Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:42:43 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Not sure about the "impeach", but at the very least "don't vote for this Russian asset".

Gatekeeper wrote the following post Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:08:45 +0200

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Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:14:57 +0200

daise_flowers@diasp.org

MAGA is all about getting their feelings hurt, then using vengeance on everyone who doesn't see it their way to get revenge. Pretty much the same as sore loser revenge vengeance.

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:30:30 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I'm afraid MAGA is only to convince enough voters that Trump and his NSGOP are the only option to "rescue" the country. Neither the orange ape nor the cult... er... party give a rat's ass about the people, they only care about power.

Incredibly frustrating and terrifying to see that loads and loads of Americans are going to be duped into voting for America's demise, just like Germany did in 1933.

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:53:28 +0200

daise_flowers@diasp.org

No worries mate @Hans van Zijst we will do the right thing to save the country and defend American democracy or end by the hand of wealth driven religious authoritarianism. The Republican Party is dead. Nixon started the process and Trump finished the job. MAGA GOP only offer dishonesty for American Liberty, for they want to collectively destroy American democracy and take the country for billionaire leadership coupled with extremist Christian nationalist authority. Remember, CEOs and businesses are dictatorships by nature, not democratic institutions. We need democratic leadership for the people by the people. Not a corporate president, CEO, and board of directors telling Americans how to live so they can forever profit off all of us.

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:57:59 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@daise_flowers@diasp.org You know that, I know that, but lots of simpletons with red caps don't. And they have the right to vote...

The NSGOP, as I like to call that cult, seems pretty succesful in telling people what to believe. Doesn't matter how outrageous the lies, they'll eat it up and ask for seconds.

I really, REALLY hope there are many more reasonable, thinking Americans who will vote this psychopath and his cult into oblivion, but I'm not confident...

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:56:37 +0200

daise_flowers@diasp.org

My hope comes from what Americans call “the silent majority.” The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. @Hans van Zijst

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:28:28 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@daise_flowers@diasp.org Fingers crossed... 🤞

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:41:28 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

I'm too old to believe in the "the silent majority" anymore. Reason in humanity exists only as small islands in a sea of madness.

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:52:18 +0200

daise_flowers@diasp.org

We do have the numbers to win for democracy.

The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades. About two-thirds (66%) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900. The 2018 election (49% turnout) had the highest rate for a midterm since 1914. Even the 2022 election’s turnout, with a slightly lower rate of 46%, exceeded that of all midterm elections since 1970.

Adults who voted in at least one election during the period divide evenly between Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party or Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in their current party affiliation (48% each). The subset who voted in all three elections are similarly divided (49% Democrats, 50% Republicans). Citizens who did not vote in any of the three tilt Republican by 46% to 41%.

Democrats outnumbered Republicans among the 8% of adult citizens who voted in 2018 and 2020 but not 2022 (55% Democratic, 40% Republican). A similar-sized group (8%) voted in 2020 and 2022 but not 2018, and this group’s composition tilts Republican (57%, vs. 40% Democratic). The 12% who voted in 2020 and opted out of both the 2018 and 2022 midterms were roughly evenly divided among Democrats (46%) and Republicans (43%).

Given the sizable number of intermittent voters and chronic nonvoters, as well as the fact that this group, collectively, is fairly evenly divided in partisan affiliation, both parties have plenty of potential supporters on the sidelines in any given election.

Pew Research Center

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:44:02 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Again, I really hope your optimism is justified 🙏