2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please stop with this b***shit that the Democrats are out of touch with the voting population [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Funny how the Blue Dogs and the moderates did the best this election. They WON their elections.
I think our "social justice" instincts are right on track--we should not abandon immigrants, minorities, gays, women and other groups that have been historically disenfranchised and that is what the GOP WANTS US TO DO. THAT's our "core" constituency, not white guys who refuse to retrain and think that steelworking job is coming home from JI-NAH.
And apparently a lot of us like the idea of being fiscally sensible, too.
See, if they separate us from our core constituency, then that constituency will flail around either looking for the best deal from a bad lot (which means suspending disbelief and voting for fantasy), or stay home and say fuck it.