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Joe Biden won the presidency and most of our down ticket (congresspeople, senators, and state representatives) lost. Like it or not, we are a minority party.
IMO, the reason for those losses can be summed up in four words: "Defund the police" and "socialism."
Words have meaning and Republicans have far more understanding of this than do we.
Nobody wants to "defund the police." What that phrase means seems to mean is that we should not give any money to sustain a police force of any kind. What it really means is to stop buying the police surplus military weaponry and put that money to better use.
And then there's "socialism." Most people think that socialism and communism are synonymous. They're not. Socialism was only tried once on this planet. It was in the kibbutzim established by Israel to settle the survivors of the Holocaust. And it worked. Everyone shared, and sustained a humane world that, eventually, led to better lives for all.
(In reality, Russia, China, Cuba and many other countries never practiced Communism. They used that word, but, in reality, they were just fascists using a different title.)
We Dems are in danger of forever losing this country to many selfish, greedy, bigoted, cruel, hateful people who call themselves Republicans.
Time for us to change the words we use to win over the majority of decent Americans. And "defund the police," and "socialism," aren't those words.
Republicans have ruled us and ruined us over the past 50 years because they know how to convince people with their propaganda/words.
Time we caught up. Or we will be the ones who end up on the dust heap of history.
Today's Republican Party has one thing to offer us. Fascism. That's who they are. That's what they are.