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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.
--Covid policies were state and local, except for fed employees and military, and there was plenty of cruelty from the MAGA side

2) Illegal Immigration
--need to tie it more closely to foreign relations and international politics, they are all getting lumped together

3) Using affirmative action to harm white workers
--seriously? embrace a lie?

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
--I have no idea what is actually happening in most elem schools so can't respond to that. I'm positive it's way way less than MAGA says. When CRT is considered the same thing as a picture of Collin Powell. . . .

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

6) Calling voters stupid racists
I was talking more about more from the Dem leadership POV

I do think Dems failed to lead in messaging, although it is very hard to lead when your message is preventing things that did NOT happen, like a major recession.

Think about it.  We win’t like this prescription, but without it we can’t get the votes back
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