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Jenn's avatar

The Democrats have to start meeting rural and non-college voters where they are at, and stop expecting voters to have some sort of epiphany that their views are wrong and that they should change their minds about peripheral issues like gender, policing, and abortion rights.

It is possible for parties to evolve over time--the Democrats have done it before, going from the rural white party to the party that it is today. And they have to be more willing to stop placating the outliers within the base. The attitude toward the "defund the police" and forgive student loan crowds should be, rather than doing backflips to accomodate them and explain away their destructive slogans, should be "screw 'em, who else are they gonna vote for? Republicans?"

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Ken Peabody's avatar

The abortion issue is a front for extreme White Christian Nationalism (WCN) .These people want to make the USA into a conservative Christian theocracy. Abortion is the first battle, but hardly the last. We have to get WCN out of our politics by showing how extreme, and un-American it is. When voting, make sure the candidates you support refute WCN positions.

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