Democrats got exactly what they set out to get, and now here we are.

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Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.

  • Frank Casa@frank.casa
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    3 months ago

    I think the problem is that many Democrats are stuck in an information bubble, and instead of listening to the other side, they demonize them and cancel them. It is hard to figure out what the other side is thinking if you don’t actually listen to what they are thinking.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      We see them. We live among them. We have to work with them. A lot of us have to hear them on the daily.

      We know that a lot of what they are “thinking” is due to letting the right wing propaganda machine take a big dump in their skulls every day, and nearly everything they are “thinking” (really, feeling) is based on entirely false premises.

      • Frank Casa@frank.casa
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        3 months ago

        Even if their thinking is based on false premises, as you claim, they have legitimate grievances. The Democrats will never get their votes if they don’t address the grievances with a realistic alternative plan.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          What if their grievances are “there is an open border” and “kids are going to school and coming back after having a sex change”?

          • Frank Casa@frank.casa
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            3 months ago

            Most people’s grievances right now are the economy and inflation. And they want change. They want the elites to have less control over their lives.

            Sure, the right has some crazy ideas. So does the left. But the middle decides elections because they are the swing voters, and the middle’s main grievances are the economy and that they feel helpless in a world where the wealthy control everything.

              • Frank Casa@frank.casa
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                3 months ago

                I just thought of some good examples of crazy. (I don’t call them crazy, but other people do.)

                Stance 1: Anti-Immigration (don’t let foreigners in).
                Stance 2: Open Borders (let anyone in with no checks, including criminals)
                Stance 3: Immigration Reform (allow immigration and make the process easier, but weed out the criminals)
                Stance 4: Status Quo (allow immigration, but it is difficult and time consuming)

                Many people think that stances 1 and 2 are “crazy.” I just think that they are counterproductive and ineffective. And the anti-foreigner thing is racist.