backstory about election take two

Ramaswami gets it right:

Here’s the reason why Donald Trump won by the largest margin of any President in modern history. He’s not an ideologue. He’s not a policy wonk. He’s an American badass. They tried to DQ him, jail him, kill him (twice). None of it worked. Our self-appointed “betters” in the media…

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 6, 2024

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WHen I pointed out to my son that I couldn't vote for Harris because of her extreme pro abortion policies (abortion up to nine months, forcing doctors to perform abortions, something I fought when I was in medical school) he agreed, saying she talked about abortion and Gender issues but not about the economy, food prices etc. (We are both registered Democrats and minorities)

In other words, her emphsis on manipulating society to allow her social agenda, which the privacy of ordinary Americans would not tolerate, was a mistake, and her failure to address the problems that most ordinary American were worried about was probably why she lost a lot of votes.

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For all the talk of DEI, people forget that this is something that benefits elites, not ordinary folk. Ironically, DEI would benefit Harris, the daughter of two professors, over Vance, the son of a nurse and from a broken family who worked his way up from his bootstraps.

All the DEI policies at college level admissions works against Asians of course, while letting people ignore the real problem: Crappy public schools. School choice? might help. It says a lot that both Bill Clinton (who like Vance came from a dysfunctional family), and Clarence Thomas (raised by his grandfather) were educated in Catholic schools.

Alas, the Vatican II reforms persuaded nuns that they should do social work instead of teaching kids, so lots of nuns quit. So Catholic school enrollment went down as prices went up, but on the other hand, homeschools and small Protestant church schools helped fill in the gap for alternative education that was cheap enough for ordinary folk.

Which brings me to another possible change:

if the deplorables are changing governments, will the next change be against the Pope and his minions who like the uniparty in the US are trying to manipulate a fake consensus to change things by a very unpopular synodality scam ?