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In reply to the discussion: democrats might ignore trump voters to our peril [View all]Afromania
(2,808 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 13, 2017, 10:34 AM - Edit history (2)
the alleged "duped" trump voters were too busy listening to populist nonsense with no details to read up on anything we put out there. The problem with being overly bombastic is that at some point you have to actually DO something meaningful.
These voters need to learn that the devil is in the details and the details bare out that they are being screwed by the people they vote for. They live this reality every single day and somehow ignore it. They have instead voted in republicans to their local and state governments and keep being kicked in the head.
Meanwhile, they are being fed that my people and your people are the problem. They choose to ignore the obvious and take the pap fox-infotainment serves up for them. Trump, and the republicans, are unabashed liars promising their voters the moon while giving them contaminated swamp rock instead.
The only way to reach those voters would be to outright lie to them. Tell them things will improve instantly without them changing any of their behavior. Tell them industries that the market has pushed to the brink of irrelevance can make a come back over cheaper and more efficient means.
Tell them that its so much cheaper to run a factory in a 3rd world nation that the only way those factories come back is if the product price increases by a factor of hundreds or that their pay will be well below the minimum wage. Tell them that they can have every single thing they want without compromise, change or pulling themselves up by the same boot straps they insist everybody disadvantaged pulls themselves up by. I'm not ok with with our party pandering to people that won't listen unless the candidate is being bombastic with zero substance.
By doing that the only thing you end up with a shallow electorate that will vote its' self away without ever knowing what they have truly voted for. Just like they already have and will probably continue to do. As for the actual 3rd party voters. They were the only ones duped in the 2016 election and there may be some hope for them.