Some curator at one of our most exalted institutions of public instruction had decided to use a currently fashionable, morally loaded academic keyword to address a visitor to the museum — say, a family from the Midwest, doing the round of national shrines — and teach them a lesson about American wickedness
It’s so weird to me, like in the past you’d have people making 6 figures voting R and people under that voting Dem (obviously a simplification).
And usually you have more college educated people voting Dem on the whole. There’s no chance of me ever voting R with trump and trumpism on the ballot, but the Dems are just so out of touch I probably wouldn’t vote at all if I didn’t think it was so important to vote trump out
I mean a pretty big shift is Trump. Before Trump, while maybe you wanted one guy to win more than the other, but McCain beating Obama didn't come with any sort of real, existential threat. But with Trump now, if you're a smart person, it forces you to actually think about the true implication of your vote
This applies strongly to me. Like Penn Jillette, I was a strong libertarian. A big part of that was my optimism about regular people (granted, that has evaporated), but Trump post-2020 really made it clear that I no longer have the luxury of pet political projects because U.S. politics really matters now more than most points in history. Working class and lower income people tend to be less smart for obvious reasons, so none of this matters to them and never will.
I'm going to be honest though, I have no idea what people mean by dems being "out of touch". Like they are, but they're out of touch with the working class (sans black people) because dems don't peddle enough racism, anti-trans, or protectionist economic policies that will make the working class poorer.
People complaining about the democrats being out of touch don't seem to want democrats to fuck over poor people and benefit the elites like Republicans do, so I'm at a bit at of a loss
This is the only possible takeaway though. The only policies Trump pushes fall under those categories, they are massively popular with voters, and "moderate" people constantly cite the democrats being weak in those areas. What else should I conclude?
Trump might be a racist shit but dismissing all of his voters as racist is how the Dems lost the fucking election
...this is what I said though. We dismissed them as racist instead of playing into their racism. I don't know why you're also ignoring the anti-trans part or the part where democrats need to advocate protectionist policies to hurt the working class
But you can tell me. These are the things dems seem out of touch on for me, and your comment above didn't name anything specific that democrats are out of touch on so I'm not sure what the alternatives are
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u/epicfail1994 Left Visitor 🦄 Nov 18 '24
I mean pretty much
Dems are so out of touch it’s just not funny.