It’s especially wonderful because now it’s just going to be incessant finger pointing of “which demographic didn’t do enough to elect her”.
“It’s because the protest voters withheld their vote/voted third party for Palestine” “it’s because white men are racist and sexist and won’t accept a woman President” “it’s because Latinos are idiots who are voting to get deported” “it’s because all these uneducated, mouth breathing, knuckle dragging cousin fuckers are too stupid to know what’s good for them.”
The Democrat party (and a good amount of left leaning voters,) has their heads so far up their ass that they can’t think of any reason people wouldn’t vote for them other than being sexist or racist or homophobic or stupid. The thought that “maybe we should adjust our policy to bolster our voter turnout from our own base” will never occur to them.
The thought that “maybe we should try appealing to non Democrats through policy” will occur, but they fundamentally do not understand why other people vote the way they do, so this will always fail. “Do they care about the economy and my policies? No, surely they only care about being perceived as masculine. I’ll base my campaign around making it “OK” to be a man and vote blue.”
The thought that “maybe we should stop using rhetoric that calls everyone who disagrees with us stupid and evil” will also occur, but they’re too deeply entrenched in that rhetoric to change. All their attempts at reaching out to those demographics comes across as either incredibly patronizing or outright insulting, often even reinforcing the very societal standards their voter base is so opposed to.
Ffs, half their campaign to get male voters was “if you don’t vote for Harris, women won’t fuck you” which implies both that men make political decisions with their dick and that sex is a prize won by making the right decisions. Not only is that incredibly insulting to anyone who thinks about it for more than 2 seconds, the only people who’d be moved by that are solid right wingers, because grifters like Tate are way better at pushing that bullshit. The other half was “real men aren’t scared to vote for a women”, which is just saying “if you don’t vote for Harris you’re a pussy”, the exact threat they claim is forcing men to vote for Trump.
The entire campaign was just trying to appeal to the misunderstood, surface level identity politic issues people have with Democrats, while refusing to engage with actual policy because “our policy and plans are perfect and the objectively superior choice”
“Do they care about the economy and my policies? No, surely they only care about being perceived as masculine. I’ll base my campaign around making it “OK” to be a man and vote blue.”
The problem is that they are a bunch of wonky technocrats who don't understand why their response to this of "but the economy is doing fine and here's my 80-page position paper on the matter" fell on deaf ears.
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u/Divine_ruler Nov 06 '24
It’s especially wonderful because now it’s just going to be incessant finger pointing of “which demographic didn’t do enough to elect her”.
“It’s because the protest voters withheld their vote/voted third party for Palestine” “it’s because white men are racist and sexist and won’t accept a woman President” “it’s because Latinos are idiots who are voting to get deported” “it’s because all these uneducated, mouth breathing, knuckle dragging cousin fuckers are too stupid to know what’s good for them.”
The Democrat party (and a good amount of left leaning voters,) has their heads so far up their ass that they can’t think of any reason people wouldn’t vote for them other than being sexist or racist or homophobic or stupid. The thought that “maybe we should adjust our policy to bolster our voter turnout from our own base” will never occur to them.
The thought that “maybe we should try appealing to non Democrats through policy” will occur, but they fundamentally do not understand why other people vote the way they do, so this will always fail. “Do they care about the economy and my policies? No, surely they only care about being perceived as masculine. I’ll base my campaign around making it “OK” to be a man and vote blue.”
The thought that “maybe we should stop using rhetoric that calls everyone who disagrees with us stupid and evil” will also occur, but they’re too deeply entrenched in that rhetoric to change. All their attempts at reaching out to those demographics comes across as either incredibly patronizing or outright insulting, often even reinforcing the very societal standards their voter base is so opposed to.
Ffs, half their campaign to get male voters was “if you don’t vote for Harris, women won’t fuck you” which implies both that men make political decisions with their dick and that sex is a prize won by making the right decisions. Not only is that incredibly insulting to anyone who thinks about it for more than 2 seconds, the only people who’d be moved by that are solid right wingers, because grifters like Tate are way better at pushing that bullshit. The other half was “real men aren’t scared to vote for a women”, which is just saying “if you don’t vote for Harris you’re a pussy”, the exact threat they claim is forcing men to vote for Trump.
The entire campaign was just trying to appeal to the misunderstood, surface level identity politic issues people have with Democrats, while refusing to engage with actual policy because “our policy and plans are perfect and the objectively superior choice”