AS this country prepares for our next election which is looming large on the horizon there is a burning question at begs an answer…..why do Dems keep losing elections?
As I have always said….”Dems have great ideas that just suck at politics”……
Proof….The Democrats are using a playbook from the late 1980s. It didn’t work very well then and it’s pretty much worthless now, but apparently it still seems like the latest thing to the octogenarians running the party.
Every Congress the Dems offer up some dynamite ideas and they always seem to go down in flames each and every time.
Why is this?
Virginia’s new governor, Glenn Youngkin, kicked off his term with a political magic trick. In the first of nine executive orders issued on Jan. 15, the day he took office,1 he banned the teaching of “inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory” in K-12 public schools. It was a smart way to show his base he’s already jumping on issues they care about. Education policy, particularly the alleged role critical race theory plays in public school curricula, was a centerpiece of Youngkin’s campaign. But the impact of this executive order is less straightforward than it seems, because critical race theory isn’t actually taught in Virginia public schools.
This kind of tactic is increasingly familiar in politics today. Republican politicians, in particular, build entire campaigns around false or misleading information, then implement policies that respond to those falsehoods, cementing them further in our political landscape.
The debate over critical race theory — a complex academic framework for understanding racism that would never actually be taught to second-graders but that at least nine state legislatures have tried to ban anyway — is just one such example. There’s an entire gamut of culture wars where this dynamic has taken hold. Abortion, one of the most powerful and long-lasting social issues in modern politics, is another example where arguments are increasingly framed in ways that tend to benefit Republicans. And because of that, Democrats frequently appear to be ceding ground, even though voters typically trust them more than Republicans on these issues and public opinion is often on the Democrats’ side.
The rebuttal to these issues seems like it should be simple. Why not just tell voters that critical race theory isn’t being taught and move on? Or say that abortions are safe and increasingly rare but will always be necessary for some women? But so far, Democrats haven’t really figured out a way to convince voters that some GOP messages aren’t based in reality. Experts told us that’s because Republicans’ often misleading framing is effective not because Americans believe it wholeheartedly or because they know all that much about the issue. Rather, the reason why abortion rights and critical race theory sticks in people’s minds is that these issues touch on broader anxieties.
Why Democrats Keep Losing Culture Wars
The Dems take their great ideas and pack them into several bills….and as could be predicted these bills are picked apart and in the end nothing of those great ideas makes it beyond the first draft of a bill.
The Democrats are using a playbook from the late 1980s. It didn’t work very well then and it’s pretty much worthless now, but apparently it still seems like the latest thing to the octogenarians running the party.
They pretend that they are all in for the working class and once in DC they forget those very same people…..the working class has been lied to for too long and those Dem games will not play well this time around.
For Democrats, meanwhile, memos on how to hold on to or win back the working class are perennial favorites from pollsters and strategists. This has been especially true during the midterm cycle as Democrats sound the alarm that their party is out of touch with their constituents. “The starting point for the strategy is seeing that both our base and our target persuasion audiences are working-class and struggling, and we see them and wear their shoes,” the longtime pollster Stanley Greenberg wrote in a polling memo in November. What’s left unsaid but is heavily implied in these appeals, though, is that Democrats are primarily concerned with losing the white working class.
Why Democratic Appeals To The ‘Working Class’ Are Unlikely to Work
Instead they should take those great ideas and make a separate bill for each one then when they go down in flames they have the GOP on record as opposing these ideas.
Something they can run on in the future….instead the Dems just keep trying the same worn out tactic they gets them nothing in return.
If they want to win then the Dems need a new strategy…..something they are unwilling to formulate (follow the money)…..instead….They–the Democratic elites, I mean–fall for this kind of wishful thinking every time. Why? Because they’re much more comfortable with neocon Republicans than they are the base of their own party, whose aspirations & pleas they usually spend 3 out of every 4 four years suppressing.
Until they find some guts and some brains they will continue to lose the game of politics….the same losers they have been since the 1980s.
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In Saner Thought 
It doesn’t matter too much that the democrats seem to be born losers because when the republicans finally get their Orwellian autocracy into permanent power, the country will suddenly and arguably wake up — much too late of course — to the whole picture — and because of American political apathy and ignorance, there isn’t much than be done to postpone or avoid the inevitable. People from every intellectual level from the slug to the superior will be harping that old post war claim by the defeated Germans in ww2, “Oh if only we had known!” They know alright — they are just too damned lazy to do anything about any of it, always seeking the path of least resistance. I have always said that the democrats should learn to use the Republican playbook against their intransigent asses … but I am too small of a voice to even be heard so what the hell?
Laziness seems to be the order of the day…..laziness leads to ignorance that morphs into stupidity…..chuq
Our Prime-Minister could have had a conservative seminar in the US. View the way he deals with important issues
That’s to say he talks a lot but says nothing.
I never said that before but I do worrie about how his policies are making the rich richer and those with hardly any money to spend, for just the essentials, even poorer.
He may be smiling all the time.
He may ride his bike to work (Binnenhof).
He may walk walks to his office in (Het Torentje).
He may clean up his own mess made spilling coffee.
As a human being he can’t be accused having (even a bit ) emphaty.
Critical Race Theory.
I have heard it mentioned for some time.
So I did some research.
It was more complicated and confusing as I thought.
This theory might have little thruths in it.
However the rest has become a playground for bullies, who decide what is what!
In the state you live; all the ignorance, stupidity, fearmongering going on.
Where knowledge, being educated is something to mock about!
How do you deal with all that?
I am old I spent many years bucking the system and being labeled a commie, a pinko, and many other insults…all of which I cherish chuq