He's got a point - I hear it often from more heterodox types, even those that still vote Democrat, that the Democrats have become the party of the boy who cried wolf. Remember when some called Bush a fascist because of the Patriot Act? Or Biden saying Romney would "put you back in chains" to black voters? This is a big reason why people …
He's got a point - I hear it often from more heterodox types, even those that still vote Democrat, that the Democrats have become the party of the boy who cried wolf. Remember when some called Bush a fascist because of the Patriot Act? Or Biden saying Romney would "put you back in chains" to black voters? This is a big reason why people don't believe the Democrats now when they say Trump is a fascist authoritarian threat to our democracy. It's the Democrat equivalent of Republicans calling everything socialist - voters have begun to tune that out and there's widespread support for a number of economic policies that are considered "socialist". Sure, as always, there's asymmetry - Trump's authoritarianism is real while the non-Squad Dems aren't actually socialist (though the Squad got elected to begin with partially because of this "boy who cried wolf" effect) - but it's gotten to the point where voters basically tune out these sorts of things even when the threat is real. The median voter thinks all the "[Republican nominee] is a fascist" rhetoric is just typical campaign mudslinging that's been used for decades just as they think "[Democrat nominee] is a socialist/communist" rhetoric is also.
By the way, judging from the way a lot of elected Democrats reacted to the Biden debate back in June or frankly for the entirety of the past 4 years, it's clear they themselves don't believe what they say about Trump. They certainly don't act like it. They're all a bunch of wealthy elites who think that they'll be safe from whatever Trump does. They have no skin in the game. We plebeians do.
Don’t disagree but I don’t think this makes a lick of difference. Republicans have been yelling about Dems being communist, socialists, pedophiles for like 35 years. I think this is just an excuse made so that dems don’t have to make really hard choices (to be clear I don’t know what those are).
One of the hard choices is to deny Trans civil rights or rights to medical treatment. Totally inhumane.
My MAGA friend lectures me...they are hot under the collar about trans being the most fiery cultural issue (I told him, you should be after they spent millions on brainwashing you by advertising) and the competing in sports issue...all I can say is they are making a mountain out of a mole hill so you can't see the sun going down.....
Oh I think that is the ante. That’s just the thing you have to put on the table. The other shit will be far more impactful and meaningful. They aren’t dumb they know that is a tiny tiny community. They want something much bigger: gay marriage, whites are discriminated against, affirmative action for white males, etc.
He's got a point - I hear it often from more heterodox types, even those that still vote Democrat, that the Democrats have become the party of the boy who cried wolf. Remember when some called Bush a fascist because of the Patriot Act? Or Biden saying Romney would "put you back in chains" to black voters? This is a big reason why people don't believe the Democrats now when they say Trump is a fascist authoritarian threat to our democracy. It's the Democrat equivalent of Republicans calling everything socialist - voters have begun to tune that out and there's widespread support for a number of economic policies that are considered "socialist". Sure, as always, there's asymmetry - Trump's authoritarianism is real while the non-Squad Dems aren't actually socialist (though the Squad got elected to begin with partially because of this "boy who cried wolf" effect) - but it's gotten to the point where voters basically tune out these sorts of things even when the threat is real. The median voter thinks all the "[Republican nominee] is a fascist" rhetoric is just typical campaign mudslinging that's been used for decades just as they think "[Democrat nominee] is a socialist/communist" rhetoric is also.
By the way, judging from the way a lot of elected Democrats reacted to the Biden debate back in June or frankly for the entirety of the past 4 years, it's clear they themselves don't believe what they say about Trump. They certainly don't act like it. They're all a bunch of wealthy elites who think that they'll be safe from whatever Trump does. They have no skin in the game. We plebeians do.
Don’t disagree but I don’t think this makes a lick of difference. Republicans have been yelling about Dems being communist, socialists, pedophiles for like 35 years. I think this is just an excuse made so that dems don’t have to make really hard choices (to be clear I don’t know what those are).
One of the hard choices is to deny Trans civil rights or rights to medical treatment. Totally inhumane.
My MAGA friend lectures me...they are hot under the collar about trans being the most fiery cultural issue (I told him, you should be after they spent millions on brainwashing you by advertising) and the competing in sports issue...all I can say is they are making a mountain out of a mole hill so you can't see the sun going down.....
Oh I think that is the ante. That’s just the thing you have to put on the table. The other shit will be far more impactful and meaningful. They aren’t dumb they know that is a tiny tiny community. They want something much bigger: gay marriage, whites are discriminated against, affirmative action for white males, etc.