Hit back on those ubiquitous “sex change operations for prisoners” ads. The last Democrat who said “people will never fall for this shit” was John Kerry.
It’s fear of what the Progressive Left will do if they could
- Pronoun usage is mandatory.
- Whites get treated as second-class citizens and rights are taken away because of CRT and DEI.
- Gender-reassignment upon request in a school nurse’s office
- Abortions up until the baby’s head is crowning … and maybe even then if then if the baby is not fully out.
- The dumpster fire that is California? Make that the United States
- ANYONE can walk across the border into the United States and they immediately get social welfare AND a pamphlet on how to vote illegally.
But here’s the thing to those of you that say that’s stupid. Imagine this country in 2016 and how much the Religious Right has turned the US into a Fundamentalist Theocracy. You would have said that was impossible and yet the MAGAs are sitting there thinking, “If we could go all crazy-ass and win, why can’t they?”
I agree with this entire thing. The actual truth is that the rich aren’t evil, but we need to raise taxes and that’s where the money is. But the actual truth is boring. Much better to say “we need this social program and those rich elites are slobbering over their swimming pools of gold coins” than to just say the truth of “surely the rich can spare a few more percent to pay for social programs.”
Plus the Democrats are called socialist anyway, and actually do want to raise taxes. No matter what you say or how much you hold off on taxes and class warfare rhetoric, people are going to assume you’re doing it anyway.
Whereas that isn’t the case for the Democrats’ supposed obsession with leftist social struggles. A lot of what they supposedly should disavow is in no way advocated by the mainstream Democrat. You can’t disavow something you never even said.
Count me among those.
The US has centuries of history of white supremacy, religious bigotry and isolationism. As the Economist points out, Trump’s election has used new methods (social media) to engage in old politics; to return the US to where it was pre-WWII.
Meanwhile the Democrats aren’t even particularly a left-wing party, not by international standards. And progressive policies are actually very popular among Americans, when you poll them on those policies and don’t mention who proposed them.
So there really is no symmetry here. The various talking points about what the “commie” left really wants are outright lies or, at best, the slippery-slope fallacy.
Or, as I’m fond of saying, the truth about Donald Trump is orders of magnitude worse than the lies about (The) Biden (Crime Family), Harris, and the Democrats.
They currently use pronouns.
You mean the way non Whites were legally treated until the 70s at the earliest?
Yes, a grade school nurse’s office is the first place I think of when I think of complex surgery.
Might as well add their fear of children being murdered for their adrenochrome and their corpses turned into pizza toppings in the basements of pizza shops without basements for all the reality these concerns present.
After years of associating with a number of them, I can say that bears very little resemblance to what they want. It’s obviously a list created by people who neither know nor care about what the radical left actually wants because they ignore all the honest accusations that could be made in favor of nonsense.
Plus, the Left is basically powerless, passive and irrelevant and has been for decades.
People who find that a nightmare scenario have an issue with the English language, not the Progressive Left.
True BUT that doesn’t mean that the Right doesn’t believe that that’s what’s going to happen. Fearmongering is rarely based on reality.
An interesting analysis on 60 Minutes tonight….they talked to Pennsylvania Trump voters (including Latinos), plus pundits etc. And overwhelmingly the explanation was just as James Carville said 30 years ago: it’s the economy, stupid.
People are pissed off about the price of eggs. That’s it. They’re willing to overlook Trumps flaws just so they can register their displeasure with Biden. (Of course the president does not set the price of eggs. One wonders if that fact will ever register)
Or this chart,
Egg prices adjusted for inflation in 2022 dollars showing that the price of eggs has between between $2 and $3 dollars for the last 40 years.
Add in a ‘’‘’‘clearly fake, since viruses are not real’‘’‘’ bird flu and you get these morans.
I become more and more convinced that no Democratic candidate could have won this election. I really think that with any other Republican candidate there would have been a Reagan level blowout. Historians are going to look back and see a thriving economy and wonder where the message got so lost. I was watching someone who made the point that although the rabid MAGA people are loud, most people don’t really pay attention to politics and vote based on whether they feel things are going well for them.
I still insist that Harris ran an excellent campaign. There may have been some things to improve on ( in hindsight maybe go on Rogan) but overall I refuse to blame her or her team or Biden.
About that…
https://bsky.app/profile/akalhan.bsky.social/post/3lan4y3bcu22f
I’m beginning to think (well, I’ve thought it for awhile, but it’s starting to look more plausible) that the billionaires who run the media decided somewhere around 2022 to throw the election to Trump any way they could, and that the so-called “liberal media” has just been a scapegoat for right-wing outrage while quietly manufacturing a narrative to convince people to blame Biden and Harris for things they had no control over.
“It’s not enough to give people something to vote against. You’ve got to give them something to vote for.”
This is one of the post-mortem criticisms of the Harris campaign. Frankly, it puzzles me (the chance to vote against the other side was all the motivation I needed!).
Sincere question: What would it mean for the party already in the White House to “give people something to vote for”? What would that campaign have looked like?
The Right is delusional, evil and dishonest, and none of their “fears” are anything other than excuses to persecute and kill people.
Harris was never going to get them to even listen to her, much less convince them; she’s one of the people they want to see enslaved or killed. So the only relevance they have to this thread is that the Democrats should have put zero effort into campaigning to them since they were always unreachable.
The Harris campaign put a lot of emphasis (and by some reports, spent a lot of money) on securing celebrity and “influencer” endorsements. For many, this comes across as “Here are your betters - who have zero actual understanding of or interest in your lives and concerns - to tell you how you should think & vote. Listen and obey, or be judged morally deficient.”
Meanwhile, Republicans were spending modest sums registering tens of thousands of Amish & Mennonites in PA, who apparently voted for Trump at north of 98%
And the Republicans have been doing the same thing forever. It’s just that IOKIYAR.
(It’s OK If You’re A Republican)
I’m not sure it’s okay for any campaign to make itself look elitist & condescending. At a minimum, it isn’t smart.
Yep; and imagine how the whole Elon Musk thing with the parties swapped. The “elitism” narrative has been firmly tied to the Democrats, even though the data runs almost entirely the other way.
Probably the main thing that she could have done was suck up to Silicon Valley.
If we assume that people will go in the direction of the greatest influence, the owners of Facebook and Twitter certainly have a lot of push.
Trump didn’t go after Vance for nothing.