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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
Maybe it doesn't matter what you try to sell if someone won't buy it anyways?
There could be a ton of single issue voters out there that don't care about anything but that one issue that means everything to them.
Could be guns. If they really think the Dems will take their guns away like Trump says, they vote red. If they are pro-life, they're voting red. If they only care about stopping all immigrants at the border they are voting red. If they don't care about the environment and just want to open up everything with no regulations for the sake of jobs, they're voting red. If they only care about having a conservative SCOTUS they are voting red. If they love their health care and think the Dems will take that away from them they're voting red. Just some examples.
A lot of those voters might actually agree with the Dems on a lot of other issues, but if that one issue they are passionate about the most leans red, that's where their vote is going.
And that's not even taking into consideration the conspiracy theories, the endless Trump lies, gerrymandering, the amount of voters that get their political info from places like Facebook and Fox.
That's why I say this isn't on the Dems (well, not entirely), this is on the voters. Unless the Dems start lying, peddling conspiracy theories, take over Facebook, or start moving right on a bunch of issues we're probably going to have more of the same for the foreseeable future. And I'm not saying the Dems can't do anything to sway some votes......they can. But as long as there are voters out there that only care about one issue and that issue is clearly red/right/conservative, it will be tough to dominate the electoral college.
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The bold is very accurate.
People on average are very stupid and very selfish. This is why we are dealing with an out of control pandemic in north America that was contained in Asian countries first hit like Vietnam, South Korea and Japan. Individualism breeds selfishness, reasons to be Democrat or Republican are mostly for selfish reasons (you benefit the most from those policies).
Everything that Trump has done so far, the covid denial, all the chaos, none of that matters to a voter who only sees us vs them. "They" will destroy your ideologies, "they" are socialists that want to take away what you have.
Democrats need to become more moderate on certain issues, as the US sure as heck is not a moderate country. It doesn't mean abandon things that need to be fought for, it means get out of the business of telling people what is best for them.
Let's also remember that not that long ago, Democrats were the racist right wing party fighting for slavery and segregation while Republicans were considered left wing. Someone born 100 years ago would be utterly confused in 2020.
Identities can change.