Thriller you sound like the guy at the pier selling canned fish and wondering why people won't buy his canned fish, while all around him people are buying fresh fish off every boat that comes in. Yes, the buyers would get something that help up better and was ostensibly a better product, in some ways, but those darn buyers just won't buy what he is selling. But no, it is the buyers' fault for not buying his canned fish. Not his fault for not selling a better product one he sees what everyone is buying. But imagine if he had shifted his priorities, focused on what people wanted, something fresh, and started selling fish tacos! Suddenly he is selling like crazy, people are coming from all around to buy his deliciously different yet still fresh fish tacos! He makes a killing!
But no, we stuck with stale boring canned fish, and those of us in the fish taco crowd knew it would end badly. Most of us tried to hold onto belief in canned fish while fresh fish was flying off the boats faster than the Orange God King can tell another lie, and hoped against hope that canned fish would be enough, when we all really knew we needed to offer something more fresh and different.
This was not new. Harris was bemoaned from the get go, but with Biden's all-important endorsement to carry the critical old white male vote for the dems to maintain the base already in her corner, we were all stuck with her. And compared to the teevee president as you like to say, she couldn't hold a candle. He was fresh bloody fish complete with endangered species bycatch to make things interesting and exciting and she was canned fish. And we all knew it and tried to pretend her canned oily fish was fresh and exciting. But it couldn't hold a candle. A bigger part of this is reading the mother****ing room. We are DEEP in the disinformation age, and if you cannot play that game you won't win the stakes. And Trump plays it with aplomb, and Harris was still trying to hawk her canned fish wares and the dems were busy using their only sales tactic, literally the only tactic they know - scorn and ridicule and claiming the highest of moral high ground, all while ignoring what was really selling and creating a product to compete. Complain all you want about the voters, yes they voted the wrong way, absolutely, but to them, from their actual perspective, they voted for the person making an effort to SEE THEIR PERSPECTIVE in the first place, and NOT for the side clamoring and crying that they had the wrong perspective to begin with. Trump gave them a master class in how to win followers in the disinformation age and they were too busy crying about how he didn't use the right pronouns to learn anything from him. (and now we see who gets hung up on that deliberate use of "wokeness" in this diatribe, and that is the very problem we face - forced morality at all costs, including the loss of our nation).
And literally NONE of this is new news. It is all old news. The vast majority of us knew it from the get-go. Go back to the Harris thread and look how early on her selection was bemoaned. Literally like day 1 I would wager. And consistently and often from that point forward. The dems never understood the audience/buying public or how to play for those kinds of stakes, and frankly they never made an effort to understand them. For them it was good enough to stay right up in the saddle on that high horse and tell everyone why they were wrong, as it is still happening to this day, which is why so many dems are content to sit in congress and make pontificating speeches and not get into the grass roots of it, they are still in shell shock that they used their one singular tool and it **GASP** didn't work.
Luckily Trump is beginning to alienate enough people we may have a light at the end of the tunnel yet, if the dems can in any way reach out to the disenfranchised and guide them through this rather than using their pointing fingers and their normal rhetoric of scorn and ridicule.
