MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoRed State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.www.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down11cross-posted to: politics@sh.itjust.workspropublica@rss.ponder.cat
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minus-squaredaniel_callahan@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoThe issue is that americans vote on identity. They don’t vote about policies. Look at Arkansas. A freaking Nuclear Engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) came up a solid plan to improve Arkansas. He visited all 75 counties. He lost by double digits against Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She barely campaigned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Arkansas_gubernatorial_election The issue is that many americans simply vote on identity. They don’t vote about policies.
minus-squareCaptain Poofter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agothis is exactly why i don’t feel like there is anything i can do. the problem is entirely out of anyone’s hands. it’s all cancer.
The issue is that americans vote on identity. They don’t vote about policies.
Look at Arkansas.
A freaking Nuclear Engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) came up a solid plan to improve Arkansas. He visited all 75 counties.
He lost by double digits against Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She barely campaigned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Arkansas_gubernatorial_election
The issue is that many americans simply vote on identity. They don’t vote about policies.
this is exactly why i don’t feel like there is anything i can do. the problem is entirely out of anyone’s hands. it’s all cancer.