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In reply to the discussion: I've, and most of us who have been here for quite sometime realize one thing........ [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)...who are the voters we need to win over?
I hear that we don't need to attract or reach out to Trump voters, meaning rural working class white folk. And I agree with that. I think those people are absolutely unreachable and can just fuck right the fuck off as far as I'm concerned. I don't dispute people who disagree with that assessment of our situation within the Democratic party. Going that route, trying to win those people is a narrow needle to thread and will never get us the kind of coalition that we need to win no matter how much pandering we try to do. A losing strategy all around.
But then I also hear that we're supposed to tell left wing, liberal voters to go fuck themselves if they don't like what we're selling. The message seems to be "The party is what it is. Get on board or fuck off."
O.K......so then which untapped voters are we supposed to be appealing to? Because we need more voters than we are currently getting if we are to win. And yes I know "We won the popular vote!!" O.k. but that wasn't enough.
Again, I'm all ears but it seems to me that saying we don't need to appeal to Trump voters while at the same time saying that we don't need to appeal to whatever you want to call left leaning voters doesn't get us anyone that we don't already currently have on our side.
I'd love for "Vote for us. It's your only choice and if you don't see that, you are a fucking idiot." to be a strategy that worked. But it doesn't.
What we're doing isn't working.