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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The discussion about Dems' shitty social agenda is good, but let me chime in about something a little different: Optics and mood.

Democrats need to read the freaking room.

During the campaign season, I didn't give a single shit about Beyoncé being Team Harris. Taylor Swift could kick rocks. Kamala being "Brat" and "coconut" was stupid as hell. That kind of giggling campaign is for good times.

Life has sucked badly for most Americans for a long time. Harris wasn't channeling that energy. She looked rich, unbothered, gleeful - like she needed to go hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow and let somebody who gets it handle the country.

The majority of the electorate isn't in our early 20s. We don't find it cute to see a candidate staging stupid concerts we can't afford and making appearances on podcasts with dumb, giggling blondes. For that matter, even the kids in their early 20s have been angry and depressed for years.

Harris's whole knockoff Obama vibes-based campaign wasn't getting it. This isn't 2007 when everyone was still living in grand houses we couldn't afford with no idea of what was around the corner. Obama could sell us hope before we knew just how bad things were going to get and that we really did need to abandon all hope.

Trump, in contrast, was giving angry, vengeful, sick of this shit. That's where a lot of us are and have been. I used to be perky, but Covid school shutdowns cost me my job and life has just been a series of blows after that. I wake up tired most days. Trump looked tired too. His problems are self-inflicted, but he looked like somebody who had been going through it for four years and was ready to come out swinging. I really don't think Democrats understand how much that counted for a lot of people in the nation who just have nothing left.

Even now, Democrats are talking about everything Trump is doing and it really is bad. However,  a lot of people in this country are about to keel over from exhaustion. We can't keep up with 50 different reasons why Trump is a fascist and we need to march every weekend.[/quote]

Yeah, the Democratic messaging right now seems to be “haha ur struggling lol” on one hand and on the other “omg we will die to make sure trans girls who want to compete against the girls get that chance slay ladies.”

It’s not a great look. [/quote]

It’s funny when Americans are financially struggling! Because they didn’t vote for Kamala! lol! [/quote]

Americans were struggling under Biden, and all we got was The Best Economy Ever™️, inflation is transitory, and the border is secure gaslighting.  [/quote]

Agree. Once we can put the gloomy days of Trump and Biden behind us, we can all come together as one proud nation.[/quote]
Hell no.  This is a cultural civil war as deep as Shiite vs Sunni.  Either we devolve power to local jurisdictions where people have common values, or we start shooting each other.  There will never be a united “America” again.[/quote]

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