Rightguide
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There you have it folks the formative plans for a political circular firing squad.
DNC Official Explains Why Democrats Will Be In The Wilderness For Decades
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There you have it folks the formative plans for a political circular firing squad.
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You're not even a Republican anymore, Jack. You lost your party to a conman and a Nazi.
No, that's not why they lost.The only small point our Russian bot/troll friend has here- and it's not even necessarily a valid one- is that the Democrats really should have focused more on economic issues and domestic policy such as health care, in their last campaign.
Independant voters, that is, the ones who voted for Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020, don't care about divisive social issues. They care about how much groceries cost. How easy it will be to attain health care. How easily attainable the American Dream is. Opportunites for jobs. THIS is the kind of thing Harris and the Democrats should have focused on. These social issues might sound great for the .03125% of the population who is transgendered, but the other 99.96875% of the population won't be affected by the politics of transgenderism either way. (That's another problem, that one issue has been WAY too politicized- by BOTH sides, not just the Democrats.)
Independant voters, that is, the ones who voted for Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020, don't care about divisive social issues. They care about how much groceries cost. How easy it will be to attain health care. How easily attainable the American Dream is. Opportunites for jobs. THIS is the kind of thing Harris and the Democrats should have focused on. These social issues might sound great for the .03125% of the population who is transgendered, but the other 99.96875% of the population won't be affected by the politics of transgenderism either way. (That's another problem, that one issue has been WAY too politicized- by BOTH sides, not just the Democrats.)
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I thought I was watching a gong show documentary.
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Wait until Gen Z and Alpha take over. People will wonder what a Republican was and how America ever fell for their lies.
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Spot on. All Harris had to do was commit the tax relief given by Trump to the 1% to be reallocated to the working and middle class. But the D's had sold out to their corporate mates and Harris, a very poor candidate, had nothing to offer the voting base. The only thing which surprised me about the election result was that Harris got so close without giving working voters any reason at all to vote for her. Adherence to the Progressives agenda made it an electoral suicide note.
In case you are wondering about personal prejudices my US tax liabilities place me in the 1% - just but definitely there, along with just about every D. leader.
The Dems lost because of inflation. They need to downplay the culture-war issues -- the liberal side's victory in that field is inevitable in the long run anyway -- and focus attention on economic populism. Bread-and-butter issues. Social democracy. Fighting the plutocracy and flattening the pyramid. A redistributive tax system and a vigorous welfare state. If they just do that, then they'll win and win and win.
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