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I don't know if this adds much -- but. on the issue of not alienating working-class (especially white) people, it is obvious that Democrats have much work to do. But, I grow weary of the scolding Democrats receive about being out of touch, not respecting working-class folks, etc.

I live in Spartanburg, SC -- Donald Trump literally said that German automobile factory workers' jobs could be done by children. He said that about thousands of workers here in my home county. He said it about the crown jewel of Upstate, SC's economy. I doubt it cost him more than 100 votes here. I doubt it cost him more than 10 votes among the very workers he insulted.

It's just incredible. I don't know how to work with that.
 
superrific said:
Bro, the "hispanic" vote consists of lots of people who also identify as white. The hispanic vote is not monolithic, as people come from many different places for different reasons at different times. And many of those countries also feature profound racism against darker skinned people. Read something about it. Here, I'll give you a starter

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Racism in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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Race and ethnicity in Latin America - Wikipedia

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Afro-descendants in Latin American countries live in starkly unequal conditions that impact health and well-being, PAHO study shows

Inequities for Afro-descendants include higher rates of maternal mortality and lack of access to education, jobs, adequate housing, and basic services such as safe water and sanitation. Washington, D.C. December 3, 2021 (PAHO) – A new study of Afro-descendant populations in 18 Latin American...
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Welp, I guess Trump won over just the racist Hispanics.
 
ole howard1 said:
I don't know if this adds much -- but. on the issue of not alienating working-class (especially white) people, it is obvious that Democrats have much work to do. But, I grow weary of the scolding Democrats receive about being out of touch, not respecting working-class folks, etc.

I live in Spartanburg, SC -- Donald Trump literally said that German automobile factory workers' jobs could be done by children. He said that about thousands of workers here in my home county. He said it about the crown jewel of Upstate, SC's economy. I doubt it cost him more than 100 votes here. I doubt it cost him more than 10 votes among the very workers he insulted.

It's just incredible. I don't know how to work with that.
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You can't.
 
ole howard1 said:
I don't know if this adds much -- but. on the issue of not alienating working-class (especially white) people, it is obvious that Democrats have much work to do. But, I grow weary of the scolding Democrats receive about being out of touch, not respecting working-class folks, etc.

I live in Spartanburg, SC -- Donald Trump literally said that German automobile factory workers' jobs could be done by children. He said that about thousands of workers here in my home county. He said it about the crown jewel of Upstate, SC's economy. I doubt it cost him more than 100 votes here. I doubt it cost him more than 10 votes among the very workers he insulted.

It's just incredible. I don't know how to work with that.
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You cant. But as the video said, stop with the trying to parse everything. We dont have to win working class white voters. But if we shave just 10 points off those losses, so we lose counties 60-40 instead of 65-35 (or more) then suddenly the game has absolutely changed.

I mean this was as red wavey as we have seen in a decade. And even with that, it's not like Trump just steamrolled...and it's not like the senate and house will be a bloodletting
 
farce© said:
Bernie can register as a Democrat to run for President the same way I registered as a Republican to vote in the Republican primary in Ohio in 2016. Bernie is not and never has been a dues-paying member of the Democratic Party. They are never and were never going to nominate him.
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So you’re saying you endorse the idea of rigging a primary against its strongest candidate if they aren’t 100% aligned with the party at all times? Interesting.

Older Fox News-watching boomer types probably all hate Bernie and believe the socialism thing, but I bet if you polled the younger Trump voters (like the ones who watch Rogan - who endorsed him in 2016), they would poll favorably towards him. He was the antidote to Trump in 2016. The problem wasn’t that he isn’t a “true democrat”. It was that Wall Street and big money politics didn’t want a guy who would ACTUALLY change things in favor of the average struggling American (who now flock to Trump, who doesn’t give AF about them).

I don’t know where we go from here. MSM is basically dead in the water if the Trump team decides to ban big pharma advertising, because nobody watches it anymore.
 
Paine said:
Gallego did well with Latinos in a cycle where Dems lost a ton of support from them overall. I’m not lionizing him, but I think it’s also silly to say he only won because Lake was a bad candidate.

Lately the Democrats have been obsessed with DNC chairs who didn’t even win their own elections.
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Well, Gallego is also Latino. But really, I'm not saying that he only won because Lake was a bad candidate. I'm saying that it's hard to estimate how good he is because he wasn't tested. That's all.

What would you like aspiring Dems from red states to do? Should we tell Jamie Harrison to fuck off because he couldn't win as a black Democrat in South Carolina? There aren't enough Secretary of Transportation jobs for all of them, and we don't even control the WH anyway.

I have no real opinion about this issue, because I don't even really understand exactly what the DNC chair does, how much power s/he has, what are the priorities, etc. I just don't think "he lost that election, so he sucks" is the right approach. Are we going to say that about Beto also?
 
Illithor said:
So you’re saying you endorse the idea of rigging a primary against its strongest candidate if they aren’t 100% aligned with the party at all times? Interesting.

Older Fox News-watching boomer types probably all hate Bernie and believe the socialism thing, but I bet if you polled the younger Trump voters (like the ones who watch Rogan - who endorsed him in 2016), they would poll favorably towards him. He was the antidote to Trump in 2016. The problem wasn’t that he isn’t a “true democrat”. It was that Wall Street and big money politics didn’t want a guy who would ACTUALLY change things in favor of the average struggling American (who now flock to Trump, who doesn’t give AF about them).

I don’t know where we go from here. MSM is basically dead in the water if the Trump team decides to ban big pharma advertising, because nobody watches it anymore.
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Again, again, again. You cannot build a political movement on a base that does not vote. Younger voters don't vote. Seniors do. How young people think is just not of paramount importance -- or all that much importance at all -- in the short term. Longer term, yes.
 
Illithor said:
So you’re saying you endorse the idea of rigging a primary against its strongest candidate if they aren’t 100% aligned with the party at all times? Interesting.

Older Fox News-watching boomer types probably all hate Bernie and believe the socialism thing, but I bet if you polled the younger Trump voters (like the ones who watch Rogan - who endorsed him in 2016), they would poll favorably towards him. He was the antidote to Trump in 2016. The problem wasn’t that he isn’t a “true democrat”. It was that Wall Street and big money politics didn’t want a guy who would ACTUALLY change things in favor of the average struggling American (who now flock to Trump, who doesn’t give AF about them).

I don’t know where we go from here. MSM is basically dead in the water if the Trump team decides to ban big pharma advertising, because nobody watches it anymore.
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If he couldn't make headway against the warm breeze of a Democratic primary, how in the hell do you think he would do against the heat from the Trump campaign? How anyone could think he should be anointed when he can't muster the power base to win it is beyond me. That's a huge part of campaigning, no matter how tawdry it might seem.

Btw, I never took an interest but what is behind your claim that the primary was rigged in short form? You have me curious. I still believe the above is right from a purely pragmatic POV.
 
dukeman92 said:
You can't.
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and that is why all we can do is sit and wait for the GOP to break everything. It's not a great strategy for a nation.

Have one party with a base that begs to be insulted and lied to, and another party that can only sniff office when they have to fix things, then immediately get kicked out so the other party can break shit again.
 
I don’t know where I go from here in all honesty. Something changed in America this past Tuesday. I need to figure out how to live and protect my family’s future in this new paradigm.
 
aGDevil2k said:
You cant. But as the video said, stop with the trying to parse everything. We dont have to win working class white voters. But if we shave just 10 points off those losses, so we lose counties 60-40 instead of 65-35 (or more) then suddenly the game has absolutely changed.

I mean this was as red wavey as we have seen in a decade. And even with that, it's not like Trump just steamrolled...and it's not like the senate and house will be a bloodletting
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Yeah, I have thought a lot about how to chip away at that disparity with white working-class voters. I have thought that serious amounts of direct mail might be the way to go. Here's my best pitch for this strategy: These people are watching Fox News or worse, or they're not paying much attention to news and politics. The low-information voters. They aren't going to watch CNN or go buy the local paper -- and what good would that do, anyway?

But stuff in their mail -- that they have to look at it, even if it's to throw it away? Maybe they glance for a few seconds, at least. Maybe something catches their attention. Catchy titles and graphics. Short, easily digestible pieces about what Republicans want to do to your healthcare, how they want to wreck your local public schools, how tariffs work. Factual but sensationalized enough to hopefully target people's emotions.

I don't know. But if the theory is that these people are uneducated, and if it's very difficult to reach them through traditional forms of media, then this idea is maybe....something. It would cost a lot of money. OK. But it could also be tested and scaled up or down based on whether it appears to be making an impact (elections, surveys and polls, etc.).

Just to quickly add: I have a good friend who ran for an open statehouse seat in Spartanburg back in 2008 (seems like ages ago). He ran as a Democrat and, of course, got beat rather handily. But he made some real inroads, I think, in rural and working-class areas by canvassing and talking to. people. He way, way out-performed Obama in one such precinct. It made me think that they aren't entirely unreachable. Of course, he and his volunteers put in a pretty extraordinary effort only to lose....probably not easy to expect many to sign up for that.
 
Tyler Hansbruh said:
As with anything on social media take with a grain of salt but it’ll be interesting to see these kind of anecdotes in the coming weeks/months
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This will happen, but I'm skeptical that it's happening now. Do companies not planning on giving out bonuses usually broadcast that fact a month and a half in advance?
 
Tyler Hansbruh said:
As with anything on social media take with a grain of salt but it’ll be interesting to see these kind of anecdotes in the coming weeks/months
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The ignorance is just astounding.

Even if the foreign producers did pay the tariff, do they not understand that that would be passed on to higher prices to buy the product?

Do they think that the foreign producer is operating with a 70% margin on the widgets they produce and would willingly eat the difference? If they had those type of margins, someone else would have been producing the widget for cheaper.
 
superrific said:
This will happen, but I'm skeptical that it's happening now. Do companies not planning on giving out bonuses usually broadcast that fact a month and a half in advance?
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Why? They need to get the widgets in stock ASAP before possible tariffs take effect. It makes total sense to use your available cash to buy as many widgets as possible now.

A company that is putting this in motion would already know they won't have cash to pay bonuses. Better to let the employees know early. At least it is more ethical to do so. Sure, stating it early can cause some conflict but not nearly as much as springing on the employees a week before Christmas. Have you not seen Christmas Vacation? ;-)
 
Illithor said:
So you’re saying you endorse the idea of rigging a primary against its strongest candidate if they aren’t 100% aligned with the party at all times? Interesting.

Older Fox News-watching boomer types probably all hate Bernie and believe the socialism thing, but I bet if you polled the younger Trump voters (like the ones who watch Rogan - who endorsed him in 2016), they would poll favorably towards him. He was the antidote to Trump in 2016. The problem wasn’t that he isn’t a “true democrat”. It was that Wall Street and big money politics didn’t want a guy who would ACTUALLY change things in favor of the average struggling American (who now flock to Trump, who doesn’t give AF about them).

I don’t know where we go from here. MSM is basically dead in the water if the Trump team decides to ban big pharma advertising, because nobody watches it anymore.
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It isn’t a matter of not being aligned with the party, it is a matter of not being in the party at all. This is not “rigging” anything. If you want the Democratic nomination, be a Democrat. This isn’t hard, why are you struggling with something so simple?
 
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