# What's wrong with Democrats?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 10, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-democrats/955842 "2021-12-10T17:49:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-democrats/955842/64 "2021-12-14T21:15:43Z")

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It’s hard to compete when:

a) You _generally_ try to play by the rules, and:

b) You’re using “Factoring in estimated hysteresis, the planet’s average temperature is poised to rise by 3\*C over the next ten years” against their:

- They’re turning this country socialist, like Venezuela
- They’re giving this country over to illegals and brown people
- They’re going to ban your guns _and_ your religion
- They’re teaching your children to be ashamed of their race, their heterosexuality, and their ethnicity
- They’re forcing The Ghay Agenda on your kids
- They’re turning your cities into war-torn cesspools
- Your children are utterly not safe in Librul 'Murica
- You won’t be able to buy a 17 ounce fountain drink
- We’ll all be forced to eat nothing but kale. An In-n-Out Double Double will be a Felony
- They’re using [**Agenda 21**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21) to force us all to live in cramped barracks and drive Smart cars
- Bill Gates is going to inject a chip into your @$$. Big Brother will _own_ you
- You’ll pay 105% of your income in taxes
- You’ll _have_ to marry interracial, have LGBTQ kids, and get an abortion. You’ll just _have to_
- They want us to bend over for Putin and Xi
- We’ll all be buying Teslas for non-English speaking Welfare recipients
- **FOR THE LOVE OF GRID … BENGHAZI !!!**

And I really could go on and on.

They’re evil, but they’re generally not stupid.

If Democrats need to reach people who are vulnerable to this kind of marketing effort, I really don’t know how they could. Whatever other qualities that cohort has, it will be hard to bypass these lizard-brain, existential issues to talk intelligently to them about the reality of “their economic interests.”

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