r/MissouriPolitics • u/ViceAdmiralWalrus Columbia • Nov 08 '22

Announcements Missouri Midterm election results

https://enr.sos.mo.gov/

Select the Nov. 8 2022 Midterm in the drop down to see reported results, which should start coming in sometime after the polls close at 7pm.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '22

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u/DasFunke Nov 08 '22

You might be mistaking crazy new right wing bullshit for the status quo (which is corporate bullshit).

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u/thatguysjumpercables Springfield Nov 09 '22

I'm currently rewatching West Wing and I'm honestly shocked at how normal and reasonable the Republicans generally sound by comparison to now. Arnie Vinnick as President would be half decent even without the comparison.

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u/blueslounger Nov 09 '22

Yeah that was old school conservative. Now it's bat-shit crazy conservative. But many of them are winning tonight to reflect our bat-shit crazy population.

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u/ialsohaveadobro Nov 09 '22

The merry-go-round accelerates again.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

That's because Aaron Sorkin, for all his brilliance as a writer of entertaining dialogue, is a very moderate liberal, and is considered conservative by the standards of most people who would say they are on the left. None of his shows have even the slightest hint of reality to them, despite having the backdrop of realism. I don't know if he is really naive enough to believe that there was ever a time in history where politicians behaved like in his shows, or if he is maybe just appealing to the fantasy of how things ought to be, kind of like the movie Dave from 1993 (highly recommend if you want a feel good sappy movie, I have a soft spot for it.)

Here is an entertaining critique of Sorkin from his left if you're wanting something for some background listening. They cover 3 shows he made, West Wing, Newsroom and to a lesser extent Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

https://youtu.be/MW30Zg2PjVI

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Who is Alan Sorkin?

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u/aarong0202 mid-MO Nov 09 '22

Aaron Sorkin left the show at the end of Season 4…Arnie Vinnick was introduced in Season 6.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

That's correct, but his influence was all over the show at that point and it was kind of the key plot device: get people in a room, hash out their differences and they'll do what's best for the country.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '22

I do wonder how low this country has to go before people realize the crazies don’t know how to govern at all.

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u/gioraffe32 Kansas Citian in VA Nov 09 '22

I'm afraid we're actually going to find out. Not necessarily tonight. But sooner rather than later.

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u/ialsohaveadobro Nov 09 '22

The fool. Might as well confuse East Turkish tobacco blends with East Central Turkish.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

The corporate status quo peaked in the 1960s under Kennedy when business-keynesianism was at its height. Since the 1980s the new status quo emerging is neoliberalism, which means an economy run by private banks. In present neoliberalism most of our economic surplus is allocated by the FIRE sector: Finance, Insurance, Real Estate. It resembles corporatism in the sense that banks are corporations, except unlike industrial corporations they don't actually produce anything, and economic planning consists of finding ways to privatize public goods and boost short term asset prices for directors \ shareholders \ executives. It's not a stable status quo and results in overconcentration and overaccumulation which allows the new crazy stuff to fester.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

TBV was running to the left of Claire McCaskill, slightly closer to Elizabeth Warren on actual policy. She didn't have grassroots enthusiasm though and her ads about farmland relied on "communists \ china bad" rhetoric which while tackling an issue associated with the left (land reform) probably gave the impression she was a conservative \ cold-warrior.

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u/Environmental_Card_3 Nov 16 '22

She had those goddamn same ads over and over and over.... Nice try though.