SenorBeef And The Streisand Effect

[robby]

Not sure if this fits better over in the linked thread in Politics and Elections, but since it’s a tongue-in-cheek humor column, I guess I’ll put Dave Barry’s take on the election from his most recent year-in-review column here along with a gift link. (Note that they make you create a free account to use the link.)

@Dave Barry

…In a matter of seconds these experts pivot from being spectacularly clueless about what was going to happen in the election to confidently explaining what happened in the election.

One theory is that it was not a great idea for Democrats to insist that Biden was fine until it was embarrassingly obvious that he was not, then replace him, via a secret process, with a candidate who was not great at talking and did not run in a single primary and who previously advocated positions that many Americans were not crazy about, which is why they voted, sometimes reluctantly, for Trump.

One branch of the Democratic Party accepts this theory and begins the painful but necessary process of self-examination. Another branch prefers to believe that the party is fine and the real problem is that most Americans are sexist, racist, pro-fascist morons, which might not be a winning message for Democrats going forward, but it does enable this branch to feel better about itself.

There’s truth in jest, as my mother-in-law was fond of saying. Maybe I need to re-examine my own conclusion following the election that most Americans are indeed sexist, racist, pro-fascist morons.

P.S. I didn’t actually realize Dave Barry was still writing columns, but he apparently still does these year-in-review ones, at least sometimes.