Folks please don’t jump on me as I am just challenging the prevailing theory in the intelligentsia & political pundits that voters are sacrosanct and you can never blame them. Also, I readily admit I am not good in writing or English. Just expressing my heartfelt thoughts on what is happening in America and what can we do about that.
So here is some food for thought...Are Voters really sacrosanct? Why not call them out for repeatedly voting for crazies to power?
My mother tells me all the time sometimes you need to let people in to challenge & awaken you from your funk. My point is we go after the politicians but not the voters that put these crazy politicians in power. Why not challenge voters or call them out for voting for people they know are racists/rapists/child molesters/wingnuts etc…
I don’t know if it would have made a difference but wish somebody did that in 2016 campaign. I still can’t believe that normal & well educated people voted for Trump in spite of knowing fully well that the guy is sexual abuser, molester, pussy grabber and down right immoral guy. I am afraid folks in Alabama will vote for Roy Moore the child molester as nobody is challenging them on their tribalism.
Why not challenge or remind the voters viscerally on their racist tendencies or believing in conspiracies theories or their tribalism or laziness or accepting alternative facts etc...?
I am sure there are lot of smart people running or managing political campaigns that can find sophisticated way to challenge these voters with out being overt…
America is at crossroads as we have lot of people increasingly watching, listening & reading Fox News, Hate radio & conspiracy driven right wing web sites starting from mid to late 1990s and they are critical mass of people now that led to unimaginable i.e. election of Donald Trump. Nothing mattered to these people...
My concern is these people are in a funk and if they are not challenged or reminded about their craziness & insecurities, these voters will become more extreme and nothing matters at that point. They will keep voting for people like Trump, Moore & other wingnuts and eventually we will lose this great country of ours to a dictator.
God Bless America.