Touché lol

Yeah I mean it’s not that I contributed to demand for a Honda Civic, but I did contribute to the demand for an affordable car, which is why I didn’t buy a Lambo. Don’t you think it’s splitting hairs to say that there isn’t demand for Civics, but for cars cheaper than Lambos? Seems like a distinction without a difference.

On the other hand, it is someone who doesn’t know how to quit while they’re ahead, thinks they’re better than everyone, and is largely detached from the day-to-day realities of the common person soooooo

Noooooo this was a uniquely American phenomenon. We definitely didn’t fare better than comparable countries, and conservatives definitely aren’t forgetting that other countries exist… again.

It used to be (before digital TVs, flat-screen, etc) that you didn’t have the option of switching inputs, so you would have to go to channel 3, which doubled as the “input” channel also. This would be like, for example, NES or Sega.

Not to discredit any of what you said, but to add to this I think a big piece of this that often gets glossed over is that since then the parties have become more ideologically sorted. Back in the day, conservative Democrats often worked with conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats often worked with progressive Republicans, and that isn’t really an option anymore.