Posted on 11/06/2017 10:41:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Democratic Party, Democratic voters, and grass roots progressive activists should be in a state of high agitation, focused on one thing — containing Trump, his fake populism and his Republican allies.
Instead, the party of the people is withering. Energy on the ground is low, infighting is high. The run-up to the Virginia gubernatorial election is feeling sickeningly like the last days of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
There is the same sort of chasm by race and class as in the Clinton-Trump race, with non-college educated whites favoring Republican Ed Gillespie by forty points.
These are people, based on social class, who should be Democrats.
Meanwhile, on the racial front, there is understandable bitterness among many African American Democrats that whites, even progressive whites, failed to protect blacks from deepening racism. Conversations about the need to talk about class as well as race tends to produce vituperation about white privilege.
In short, the progressive side of the political spectrum is a cauldron of grievances, each understandable and legitimate in its own right. But if Democrats can’t find areas of common ground, then Trump and his imitators will keep winning.
Somehow, Democrats need to nominate more compelling candidates, who can narrate the grievances of ordinary Americans in a convincing way and propose drastic remedies. Democrats need to remember the larger stakes and try to limit the infighting.
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More ranting and stupidity from a party who doesn’t understand why they are hated.
The difference between ‘whither’ and ‘wither’ is rather important, right? Well, maybe not....
Instead, the party of the people is withering.
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Because the citizens figured out they were not the people the party cared about.
Democrats are the party of the fraudulently documented foreigners.
Furthur Forward!
Let me guess, one of the 20 people that showed up for the Atlanta Antifa rally?
Considering what transpires on the COLLEGE Campus of today,
we are possibly better served by a large polulation on NON-COLLEGE “EDUCATED” citizens.
The people that day by day actually BUILD this country, keep it up and running, and all too often sacrifice themselves in its protection.
Wither?
Propose drastic remedies? The remedies are to simply not do what liberals want done.
You live by the racially divided sword, you die by the racially divided sword there, Bobby boy.
These are people, based on social class, who should be Democrats.
"Based on social class" -- Dems always put people into buckets or classes. That is why normal, ordinary, everyday Americans absolutely HATE Democrats. Yet even this guy writing about possible fixes cannot help himself. The first thing he does is put the people they want to woo back into a bucket. They would then pit this bucket against the homo bucket, the trans bucket, the woman bucket, the ghetto bucket, the illegal immigrant bucket. They just don't get it.
Democrats need to nominate more compelling candidates, who can narrate the grievances of ordinary Americans in a convincing way and propose drastic remedies.
He just cannot help himself, can he?. They want to capture people by appealing to their "grievances." Every person in their many buckets has "grievances." Again, they would have to pit every bucket of people with their own pet "grievances" against each other. There is NO WAY to win that with so many competing "grievances." It is doomed to fail.
It is so funny that he cannot see he is perpetuating their very fundamental problems with his proposed fixes. They just cannot see the way for the nation to succeed and win is getting government out of the way, ending all this bucket- and grievance-focused politics, and embracing freedom and liberty for all.
Like JFK?
Largest tax cut in American history (at that point in history)
Life NRA member
Willing to take on communists
“Ask NOT what your country can do for you...”
++++
“Democrats need to nominate more compelling candidates”
They’re WITHER ==>
Moreover, if they have a choice that means either helping themselves or hurting someone in the basket of deplorables, they’ll hurt the deplorables all day every day.
Yeah JFK did those things because he was a product of his society and times, which were a whole lot more traditional and conservative than today. But don’t kid yourself. JFK was a mediocre president at best. Had he lived, he would have turned to the left as much of the Democrat Party did in the mid to late 60s.
Somehow... Somehow... They’re almost to the point of praying.
Although we know that will never happen.
“These are people, based on social class, who should be Democrats.”
Perhaps, however, there is no true Democrat party left.
Former Democrats are left only to choose between socialism / marxism / communism or full out anti-Americanism.
Unless they are hard core anti-American, there is no longer a fit between former Democrats and today’s Democrat party.
And then there is the full frontal, in your face criminality of said party to consider.
I have this vision that by the end of his two terms, the Democrats will just be literally begging Trump to stop beating them over the head with identity politics. It’s a lose-lose game for them, the identity hucksters force them into these extreme positions like sanctuary cities, anthem kneeling, etc., on them, and it works as long as things stay quiet, but when it becomes a big public brouhaha, they lose millions of white voters while gaining no non-white voters. The only thing that has saved them in the past is the foolishness of your typical Bush-Romney-Ryan politicians who are too afraid to be called “racist” to call them out on it, but Trump is putting an end to that.
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