18th November 2024, 9:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 18th November 2024, 9:25 AM by etoven.)
(13th November 2024, 7:18 AM)Weltall Wrote: Perhaps we should all be questioning everything that we've read, heard, and especially believed.
The Democratic Party is moribund. I don't see how it recovers from what just happened, with any of the current leadership in place, or with their approach to doing anything, really. This was a comprehensive failure, up and down the ballot, from sea to shining sea. This all boils down to the fact that, in spite of the fact that Donald Trump lies pathologically, the Democratic Party somehow found ways to appear even less credible to the American people. They really did feel like things were better under Trump. They feel like things got worse under Biden. They voted accordingly.
You can blame it on racism, on sexism, on fascism, but in reality, I think a lot of people go ® without ever really considering those things. They hear "fascists" from one side and "communists" from the other, and it sounds like noise to them. They make choices based on other things, like the economy. You can show them how much better the US has done with regards to inflation, compared to the rest of the world. That's not the economy they care about. The economy they care about is the prices for the things they need to live, going up. Groceries gets the attention, but rent is a real killer for low-income people. That was happening on Biden's watch, they saw no real help coming from them, or meaningful attention being paid to their problems. They heard "things are fine, we're doing real good, look at the stock market!"
Not all Republican voters are mindless red hats, or even agree with them. They might be approachable in the future, capable of regretting how they voted last week. We can be ready to talk to them, or we can blame them for "voting wrong" and drive away a potential ally in the future. It's time for whatever the "left" is to ask a lot of hard questions and be ready to see reality for what it is. Otherwise, we can expect more of this. Forever. The quicker we put our emotions away and start trying to play the game to win, the better our odds.
It bears repeating, however: the Democratic Party leadership all need to go away. They quite objectively suck, they have been sucking for a long time. Their way of doing things has resulted in virtually zero sustained change. Most of my anger and antipathy is directed at them, and I want them all to go away. To lose twice to this clown and beat him, barely, one time, is malfeasance. I never thought it would be possible to be more disappointing than Hillary 2016, but that campaign looks like a triumph compared to what took place this year. Democrats are useless for saving democracy. Throw them all in the trash.
IDK I think there's still something to be said about the populous when the other guy sucks so hard that my neighbors labradoodle should have been able to beat him.
Inept leadership and all.