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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
I don't think it's not understanding voters, I think it's placing too much faith in voters to do the right thing and follow their values and character. You would think they would learn and be less trusting of people, but they don't. They still hold out hope that people will stand erect and use the very brain inside their craniums. Bad decision based on the intelligence level of the average American and just how negatively impacted they are by social media.
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Sure, but that's really just a more detailed explanation of how they aren't understanding voters. They're basically hoping that the average person looks at voting as an intellectual exercise despite endless evidence that most people don't do that.
And I'm not saying it's an easy task. Countering a movement that is inherently unserious is difficult. Sartre had a great quote about antisemites, and it totally applies to the modern American right in terms of the level of discourse:
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Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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How do you beat that? I'm not totally sure. But going with the Democrats' current plan of trying to relive the Obama years, but without having anyone who has his broad appeal, isn't going to work.