i am so terrified and heartbroken i am almost catatonic.
but the future is not yet written. the worst outcomes are far from certain. we still, all and each, have our parts to play in writing this story.
all things to everyone, it turns out, is no things to anyone.
@Simplicator i think Biden briefly was enamored of being an FDR, absent sinemanchin might have made more progress in that direction.
do people do event studies of heart attack rates around elections?
suddenly everybody is on-board with american carnage.
one way to think about it is the electorate wanted Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump seemed the closest thing on offer.
@artcollisions (meanwhile gas is extraordinarily cheap right now, by any standard other than mid pandemic when most people were staying home.)
the marginal voter was not voting on the basis of “issues”. they were choosing who best fit the role — in their imagination, by virtue of their parasocial attachments — of hero who can fix it.
parasociability is a tremendous challenge to contemporary theories of democracy.
“If the pattern of the past holds, the future won’t be majority-minority; it will be a white majority, where Spanish last names are common.” @jbouie, writing in 2014 https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/demography-is-not-destiny/
it feels like everywhere is the nazi bar now.
when the threshold is a supermajority and a clear majority supports, it is inaccurate to write “Florida voters reject”.
Florida voters support, by a large margin, but fail to meet the 60% threshold required to amend the state constitution. https://mastodon.social/@axios/113433518956678234
scab zombie needle. stay away.
not feeling great about being a floridian so far tonight.
today’s family outing.
Three hands, indexed fingers outstretched, with two “I Voted” stickers at the tip, and one “Future Voter” sticker.
i think the strike at the nyt tech guild is really moving the needle.
today is a day for heroes without capes.
i don’t want to jinx anything, but what if Wednesday morning we wake up to a country much better than we had thought it was?