There’s no one con that’ll get everyone.
But everyone can be gotten by at least one con.

If they’re an idiot who doesn’t know, they aren’t a monster, but a victim of a con.
It’s the people who DO know because they aren’t idiot’s, that are the monsters.

It might seem pedantic. But it really is an important distinction.

It took me a long time to figure this out.
Trump lies with every breath. Even his supporters don’t believe the literal truth of his words. They instead replace the literal meaning of his words, with the more broad idea that he’s talking about the thing they like, in a way other politicians don’t. That nebulous ephemeral feeling is what they are voting for.

Of course they can’t understand that, let alone express it coherently. Which is why all their reasons are such incoherent straw-grasping.

I could probably count the things that weren’t mistakes on one hand.

Donald Trump said he wants Israel to “finish the job.” The Democrats at least were making overtures to peace.

Do you want 10 pounds of shit or 11? Who cares?

The pro-Israel crowd were already mostly evangelicals, all in on Trump from the get go.
Nobody would have voted for Stein if Harris took her Gaza rhetoric.

She doesn’t have to politely stick to a meaningless tradition, giving him a call to fucking congratulate him!

He certainly did. Won the popular vote for the first time. But why CALL HIM to admit defeat!?
Instead go to the public and congratulate them on not having to vote ever again, like Trump promised we wouldn’t!

That was entirely about Israel and Gaza. The Democrats refused to distance themselves from the Republicans on that. Both sides were all in on the genocide. So yah people who felt it was the number one issue, had little reason to vote for Democrats over Republicans.

I didn’t say progressive. Progressive is a very broad term that can apply to all sorts of things.

I said economic-populist. One of the few things nearly all of us agree on in this country, is that the corporations and the ownership class have too much power in politics, and they’re getting that power by stealing money from the working class. Trump was good at speaking to that, without actually doing much to help. The Democrats did some to help. But not enough, and they didn’t want to sell it much for fear of scaring off the ownership/donor class.

Leave behind all the racial, sexual, social justice progressive stuff. It’s divisive and won’t help you win. Helping the poor generally, will disproportionately help those people more anyway. Just without putting them in the spot light.

Why? I genuinely don’t understand Democrats.

You spend an entire campaign calling him a threat to democracy in any way you can. Then you cordially call him to concede he won?
This is the implicit lie hidden in Democrat politics. Trump exposed it to a lot of the electorate. It’s part of what cost them millions of votes.