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02/03/2025 01:13

Subject: Democrats who are upset

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a Democrat and unhappy with things politically, what do you think the Democrats should do differently so they win?

They'll do nothing differently. They don't get what just happened.

They are so tone deaf. All the crazy policies that made zero sense didn't work. We MUST appeal to common sense.
ZERO chance Dems retake the Senate next cycle. Look at the map and retirements. Dems have a slim chance for the House. It is clear things will be put in place to make the battle to get the house an uphill battle. The only shot is 4 years from now.

This is just a perfect picture of what is wrong with the world and why we are completely screwed.

Racism and sexism is exactly why Kamala lost, and the racists and sexists loudly proclaim "calling us racists and sexists racist and sexist only makes us want to be more racist and sexist!"

So our choices are placate the racists and sexists (and by doing so give up any chance to improve racism and sexism) or let the racists and sexists run the asylum.

lol literally learning nothing in real-time. Vance2028 it is.

Oh look it's literally what I just described...

I should clarify. I'm a black woman. I will be voting for Vance if he runs in 2028 if the Democrats keep up this delusion. Also, Kamala couldn't form a coherent sentence. To deny that is to deny reality

Say what you will about Harris but she was a HELL of a lot more coherent than Trump.

But I agree, Democrats need to significantly dial back on identity politics and redirect their primary attention to the kitchen-table issues - affordable, healthy groceries, safe and affordable medicines, being able to afford an apartment or buy a home and not having wall street jack up real estate prices, good jobs for the working class, improving our school outcomes, having access to good healthcare, getting corporations and the rich to pay their fair share, safety net for Americans who are struggling, dealing with the opiate and meth crisis, a strong economy, strengthening our alliances with other countries and so on.

Identity politics is what cost Democrats the election. Anyone who disagrees with that is seriously out of touch. I have no problem with progressives running in safe, deep blue districts but they CAN NOT be driving the bus on the bigger picture issues, because, though well-intentioned, they've already driven us into the ditch.

The DNC needs to know this and needs to address it.

Going to disagree she was more coherent. Why? Because she was unable to mingle with common people at places like a supermarket and express a simple message or statement. It is unbelievable that leaders of the Democratic Party fail to understand charismatic people have a vastly easier time being elected.

Trump goes into a supermarket and actually mingled with people. He compliments a mother and her three boys, hands her a $100 and says her grocery bill is going down. Egg prices are going down. He pays for his groceries and then tells the cashier if there is money left over it is a tip for her. He got free press when news replayed the scene, when the mother was interviewed on TV, etc. Was it partially staged - of course it was but even though I can't stand Trump, he can mingle.

Harris rarely extemporaneous spoke to common people even if it was staged. Videos of her visiting a store had secret service securing areas, and she is talking to Walz about Doritos. Then she blamed price gouging (except she pronounced it gaging in one speech) on food prices and said they would pass a law. I would guess a large percentage of Americans have no idea what price gouging is and how it can be fixed. Trump just said "I will be your food prices down" and people buy it. Who cares if it doesn't happen (obviously look at egg prices today). No one wanted to hear Biden /Harris deny that inflation was under control when most people are grocery shopping and were reminded every week their grocery bill was way higher.

So the number one thing Democrats can do is find charismatic people who can mingle with the people and who can succinctly deliver a message in sound bites. The attention span of Americans is so incredibly short that long winded explanations don't work.

Secondly, pick issues that aren't polarizing. Stop blaming and insulting people with whom you don't agree. The level of whininess and blaming everyone else is epic. You just have to look at the title of the threads to realize way too many Democrats don't understand this. The posts from some liberal women are shocking. It is posts like - African American and Hispanic voters who voted for Trump - full of racist assumptions and so incredibly patronizing. Or other posts that Hispanic and Black men are misogynists and are Hispanic who voted for Trump are too dumb to realize they voted incorrectly. James Carvel was spot on with his way too many "preachy women" take on the Democrats. Stop lecturing adults. In the real world not many people like a Hermione [it's leviOsa, not levioSA], it's sad but true.