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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) [b]Covid overreach. [/b] 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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Here’s the thing I don’t understand about accusing dems of covid overreach. It was a global pandemic. The same response was happening all over the world, based on guidance from the too scientists around the world. I don’t know why dems should apologize or take the fall. I’m a teacher, and I am still feeling and seeing the consequences of kids missing so much school. Right now, my students are the “covid kindergarteners” and it is rough. I remember seeing my colleagues trying to teach those babies online and it was a very sad sight. But I remind myself that some of those kids might not be here if we had kept schools open. Or they would have experienced even more trauma by losing friends and relatives to covid.

I don’t think apologizing for these things is the answer. That would seem to imply that we were wrong. But I do think we need to do a MUCH better job of explaining and breaking things down for the voters. 
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