11th November 2024, 12:44 AM
I've said before that "at the table" politics matter most to the most people, and we both have acknowledged that economic shifts take slow effect and often aren't "visible" to the average person until an election cycle later, meaning blame/praise gets incorrectly assigned.
That said, there's more to it than that. That's what I mean. Pointing to ONE thing, the price of bread, and saying "that's the thing that did it" is too glib.
The one thing I hate hearing from democrats right now, and should have been hating all along, is this one phrase: "This isn't who we are!" If this election proved one thing... yes it is. It IS who we are, to a significant percentage, and we MUST come to terms with that reality now.
That said, there's more to it than that. That's what I mean. Pointing to ONE thing, the price of bread, and saying "that's the thing that did it" is too glib.
The one thing I hate hearing from democrats right now, and should have been hating all along, is this one phrase: "This isn't who we are!" If this election proved one thing... yes it is. It IS who we are, to a significant percentage, and we MUST come to terms with that reality now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)