Let me hasten to add, I am not making an argument that we lost because the electorate is stupid, I leave that argument to the likes of Hillary Clinton. Rather, I submit that the electorate is not stupid but exquisitely conditioned so that the enticements of the Republican Party do not ordinarily impress.
That is to say, the Democrats of Pennsylvania will elect a Marxist who was barely able to speak in favor of a highly articulate and accomplished surgeon not because Fetterman offered better policies and not because Oz offered inferior policies. It is that Democrat voters in Pennsylvania acted as a herd, dutifully voting for the Democrat when other considerations that might motivate rational voters were simply disregarded.
How did this come about? My answer is that the institutions of America have had years to condition the electorate and have succeeded in creating a zombie electorate. Those institutions include our education establishment from pre-k through postgraduate school. They include legacy media that shapes and edits the newst. They Include social media, epecially those platforms of communication with women and young women.
The Democrat party, and the media, combined with other institutions to convert voting individuals into voting blocks. We in our hubris thought that this election would Mark the time when Americans and especially Hispanics would begin to vote as individuals, evidently we were wrong. The conditioning process held.
BF Skinner would be pleased.
As the Democrat party divides the country into segments, class, race, religion, gender, gender preference, sexual preference etc., those who accept that they are part of one of those classes begin to think and act not as individuals but as members of the class. The conditioning process works.
If you ask me, how do you explain the success of Governor DeSantis in Florida? I confess, I do not know. Yes he has a sterling record but the Democrats' records in every state and nationally are abysmal, yet they prevailed in the face of reason often with inferior candidates who spouted Marxist crap.
Digital mining perhaps plays another role, especially when combined with media and other institutions, that should be explored. The power of Google is in breathtaking but its full implications are not fully understood.
So, on one side we have a fractured and therefore fractious Republican Party taking scattershots at a case hardened Democrat party impervious to Republican entreaties.
Just my two cents.
