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In reply to the discussion: James Carville is speaking the hard truth [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,876 posts)He has never to my knowledge ever said anything about how much effect the vote rigging and voter denial has had on any election. It's as if that is a non-issue that will always account for a meaningless percentage of the difference. He is and has always been wrong about that.
For him it is always about the message and the substance is irrelevant. While the messaging is certainly an issue and one I see as a long term problem for our party. The substance of the differences between the factions of Democrats is real and represents real issues in the real world. Carville has pretended in the past that it doesn't matter and has alienated those he now brands as too woke on numerous occasions. At times I feel he is too rooted in the image he holds of the Democratic party of early 1990's. Making the deal work is how he sees it IMO: the fundamentals aren't as important as looking like you're in charge.
I agree with how that used to work when there were actually voters in the middle who were persuadable. That middle is gone. The pretense of we're going back to the "good ole days" is pointless.
I also have problems with some of the new "wokeness". I have seen it used as a reason to erase the struggles in our history as if it wasn't important enough compared to what we now face. I have seen my own past devalued in that process. That too is a mistake.