11-23-2016, 01:45 PM
(11-23-2016, 11:46 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I mentioned something similar in a thread a few days ago. I asked some moderately conservative friends of mine on FB how they could hate Trump, but still vote for him (one friend is the daughter of a Japanese immigrant and another has two adopted black children). Their responses were similar to what was in the Politico article: "the Left has become elitist", "the Left ignores the views of many in this country", they couldn't "bring themselves to vote for Hillary", they are "sick and tired of being called racist all of the time", etc.
I don't necessarily agree with all of their reasoning, but I think there is something to this. At some point Democrats stopped trying to convince people of the merits of the Left (yes, some of the stuff they believe in is good and positive) and started playing the insult game with anyone who appeared to have even moderate Right-wing ideologies. This was exacerbated by Right wing pundits who encouraged the insult game, and benefited from that. To make this more clear for people on the Left: Your job was to convince people to vote for your causes, not to insult and berate those who had one or two views which you don't like (i.e. gun rights, religion, "all lives matter", etc.). Democratic leadership completely forgot this.
But, profiling works. Just telling it like it is.
But, you're right about not selling the merits. Hillary didn't read the tea leave correctly. She didn't sell the merits of how she would improve the economy. The ironic part is Trump is Trump offered few to no stairs about how he was going to make anything great again. He just kept repeating the word great or synonyms of great.
