Part of the problem is that democratic-republicanism wasn’t meant to function with the inputs it’s working with. If we basically have to tell other adults to look both ways before crossing the street or you might get run over by a car, then something organic is wrong with the system. If people care more about weed and gay marriage and free contraceptives than a debt spiral which will bankrupt and destroy our society then there’s little to be done.
I agree. I think the problem you’re describing is primarily a moral one. Until the people who care more about weed and free contraception than debt and dependency are elevated morally they will always vote Democrat-Left. No amount of electoral ground game or poll reading or debating ability will elevate these people. It has to from gut up, grass roots, a real culturo-civic rebooting of our voting public.
The most logical group to focus on are Hispanics because they already have the basic structure in them due to their historical religion, family and work cultural “settings”. Another generation or to and they will be hopelessly corrupted by the Lib mentality.