The Dems thought the people would rally behind them for the elections and, more importantly, start pouring in donations.
What they didn’t account for was the completely predictable result of people rallying behind Republicans to cut benefits and welfare.
The average, and even the plurality, of Americans fucking hate Democrats. You can explain why the shutdown happened, what the Dems were holding out for (even nominally), and why they weren’t budging, and the average worker goes “wow fucking evil Dems”.
This is not even leftist daydreaming, this is real life, and anyone that interacts with the salt of the earth working class can corroborate it.
A hundred cultural revolutions could not purge the disease and sin of America.
The Democrats are supposed to realize the working class Republicans aren’t possible to convince of anything. They should have let this go until Thanksgiving, brand Trump as the President who canceled Thanksgiving and win back all of those cul-de-sac base voters who actually fly to see family for the holidays.
Poor people ain’t flying. They’re taking the train if lucky to have Amtrak near then and the money to afford tickets. Or they’re driving.
100%. The fact that they won this blue wave of elections during the shutdown proved that people were blaming the Republicans, not the Democrats. Makes sense, it’s the Republicans that are in power right now and the American public are simple creatures.
This would have destroyed the Republicans, but it seems a few who are retiring or aren’t being reelected next year are giving up, but I don’t know why. Backroom deals? Bribes? Either way, this will be disastrous to the rest of the Democratic party and these ones need or be ostracized, and in a better system, would be recalled right after this goes through.
The Dems thought the people would rally behind them for the elections and, more importantly, start pouring in donations.
What they didn’t account for was the completely predictable result of people rallying behind Republicans to cut benefits and welfare.
The average, and even the plurality, of Americans fucking hate Democrats. You can explain why the shutdown happened, what the Dems were holding out for (even nominally), and why they weren’t budging, and the average worker goes “wow fucking evil Dems”.
This is not even leftist daydreaming, this is real life, and anyone that interacts with the salt of the earth working class can corroborate it.
A hundred cultural revolutions could not purge the disease and sin of America.
this doesn’t feel especially grounded
I don’t think this super accurate, because people did turn out for them during the election.
The Democrats are supposed to realize the working class Republicans aren’t possible to convince of anything. They should have let this go until Thanksgiving, brand Trump as the President who canceled Thanksgiving and win back all of those cul-de-sac base voters who actually fly to see family for the holidays.
Poor people ain’t flying. They’re taking the train if lucky to have Amtrak near then and the money to afford tickets. Or they’re driving.
100%. The fact that they won this blue wave of elections during the shutdown proved that people were blaming the Republicans, not the Democrats. Makes sense, it’s the Republicans that are in power right now and the American public are simple creatures.
This would have destroyed the Republicans, but it seems a few who are retiring or aren’t being reelected next year are giving up, but I don’t know why. Backroom deals? Bribes? Either way, this will be disastrous to the rest of the Democratic party and these ones need or be ostracized, and in a better system, would be recalled right after this goes through.
Their flights out of DCA got delayed
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Dems won this election in a landslide, these election results proved that what the Dems were doing was working and they should continue it