Posted on 09/22/2017 6:43:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I've been haunted by a claim my KCRW colleague Rich Lowry made on our radio show a few weeks ago: Democrats keep coming up short in elections because they won't give any ground on "cultural issues" to win back the working-class voters they've alienated over the past decades.
On one hand, it's obviously true that Democrats suffer from a cultural disconnect from non-college-educated voters who have abandoned the party in droves. Democrats believe their economic agenda should appeal to people with lower incomes, yet income has become a poor predictor of partisan alignment; Democrats' substantial inroads with upscale suburban voters have been more than offset by the loss of voters down the income spectrum, most of whom did not finish college.
Most of the discussion of this trend has focused on non-college-educated white voters, who have swung heavily toward Republicans; but Democrats should also be worried about their disconnect with non-college-educated nonwhite voters, whose turnout declined precipitously in 2016.
On the other hand, when you look at the polling on specific "cultural issues," Democrats usually have the edge.
This combination of facts has me thinking a lot about what I call "the hamburger problem." As I see it, Democrats' problem isn't that they're on the wrong side of policy issues. It's that they're too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
That and unpopular policies that have disastrous results, but yeah, almost there.
In other words, liberals should do better at appearing to be more to the center during the campaign season. Then they can do their typical left wing agenda once elected. Just like most Republican politicians these days who campaign as conservatives but promptly side with Democrats once elected.
The secret to Democrats winning elections is to wait until people forget the disasters that resulted from their previous elections. Carter, Clinton’s scandals and the bad economy under the Democratic Congress prior to 1994, the horrible economy under Obama and the Democratic Congress.
Most Americans favor legalizing marijuana and oppose requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that match their sex at birth. They have come to favor same-sex marriage by 30 points. Nondiscrimination laws to protect gay people are even more popular than gay marriage. And universal background checks to buy guns are even more popular than that.”
Copied this paragraph to make a comment, but read further and quickly determined the author has no clue.
If they think this is the problem, as usual, they are off-base.
And what’s with keeping to the memo that only non-college graduates voted for Trump? I thought that fake news had been debunked.
islamidemocommucrats, with some rino sprinkles on top.
Democrats don’t care what people do as long as it’s mandatory.
Democrats have abandoned and tried to destroy the middle class. They are now the party of the Super rich, the wealthy upper middle class and the bottom. The “middle” middle class (the largest component of the middle class) and the lower middle class see what’s happening - the auto workers, steel workers, construction workers, small business owners, mechanics, etc. etc. realize who is responsible for their economic woes.
The Dems are in an identity crisis. On the one hand, they are drawn like moths to the flame to virtue signalling (they of the morally superior stance). On the other hand, they are ruthless politicos who will do anything to get power.
They just can’t moderate their positions in pursuit of the latter. Thus, as recounted here on FR mucho times, for the Dems, in a conflict between emotion and practicality, emotion wins.
FTA: “Most of the discussion of this trend has focused on non-college-educated white voters...”
IOW, the elites are discussing why the hoi polloi won’t let the elites drive the bus since it is eminently clear that they are the only ones wise enough to know where we all need to go.
“Copied this paragraph to make a comment, but read further and quickly determined the author has no clue.”
I saw and might have commented on the same paragraph, then read down to my barf limit and quit.
Of course, numbnuts, keep believing that. I am still not tired of all this winning.
This article smacks of crypto arrogance and elitism.
Soyburgers, please!!! You should know better than to post references to animal-killing red meat without a trigger warning /s
That is absolutely correct. Americans can be forgiving and have short memories.
Exactly. Why can’t the dhimmicrats - and the pubbies alike just stand for something instead of standing for the appearance of something?
Both party’s politics suck and the people are growing sick n tired of them.
“Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re on the wrong side of policy issues. It’s that they’re too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.....”
They let their inner totalitarianism come out.
Remember these polls on the perverted social values of Democrats are the same polls that were certain that Hillary would win. They have no clue because they don’t know or poll any real Americans.
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