Political discourse seems to have turned into a feedback loop of each side telling the other off for behaving idiotically, rather than attempt to address said idiocy on their own side. If there’s one positive the Dems currently have over the GOP now it’s that the majority of their far left’s bs is brought to heel when it’s time to actually implement policy. Not always and not everywhere of course, like Cali being ground zero for a lot of Dem failures, but enough that folks like Cornell West are thought of as ridiculous by most. It’s mostly bark and little bite.
Unfortunately, all you need to rile your opposition up is bark. So the GOP’s base gets pissed and votes for someone that pisses off the Dems and the Dems decide to tell them to piss off and the loop just gets worse and worse. I wish I knew how to break it.
Agreed. But so much of the discourse is made by less than 10% of actual voters and most people don't follow it and don't care until September of an election year. They're not big fans of either side but what I hear from the left is more "If you're not with us, you must be a racist, sexist, Nazi MAGA type." All that does is reduce the size of potential voters you can draw from., certainly not enough to make a majority.
I have a lot of indifferent friends. They don't like Trump or MAGA one bit, but they HATE liberal activism and are personally offended when they are called such things in such personal terms.
Hey, I live on the east coast (just outside of DC) and the Democratic Activists do the same to many of us. I agree with everything you have written and I can only imagine that it is far worse for the people you speak for/of in the middle of the country. I changed my political affiliation to Independent in protest....many others have, also....think they'll get the hint? I didn't leave the Dem party.....they left me.
Political discourse seems to have turned into a feedback loop of each side telling the other off for behaving idiotically, rather than attempt to address said idiocy on their own side. If there’s one positive the Dems currently have over the GOP now it’s that the majority of their far left’s bs is brought to heel when it’s time to actually implement policy. Not always and not everywhere of course, like Cali being ground zero for a lot of Dem failures, but enough that folks like Cornell West are thought of as ridiculous by most. It’s mostly bark and little bite.
Unfortunately, all you need to rile your opposition up is bark. So the GOP’s base gets pissed and votes for someone that pisses off the Dems and the Dems decide to tell them to piss off and the loop just gets worse and worse. I wish I knew how to break it.
Agreed. But so much of the discourse is made by less than 10% of actual voters and most people don't follow it and don't care until September of an election year. They're not big fans of either side but what I hear from the left is more "If you're not with us, you must be a racist, sexist, Nazi MAGA type." All that does is reduce the size of potential voters you can draw from., certainly not enough to make a majority.
I have a lot of indifferent friends. They don't like Trump or MAGA one bit, but they HATE liberal activism and are personally offended when they are called such things in such personal terms.
Hey, I live on the east coast (just outside of DC) and the Democratic Activists do the same to many of us. I agree with everything you have written and I can only imagine that it is far worse for the people you speak for/of in the middle of the country. I changed my political affiliation to Independent in protest....many others have, also....think they'll get the hint? I didn't leave the Dem party.....they left me.
Exactly