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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
this makes sense, though often the posts aren't so much "Team Donkey is messing this up and they need to straighten out before it's too late", but more like "Enjoy losing the midterms and 2024 election, losers!"
there's a certain bit of glee in pointing out Democratic shortcomings that reads differently than fighting for what's right, if you're not intimately familiar with his stance. some of them in isolation, if I had to tell whether they were Rube or Yoho, I'm not totally certain I'd be able to decide.
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Well, the Democrats are certainly doing something wrong when they alienate both Rube and Yoho.
They way I see it, people are simple one or two issue voters, the issues that affect them right now. They don't look at the macro positions of OMG the Democrats are communists are OMG the GOP is going to kill democracy. All that is Washington Inside Baseball stuff.
The Democrats flaw is that they are too big tent and don't have a single issue people vote on. People need healthcare, pass something on that. People need cheaper drugs, pass something on that. People want tuition relief, pass something on that. Do it at local levels, campaign and act. But instead you have to agree with everything they do. You have to be for affirmative action, abortion, combinate change, affordable housing etc... and then turn around and pass nothing. The Liberal Party of Canada is really good at this. They pass little bills at a time and before you know it, things have gotten resolved. They pass a gun law here and raise child benefits there, an income tax adjustment here, an EI adjustment there etc...
The Republicans key on one issue and pass bills. One immigrant came and took one job? We're going to fix that, vote for us. The church is against abortion and gays, we're going to fix that. They're going to make it harder for you to get guns? We'll fix that.
We all know in 2016, the rustbelt was suffering. Hillary didn't even go there. They lost the union vote. The GOP just has to say, we'll fix that.