I'm assuming the STFU take was for the people I was describing and not me. You and I are close on the lack of sincerity and progress from the Party. I'm not stating my perception, but those that have been described to me from people on the ground.rchurch314 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:35 amThis is the incel maga take, sorry. "waah, the people campaigning to run the country think they know more than me, waah" Duh. STFU and open a book. This stance is solely a republican attack on education and knowledge. On 'global/coastal elites'. It's how they pretend they represent the working class. "Scary lady used a 5th grade word and spoke with confidence! How dare she!"
Jesse Jackson said Obama was "Talking down to black people."
Hillary called him a "posh-elitist out of touch with the working class."
There were plenty of others.
Dems aren't pushing _Any_ progressive ideas, that's the point. Whether smug or not.
They don't hammer home statistics about how much safer immigrants are, how much of a boost to the economy they are, they talk about treating them slightly more humanely at the border, as long as they 'follow the rules'.
They don't talk about how abortion should be 100% legal and protected and how the best way to prevent abortions is legalize them and provide comprehensive healthcare. They hem and haw and point at republicans and say things like "even in the case of abuse and danger to the mother!' implying that if they provided those exemptions the draconian restrictions on womens' bodies would be okay. They invite anti-choice people into the campaign. Abortion has actually always been one of those single-issues for many people. The administration, of which Harris is part of, failed to even repair the damage done by trump the first time, and then you hang out with Liz Cheney and talk about bi-partisanship? That's an anti-choice message and voters knew it. All those white women that turned out for Biden last time, almost definitely in part hoping he'd fix the Roe v Wade mistake? Why didn't they show up this time? Gee i wonder. Maybe if Harris talked a little less smug about how good the job creation metrics looked. Sure, that was it.
No, champion progressive ideas with sincerity. The problem is that the democrats almost to a tee are neither sincere or progressive.
PRIMARY ALL OF THEM. I bet some of you are in jersey. Josh Gottheimer is running for governor. He's the most, or second most, republican-leaning democrat in the House every session. He's got all the establishment Democrat money. He CANNOT be allowed to get the nomination. It's not hard to see the exact same thing that happened with the presidency happen in Jersey with the election next year. There's a really cool teacher, Sean Spiller, president of the NJ Education Association running. Or even Mikie Sherrill, a more moderate former military candidate, seems to be popular. So far Gottheimer seemingly has 4x more money on hand than all the other candidates combined. With the oppressive umbrella of fascism, it falls to the states to maintain some semblance of protection, and you can almost guarantee if NJ falls to republican control, they'll make sure to 'fix' more voting situations to potentially flip the state in 2028.
The "she's for they/them, he's for you" ads worked here. And it was specifically that line that worked over anything else in the ad.
Moderates here are not against trans-rights as much as they don't like the pre-declaration of pronouns with every introduction from a Dem. It may be stupid and semantic, but that's the part of those ads that worked in the middle.
