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Anonymous wrote:The disconnect between Democratic Party attitudes and accomplishments has never been bigger. Upper middle class striver Dems are utterly convinced that they are classier, smarter, and more moral than anyone who has ever lived.

Meanwhile, voters defected to Trump and people are moving away from blue cities and states. Dems stand for forcing things on unwilling Americans: illegal immigrant gang members, forced injections, biological males in the girls’ room, tenure for DC bureaucrats, senile Presidents, rigged primaries, endless wars, failing schools, and on and on and on. All these terrible policies would be less off-putting if Democrats weren’t constantly praising themselves for them and calling everyone else stupid.

It’s clear from these attitudes that most upper middle class Dems don’t even realize how unpopular they and their Party are with normal people. They are like Wile E Coyote after walking offf the cliff but before looking down and starting to fall. It’s a long way down. Dems are still years away from even beginning to make the necessary changes to compete.

+1 million agree with all of this

Anonymous wrote:New "OPT" bill is a GREAT SOLUTION to outrageous anti-U.S.-worker program

On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-09) introduced H.R. 2315, which would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that provides incentives for employers to hire foreign students from U.S. colleges instead of American graduates for high-skill jobs. In a statement, Gosar said:

"OPT incentivizes greedy businesses to fire Americans and replace them with inexpensive foreign labor by avoiding having to pay FICA and Medicare payroll taxes and other employee benefits. The OPT program completely abandons young Americans who have spent years and tens of thousands of dollars pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics....Our government should not be incentivizing foreign employees over Americans."


Where are the democrats that claim they help US workers over business???????

Anonymous wrote:The disconnect between Democratic Party attitudes and accomplishments has never been bigger. Upper middle class striver Dems are utterly convinced that they are classier, smarter, and more moral than anyone who has ever lived.

Meanwhile, voters defected to Trump and people are moving away from blue cities and states. Dems stand for forcing things on unwilling Americans: illegal immigrant gang members, forced injections, biological males in the girls’ room, tenure for DC bureaucrats, senile Presidents, rigged primaries, endless wars, failing schools, and on and on and on. All these terrible policies would be less off-putting if Democrats weren’t constantly praising themselves for them and calling everyone else stupid.

It’s clear from these attitudes that most upper middle class Dems don’t even realize how unpopular they and their Party are with normal people. They are like Wile E Coyote after walking offf the cliff but before looking down and starting to fall. It’s a long way down. Dems are still years away from even beginning to make the necessary changes to compete.

Anonymous wrote:The disconnect between Democratic Party attitudes and accomplishments has never been bigger. Upper middle class striver Dems are utterly convinced that they are classier, smarter, and more moral than anyone who has ever lived.

Meanwhile, voters defected to Trump and people are moving away from blue cities and states. Dems stand for forcing things on unwilling Americans: illegal immigrant gang members, forced injections, biological males in the girls’ room, tenure for DC bureaucrats, senile Presidents, rigged primaries, endless wars, failing schools, and on and on and on. All these terrible policies would be less off-putting if Democrats weren’t constantly praising themselves for them and calling everyone else stupid.

It’s clear from these attitudes that most upper middle class Dems don’t even realize how unpopular they and their Party are with normal people. They are like Wile E Coyote after walking offf the cliff but before looking down and starting to fall. It’s a long way down. Dems are still years away from even beginning to make the necessary changes to compete.

Anonymous wrote:The disconnect between Democratic Party attitudes and accomplishments has never been bigger. Upper middle class striver Dems are utterly convinced that they are classier, smarter, and more moral than anyone who has ever lived.

Meanwhile, voters defected to Trump and people are moving away from blue cities and states. Dems stand for forcing things on unwilling Americans: illegal immigrant gang members, forced injections, biological males in the girls’ room, tenure for DC bureaucrats, senile Presidents, rigged primaries, endless wars, failing schools, and on and on and on. All these terrible policies would be less off-putting if Democrats weren’t constantly praising themselves for them and calling everyone else stupid.

It’s clear from these attitudes that most upper middle class Dems don’t even realize how unpopular they and their Party are with normal people. They are like Wile E Coyote after walking offf the cliff but before looking down and starting to fall. It’s a long way down. Dems are still years away from even beginning to make the necessary changes to compete.

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Voters need us to show not tell. If we want to earn their votes back, we’ll have to help Trump lock down the border, do mass deportations, cut costs, bring back manufacturing, etc. In our polarized era, both teams are trained to obstruct everything, to deny the other team a win. But Dems need to actively work FOR the working and middle classes (and their Republican policy preferences) to have even a chance of our messaging landing with them in 2028.

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Anonymous wrote:That dream candidate might to better as an independent. Not only would today’s Dems get all fussy and nitpicky over Obama’s exact racial and sexual and religious identity, they would HATE his old stances on strong borders, marriage between a man and a woman, no men in girls’ locker rooms, etc. The party has progressed a ling way since Obama and since Hillary. And the candidate will have to adapt to the Party, not vice versa. Not even Bernie, with his deep understanding of how migrants suppress American wages, dares to talk about that anymore. He now toes the “no human is illegal” line. Obama and Hillary too. Their old principles have “evolved” massively. They aren’t even running for office! But just to stay relevant, they are all in on migrants and trans folks.

More nonsense. Dems can’t win unless they are independents?!

Trolling well, my friend.

Dems obviously have the structural advantages of a oarty apparatus. But they also have a lot of ideological and ego-related baggage. Obama 2008 would now be rejected by dcurbanmoms for his Nazi views on migrants and trans folks. There’s no humility. Losing voters is making us angrily double down. Rahm Emanuel wants to come teach us that “it’s the economy, stupid,” but he’s got an uphill battle.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That dream candidate might to better as an independent. Not only would today’s Dems get all fussy and nitpicky over Obama’s exact racial and sexual and religious identity, they would HATE his old stances on strong borders, marriage between a man and a woman, no men in girls’ locker rooms, etc. The party has progressed a ling way since Obama and since Hillary. And the candidate will have to adapt to the Party, not vice versa. Not even Bernie, with his deep understanding of how migrants suppress American wages, dares to talk about that anymore. He now toes the “no human is illegal” line. Obama and Hillary too. Their old principles have “evolved” massively. They aren’t even running for office! But just to stay relevant, they are all in on migrants and trans folks.

More nonsense. Dems can’t win unless they are independents?!

Trolling well, my friend.

Anonymous wrote:That dream candidate might to better as an independent. Not only would today’s Dems get all fussy and nitpicky over Obama’s exact racial and sexual and religious identity, they would HATE his old stances on strong borders, marriage between a man and a woman, no men in girls’ locker rooms, etc. The party has progressed a ling way since Obama and since Hillary. And the candidate will have to adapt to the Party, not vice versa. Not even Bernie, with his deep understanding of how migrants suppress American wages, dares to talk about that anymore. He now toes the “no human is illegal” line. Obama and Hillary too. Their old principles have “evolved” massively. They aren’t even running for office! But just to stay relevant, they are all in on migrants and trans folks.

Anonymous wrote:Seeing how lost Democrats are today, I am really struck by how remarkable Barack Obama was. He transcended all the stupid little boxes that progressives have these days. If he were to emerge today, I'd expect Democrats to be completely twisted into pretzels as they agonize over whether Obama is too black or not black enough.

Candidates matter much more than the boxes they are ticking. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost not because they are women but because they were shitty candidates running on platforms that most Americans rejected. I'm pretty sure Nikki Haley would have won if she had been the Republican nominee. Voters rejected Harris not because she's a woman, but because Biden progressives suck - from illegal immigration to preferential racial hiring to soft on violent crime policies to wrecking an entire generation of public school students because of cruel blue state Covid restrictions. Jesus Christ Himself would have lost running as a Democrat in 2024.

So Democrats have both a candidate problem and a policy problem. What they need is a movement leader - a charismatic individual who can move Democrats away from losing social issues and toward winning economic issues. The economy is going to suck over the next few years. That is where Democrats can pick up heaps of voters if they can somehow re-orient to being the party of the working and middle class. Identity politics are death for Democrats. They need to walk away from that and focus on health insurance, income inequality, parental leave, safe neighborhoods, good schools, and all the other kitchen table issues that progressives have ignored for years. There is so much space for Democrats to be the dominant party in the US if they could just focus on the things that matter to the working and middle class - and that is not gender pronouns or Gaza.

Right now the only prominent voices I'm seeing that really resonate with working and middle class voters are Bernie Sanders and AOC. But Bernie is too old and AOC is too young. So that space is completely free for a more viable candidate. And I'm not seeing anyone. People like Buttigieg and Booker and Whitmer and Newsome will never do anything that pisses off donors and the DNC. But Democrats desperately need exactly the kind of candidate that pisses off donors and the DNC. I don't know who that person is, but that's what Democrats need. And their race or gender is completely irrelevant. It's their character, charisma, and policy that matters. But if Democrats choose to go with either a milquetoast DNC candidate or an identity politics candidate, they are doomed to irrelevancy. But a charismatic class warrior will win big against the party of Elon Musk.