Most annoying "normie" political takes ?

[darklordoftech]

Not really a take but it's annoying to me how much time people devote to trying to point out Republican inconsistencies as if they were "gotchas". E.g., "Kevin McCarthy said this recently, but two months ago he said this totally opposite thing!"

The GOP hasn't stood for any sort of principle other than the accumulation of power. If you ever took anything they said as anywhere close to reflective of their beliefs or true intentions, here have you been for the last decade-plus?

I don't know if this is so much a "normie" thing as it is a "stupid partisans who don't really understand campaigns and voter demographics in general on both sides" thing, but the idea that showing hypocrisy in some figure on the other side is some sort of DEVESTATING burn that'll ruin them has always been one for me. A great example is when it was revealed that Sarah Palin's daughter was pregnant in 2008 and a bunch of liberal pundits and social media users were all "HA HA SO MUCH FOR GOP FAMILY VALUES AMIRITE?" as if both socons and swing voters weren't fully aware that teen pregnancies happen with teens from conservative families too and that supporting things like abstinence-only education doesn't give a parent full reign to control every matter of their kid's private life. (On a side note the Obama campaign's decision to stay out of attacks on this completely was not only extremely smart it's something that I wonder if it would happen or even be possible today with how campaigns are ran and that certain blue check types would try to force it into being an issue even if it clearly doesn't help.)

Bringing up Al Gore or some liberal celebrity engaging in some not exactly carbon neutral lifestyle activity or random Democrats going out in public without a mask back when mask mandates were common are the right-wing equivalents.

Accusing the Clintons of hypocrisy worked for Trump.

[Ferguson97]

"Bernie would be center-left in Europe."

[Aurelius]

"Bernie would be center-left in Europe."

I assume you mean center-right.

Funny enough, I have been around Europeans in Europe making this exact argument.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

This isn't really a normie take, but a lot of people here including myself assumed that normal voters didn't really care about candidates running on stopthesteal or overturning democratic elections, and would vote soley based on economic issues or anger at the Democrats. It does seem that given the loss of almost every election denying canidate in a swing-state it is something that matters to voters.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This isn't really a normie take, but a lot of people here including myself assumed that normal voters didn't really care about candidates running on stopthesteal or overturning democratic elections, and would vote soley based on economic issues or anger at the Democrats. It does seem that given the loss of almost every election denying canidate in a swing-state it is something that matters to voters.

That's really the opposite of a normie take, plenty of "normie" voters (like my parents) would've definitely claimed that was a big deal pre-election. It was overthinking at places like here that convinced us otherwise.

[DS0816]

A minimum of 90 percent of everything from the Democratic Party which is, of course, a scam operation.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The Rs in Midterms are Guarentee 230 seats or higher debunked when they got 220 which I said the would as the floor not the Ceiling for Ds

Why was it debunked it's 4.2 unemployment 10% in 2010 and what /% in 1994

[sting in the rafters]

That the continental divide in public discourse between “gun control” and “violent crime” is whether the shooting was “lone-wolf loon in a supermarket” or “gang-related drive-by at neighborhood cookout”


There have been 57 children murdered in Philadelphia this year at the hands of gun-violence: where’s their Uvalde moment? Where’s the national discourse aside from the usual conservative Super PAC-funded fearmongering campaign ads?

[HillGoose]

"return to the gold standard"

[Agonized-Statism]

"Are you Democrat or Repubblecan"

[Ferguson97]

"Why are we giving out foreign aid when we can't take care of our own people at home?"

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

"Are you Democrat or Repubblecan"

Related: when injury or death befalls a politician. 

"Was he/she Democrat or Republican?"

Whyyyy does that matter??

[Figueira]

The idea that the Green Party would win if people weren't so afraid of the spoiler effect, and that a strong third party would solve the US's problems.

The idea that Andrew Cuomo is a hero of the left.

Also a lot of white liberals in predominantly white areas think that their social circles are representative of the Democratic primary electorate, or that the Democratic primary electorate consists of people like them plus a bunch of Joe Manchins. This was very popular in the leadup to 2016.

[Crackerjack McJohnson]

Basically people who quote verbatim when "analysts" make an appearance on CNN or Fox or NewsMax.  Those people don't analyze ANTYING.  The people in this forum do a better job with the nitty gritty and it's not like the people interacting here are all political geniuses when it's not maps. 

[PSOL]

The idea that the Green Party would win if people weren't so afraid of the spoiler effect, and that a strong third party would solve the US's problems.

Even outside of the spoiler effect, there’s also Byzantine ballot access laws.

Better representation, and real representation, of people in this country would fix a lot of our problems. Having them win where they can without rat••••ery would help that and would have made stuff like M4A or GND be a talking point in the past sooner and stronger.

Saying this, one of the Green party’s enemies is certain elements willing to kowtow the party at large to the Democrats and not having much imagination. This isn’t even talking about defectors, which is why other organizations with maybe 1-3,000 paying members are overperforming a 25,000 strong organization in most metrics.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The idea that the Green Party would win if people weren't so afraid of the spoiler effect, and that a strong third party would solve the US's problems.

The idea that Andrew Cuomo is a hero of the left.

Also a lot of white liberals in predominantly white areas think that their social circles are representative of the Democratic primary electorate, or that the Democratic primary electorate consists of people like them plus a bunch of Joe Manchins. This was very popular in the leadup to 2016.

That actually reminds me of the notion that the Democratic Party is divided into a "Bernie Wing" and "Hillary Wing".

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

We already debunked the midterm calamity cycle now it's onto. 24 that Rs assume we are gonna lose the Senate in 24 but a 51/49 PVI which Ds have won in every Prez Eday since 2008 would be 218/217 DH and 51/49 DS, Biden is back on ballot and already competitive in FL, Rs aren't winning OH or FL by 20 pts ever again, because as soon as DeSantis loses which he will either in Primary or on GE he is old news like Chris Christie


DeSantis or Trump are underdogs period to Biden we already solid the blue wall

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

This also isn't really a normie take but it's a weird political trope that used to pretty prevalent on the internet that presents Marrijuna legalisation as a miracle cure-all to every single issue from homelessness to as one banger reddit describes Northern Irish secterationiship.

What is it about Marrijuna legalisation that attracts so much political fanfiction ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/12o5kp8/legalising_cannabis_would_do_more_to_unite_the/