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The more I read about it, the less likely I believe it will occur.
thank you. that will be nice. Yes is being my answer
If only there was something they could do do about the reasons for that plummeting public acceptance of their own party and its leadership...
Don't worry, the regime won't let there be a legitimate election
It's almost as if the incumbents are "trounced" every couple years or so.
Why? Because we have two options attached to their corporate sponsors (i.e. they do what they are paid to do, please check out Super PACs).
One corporate shill is religious flavored (the only reason they are still a viable party), the other corporate shill is secular, both do exactly as they are paid to do. These are not popular measures, so of course the incumbent is blamed, the scapegoat for their good cop/bad cop routine.
There are so many "old reliables", like the southern border, that chestnut has paid off so many times for decades.
insert Hawkeye meme
There will not be midterms.
Not an American (although I have lived there for several years and travelled extensively), it doesn't matter if the Democrats win.
I say this as someone who always votes and has done tactical voting many times.
The US centre right is incapable of addressing corruption and criminality, not only because the party apparatus is itself corrupt, but because most American centre right voters are simply too well off to risk rocking the boat. They'll keep trying to avoid addressing corruption until it's too late.
The corruption of the centre right is a symptom, with the cause being American society (specifically a large portion of centre right voters).
This is not doomerism in the least. In any country/context, the first step to overcoming immense odds is recognizing what the problem is. If you don't take the first step, you'll definitely never get to your goal.
It is not my intention to be petty and have a laugh. Until centre right public totally rejects comical American-style polemics about alleged commitment to "free speech" and "free markets", they will never address corruption and debasement of their institutions.
And yet Obama and other senior centre right figures are still parroting the same shallow, tedious copytext that they've been pitching for the last years.