US Midterm Election Results 2022

I predicted the dems would win the midterms months ago. They will win every “election” from now on. They have perfected the steal.
And Americans have no choice but to either take it or pack up and leave. That is the wise thing to do. If you want freedom, move to Russia.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Wisdom.
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Of course it’s a little hyperbolic, and especially now under the war laws it’s not entirely free anymore.

I should have probably said Hungary, Bulgaria or Serbia, which are a lot more “free” than Russia, but their future is more in jeopardy, since they are EU member states (Serbia not yet but will be).

But even Russia today is – by contrast – a much more free country than the US. It’s not even close. Economic freedom absolutely eclipses that of the US, there is far less red tape, overregulation, corruption etc. As a business owner, you can’t get sued for anything any everything either (i.e. not fulfilling racial or gender quotas when hiring). Doctors don’t lose their license if they speak out against vaccines or gender affirmation surgery. Even criticism of the war effort is still legal, but there are certain restrictions which make it risky. I.e. anything that can be construed to “insult” the leadership, military or “harm morale” will lead to a hefty fine. But in your average day to day life… it’s one of top 5 freest nations in the world.

Another poster asked why Republicans lost?

1. Fraud. Obviously Dems cheat in big cities and get away with it.
2. Women are furious over abortion.
3. Young people are pissed off over the anti-lgbt bigotry.

I said it before, I’ll say it again, conservatives handed the country to the communists because of their religious BS. It’s political suicide. Hope it was worth it.

True, neither are really free free, but Russia is still top 5. I’ve been there a lot, it’s legitimately great. Not everywhere, surely not the chechen areas, and the infrastructure outside of the two big cities is bad. But in terms of culture… wow.

As an example of their culture: https://odysee.com/@TimelessTruths:3/TheScarletSailsFestival2019:d
This is a yearly festival held for school graduates. The theme is taken from a Russian novel where a girl dreams of a captain on a ship with scarlet sails coming to take her to a happy life. A captain hears of this and colors his ship’s sails red and takes her away. The idea is that you can make dreams come true with your own hands (shocking idea, as opposed to the American “you didn’t build that, someone built it for you”)

Other themes in the show are some slavic mythology about a small band of heroes at the start, and obviously the kids in the kosmonaut suits represent Russia’s history with space exploration. Generally extremely wholesome, uplifting, patriotic stuff. At the end, people shout “Rossia” over and over. Just let this footage sink in and compare it with what you’re familiar with.

This is what a healthy culture looks like. None of the debauchery, filth, degeneracy of America. Compare this show to America’s Superbowl halftime shows. Vile, half naked women and drug addicts celebrated for gyrating their hips, grabbing their crotches, sexually charged lyrics, ugly music, ugly people, ugly message, ugly culture. There is no real beauty in America anymore. It’s a culture that celebrates ugliness.

Russia, for all its flaws, has the healthiest culture in the world. It’s one of the last few countries on Earth still striving towards great ideals, still promoting a positive outlook on life. It’s a multicultural nation even. There are White, Asian and Turkic Russians. Now that the West can no longer finance Chechen Mujaheddin terrorist groups, there hasn’t been a terror attack in years. At the end of the show above, they perform a music piece by a famous Muslim singer. They have none of the racial identity politics crap in the US.

As for politics, you’re right, there isn’t currently any law discriminating against lgbt people. Most people don’t read laws though. The technicality of turning the decision over abortion back to the states doesn’t really matter, because most people are too dumb to understand what that means anyways. They care more about “the message”.
You had Clarence Thomas and other Republicans suggesting to roll back gay marriage. And countless red states immediately banned abortion, some even in cases of rape.
More importantly, Republicans resisted gay marriage and even the legalization of homosexuality every step of the way. Texas still had “sodomy” laws until 2003. Now with the Roe v Wade stunt, Republicans just committed political suicide. There’s no recovery from this.

If not for Roe v Wade and the anti gay marriage history, Republicans would have swept this election and no amount of cheating in PA or AZ could have prevented a red wave. But they just can’t help themselves. The only way Republicans can ever even hope to regain power will be if they have a new generation and completely get behind gay marriage, trans rights and abortion. But then they lose the evangelical vote. So either way… there’s no hope.

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Even the government is pretty good. Putin a year or two ago spoke at Davos of how the middle class is the backbone of the economy – to sneers and chuckles from Western diplomats.
Yes, the Russian government is somewhat authoritarian. I would categorize them as meritocratic nationalism with maybe a tiny hint of fascism. I’ll take a benevolent fascim over socialism any day.

Of course Roe v Wade was faulty law. But toppling it was a gift to Democrats. It was an unwise thing to do.

Fully agree with your last part.

@Roccandil

Well said.