ExLisper

The only person in real danger here is the journalist.

Saint James

My theory is that it's brain atrophy, not stupidity.

Americans are not stupid in the sense that they can't learn and do things. They are perfectly capable to work in a bank, fix a car, fly a plane or be a doctor. But even if they do work as as accountant or a surgeon (like Ben Carson...) they rarely use brains for analytical thinking. They don't have to. School is easy (you can just play sports), finding job used to be easy, buying home used to be easy, you were born into one political party and just followed it. You drive your huge car on endless highways surrounded by aesthetically sterile malls, eat your burgers, watch some football and that's it. No need to analyze things so your brain kind of forgets how to do it.

Eventually the country split into the curious part that actually wants to study and understand things and the "stupid" part that just consumes propaganda and votes for Trump. As some point the "stupid" part became the majority. Now not everything is that easy for young people but I think it's too late.

Zuck has to be pissed it wasn't WhatsApp.

Signal: so good even people who hate privacy use it!

Maybe even 16k.

So they can make my TV smaller? Nice.

The pool wasn't about general election. It's about primaries. Insane as it is, it's all about name recognition. People in US will simply vote for the one person they heard about. But it's still early, other candidates still have time to get their name out there.

ICE

Still? I never even considered it. Expensive, poor quality.

I wasn't taking about forming a new party. There are many parties out there already. People's Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party... I'm talking about why people don't vote for them. If Bernie and AOC formed a new party they would face the same issues as all the other parties. In the end they would have work with Democrats and most probably would be absorbed by them.

How do they work?

In democracies with multi-party systems you have two voting rounds. In first every party presents a candidate. If anyone gets over 50% of votes he wins and that's that. If no one gets more than 50% two candidates with most votes go to second round.

In U.S. you have only one round and usually it's super close. If 3rd party candidate enters the race and gets even 1% of Democrat votes the Republican will win for sure. That's why Bernie took part in Democratic primaries. His only chance was to win those and run as Democrat candidate. That's also why Tea Party and MAGA movements were integrated into Republican party even though they started outside of it. If you want 3rd party candidates to run in elections you would have to change the system completely.