Quote Originally Posted by the_anticlough View Post
Not what I said, which was

We have to be clear what the establishment is, and always has been - it's the economic elite, the corporation owners, and it's extension to politics and media, which it controls by buying. The people at the top of business, politics, media generally share the same background and culture.

Which doesn't always mean it'll be united behind one political project (think Brexit), but we know that Trump's is the Truss agenda economically.

One thing nailed on in the upcoming election is that Harris will win the popular vote, probably by a similar 7 million voter margin that Biden beat Trump.

The election has been reduced to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and a few other swing states that's why they're practically the only places they're campaigning in.
This election hasn't been reduced to anything. The 'swing states' have always held the balance of power in US Politics.

The 'popular vote' means nothing, just as it means nothing in UK politics or the politics of most western democracies. There was a reason why the founding fathers in the US set up the College Electoral System the way they did in the US Constitution and it was based on maintaining nationwide democracy rather than handing it to a few in highly populated states.

I see today that Jeff Goldberg is spouting his lies again in an attempt to slur the Republican Party. His unsubstantiated claims are being run by America's left wing media as 'fact', as he did with the 'losers and suckers' lie in 2020. Obama was out and about yesterday calling Trump and his followers fascists. Scary times as the Democrats get increasingly desperate.

The early voting reports are showing that all of the US's fascists, misogynists, warmongers, xenophobes, homophobes, ***ist and anti-abortionists are voting already as the Republicans are doing well. The well-meaning, new way, well educated, good intending, climate saving, liberals don't seem to be mobilising as yet and that's scaring the Democrat hierarchy.

Perhaps they'll get out and vote after they've got out of bed or go to the polling stations after they've stopped protesting about something useless cause.