The party is heading for failure in the midterm elections, but it shows no interest in pondering.
How do you know if American cultural liberals have gone too far? When San Franciscans fired them. The recent referendum to remove the attorney general and head of education in San Francisco cannot be dismissed as peculiar to America’s most democratic city, as a Republican mayor was last elected in 1959. There is a reason. Why are the Democrats sitting in the national elections? San Francisco is simply a warning sign.
Given the authoritarian instincts of the current Republican Party, the fact that Democrats are so far behind should be a pressing cause for self-doubt. The party is heading for what polls say could be a crushing defeat in the November midterm elections. However, there are few signs of introspection. This is everyone’s fault except the Democrats. Voters are brainwashed into thinking Joe Biden is too old to do the job of president, that he’s sick of high gas prices, that he’s overreacting to a shortage of infant formula, or that he’s just too right-wing to understand issues.
There is another explanation: that midterms are often referendums on the economy, and Democrats don’t have an easy to digest economic message. Instead, voters think they know what the party thinks about illegal immigration, police cash outs, transgender participation in women’s sports, and teacher unions biased toward Zoom education. Most of them do not like these situations. This applies to both white and non-white voters.
As veteran political scientist Roy Teixeira puts it, the brand of democracy is “between unconvincing and poisonous to broad swathes of the American electorate with whom it can be allies.” The fact that Teixeira says so should put Democrats on alert. Co-author of the influential book Emerging Democratic Majoritywho said that ethnic leanings would make the formation of a democratic government inevitable. This remains a guiding principle among election consultants. However, Teixeira has changed his mind.
How do Democrats isolate the voters they need to win? A big part of the answer is that they stopped listening to ordinary voters. This would be less of a problem if the party leadership were a broad cross-section of American society. But the higher echelons are dominated by a class of white activists with a college education who are used to talking to people of the same class. Gone are the days of knocking on potential new voters’ door. Since the days of Barack Obama, Democrats have clung to a digital model that downplays the importance of in-person participation.
This takes the party away from reality. One result is that most Democrats think they just have to “get the base to vote.” Raising the base means meeting the needs of party activists, who are a world away from the average voter. Merit is “an inherently racial construct designed and centered around a framework of white supremacy,” said Alison Collins, the chairperson of the San Francisco School Board who was ousted earlier this year.” This idea led Collins to change San Francisco’s largest eclectic school from a system Merit-based application to a lottery system.Liberals across the country are pushing to end standardized tests.However, most voters, including African Americans, dismiss this as a tempered bigotry of low expectations.
The left-wing activist also overlooks the rising crime wave in the United States. Homicides in cities have increased more than 40 percent in the past two and a half years, which is one of the main reasons why an increasing number of voters say the United States is heading in the wrong direction at the fastest rate. Constant since the early 1990s, when the United States suffered from the latest crime wave. Chesa Bowden, the San Francisco District Attorney, was fired last week for refusing to prosecute repeat offenders. Although Bowden was right to complain that American prisons are full of people who shouldn’t be there, this empathy isn’t the answer to the insecurity people feel when they leave their homes.
The left also misses the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, which enshrined the federal right to abortion. Liberal subject groups, among them American Civil Liberties Union, stated that such a measure would be extremely harmful to marginalized groups, such as indigenous peoples and the LGBT community. Women, who make up more than half of the electorate, are not even mentioned in the ACLU tweet. The current term for mothers is ‘part of labor’ that ‘feeds’. These words can only flourish in a secluded world. The success of politics lies in gaining followers. Ending heresy is a bad way to do it.
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