Why Did the Democrats Lose?
Thanks to Clive for pointing this character out. Not that I necessarily agree with all he says - but he's a character and speaks his mind.
His initial thoughts on the Democrats:
And later, his ... er ... "more considered" reflections:
"Lefties Losing it"
Is that backdrop the White House burning?
ReplyDeleteWhilst I'm usually happy to take undeserved credit it was Lian who mentioned him first.
ReplyDeleteWhat really makes me laugh, he's well into middle age and they call themselves the young Turk's.
Ha, ha, ha ha, ha 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. They wish.
The term "Young Turk" is used to characterise an insurgent in a political party, especially one belonging to a group or faction that supports liberal or progressive policies, and/or advocating reform within an organisation.
DeleteBased on the Young Turks, a Turkish nationalist revolutionary movement formed in the late 19th Century in opposition to the absolutist rule of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. The movement seized power in a coup in 1913 and tried to reverse the declining fortunes of the Ottoman Empire through aggressive military expansion, mostly notable into Russian Armenia where they carried out the slaughter that's now known as the Armenian Genocide.
DeleteThe choice of the name for the YouTube channel is all the more unsavoury because Chenk has a long history of denying the Armenian Genocide, although I believe he recanted that in recent years. The channel itself runs with Jack's definition and Kasparian, Armenian herself, defends the name on those grounds.
I'm still laughing 🤣
ReplyDeleteWhy are they so pompous and self important?
I'm convinced that 99% of the world's problems are caused by people taking themselves too seriously.
DeleteI guess the Democrats lost because their traditional voters wanted to be unburdened by what has been over the last 4 years.
ReplyDeleteHe's essentially a Muslim fundamentalist, at least in nature if not by religion. I think he calls himself agnostic, but he's got that super thin Muslim skin on him, that whole "how dare anyone challenge me?" thing is definitely going on.
ReplyDeleteSo does our PM, in fairness. That's not exclusively a Muslim thing.
DeleteWhy did the democrats lose? Because the left has contempt for those they are meant to represent.
ReplyDeleteMy take?
DeleteThe average voter, particularly working class voters, are just tired of the political-media-cultural establishment preaching identity politics at them and ignoring them. They've cottoned on that the 'establishment' serves the elite and not ordinary people. It's an odd world when progressive leftism, corporate global capitalism and the military-industrial complex, all come together to serve one another's interests.
The "Catholic vote" seems to have been significant, especially amongst Latinos. I believe Catholics voted as much against the extreme Harris-Walz ticket as much, if not more, than they voted for Trump-Vance. Catholics could not fail to have been troubled by Harris' clear obsession with abortion and about their own religious freedom and right to exercise their conscience. Add to this Harris' open distain for Catholics, her equal obsession with the LGBTQ+ agenda, with same-sex marriage and trans issues, and a Trump-Vance vote became the better if not only choice for millions of Catholics. And Walz, an ex-Catholic, is arguably to the left of Harris on these moral-cultural issues.
This "Catholic vote" vote was not necessarily for Trump - "the felon" - as much as it was against the very evident anti-Catholic animus of Harris - the "anti-Catholic bigot" - and the harm they could foresee in electing her.
I imagine 'Jesus is King!', 'I think you're at the wrong rally!' Didn't endear her to the Christian vote, either. I don't think she has mentioned having a faith (compare that to the pious Biden, who was practically raised in the black church/synagogue/favelas etc.)
DeleteAnd Harris' desperate attempt to woo the black vote by smashing the stereotypical link between African Americans and drugs, by promising to legalise weed and create business opportunities for black men in that sector...
The arrogance (a la Sunak) of installing a candidate without going through the primaries was a significant factor in their undoing, I think. Nobody believed their hysterical conspiracy theory that Trump would 'destroy democracy', which further highlighted the Democrats' willingness to completely ignore the democratic process when it suited them. And Harris was just an objectively terrible candidate.
Unlike most elections, voters already knew what they'd be getting. If they preferred life under Trump, they'd vote for him. If they liked the last four years, they'd vote for Harris. I heard that the last time this happened was over a century ago.
As someone said, it turns out that American women fill up their grocery baskets and cars more often than they have abortions.
ReplyDeleteTwo points stand out, I think.
1. Suddenly thrust into a 24-hours-a-day spotlight, Kamala Harris dried up, She was all too obviously unprepared. She had nothing to say for herself. As Daniel McCarthy observed in The Spectator, she came across as “a mediocrity ... whose sole qualification is that she is the right sex and colour to satisfy the requirements of white liberals.” They forgot that Black and Latino voters are not white liberals.
2. Trump stopped an assassin’s bullet. It barely grazed the edge of his ear but it drew a few drops of blood. That was enough to put him on a small pedestal, making him a minor hero for a few days.