Haven't updated this in forever. This is my blog box, I am Trevor. I enjoy acting, drawing, RPing, writing, general science, common sense, and things I can't think of. Here is a picture of me working on cosplay bullshit above.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Photographer Lalage Snow takes pictures of soldiers’ faces before, during and after the war in Afghanistan.
“We need to acknowledge that our system is giving extremists far more influence than the voters would,” Dionne argues. “That’s why American democracy is deadlocked.”
Here is the problem: A substantial portion of the Republican Party’s core electorate is now influenced both by hatred of Obama and by the views of the ultra-right. Strange conspiracy theories are admitted to the mainstream conversation through the GOP’s back door — and amplified by another fight for market share among talk radio hosts and Fox News commentators.
That’s because the Republican Party is no longer a broad and diverse alliance but a creature of the right. According to a March Washington Post/ABC News poll, 65 percent of Republicans called themselves conservative, just 27 percent were moderates and 7 percent were liberals. Democrats, by contrast, are far more middle of the road: 43 percent called themselves liberal, 38 percent moderate and 16 percent conservative. Among independents, moderates predominated at 46 percent.
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Our Constitution combines with the way we draw congressional districts to overrepresent conservatives in both houses. The 100-member Senate is based on two senators per state regardless of size. This gives rural states far more power than population-based representation would. The filibuster makes matters worse. It’s theoretically possible for 41 senators representing less than 11 percent of the population to block pretty much anything.
In the House, those gerrymanders helped Republicans keep control even though more Americans voted for Democrats in the 2012 congressional races.
This representational skew affects coverage in the media. Most Americans may care more about jobs than deficits. But if a right-tilted power structure is talking about deficits all the time, members of the media feel obligated to cover the argument they hear in Washington, even if that means downplaying views held by a majority of the voters — and even if the economic data say we should be talking about growth, not austerity.
It is infuriating that such a tiny minority of radical extremists are able to wield such incredible control over the entire governing of my country. This system is broken, and it is failing to represent the will of the majority.
ahahah what an excellent comic
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the scandal tht shocked our nation
bringing it back since we all need some unity in the election tomorrow
OH MY GOD
President Elmo on the phone with the Pentagon today.
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Dave Strider, really excited that he gets to be extremely homosexual for the next 4 years
you know the sad part is this is exactly how i imagine drunk!canon Dave to act to a T
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I realize we’re all supposed to be so very moved by how gracious Romney was in defeat, but a gracious concession speech by Mitt Romney does not undo his disgusting campaign full of repeated lies and appeals to the very worst politics of resentment.
And I’m not saying this to be a dick, or to be gloating, or anything like that. What people do matters, and how they conduct themselves matters. Mitt Romney’s disgusting and dishonest campaign can’t be swept under the rug, because if it is, it will happen again and again.
