| Chrkeller said: I think viewing trump supporters as all stupid is underestimating his fanbase, which is why liberals struggle so much beating an "easy" target. I know flatly brilliant people who are voting Trump based on policy. I don't agree with them, but to view trumpers as stupid... always take your opponent seriously, especially when he has won before.  |
This sounds like sane-washing, including your preceding post.
Intelligence in one field doesn't mean that the very same people can be politically inept. Hence why people with college education can be and are anti-vaxxers too.
You argue in favor of the strategy of appeasement, that Democrats have to treat Republican voters with the utmost respect. But here's the thing: When has this ever worked? It's a strategy that actually makes things even worse. Pick your subject - anti-vaccination movement, Putin, Netanyahu, whatever - and look at the results; appeasement has always failed. The reason why it goes down this way is because appeasement conveys that the other side has good and valid reasons for behaving the way it does, which makes people on the fence of any given issue prone to assign more credibility to the wrong side of an issue and that ultimately leads to the stupid growing in numbers.
This week Kamala Harris has explicitly said that she thinks that Donald Trump is a fascist and this was news because she hadn't done it before. This is mind-boggling because the evidence for Trump being a fascist had been established years ago already. If she puts this out there, then it has to be discussed if there's any merit to it, because she is a serious politician. Mike Johnson and and Mitch McConnell know this, hence why they immediately put out a public statement calling for a stop to calling Trump a fascist under the pretense of dangerous rhetoric. You can tell that Harris is on the right path here.
When Harris was interviewed by Fox News, she got the gotcha question if she thinks the American people are misguided or stupid for supporting Trump in such large numbers. Harris responded by saying that she would never say this about the American people, and in the aftermath she got praised for her restraint. But she actually messed up there, because this was the golden opportunity not to say that the American people are stupid, but that they are misguided and that Fox News takes large responsibility in this area, pointing to the clip that Baier just showed her seconds ago as the evidence. She should have said that the American people are getting lied to by Fox News for the sake of profit and if Baier had disagreed there, she should have smacked him with the Dominion lawsuit right afterwards. But alas, Harris took the ill-advised high road here. Granted, this was her first appearance on Fox News and that's difficult enough to handle, so she could have done much worse than she actually did.
Trump is a fascist and it's plain out in the open. He's the most anti-American candidate there has ever been in the history of US elections. So if people are still willing to vote for him despite all that, it requires a high level of stupidity because for most Republican voters it means giving up their rights in exchange for paying higher taxes. That's like the worst deal ever.
But I'll give you that not all Trump voters are stupid. A portion of them really do love fascism. A portion of them is in it for the financial benefits; obviously, being already rich is a prerequisite here, because only the rich will benefit from Trump's tax plans. But most Trump voters are neither neonazis or rich, so they fall into the category of stupid.
What I disagree with is that fighting stupidity is easy or "easy" because you need a consistent strategy. The Democrats do not have it and that's why they struggle. They've been unable to get the press on TV to talk about Trump in a serious manner. Fact of the matter is that a lot of terms that are being thrown around in politics are terms that many voters are unable to explain, as could be seen in the Kimmel video. Democrats should not operate under the assumption that common people know all the basics, so an increased focus on talking about dictionary definitions of words and how they apply in the current political landscape would have been a good start. After all, Harris only called Trump a fascist in the aftermath of the dictionary definition being put out and many journalists are also only catching up now.
As the saying goes, the best argument against democracy is a ten minute conversation with the average voter.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
