US Politics Thread

[Federberg]

I wished you'd leave it to the PC BS thread, but just because it gets a TikTok headline saying different, doesn't make those guys wrong. Republicans poured loads of money and effort into ginning up a fear that didn't exist, and shouldn't. Piers Morgan is a tool, but he was right when he said it was about a lot of other things before it was about trans issues. Even in the concept of people being against "woke-ness," it's a minor player, except those who are allowing Republicans and extremists to set their hair on fire over it.

and there lies the problem. In the scheme of things I completely agree with you. It's trivial. But the Republicans made the Democratic Party's brand toxic. For months I've watched Never Trumpers in organisations like The Bulwark and The Lincoln Project dismiss all the trans and woke stuff as nonsensical. But it turns out it wasn't. How is it that Kamala could put together an almost flawless campaign, which was full of policy. Meanwhile Trump spills out all this hate, spews cats and dogs nonsense, mimics blowjobs and he still walks away with a comfortable win. I mean.. seriously! I ask, how is that possible. The answer cannot be that the American people are stupid or racist or misogynist. That simply doesn't wash. This is the same electorate that voted Obama in twice. That won Hillary a comfortable majority of the vote, if not the electoral college. For years Republicans have worked on branding Democrats as the party of trans, single parent families and of twerking cross-dressers and Democrats have rolled their eyes and called them juvenile. Well the American people bought it.

At some point a good business accepts what their customers want to buy. A bad business will continue to call their customers stupid, and end up bankrupt. Listen to the people and change, or be happy to keep failing. Us ordinary folk are tired of the pronouns, virtue signalling and constant push to destroy cultural norms. I hope the left re-sets after all this. It cannot be a good thing when a couple of billionaires are able to convince ordinary folk that they have their interests at heart. It just can't

 

[shawnbm]

^ Federberg makes some good points there.