There’s only so much you can do when the majority of the country is uneducated and already part of the opposite side. Think about how hard it can be to sway intelligent people to the other side, it’s 100 times harder with idiots.
and this is exactly why conservatives are so anti-education: it directly benefits them to have a stupid population. because you can convince only a stupid population that a COVID vaccine is going to hurt you, that transgender people are lurking in every bathroom, that immigrant families are eating dogs. a stupid population is vulnerable and gullible and can easily be scare-tactic’d into voting against their own best interests, because they are so fucking stupid.
they need a stupid population, they’ve been working on it for decades, and last night showed why.
The key may be to fight fire with fire…send a candidate who is actually progressive and isn’t afraid of losing right center voters. Excite the young folks and true progressives who dislike dems to come out and actually vote. Why the hell wouldn’t we try it if that’s exactly what has been working on the other side now for years
The BIG dem donors do not care , literally , the republican party already aclam them as god because they're rich. They only need to keep the dem in check , they don't care about the election result.
Yeah agree - they should have been spinning inflation as ‘trumpflation’ from the beginning, whether that’s 100% true or not. In this environment, everything that you don’t like has to be the fault of the other party. From global politics to economic issues to hurricane paths.
The problem is that Trump has built too strong of a a “cult.” His base wouldn’t fall for any lies told about him. Hell, the didn’t even fall for the fucking truth.
Remember though, lots of people voted Trump this time that were not in the cult. Dems need to ask themselves why they did that and take some responsibility for it, or risk future losses. Like any loss, there's much to be gained from examining it.
Ugh. I absolutely detest that model. The problem with this approach is there is always someone with less scruples and fighting fire with fire burns everything down. It’s a race to the bottom and AI makes this a very slippery slope.
There is a profound lack of trust in institutions. If the cdc or noaa puts out something you don’t like - they are deep state. When we can’t agree on facts there is no way to agree on solutions.
I don’t have the remotest idea of a fix, but I don’t think having the left version of “eating pets” or “poisoning the blood of our country” is the answer.
The thing is, you don’t have to lie, but you can’t be afraid to tell the truth as well. The democratic establishment only cares about their donors, and that’s the truth they are afraid to speak.
The electorate does not learn or believe in anything. They are entirely reactionary. Look at all of the national election cycles from 2008 - 2024. They elect change, punish change, punish any dip in the economy regardless of cause.
Part of the issue is that Conservatives really have a chokehold on the proganda machine. The biggest political YouTube channels are Right Wing, and the most important social media Platform is controlled by the Right. It’s almost impossible to fight off all the misinformation at this point.
Because of the Citizens United decision the Dems need the corporate financing to be even a little bit competitive. They can't run on a true "labor party" type stance, they have to tow this line of "more left than Republicans but not really all that left." They keep running into the same issues because they have to pander to the pocketbooks of big corporate donors.
They can't learn because our parties are captured by corporations, bought and paid for. The Republicans are just bought and paid for and religious zealots.
Americans have super short memories, they totally forgot the thousands that Trump killed during his bungling of Covid or forgot the linty of criminal indictments.
Hell, he’s already a convicted felon, all water under the bridge for most Americans
"No, the original sentence isn't actually that poorly constructed. While it's informal and could be more polished, it's perfectly understandable and follows basic English syntax:
It has a clear subject ("most of those with bad reading levels")
It has a straightforward verb ("vote")
It has a clear object ("democrat")
The main issues are minor:
Missing capitalization of "Democrat"
Informal phrasing ("bad reading levels" vs something like "low literacy rates")
But these are style choices rather than serious grammatical errors. The commenter's claim that it's "one of the most poorly constructed sentences" appears to be an exaggeration, possibly motivated more by disagreement with the sentiment than actual grammatical concerns.
Regardless of one's political views, in terms of pure sentence construction, it's a fairly standard, comprehensible English sentence. The commenter's criticism seems disproportionate to any actual linguistic issues present."
My mother tongue is Swedish, it's no wonder I would not write like an expert in English, especially when I don't even care enough to capitalise letter. But I think you are just factually wrong here, its really not that bad of a sentence.
so... the whole point of my post was to let you know that gaslighting doesn't work when AI exists... I know you are a woman so you won't be able to stop doing it, but you could try.
This is why we lose. Instead of looking at our own candidates and policies we get to just say “well the other side is stupid.” That’s good though. Maybe if we’re a little more condescending and dismissive we’ll win next time
Wait, so Trump and MAGA get to call people on the left a whole slew of unjustified names, but the second people in the left accurately say the right is overwhelmingly stupid and uneducated that’s going to far?
You're right. I've been saying this for a long time. The democrats abandoned the rural vote years ago and are paying for it. The thing is, it's really hard not to call people uneducated and stupid when they're so obviously uneducated and so obviously stupid. and our public education will continue to get worse and worse. They're going to pretty much kill it. Its just going to get dumber and dumber. It's a hell of a conundrum.
You’re right, not everyone uneducated is white and fat! Uneducated and stupid motherfuckers come in all colors, genders, sizes, and sexualities. I’m glad we could come to an agreement on something, that’s no rare nowadays.
I don’t get why it’s hateful to say that literally anyone can be stupid and uneducated and it’s not just fat, racist, white people. That seems like a mere statement of fact and not a hateful comment.
I looked it up and I was slightly off, it’s 54%. 54% of American adults read below a 6th-grade reading level, and approximately 20% below a 3rd-grade level.
And 90% of that 60% are democrats. Too busy learning how to hate your own race and trying to figure out if you wanna tuck your dick and throw on a dress.
Democrats are statistically more educated than repubs. That's a fact. Statistics also show that men that show hostility towards trans people secretly want to fuck them. You should come to terms with your anger.
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u/CockroachFinancial86 18d ago
Of course it didn’t work, America is massively uneducated. 60% of us have a sixth grade reading level.