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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here it is Dems!  The painful truth.

What Democrats should do is apologize.

The voters DO want servant leaders who care more about what THEY want than what WE believe.

The voters do NOT want know-it-alls, snobs, or leaders who resent voters for daring to choose the other party once in a while.

The customer is always right.  We can either cling to our belief that WE are always right and the customers are wrong, or we can apologize for our past failures to give the customers what they want, apologize for disrespecting the customers, change our offerings, and try to earn back their business.

If we can’t even apologize, then they know we don’t intend to respect their wishes over our own beliefs going forward either.

Here is just a partial list of what swing voters and flyover state viters want us to apologize for:

1) Covid overreach.  I know, I know, we f**king love science and the voters are stupid.   It doesn’t matter.  The voters reject our belief that we helped against Covid, and they are furious about forced masking of children, school closures, and forced injections on penalty of job loss.  They were also very shaken by what they saw as our totalitarian streak.  A lot of us were very cruel to neighbors and even family members.  I know it will be very difficult psychologically for us to admit any fault here.  We were on the right side of this, our intentions were good, etc.  But so far basically none of us have said sorry to anyone for any of this.  If we want swing voters back, we have to say sorry.

2) Illegal Immigration

3) Using affirmative action to harm white workers

4) LGBTQIA+ education in elementary schools.  (I agree, it’s a good thing.  It teaches kids tolerance.  Rs make too big a deal of it.  But remember, they are the customers. If we’re the “force unpopular things down your throat Party,” they won’t vote for us.  We went too far (for THEIR liking), and for that, we should apologize

5) Inflation.  Yes it was Covid, the Fed,  and Trump’s fault too.  But our team printed and borrowed and spent too much money.

6) Calling voters stupid racists

Think about it.  We win’t like this prescription, but without it we can’t get the votes back
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This.  But Dems can’t apologize.  They think too highly of themselves.  There’s no way America’s moral and intellectual superiors are going to grovel for votes from “stupid” people in flyover states.[/quote]

Two thoughts on this Dems need to apologize BS:

(1) They have far less to apologize for than the GOP.  The GOP, at least as far back as Newt Gingrich has destroyed the functionality of Congress.  Absolutely torpedoed it with their "other side is the enemy" rhetoric and mentality.  Instead of "the other side of the aisle are people with whom we disagree about some things and need to find ways to compromise with" they say the other side is the ENEMY.  IT IS THE GOP that hammered home that compromise is weakness and all the us vs. them mentality.  This has meant so little forward progress on real issues that voters actual give two sh**s about.  They would rather lie and divide that actually solve problems. 
 AND The GOP brought us Trump.  He is dismantling our democracy.  He is alienating our allies.  He is siding with dictators.  He is tanking our economy.  He tried to undermine the previous election. He is by far the worst human being we have ever given this much power to. NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Dems have done compares with the train wreck that is Trump and his Project 2025 RWNJ psychopaths.  And there the GOP Congresspeople sit like brainless, spineless NPCs sitting on their hands while he does it all.  Barely a peep.

(2) If the Dems apologize, the GOP will take it, twist it, add their own brand of lies and exaggerations and use it against the Dems.  Anything to twist the knife.  See paragraph 1.

The only way forward is to hammer relentlessly at the incompetence of the current administration, relentlessly bring to light how these policies hurt Americans, and relentless talk of actual plans to make actual progress on the economy and issues that voters really care about.  All eyes forward.[/quote]

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