Posted on 02/20/2025 12:59:47 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
Democrats are roaming in the political wilderness and seem bewildered on how to find their way out. More resistance? More moderation? More lawfare? More denunciations of fascism/authoritarianism/lawlessness? Look for ways to compromise? Don’t look for ways to compromise? Shut down the government? Don’t shut down the government? Better messaging of Democratic positions? Actually change Democratic positions? It’s all so confusing!
It needn’t be. There’s one simple question—a sort of test—that would illuminate the path forward for Democrats.
What would the working class say (WWWCS)?
Let me explain.
The WWWCS test is not so hard to do but it does entail getting outside of the liberal college-educated bubble so many Democrats live within, particularly as experienced on social media, in activist circles and within advocacy, nonprofit, media and academic institutions. Look at actual public opinion data—not as summarized by someone you know or something you read. Look at focus group reports. Talk to actual working-class people—there are lots of them! Listen to your intuitions about how working-class people would likely react to policies and rhetoric currently associated with the Democrats —not how you think they should react. Think of family members or people you grew up with who are working class. Try to get inside their heads. They are less ideological, more focused on material concerns, more likely to be struggling economically, less interested in cutting edge social issues, more patriotic and generally more culturally conservative. All this makes a difference.
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The Clinton-ites created that Frankenstein.
when one side is trying to make America great, and the other side is resisting that... yeah... not a recipe for success.
It’s too late. WWWCS already said it. Trump is their guy. There is no one democrat on the planet who would be able to compete against him. Trump represents the working class.
Here’s a more pointed question to ask the rodents: Have you seen the new Quinnipiac poll showing the Democrat party approval rate is 22% approve/ 68% Disapprove? From Quinnipiac no less!
Their religious cult will not allow them to answer that question. There are no virtue points for common sense.
“Nobody cares what the Proles think.” ― Orwell George, 1984
This is hilarious! The Democrats have contempt for the working-class. The only working-class people that are Democrats are people who are so egotistical, they think they can run everybody’s life.
Xao Bai Den answered that one for all leftists.
“I don’t work for you.”
“when one side is trying to make America great, and the other side is resisting that... yeah... not a recipe for success.”
Prior to working with real, died-in-the-wool liberals, I’d have said, just use common sense. Like, not using a guy who has had fifty surgeries so he can “resemble” some female actress who died fifty years ago as your spokes critter. But then you talk to them and find that what you consider “common” sense is so far from their world view it would be easier to reach Pluto. At this point I’m for encouraging Democrats to double down on what they’ve been doing. I don’t think they’ve talked down on regular people nearly enough. Move up from calling people racist to double racist or from shouting “fascist” to throwing red paint on people they disagree with. I’m sure that would win over more voters.
By next year’s election, the Democrats will splinter into 2 to 5 separate parties.
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I don’t necessarily disagree with this guy, The Dem party is now crazy eyed radical leftists and self important over educated liberals. That’s not a large group.
That question doesn’t matter. The truth is that despite all of the speeches and protest to the contrary , in reality the Dems don’t give a rat’s ass about the working class. Or Blacks. Or Hispanics. They just care about power for power’s sake, and all the money that having that power puts into their bank accounts.
aaahhhh... ...just keep promising them “A bigger Slice of the Pie” and they’ll get their voting base back in no time. happining for the past 35 years, and the masses are still too stupid to see everything that is now happening...
I guess it’s a better approach then their current razor which is - what would Satan do?
My understanding of the design of the US political system pretty well demands that there will always be two dominant political parties jockeying for 51% of the vote. If one screws up badly enough there may be a dominant party for a while, but sooner or later it will be back, or worst case a new party will take its place and adopt positions calculated to get over the 50% line.
everyone with a lick of sense has gravitated towards the right now. but there are still millions of low information voters and pillow biters depending on their favored democrats. they’ll still have a significant number running behind them with their hands out...
It is a tough sell for them right now.
Long time friend suddenly blocked me on the book of many faces. I scrolled back to figure out when she did that.
I had posted a beautiful video of Melania speaking to and offering comfort to fire victims in California. They are incapable of even having moving moments like that penetrate their psyche. Even worse it upset her so much she was willing to end a friendship over it.
Truly sad situation with those types of folks that even common decency eludes them anymore.
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