party line. Sometimes we get independents or multiple Democrats, sometimes we just don't show up to vote if the candidate isn't as good as they should be. So like many have been saying, if we get an actual leftist candidate, it's possible we would actually have significantly higher voter turnout.