Self-Inflicted Loss.

We lost 2024 through our own fault.
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The fault is our own.
Instead of focusing on messaging on the economy and the suburban and rural reality of life, the Democratic party got stuck on edgecase social issues (which are important) but do not move the middle of the country. Talking about LGBTQ and race will not move the people struggling to pay bills, and worried about the price of food, gas and housing.
Advocating for GREEN Power does not help you get the votes of all the people still working the gas, oil and coal industry.
Telling people they need to get rid of their beloved cars for not-quite-ready-for-prime-time EVs will lose you most of the farmers and rural families.
The focus should have been on the economy, 100%, turn it up to 11, show people a todo list of what you will do to help them in the first 90 days. NOT a list of causes you support.
The luxury of supporting causes comes AFTER you win. You can not win by focusing on the edge case voters.
Hope is beautiful but does not motivate people into action.
How do I feed my kids, how do I pay for college, how do I pay for housing, how do I sell my crop are things that move people.
We, the left, suffer from the hippy message. The hippy message is wonderful when you have privilege.
When you are worried, rightly or not, about your safety, finances, and future, “peace, love and happiness” is horseshit. You want a todo list of how things will get better.
The luxury of causes is a privilege of those in power. When you are hungry and worried about your mortgage you don’t give fuck about John and Frank getting married 3 states away.
We, the left, need to come back to a practical view of the world. The fringe ID10Ts that voted for Jill Stein and such need a bucket of cold water in the face followed by a dose of Animal Farm and 1984.
Advocating crime is not the answer.
Fahrenheit 451 is.
Now is the time to stop fucking complaining and start taking action to preserve our heratige, our memories, our philosophies, so that we the opportunity arises we can rise from the ashes burn the facists into non-existance.