These people should all be democrats, but do you think any of them are right now?
Now, I don’t agree with all of this and so don’t shoot the messenger. At the same time I do agree with much of it, some of it pretty strongly. While some of it is wrapped in a tone I disagree with, it’s core message to me it largely matches up to my feelings on the current state of the party. As a lifelong democrat I’ve always felt the core of the party was the working class union guy. The type of people I grew up with many of which I still consider friends to this day.
Many of which no longer vote for Democrats.
Looks like Russia finally helped the Democrats deliver on their promise of transparency.
What is sad about the Dems is that at a time when they should be introspecting, they're looking to shift blame for their own failures, ensuring that the DNC establishment doesn't actually change. This election wasn't actually a referendum on Trump, it was a referendum on what passes for the modern representatives of the liberal left in America, the Democratic party.
They're blaming the loss on everything, from sexism of Bernie supporters to Russia to fake news to everyone who voted against them being stupid. The left finally got an actual populist that talked about actual real issues like trade deals, stopping monopolies and putting term limits on Congress, and what did the DNC do? They crushed him to continue the failed policies of the liberal establishment.
They have abandoned their core principles. What passes for "liberal" today in America has almost nothing to do with classic liberalism (individual rights, freedom of thought/speech...etc). The great liberal tradition that rejects regressive dogmatic ideologies and which is compassionate to the working class stiffs that build the country is now gone. The left-wing movement in this country, at least going back the last 20 years or so, hasn't really been one of left-wing economics or individualistic free thinking, or using government to improve the lives of the working and middle classes. What's passed for left-wing politics in this country is really just identity politics: promising to give various handouts to some identifiable minority group (blacks, women, illegal immigrants, lgbt...etc).
Democrats, you have completely and utterly lost touch with the common man, whose concerns used to be at the very center of the political left.
Today that electrician stringing up wires of homes in Wisconsin, that welder putting together steel plates in Pennsylvania, that man fixing an elevator in Ohio, the many men across the country with dirt under their nails from working with their hands....these aren't your people anymore.
Instead you are now the party of the gender studies graduate with manicured nails, lecturing others about the evil racist sexist America, telling the struggling white working class that they hold white privilege and therefore hold an eternal debt to all non-white people based purely on the color of their skin.
The DNC is the the party of those who go absolutely nuts when a Christian baker doesn't want to be forced to bake a cake for a gay wedding, yet instantly jumps in to defend insanely backwards ideologies like Islam when yet another Muslim mass murders innocent homosexuals.
It is the party of collusion with media to mislead the public, of corruption and saying nice empty platitudes that have been filtered through 5 focus groups as to not offend anyone while doing the very opposite of these platitudes.
It is the party of Black Lives Matter, the oppression Olympics, of 20 different gender pronouns, virtue signalling and all the noxious ideas like "social justice" that claim that all difference in outcome must be due to some etheral discrimination, and that places the collectivist forced equality of outcome over the rights of an individual.
It is the party of the smug air of moral superiority, of ivory tower attitudes holding contempt and instantly discounting the views of regular people that don't hold a degree studying Critical Theory or the works of Juddith Butler.
And what has this disconnect lead to? The following:
- Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives, with 238 seats.
- Republicans have won the majority in the Senate.
- Republicans now hold 33 Governorships, with a gain of three seats on November 8.
- Republicans control a record 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
- Republicans now hold more total state legislature seats, well over 4,100 of the 7,383, than they have since 1920
- A former reality TV star with no government experience whatsoever won the White House.
- President Trump will have one Supreme Court vacancy to fill immediately and could potentially add at least two more justices before his first term is finished.
The GOP now controls all levels of our government, it is the most powerful it has been in over 80 years according to Real Clear Politics and Washington Post.
Come the midterms in 2018, the electorate map looks really good for the GOP and they could easily win enough seats to pass the threshold needed for them to start changing the Constitution completely unopposed.
You could have prevented this. You could have kicked out the out of touch elitists and candidates that can't connect with the average person, you could have listened to the common man instead you treated them like utter garbage, with the insufferable arrogance of guilt tripping and shaming everyone who disagrees with your identity politics nonsense.
You made this bed.
And god damn do you deserve to now sleep in it.
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Our response here is largely full of lying to ourselves about the current state of the party, wrapping ourselves in the coozy idea that we ‘won’ the popular vote, blaming everyone for being racist/sexists and screaming that Trump’s an illegitimate president. Blaming it on Russian hacks or Comey is missing the problem entirely because we’re too focused as usual on one office.
Look at that list again:
- Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives, with 238 seats.
- Republicans have won the majority in the Senate.
- Republicans now hold 33 Governorships, with a gain of three seats on November 8.
- Republicans control a record 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
- Republicans now hold more total state legislature seats, well over 4,100 of the 7,383, than they have since 1920
- A former reality TV star with no government experience whatsoever won the White House.
That’s not Comey, Russian hackers or ‘fake news’ at work. That’s a sign of a clear and systemic problem with the message and messengers of the party, a problem that has been festering for sometime. And the time to fix it is now or I’m afraid that Reddit commentator is spot on with this look at the future:
“[The GOP] could easily win enough seats to pass the threshold needed for them to start changing the Constitution completely unopposed.”
That’s the future if our take away is that we need more of the same message, more of the same models, more of the same identity politics, and because ‘Demographics are destiny’ and if we just wait long enough all the republicans will just die off.
We might be waiting too long.
We need to find our way back to being the party of New Deal and Great Society type principals and a simple straightforward message that we’re fighting for the common man. A message that any working class voter (black/white/hispanic/muslim/indian/purple) can get behind and inspires them to turn out to vote.
Or I guess we can find out what it looks like if we let the GOP gain enough power to fiddle with the Constitution.
