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GOP Rep. Barry Moore exits through back door after he is heckled at Alabama town hall
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You know, I've been told all my life by lying liar conservatives that most of America is conservative when it comes to the issues. This, in spite of the polling on the issues that shows America tends to be progressive on the issues...
Now that the cons have been given a permission structure by Taco to go full conservative (aka, the baby-talk term, "maga") you'd think that conservatism would be more popular than ever!?
Why do they have to avoid town halls? Why is it when they have town halls, they aren't met with wave after wave of applause? Why do they have to run and hide if their conservative platform is so damned popular?
Excellent point.
Unfortunately it isn’t just conservative politicians claiming this - the media pretends conservative positions are legitimate, as they all collude to decimate the middle class and rob American workers of everything. All while gaslighting us saying we like things that way. It’s grotesque.
Yeah, that's because the "liberal media", while it might align on a few social issues usually involving identity politics, tends to be constructed in such a way as to have conservative bias in their very DNA.
If what they say was true they wouldn't need to gerrymander
Convince them to vote
Convincing people to vote for them is the job of the party, not their supporters. The supporters can only repeat the messaging the party sends out, if that messaging is unpopular then no amount of time and money from the supporters is going to win the election.
It sounds like you're giving up! Would you like me to put together a plan for you to just flee and abdicate any responsibility you might have felt before?
There are many forms of activism and it is important to keep in mind that everyone exists with different abilities in different contexts. Judging others because they aren't adopting the same strategy as you isn't going to build a winning coalition. Here's a quote from someone who was murdered by the SS and was reflecting on how stupidity is as much a sociological phenomenon:
The idea that the DNC only has a messaging problem is to say we expect more from people's stupidity than from their inner independence or wisdom (ie Voters just need to be educated). A party that respects people would listen and respond to issues like Gaza or wealth inequality. The reason this strategy of educating voters doesn't work is because it isn't a problem with the intellect but of their oppression. Only by liberating fellow voters will they be able to act independently.
Are you fucking judging me? How about you go fuck off and stop telling me how to act?
Dick.
edit: I realize this post is aggressive and anti-social but I'm not going to have some passive leftist intellectual tell me that I'm the fucking problem. If it gets me banned, so be it.