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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dems seem to think they can just make a few tweaks, correct a few mistakes, and move on.  But that would only work if the voters had no memories.  Of COURSE Dems should ease up on promoting migrants and trans folks.  Of COURSE Dems should stop calling the voters stupid racists.  But will the voters really come back and say, “Thanks for not calking me a stupid racist this year—here’s my vote”?  No.  Voter dislike of Dems is permanent.  By all means, Dems should behave better.  But they can’t be that optimistic.  People aren’t stupid.  They know Dems hate normal Americans.  Even if they manage to start hiding it better.[/quote]

I'm afraid you are correct.  Our brand is coated with a stink that can't be removed with any known solvent.[/quote]

Or maybe the voters could try not being stupid racists.

What you’re not getting is that this is who these Americans are. This is what they want. They want radical change, because they think they’re being left behind.  They voted for a dictator to punish those uppity brown people and women and foreigners.  Now they have one, and they’re ecstatic. Nothing the Democrats could possibly say or do can penetrate a bubble built on fear and hatred. Facts don’t matter. Logic doesn’t matter. Empathy doesn’t matter. Christian values don’t matter.  For the past few decades, they’ve been carefully taught to hate anyone with a D attached to their name.

You’re inside that same bubble too, gloating over imaginary caricatures of preening out of touch Democrats.  Nothing the Democrats do would make them palatable to you unless they move further to the right. Why on earth would they do that? Then they wouldn’t be Democrats any longer.  They’d be moderate Republicans, of the sort that voters keep rejecting in favor of ever more extreme MAGA candidates.

The center isn’t coming back.  This country is more polarized than it’s ever been.  We can’t even agree on a common set of facts or beliefs anymore.

This isn’t a Democrat problem. It’s a voter problem. They are the ones responsible for waking up and realizing the GOP’s smash and destroy mission isn’t making their lives better, just as a drug addict is responsible for getting clean. Until they hit rock bottom, everything their friends and family say will get perceived as moralistic nagging. That seems to be your main peeve with Democrats, that they should get off their moral high horse, stop nagging, and… what, start enabling?[/quote]

Your party is just like you—it knows everything except how to win elections. [/quote]

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