How do we continually lose to people . . .

[HughBeaumont]

who are

* morally in the Bronze Age
* economically in the Gilded Age
* culturally in the Antebellum South

and

* technologically in the mid-1990s???

[dchill]

1. They cheat.

[LisaM]

2. Yep!

We need to take care of this.

[SharonAnn]

7. Structural issues. Gerrymandering and voter supression.

Those are the two biggies.

I started warning the Dem party about the voter suppression, which includes non-verifiable voting machines, in 2004. Got tired of it because no one was listening. They just wanted to do more rallies.

[HughBeaumont]

9. Furious that we thought the work was done in 2009 . . . when 2010 was a redistricting year.

Unbelievable that we dropped the ball so BADLY that year. Losing the House (and the state legislatures/districting) was the death knell.

[kcdoug1]

3. Our party sucks

At dealing with the real world. And actually standing up and fighting back!

[HughBeaumont]

6. Hard to do when the narrative is controlled by the purchasers.

It's kind of the end result of the wealthy becoming SO wealthy, they have nothing else left to buy but the media AND the government.

[Phoenix61]

4. Fear

It's a great motivator. 45 tapped into that and his supporters went to the polls. We failed to sufficiently motivate people to get to the polls.

[NCTraveler]

5. Because we have never put enough emphasis behind early education. nt.

[Dem2]

8. They put the effort into appealing to the "every man"

With heavy emphasis on the "every" meaning "majority white" and "man" meaning "men."

Obviously not saying it's the right thing to do, but I am saying that it's effective. Also, Democrats used to put more effort into this demographic (without the racism and misogyny.)

[LanternWaste]

10. The simpleminded rely on commercial branding

The simpleminded rely on commercial branding rather than objective information to form their opinions on any given matter.

The GOP is better at quick, easily-digestible, low-calorie bumper-sticker branding than anyone else in the history of the universe. Efficiently directing their contempt and disdain of the complex, the nuanced, and context to the sub-literate idiots who confuse 'the most popular' with 'the best and most effective'.

Instructing the lowest common denominator as to who to hate, how to hate them, where and when to hate them, and how to pretend it's not hate is as old as mankind. The GOP supercharged the concept, took it to the sky and rides it as Icaraus.

[HughBeaumont]

12. And with a candidate who himself is nothing more than a "Brand" . . .

. . . made it all the easier.

[ismnotwasm]

11. Racism.