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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days 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
      2·
      5 days ago

      I think I know who you are talking about. The loud and proud ones. But what the loudest people are saying is no necessarily what most people are thinking. So you can’t assume everyone thinks like them.

    • Frank Casa@frank.casa
      1·
      5 days 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
        31·
        5 days 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
          0·
          5 days 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.