Chuck Darwin on Nostr: I’m angry about what happened and how predictable it all was. I feel like Randall ...
I’m angry about what happened and how predictable it all was.
I feel like Randall Mindy in our film Don’t Look Up
— specifically in the scene where he’s just scream-weeping up at the sky, saying he tried to warn everyone.
And I’m enraged by those still purporting to be surprised, whether it’s cable TV-addled liberals personifying the proverb about blindness, or pundits and politicos who embody the famous Upton Sinclair aphorism.
But perhaps there’s a silver lining here.
Maybe the shellacking will prompt an awakening. Maybe everyone will finally tune out the pundits still claiming Democrats ran a “flawless” campaign.
And maybe people will finally acknowledge, accept, and internalize realities that were obvious so long ago.
And maybe from there, things can improve.
What follows here are some big questions so many people have been asking me, and my preliminary answers.
Think of it as a FAQ about what just happened — a proverbial handbook for the politically deceased.
The questions I’ll cover are listed below — click a topic to jump forward or scroll through:
• What is the Democratic Party’s theory of winning elections?
• Why do Democrats seem unwilling to focus on persuading working-class voters?
• Why have working-class voters been fleeing the Democratic Party for years?
• How does all this relate to the Democratic Party’s internal fights over the last few years?
• But aren’t Democrats being smart by trying to be a big-tent party?
• What were Republicans’ most effective tactics to court working-class voters?
• Why weren’t Democrats able to sell working-class voters on their economic record?
• Why did Americans decide to vote against “saving democracy?”
• What could Democrats have done to win the election?
• How did both parties approach the media during the election?
• What do we do now?
https://www.levernews.com/handbook-for-the-politically-deceased/
I feel like Randall Mindy in our film Don’t Look Up
— specifically in the scene where he’s just scream-weeping up at the sky, saying he tried to warn everyone.
And I’m enraged by those still purporting to be surprised, whether it’s cable TV-addled liberals personifying the proverb about blindness, or pundits and politicos who embody the famous Upton Sinclair aphorism.
But perhaps there’s a silver lining here.
Maybe the shellacking will prompt an awakening. Maybe everyone will finally tune out the pundits still claiming Democrats ran a “flawless” campaign.
And maybe people will finally acknowledge, accept, and internalize realities that were obvious so long ago.
And maybe from there, things can improve.
What follows here are some big questions so many people have been asking me, and my preliminary answers.
Think of it as a FAQ about what just happened — a proverbial handbook for the politically deceased.
The questions I’ll cover are listed below — click a topic to jump forward or scroll through:
• What is the Democratic Party’s theory of winning elections?
• Why do Democrats seem unwilling to focus on persuading working-class voters?
• Why have working-class voters been fleeing the Democratic Party for years?
• How does all this relate to the Democratic Party’s internal fights over the last few years?
• But aren’t Democrats being smart by trying to be a big-tent party?
• What were Republicans’ most effective tactics to court working-class voters?
• Why weren’t Democrats able to sell working-class voters on their economic record?
• Why did Americans decide to vote against “saving democracy?”
• What could Democrats have done to win the election?
• How did both parties approach the media during the election?
• What do we do now?
https://www.levernews.com/handbook-for-the-politically-deceased/