Opus131 wrote:As opposed to painting all conservatives as backward, clueless rednecks, who just like Trump because they are as moronic and "uniformed" as he is, right?
I'm afraid you're projecting someone else onto me, as I've repeatedly said, possibly earlier on in this very thread if not elsewhere, that a big part of why liberals keep losing elections, despite having pretty much all the tangible numbers and facts on their side, is the fact that they've dismissed so many conservative voters as "lost causes" and have largely not bothered to reach out to them, even when many of those same voters are the ones being screwed over the worst by corporatist conservative policies.
I do believe that both Trump and the Republican electorate are "misinformed", but in two different ways: Trump is rich, well-educated, and well-connected, so anything he doesn't know is something he's being willfully ignorant about. Most rank-and-file voters only have so much free time and resources on their hands if they want to make ends meet, so if neither the candidates nor the media bother to be straight with them (and, may I repeat, the opposition doesn't even try to correct things) many will inevitably be misled, and ironically it will be the ones they voted for who will dismiss their lack of savvy as "well, they should have done more research" (and, beyond that, "if they worked harder, they'd have more time to learn").
There are liberals who do dismiss half the country as "dimwitted hillbillies", and they're the ones who have helped get us all into this mess (and as I know I noted earlier in here, General Electric owns their leaders) - I am not one of them. That said, when I do encounter a genuinely head-up-ass notion/obsession like "Sanders didn't kick BLM off the stage, which proves that the entire left wants to cut off everyone's dicks", it's just as deserving of derision and dismissal from the discussion.
Nothing to do with the left cowing to their most extreme, deranged fringe:
Dude, if the American left was even aware it
had "left of center" elements at this point, we'd have single-payer health care (and, by some estimations, no annual deficit), a far more progressive tax system, job creation and living-wage efforts that aim higher than McDonald's and Wal-Mart, well-maintained infrastructure, criminal executives rotting in jail cells, tighter environmental regulations, foreign policy choices beyond "bomb" and "don't bomb", and the list goes on. Maybe every heckler at a rally wouldn't end up beat to hell, but that's a price we'd have to pay.
One more time: the SJW "menace" is a
complete and total bogeyman, and a distraction from the stuff that actually has a discernible effect on most people's lives that goes beyond "occasional visceral annoyance". If you're truly that much of a one-"issue" (to use the term
incredibly loosely) voter, and unwilling to so much as consider that there might be something else (or numerous other things) happening here, prepare to be repeatedly skinned alive by the Trumps of the world, and to lose your seat at any genuine attempt to discuss matters of import. Starting here.
