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[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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You lost me at your covid rant. Absolutely ridiculous. Trump was potus. He did nothing but divide, lie, and fear monger. He threw away Obama’s pandemic playbook. He shamelessly spread misinformation. The streets were lined with refrigerated trucks full of bodies. There were mass graves. He suggested injecting bleach- prompting disinfectant companies to put a warning on their products. When he got covid, he got the care and treatment he denied others. He ridiculed people for wearing masks. I could go on for hours about all the ways he fckd up the pandemic response.

When people blame Fauci and democrats for shutting things down, wearing masks, social distancing, why isn’t there any acknowledgment that this was consistent with the rest of the world?

Im a teacher. In general, kids were not that upset about wearing masks. We offered spots they could go to for mask breaks. They never took us up on it. They loved our hybrid schedule and the bond they formed as a small group. Over half of my class chose to continue wearing a mask when it was optional. I am not saying the pandemic did not cause trauma or have negative effects. It did. Of course it did. Pandemics tend to do that. But the masks were not that big of a deal. The only students I had who complained about it were kids with maga parents and they were obviously repeating what their parents said. In fact, during times when lots of kids are out with flu or covid, my students still suggest that we all wear masks until everyone gets better.

I got off-topic from the point of this thread, but it just really pissed me off that you think democrats should apologize for covid. [/quote]

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