I'm very late with this but how did Biden manage to win the Dem nomination?

[Left Coast]

Didn't know that, I must admit that throws a bit of cold water on my rigging theory. The only other question is if those things can be hacked...

Again, maybe more people just voted for Joe Biden?

 

[Jos]

Again, maybe more people just voted for Joe Biden?

Maybe, although there seemed to be evidence that foreign nations could hack US electoral systems like Russia, Iran etc

 

[Jos]

I see the term "woke" a bit differently than other people. I consider myself a progressive, not far left or communist, maybe semi-woke but not all the way, more left than Biden and Kamala, maybe about like Bernie. I see myself as more left than most in the US, but not necessarily more left than some of this forum or the younger crowd on the internet. I see myself as possibly being more woke than a lot of older Democrats, who aren't on RF that is.

Ok I see that woke refers to being aware of social issues and inequalities especially those surrounding race and justice but why is it exclusively leftist? Surely there are ways to be woke on the right as well.

 

[Left Coast]

Maybe, although there seemed to be evidence that foreign nations could hack US electoral systems like Russia, Iran etc

What evidence? Evidence that they could or evidence that they did?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Ok I see that woke refers to being aware of social issues and inequalities especially those surrounding race and justice but why is it exclusively leftist? Surely there are ways to be woke on the right as well.

Hmmm.......

I'm thinking to be "woke" as the term means, is generally to understand things in such a way, you're just about pushing yourself to Democrat status as a result of you being woke.

What do you say, forum?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

What is an exact definition of woke?

Without looking it up, I see it as being aware and supporting against racism, supporting the LGBT+ community, possibly having a good understanding of politics, and in some cases, supporting feminism. As well as maybe even having an inclination toward activism - maybe.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Lets be fair and state the obvious as well. Republicans would have had 1 president in the last 30 years if the EC didn't give them a handicap. Also voter suppression and a "vote red" mentality of those states regardless of the candidate. What scares me more is the personality cult that he cultivated. The US hasn't progressed as far as most of us prior to Trump would have liked to believe.

The electoral college cannot explain the divisiveness in Congress. It is an incontinent mope.

I'd like to think that a country can progress, but a country is formed to keep people out and in. A country has borders and is not in essence a nice entity, unless it weakens its borders. Since WW2 we have performed a little trick in which by having bases all over the world many countries have been able to open borders. They have relaxed their military ambitions and sought wealth through trade. They've been becoming less border oriented, more flow oriented. There has been an opening and a flow of culture. Under this scheme countries (including this one) have tasted what progress could be like, by becoming less divided -- less of what a country is. We've seen a decrease in divisions of many kinds, but divisions are still all around. Some have gotten stronger and worse.

 

[Jos]

What evidence? Evidence that they could or evidence that they did?

Evidence that they did. Didn't the media report on it?

 

[Jos]

Without looking it up, I see it as being aware and supporting against racism, supporting the LGBT+ community, possibly having a good understanding of politics, and in some cases, supporting feminism. As well as maybe even having an inclination toward activism - maybe.

Yeah that sounds like a typical modern day Democrat.

 

[Left Coast]

Evidence that they did. Didn't the media report on it?

No. I saw no evidence that Russia or Iran hacked any voting system here. What the media reported evidence of is that Russia waged a misinformation campaign online to try to get Trump elected. But that is not hacking.

There was also evidence of Russia hacking the DNC's emails, but as I already explained, the DNC doesn't administer elections.

 

[Jos]

No. I saw no evidence that Russia or Iran hacked any voting system here. What the media reported evidence of is that Russia waged a misinformation campaign online to try to get Trump elected. But that is not hacking.

There was also evidence of Russia hacking the DNC's emails, but as I already explained, the DNC doesn't administer elections.

Oh, my bad, sorry.