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What we Democrats are up against is not something as clear-cut as an ideology that differs from Republican ideology. We are no longer doing battle with voters on “the other side of the aisle” based on achieving the same goals, while arguing what the best way to accomplish those goals should be.

It is a fact that there are Republicans we will never win over – in the same way there are Democrats who can never be lured to the other side. Things like the abortion issue, GLBT rights, gun control, and a clear separation of Church and State will always keep the majority of us firmly planted in one camp or the other.

But what we are really up against right now is the almost unbelievable stupidity of our nation’s voters – and saying “don’t call them stupid, because they’ll never vote for us if you do” is denying the obvious. They’ll never vote for us because they are stupid, and that is now an undeniable fact.

How do you win over someone who insists that 9/11 happened because President Obama was on vacation and was oblivious to what the intel was telling him? How do you convince someone that unemployment didn’t skyrocket on Obama’s watch, when they are convinced that it did? How do you combat the fallacy that it’s been proven that Obama IS a Kenyan-born Muslim who the whole world hates – and any and all evidence to the contrary has been cooked-up by a liberal media?

The truth is that the lies have become “the facts” to a wide swath of voters. You can point to all kinds of real facts, graphs, pie-charts, Excel spreadsheets, and various and sundry things that disprove what they believe – but they’ll just shake their heads and tell you that you’re wrong. They’ll tell you that Obama WAS the president when Katrina struck NOLA, that the Democrats promoted the idea that there were WMDs in Iraq, that Reagan’s trickle-down economics policy was a huge success that liberals refuse to acknowledge.

We can educate the ill-informed; we can enlighten the misled. But fighting rampant stupidity is fighting an enemy we seemingly can’t destroy.

I admit that I personally don’t know the answer as to how we respond to The Stupid, or how we even get them to listen to reason. I don’t know how we combat the bullshit being spewed, 24/7, by FOX-News, Rush Limbaugh, or Alex Jones. I don’t know how we get through to people whose minds are forever closed, people who have seen their American dream destroyed and yet, time and again, vote for the very people who destroy those dreams.

How do we combat the proudly dumb, the arrogantly mis-informed, those woefully bereft of facts who simply refuse to accept ANY views other than their own?

I’ve seen hundreds of posts, here and elsewhere, decrying the fact that Democrats lost this election because they failed to deliver “the right message” to enough voters. So what IS the “right message” that would have turned the tide in our favour?

I’m open to suggestions. I’d especially like to hear from the “Dems didn’t deliver the right message” crowd. I’d like to hear their strategy for convincing The Stupid that facts aren’t a serving suggestion open to debate, that the truth isn’t a moving target to be interpreted by Rush Limbaugh, and how people who believed that “outsourcer-in-chief” Donald Trump was going to bring their jobs back could have been convinced otherwise.

G’head – I’m listening.