Approval of measure could determine if Republicans keep full control of government in next year’s midterm elections
It was a decisive victory for Democrats in deep-blue California, who had raced to counter a gerrymander in Texas, engineered at the US president’s behest, to carve out new safe Republican districts. The Associated Press declared Proposition 50 had passed almost instantly when polls closed statewide.
In approving the measure, voters chose to toss out the work of California’s independent redistricting commission and temporarily adopt maps drawn by the state legislature to help Democrats pick up five additional seats in the US House of Representatives.
Newsom and Democrats framed the measure as a way to safeguard US democracy from Trump’s “wrecking ball” presidency. By contrast, opponents offered a mixed message, with Republicans alternatively attacking Newsom and praising the work of the independent mapmaking panel.
I mean all I said is that left and right are talking about this pretty similarly. I am equating the talk. I do not equate the action. I haven’t even said a thing about what I think about this situation politically in that comment. I have said so in another. I’m a leftist, you can probably think the rest up.
If implication means to you that you get to make shit up about my political opinions from a neutral statement about an observation, then you fall right into the group of common internet users. Nothing particularly bad about that of course. I’m sure you’re much better in real life, just like the rest of us.
Yeah. The right uses the same language as the left even when it’s inappropriate because it muddies the water and makes the rhetoric less powerful. The Sartre quote about anti-semites applies.
And I’m not judging you, I’m telling you why people were downvoting you.
Ah, so you saying that I am equating the two politically was not your opinion but what you think I am being downvoted for? Yes, I believed so too. I stand my ground though, because it ain’t me problem if someone interprets something I did not say. Only in court I guess.
I have the same gripes with the factually false language of populist politics.
This is something I struggle with too, but people tend to assume that others make observations when they want to say something deeper. So, making a surface level observation will lead to people assuming you have some ulterior motive behind doing so.
In this case, your comment smacks very similar to a rhetorical device here in the states where people claim that both political parties are equally bad. It’s a bad faith argument because Democrats tend to be the milquetoast status quo party, whereas the Republicans actively try to rip the government apart and take away people’s rights every time they’re the majority.