There's a faction of DU that seems to delight in pointing and laughing at those of us who believed. . .

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12. I for one

believe that democracy was/is on the line. However, the sad reality - which our side seems unable to recognize - is that a large segment of our country is not moved by this message, either because they don't care or because topics about the intricacies of geo-politicial systems make their eyes glaze over. They care about simple things like: the price of eggs; or whehter their kid has to compete against someone of a different gender. We really didn't have any sub or secondary messaging directed to those issues. I say "messaging" because even though the Biden/Harris administration did many great things on these fronts, they didn't trumpet them in a way that got through to the average person who doesn't marinate in politics. Unfortunately, in our system, the side with the better messaging almost always wins and the Cons were ore effective. And please, when I say "better messaging" I do not mean the message itself, I mean how effectively one delivers the message in simple terms that resonate with an audience. I know some on this Board disagree, but I think Harris/Walz should have stuck with "weird" because it was really an effective message characterizing/encapsulating/framing the dude who talked about sharks and Hannibal Lecter and did strange things to microphones.