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SvennoJ on 06 November 2024
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Chrkeller said:
SvennoJ said:

The problem is more that middle America isn't connecting with reality.

The reality is the best days are behind us. The Democrats seem to try to find a way to navigate the looming energy/water/environmental/refugee crises. The Republicans get the vote on promising the impossible, traveling back in time.

Education has failed in the USA and things will only get harder. Sticking your head in the sand and build a wall around it isn't going to solve anything.

I don't personally disagree but let me ask you this.  How are liberals going to create legislative change when they don't hold office?  At some point you have to win.  And to be clear, I do not personally agree with the following, but middle America hates things such as easy citizenship, reparation talks, gun control discussion, mpg mandates, CRT, debt forgiveness, trans in sports, etc., etc. 

Lose the battle but win the war is something liberals need to wrap their head around.  Liberals will never hold power as long as they push things middle America hates.  That my friend, is REALITY.

True. The only way to office now is to stoop down to the same tactics. Although the pendulum will swing the other way again in 4 years, if not 8 years. As there's no magic Trump can pull off to actually deliver on what middle America wants.

I think this still holds true
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-the-forgotten-americans-really-want-and-how-to-give-it-to-them/
Plenty contradictions.

The democrats need to find a candidate that grew up in middle America and is no older than 40 with kids in a working class family. 60+ just don't have the perspective needed to connect with real people's daily struggles.