Nixon wasn’t a cult. There isn’t a real comparison in past presidents on approval ratings. Cults don’t usually shrink slowly. They have splits that occur. It’s in a hardened defensive state right now. They moved to private land and built a fenced off hideout. Breaking out takes a larger event. But the complaints are open secrets. The sewage is backed up. The crops aren’t growing. People are getting sick. But everyone is too deep and too far in to say anything. We have to wait til the leader asks everyone to drink the Koolaid.

The cult. Yes. But the cult is shrinking and it’s leader will be dead in the next 5, maybe 10ish, years if we’re unlucky.

The cult henchman (politicians) do care and are having a hard time right now dealing with the backlash. Complaining about trans girls in sports doesn’t really work when people can’t afford gas to drive to their job.

The 30% cult is still filled with the most out of touch and uneducated Americans. They are still reachable in a way, at least their children and next generation with the right education. But there is at least 15-20% that are just old, privileged, and upset that their children won’t talk to them. And that problem will solve itself with time.

Democrats are afraid of missing out on the use of acceptable bigotry. They love to be biggots for largely acceptable bigotries when they can. It is the easiest way for them to guard against leftist policies. They have never been there to move the needle. They are there to take credit for the move when forced to by decades of civil rights movements making progress. They mostly serve as a filter that makes sure that those policies are as diluted and ineffective as possible.

They don’t offer any real material improvements from their policies; so their entire appeal rest on the idea of inclusive and progressive policies. They rarely actually fight for them and quickly push away minority groups when they think they need to to win. Harris 2024 immigration ads being the obvious one. Or the awful immigration policies they tried to push before the 2024 election that basically gave Republicans everything they wanted. And now just openly transphobic Democrats running for elections.

The most acceptable bigotry in this country that reaches further than immigrants or LGBTQ people is rascism towards arabs and Muslims. The Democrats have always reached towards what they perceive as “the center” to portray themselves as “reasonable” when the bigotry is more largely accepted. In this country, rascism towards arabs and Muslims is very much the center, unfortunately.

Democrats won’t actually stand on the principles that they pretend to have. When, a Muslim man starts talking about policy that has actual material impact and improvements, their donors can’t have that. They’ll associate them with 9/11, they hold the place of the acceptable bigotry in order to do their actual function. Which is to serve the interest of the capitalist class that line their pockets.

The irony of the Zionist comedian that’s used her “racial identity” to justify genocide being “white” in this. The continuous confirmation that “white” is a made up social construct that is either used to signal to hate for an outgroup; or in her case, remove it as an identity when it’s convenient to use her Jewish “racial identity” as a shield for an emotional support apartheid state.

Also, relevant louis ck from before that video was made; that was basically what the video you linked was ripping off. Kind of blatantly.

https://youtu.be/7AbxHo9ybD0

Still, appreciate the sharing. Not directed at you. But, fuck Sarah Silverman. And Louis CK is also a weird sex pest.

Though both the video and his standup are pointing to white privilege and racial constructs as comedy. So both are good in a vacuum.

Dude, white Republicans must be fucking depressed. Like, the bigotry is still their, it’s clearly the only thing left fueling them. But God damn. Having to cope with the gas prices, the economic failures, a datacenter poisoning your lungs and ears. Listening to your president talk about his ballroom and golf course renovations on social media all day.

Can we get some “it’ll be ok white people” ads? That’s what Paxton is projecting right now. His entire voter base is too depressed to get off the couch. These red state Republicans never have had to actually try to win an election.

There there Pax. It’ll be ok. We just need some DEI for old white rascist shitbags.