^What are some ways for the Dems to be more populist? Tim Walz was certainly a sincere attempt. He was the real deal.
There is a culture of what i would call "snooty hippies" in places like Colorado where they are super rich and say great words, but don't live their ideals. I had dinners with a group of snooty liberals in a northern midwest area and they had great philosophical and historical discussions, but were stingy tippers and that sort of thing. I was at a academic arts symposium where someone gave a talk about their college day idealism wanting to help the "common man", but said when they got out they couldn't find them - which confused and exasperated me.
I guess I could fall in the middle because I will sometimes use intellectual language, but I did grow up trailer park trash and I'm still rather poor. I tried to debate in a convincing way, but probably get too robotic at times when there are ad hominem attacks. I learned it from INTP husbands and Mr. Spock, and it's really effective to do that in terms of wining a debate, but it probably pisses people off. It could make me feel frustrated but also impressed me which is why I do it sometimes.
I really don't know what to do or advice the Dems.
I'm not even sure they lost the election with the whole Starlink transmitting all the voting counts, Xman knowing the results four hours before everyone else, a shit ton of the ballots in swing states being only votes for Trump with no down ballot choices, 15 million votes mysteriously missing this time around even though rallies were packed, and Starlink satellites mysteriously falling from the sky. Maybe the strategy was correct?
Please don't quote this. I will delete it. I have my algorithms almost how I want them. I now get videos of baby Barron and Tiffany without asking for it... Incognito.
The DNC is bought and paid for by a lot of the same billionares the RNC is. Its why Fancy Nancy is so excited by the prospect of a strong republican party...The bigger and stronger they are the easier they are to hide behind, allowing establishment democrats to day trade with their inside information and profit from all the division in the nation, while getting to take the empty moral high ground and chasing meaningless non victories in the "ethics" of the political game.
When we stop mistaking confusion with collaboration the dncs seeming allergy to winning starts to make more sense.
There's no advice we can give the establishment democrats that they would listen to because its too damn profitable to them to keep relying on the same bad intel they've had for the last 20 years. They were the ones who rankled at the idea of a second biden term not for the stated reason of him being too old, but because Biden turned out to be way more populist and for the working family than he promised he would: "Nothing will fundamentally change." <----That's what got him nominated in the first place. But then he went ahead and did all that stuff for student debt, infrastructure, and the working class. He was poised to do even more, in his second term when reelection was no longer on the table. He could have joined the ranks of FDR in a historical sense. But the MSM and Corporate Dems...are (shocking I know) corporate tools. They like the same tax cuts that people like DT promise.
So when the entire entertainment media complex is paid for by the rich and powerful business interests with an agenda... and there is a disparate but not entirely un-separate distraction that will draw more focus and ire to a desired outcome comes along...why on earth would they not exploit it for profit, even at the expense of others? If the DNC listened to the people on the ground things like "too much wokeness" wouldnt be an issue because they would know what every honest church has known for generations. You see to people's physical needs(food, shelter, etc) before you start preaching to them their spiritual needs. It's not rocket science. Far from it. Before you start scolding and preaching at people, you make sure they and their loved ones arent starving, or on the street, or are more than just barely able to make ends meet....then suddenly people are more tolerant of being told this or that with regards to how they act or think towards others.
What really sucks is how many people are tricked into beleiving that the people they vote to represent them, actually represent them... Instead we've allowed them to build a device within our system that now is reliant on enough rich people to decide to "become saviors" and finance in politicians who aren't beholden to them, but rather the working stiffs who for the most part are too over worked, desperate and exhausted to be advanced citizens and advanced citizenship is the only way an actual democracy doesnt get mysteriously drowned in the shallow tub of corporate greed.
So the only thing we can really do is start getting involved with and building communities on the ground level. Eventually if enough people do it, the law of averages starts to kick in again for our benefit instead of our detriment. Right now. Things work more like a crime movie than not for one simple reason.
Our money just isnt long enough, which means we're in someone's pocket.
Its what pissed me off so much about Obama running on "Hope" and "Change" instead of anything actually concrete. He won on promising intangible concepts without any practical context. And when it of course didnt live up to the hype (Keep in mind it only ever inferred and implied rather than implicitly promise.) People were pissed and felt betrayed enough so that a metric fuck ton of american votors ran to a snake oil salesmen who promised to go after the snake oil manufacturors. And through it all, social media has been there, driving us further apart and more insane on the ground level. Thus making sure that we won't be doing the one thing that could change things within a workable context, for quite some time to come. We can't live together on the island, so we will die alone.
Unless...
