Posted on 07/11/2021 7:42:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
This experiment has derailed. It’s not similar in any way since Republicans aren’t this crazy concerning political correctness, but there was a dominant wing of the party that simply had to be told to get to the back of the bus around 2016. The neoconservative project derailed post-Iraq War. Americans were not going to keep a GOP majority in Congress over national security fears. They were tired of endless wars. They were not patient over this nation-building nonsense. They saw the bill we paid, what we got, and we’re not pleased.
With Democrats, their ascendant ‘woke’ wing is more of an issue on the domestic front. With political correctness, speech codes, proper pronoun nonsense, and critical race theory being jammed down our throats, Democrats are quietly admitting this lurch to the Left on anything cultural is going to cost them a ton of votes. It could be potentially catastrophic for the 2022 midterms. To put it bluntly, there are some on the Left who know that if the party continues to go ‘woke’ and it’ll go broke in every sense of the word concerning political capital.
The silver lining is that there are sensible liberals that still exist and know how they come off to most voters: condescending, self-righteous, and insufferable. As a progressive, you can make yourself miserable nonstop. This is America, but don’t think for a second that makes for a popular agenda. Political correctness-induced misery is the drug of choice for normal people (via Axios):
A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" to large swaths of America.Why it matters: These Democrats warn that by jamming politically correct terms or new norms down the throats of voters, they risk exacerbating the cultural wars — and inadvertently helping Trumpian candidates.
Top Democrats confide that they're very aware of the danger. Already, we've seen a widespread pullback in the "defund the police" rhetoric.
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Democratic strategist James Carville has been warning his party about this for months, telling Vox in an April interview:
"You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? ... This is not how voters talk."
[…]
What we're hearing: Moderate and swing-district lawmakers and aides tell Axios' Margaret Talev and Alayna Treene that the party could suffer massive losses in next year's midterms if Democrats run like Sen. Elizabeth Warren is president.
One former Senate aide said it's "bye-bye majority" if Democrats run on "extreme wokeness."
Yes, indeed. In fact, ‘defund the police’ is what spurred scores of black and Hispanic voters to vote Republican in 2020. Most voters aren’t liberal and don’t view every issue along the lines of an academic exercise like college-educated whites who have the luxury. These are some of the most ideological people in the country, whereas most nonwhite voters do not view everything through this prism. Yet, white liberals are the ones who are swelling the ranks of the Democratic Party and are starting to control more of the messaging and agenda-setting. David Shor, a liberal data scientist, has noted that white liberals want a liberal vs conservative dichotomy in elections. Bad idea since Shor knows liberals would lose—big. Also, white liberals are known to put feelings in front of facts when it comes to voter narratives. Hispanics are not all that liberal on the issue of immigration, but white liberals think so, hence their incessant push for open borders policy. Kevin Drum, a liberal blogger, noted that for years it was the hypothesis that GOP could do well with Latino voters if they just moderated a bit. Instead, Democrats got so nuts, it’s pushing them into the GOP by default. Electoral disaster could be on the horizon for the Left. I hope so.
Well, that’s why the wokesters worked so hard to make voting irrelevant.
Well, duh.
If the US was itching to go Commie, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it.
Nope.
Eat cow pads all you Leftwing DNC twits.
All you did is not hide what you already were.
I think this is wishful thinking by Matt Vespa.
Nope. Public school teachers are in full attack mode. Keep fighting folks.
Very Bad Idea
Name one they didn’t have.
Nothing of the old extreme Left is extreme to the Left anymore. It’s why so much now looks like the far right to them.
There are mainly too sorts in the DNC…
Those who still see the need to hide what they are.
Those who don’t see that need.
“ The silver lining is that there are sensible liberals that still exist..”
No, they don’t. They never have.
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Good read; great points.
“Electoral disaster could be on the horizon for the Left. I hope so.”
2020 races for Governors and such are going to be a bloodbath for the Socialist Democrat Party, and hopefully an indicator of what will come in the 2024 election.
However, it’s up to US to make sure we’re supporting individual conservative candidates and not just throwing $$$ at the RNC - which is less than useless, and has been for a very long time. :(
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Darn typos
Bunk
These are the hardest of hard left cult marxists, totally down with destroying American civilization
Any hint of withdrawal is just tactical
They hate us, they hate the country as founded, they only want the goodies that were hard won over 4 centuries - for nothing
Absolute BS
Hannity, Levin, and Ingraham have been co-opted. Try watching any of their programs without them crying over “ Jim Crow “, and “ Southern Democrats “.
Not a prescription for big tent conservatism, and anti-WOKEism.
Part of this issue...established Democratic senators are not going to be able to handle the woke arguments and present themselves in the ‘proper’ light. You could end up with several primaries in 2024 for the Senate, with people like Hirono, Stabenow, and Gillibrand not ‘woke’ enough.
I also think the democrats made a Faucian deal when they used COVID to change election laws, lock down the population, throw stimulus money to the masses, run main street out of business. And now, despite the need to get out of Afghanistan, the bloodbath is going to come back on the Biden Administration.
Public policy and voter trend analysis is irrelevant in the age of massive voter fraud.
The writer is fighting the last war.
They will pretend to be, “moderate” when election time nears. It’s what they have done for 60+ years and it’s been working.
Giving a platform to the crazy ass wing of the party should, not saying it will, hurt them a lot.
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