The most political re-post I've ever done. · 3:06pm Jul 6th, 2018
Warning: the following repost contains political opinions focused primarily on the Democratic party in the United States. Please do not continue any farther if you don't want to risk hearing a political opinion you may or may not strongly disagree with.
Well, don't say I didn't warn you.
The Democrats keep polarizing their own voter base by sliding further and further to the extreme left. They don't seem to have any platform aside from impeaching Trump and abolishing ICE, both of which polls find are widely unpopular ideas. As they push further and further to the left, they alienate moderates and centrists, and their constant attacks on Trump will only ensure that conservatives will become even more supportive of him and even less trusting of the liberal mainstream media.
Even though the recent outrage over family separation has hurt Trump, polls find that the majority of Americans still support stronger border security. Now that the Democrats are starting to embrace the once-fringe Abolish ICE movement without offering any viable alternative, they are de facto promoting open borders; something which most Americans on both the left and right are opposed to. The Democrats have blown their chance to turn the immigration debate in their favor by embracing such an extreme agenda.
While the Democrats make gains in the coastal cities, they seem to forget that the majority of American voters aren't like them. The white working class is by far the largest voting demographic, and they will continue to support Trump as long as the economy is doing well. Liberals are not doing themselves any favors when they attack this group by calling them racists, or by promoting socialist ideas. If the Democrats want to make any inroads to this demographic, they need to abandon their obsession with identity politics and stop telling whites how evil they are.
Trump has an approval rating of 87% among his own party, the highest since George W. Bush right after 9/11. If the Democrats continue to behave as they currently are, they will only continue to lose support from their own base while failing to attract any new support, even from the small handful of conservatives who are disillusioned with Trump. I hope that I end up being proven wrong about this, but unless something changes, it's incredibly likely that Trump will win again, possibly by an even wider margin then he did the first time.
Well said. The Democrats are hurting their own argument at this point, which is kind of disappointing. This whole political idea of us VS. them is making the whole spectrum more polarizing and divisive.
Everything there is extremely accurate. I’m very much a conservative and I can hardly believe how out of touch the Democrats are with most of the nation. If they keep going like this, not only will Republicans have an easy midterm election, but Trump will have few problems getting reelection. The Democrats really need to re-evaluate their party and kick out the extremists or at the very least distance themselves from them
When Donald Trump won the election the DNC had two options.
1: Look at everything they've been doing, realize it got them nowhere or at least nowhere they wanted to be and then realize they would need to change their approach to things and reconnect with the American people.
2: Shout even louder the buzzwords they've already been using and got them nowhere they wanted to be.
They choose option 2.
They could have learned. They could have stayed a party one could at the very least have an ounce of respect for; they were given many chances and threw them all away. Moderate leftists now either side with no one or the Republicans because when you disagree with a Republican you aren't branded a racists/homophobe/bigot/ect
Once upon a time you could say that Conservatives were the intolerant ones for their purist beliefs, but through the years and clashes with the DNC things have changed. The average Republican requires you to only be for free speech, love this country, and accept free market. Be those three things and the average and the average Republican will have no qualms with you. In the DNC if you show any differing thought you are vilified.