Greg Gutfeld Calls For Civil War Because ‘Elections Don’t Work’ in Bizarre Rant

Only because of gerrymandering, voter suppression and the Electoral College. Far as that last goes, they have about zero chance if we went by the popular vote.

You might not have got the memo, but it's clear to the GOP they're on their heels. Why else would they be trying to pass hundreds of voter suppression laws at the state level?

No, see, conservatives are used to being the oppressors. If you stop that and make things actually fair instead, it's tantamount to oppressing them!

That's a pretty ignorant assessment. We were apathetic, but we hardly rolled over for the boomers.

GenX did the whole "vote or die" thing. GenX was credited with getting Clinton into office. GenX would have also been the ones to get Gore into office if it wasn't for the Florida fuckery. Imagine how different things would have gone under President Gore.

We voted. We protested. We just didn't understand what was happening. And we are a tiny generation. There will never be a GenX president.

"Chose".... how is being outnumbered at the polls a choice?

Well, we were mostly ignored since there is not as many of us, so not only did marketing mostly ignore us, the politicians mostly did, too. It's why you hear about Gen Y and boomers.

Not just Gen X. 5 years or so ago (would likely have been younger millennials or older gen z participants) or so I posted a comment to a thread on Reddit saying that everyone should vote and participate. I was voted down to the negative triple digits with dozens of responses about how voting doesn't work and is unimportant.

To your point, I'm Xillenial myself and definitely recall that defeatist bullshit when I was in high school.

So. Just like millennials then?

Or are you forgetting about the idiotic waste of political capital that was occupy Wall Street?

Hey look - it's "gen whine" to tell everyone else it's their fault.

That, or they get their way and turn this country into a total fascist shitshow.

The best part is they knew. In 2016 they knew exactly what effect trump would have and after he won they shut up and fell into line and helped it happen.

Watching the crows come home to roost has been cathartic.

The GOP can't be called dead while it still controls the House and a majority of Statehouses. They might not have actually published a platform in 2020, but whatever it is they stand for still appeals to certain voters, even if their actions are against those same voters' best interests.

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"Poor education" is a dog-whistle meaning anything that doesn't indoctrinate kids into Christian Nationalism.

In his mind, teaching kids that black people are ok and gays exist is 'poor education.'

They came out against teaching critical thinking in Texas. Official GOP platform. Not even kidding.

Gerrymandering definitely helps them, but there are limits to this tool. If Republicans gerrymander an area and there's a blue wave, they might not be able to stop it. This upsets the Republicans because they think they've rigged this race and how dare the voters defy what should have happened.

The Boomers are slowly dying out and, with them, a large part of the Republican base. (Boomers are about a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third Independent.).

My generation, GenX, tends to be about 44% Democrat, 30% Republican, and 27% Independent. That's a loss for Republicans, but one they could gerrymander past.

Millennials are 52% Democrat, 27% Independent, and 21% Republican. GenZ is 52% Democrat, 31% Independent, and 17% Republican. As these two generations take over, not even the most aggressive gerrymandering will help.

Republicans are facing a potential collapse of public support in all but the deepest red areas. This is why they are looking for non-democracy solutions like "state legislatures can override the elections if the voters decide wrong" or even outright "get rid of democracy and install a (Republican) king."

A healthy political party, facing obsolescence, would change their platform to attract more voters. Perhaps a "theoretical healthy Republican party" could drop the "LGBTQ folks are evil" stuff as well as the "overthrow elections" garbage. They could stick to fiscal conservatism and might make headway that way. Unfortunately, the real Republican party believes that if the voters won't support the Republicans' views, then it's the voters that need to go.

(And, yes, foreign dark money factors into this to a large extent. It amplifies their party and keeps them around long after they should have died off.)

He refuses to play their games and he cuts through the bullshit which these people have a hard time countering. The only problem is the constituents of those people don't watch the news, only react.

https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart's_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire