It's Not Biden's Fault

Democratic Activists are the Reason Swayable GOP Stay With Trump

Imagine being someone who works a hard manual labor job. Let’s say that yes, you are a white male. You live in a modest home somewhere in the midwest and love it there away from the coasts; your neighbors actually care about you and you them. You barely have any savings and have had to make some serious sacrifices just to stay above water. You want nothing more than for your son to go to college, since he’s bright and great at math and science and has a future. You’ve never been in trouble and by all accounts, you’ve done everything right that you possibly could. You’re no fan of Republicans, perhaps you are a union worker even. You sympathize with minorities on racial issues, and agree more can be done to fix injustices. You like Biden, though you wish he were younger. You think Trump is a loudmouth buffoon.

Now…

Imagine people in New York or California repeatedly calling you stupid because the state you live in went for Trump.

Imagine watching others who don’t work nearly as hard or as physical as you make much more and whine about their first world problems, such as whether to get the new iPhone for their 10 year old.

Imagine being scolded that the truck that you use to haul things is a gas guzzler and that you need to go electric, when there are no electric trucks in your price range and almost zero electric ports where you live.

Imagine getting docked pay for showing up late to work because a group of college activists shut down a major highway protesting climate change.

Imagine seeing an administration forgive billions in student loans, much of it to expensive private school alumni, when you couldn’t even go to a local state college because you couldn’t afford it.

Imagine your business being shutdown through COVID and not making a dime for two years other than what was given to you by the government, as you watched people working remotely from home making three times as much get the same amount.

Imagine watching a parade of Republican candidates come to your area over and over again and the Democratic candiates staying in their cosmopolitan metro areas. On the occasion they do venture out to your area, they talk about metro issues that have no direct bearing on anything where you live.

Imagine seeing your son turned down for college scholarships not because of grades or conduct but because he’s not the right race or gender. In fact, imagine his grades were better than the eventual winner, but was turned down because it wouldn’t garner the right image or attention.

Imagine pointing that out and the only response you hear over and over again is “Ain’t that a bitch?”

Imagine pointing out that we are leaving a generation of young males behind, that the rates of young males having depression and committing suicide are at catastrophic levels, and then being told that you are just “Mansplaining” everything and that you had the reins of power for centuries, it’s someone else’s turn now.¹

Imagine being called a racist, sexist and Nazi, just because you mention that you may not vote Democratic.

Imagine every online discussion you come across being a combination of disdain and condescension directed at you.

Imagine being neutered socially, politically and dismissed intellectually so much to the point that you know, deep down in your soul, that everyone thinks you don’t matter at all. In addition, your children’s futures look diminished and the doors are closing on them fast.

Imagine agreeing with Biden on much, but the most visible people who support him dislikes you and your neighbors and are vocally antagonistic towards you.

Now imagine someone standing up and saying “Fuck them. You want to really show them, vote for me. I’ll help you show them who’s boss.” He doesn’t offer ANYTHING to fix these issues you encounter; he only offers that he hears what you are saying and will empower you more than that other side, who would prefer you not even be there.

Democratic activists have it all wrong. Too many of them are too vocally and demonstrably argumentative, condescending, and smug. They stay in their MSNBC bubble and shout out to anyone not on the same page how utterly wrong they are, and how much more politically intelligent they are because they watch Morning Joe. Instead of listening, collaborating and working to bring these potential voters into their tent, they scold, berate and look down on them; they don’t act like they WANT them in the tent, unless the non-liberal heretics kowtow and genuflect to liberal activists’ omniscient political position.

There really is no reason 2024 shouldn’t be a complete blowout for Biden; all you have to do is compare the four years of chaos, beligerence and deconstruction under Trump to the almost three years of Biden’s Presidency when he pulled us out of a sizeable hole and got us moving forward again in the right direction. The fact that it is essentially tied at this point has nothing to do with Biden, and actually has everything to do with how many people truly, consistently and adamantly despise liberal activists and their attitudes. Why would the people described above want to empower that?

When people say they are voting for Republicans, it’s not out of some love or fealty towards Trump.² They do it because they want to stick it to everyone who dismisses them. They do it because they want their voices to be heard and their merits considered. They do it, because they want to “stick it to the libs,” particularly those on the coasts who have no sense of what life is like in the middle of the country and derisively refer to it simply as “flyover country.”

America would be a much better place if the right people listened to them, and let them know their concerns were heard. Biden gets that. It’s a shame too many liberal activists can’t shut up long enough to hear it.

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Here is Charlie Sykes and Ruy Teixiera discussing the dynamic at length. They focus a little too much on Biden and Trump, but the underlying sentiments and discussion on these voters are on point. Teixiera has a particular animosity toward the Democratic consultant class, and frankly, he’s often right about it.

Ruy Teixeira: Biden’s Working Class Blues

PurpleAmerica’s Final Word on the Subject

“I like liberal ideas, I do not like your liberal activists. Your liberal activists are so unlike liberal ideals. If all liberal activists acted liberally, the whole world would be liberal.”

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Footnotes and Fun Stuff

1. This hypothetical person has zero power. He’s had zero power his entire life. Yet somehow people point to him and think he’s been pulling the strings like the Godfather.

2. Although there are a lot of nuts out there that do vote that way, but it’s smaller than you think.