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In reply to the discussion: Look at all you people looking for a purge. It's ridiculous. [View all]KT2000
(22,163 posts)should be enlightening for the Democratic Party. There are reasons we lost and they should be hashed out for future elections.
What motivated the old people to vote?
What did not motivate younger people to vote?
Is running away from Obama's record a winning strategy?
Are the Democratic politicians clear in stating their positions?
Do Democratic politicians know what the concerns of the electorate are?
etc.
You should not discount the fact that fox, Limbaugh, et. al. have whipped a certain segment of our population into a frenzy over the "evil Obama" and the liberals. They are extremely motivated to vote because Obama gave the Chinese our national parks, is going to take all of the guns, is training Homeland Security for a civil war, is training children to fight with Homeland Security, is setting up FEMA camps, is trying to turn the US into a suffering African nation, is going to turn the US into a Muslim nation etc.
You have the likes of Jerome Corsi and his peers generating paranoid emails that circulate in the online world for years - further angering the older white men.
Democrats need to figure out how to confront this idiocy because their numbers are growing and they ARE motivated to vote. They are also very motivated to share their paranoia with others and get them on board too. Apparently that is not so difficult to do.
We have to learn from this election and discussing it is one way to do that.