'The brand is so toxic': Dems fear extinction in rural US

[byron]

'The brand is so toxic': Dems fear extinction in rural US

Some Democrats in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats. “The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County who recent...

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[Phazer]

As has been said: We think that Democrats are people with bad ideas. Democrats think that we are bad people with ideas.

Perhaps...Democrats are experiencing a very limited bit of paradigm shift?

 

[GTN]

Lol Welcome to our world where if you have a trump hat or bumper sticker you’ll probably end up in a fight or your car getting ransacked by the end of the day if you’re in a city

 

[technicalgadget]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes....

 

[Saltwater60]

I don’t believe it.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Suck it up butter cup

 

[Deplorable Me]

The current crop of democrats could mess up a wet dream.

 

[prambo]

"The party’s brand is so toxic..." - because DemonRats verbalize, support and do toxic stuff, constantly...if they don't like the feeling than stop being statist shitweasels.

"The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable" - ya think??!!! Moron, of course it is.

Just try a little bit of introspection, you narcissistic fuckwits...yeah...see it now??

Virtually all DemonRats are statist assholes who wallow in cancel culture, absolutely loving the hating and destruction of anything or anyone that doesn't fit with their psychopathic theories and actions.

DemonRats, thine name is hypocrisy. Your cause is institutionalized hatred, and your results are always death of some innocents.

 

[GOYABEAN]

PA doesn't need this piece of in a position of power

 

[togmaster]

If only this were true in NY...

 

[Modean]

Well, when your party leaders have spent the last 6 years publicly calling rural folks a bunch of deplorables, what response did you expect?

 

[tirwin1]

Does it matter? If the democrats control all the big cities, and in particular the vote counting organizations, then a toxic brand in rural areas doesn't matter. I think they are well aware of that.

 

[SomeSoldier]

I don't care what they think. I am literally to the point of my side wins and your side loses. Those are rules I play by now. I am fresh out of give a fuck.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Actually, I'm at the point where I'm starting to feel bad for them.











Yeah, right.

 

[Grimscale]

"Dems fear extinction in rural US"

If only!

 

[libertysnake]

This is what happens when the focus of politics has been demonization of large demographics of people, rather than a deep intellectual discussion of ideas and approaches. This isn't unique to democrats. @SonOfSun or @SomeSoldier can tell you that any tech company office is just as toxic against conservatives as rural America is to liberals -- blindly against the other side.

It won't be until people agree that we all differ in approach, but have the same fundamental goal -- to make our country better -- that we will begin to turn our ire from each other and to ineffectual politicians. Until that happens we're essentially stuck in the mud with the tires spinning on any meaningful change.

 

[spat]

This is what happens when the focus of politics has been demonization of large demographics of people, rather than a deep intellectual discussion of ideas and approaches. This isn't unique to democrats. @SonOfSun or @SomeSoldier can tell you that any tech company office is just as toxic against conservatives as rural America is to liberals -- blindly against the other side.

It won't be until people agree that we all differ in approach, but have the same fundamental goal -- to make our country better -- that we will begin to turn our ire from each other and to ineffectual politicians. Until that happens we're essentially stuck in the mud with the tires spinning on any meaningful change.

Marxists and other totalitarians have always used a divide and conquer strategy.

The modern democrats mistake was trying to demonize such a large demographic.

That strategy works when you mobilize the majority against a small minority. It doesn't work when you try to foment a 50/50 split.

 

[libertysnake]

Marxists and other totalitarians have always used a divide and conquer strategy.

The modern democrats mistake was trying to demonize such a large demographic.

That strategy works when you mobilize the majority against a small minority. It doesn't work when you try to foment a 50/50 split.

I don't care what name or banner divisionism wants to go under. I just know I will stand against it, even if it means I will be demonized by both sides for being too soft or not hard enough on whomever at some point. We need to forge out own path if no one else will.

 

[spat]

I don't care what name or banner divisionism wants to go under. I just know I will stand against it, even if it means I will be demonized by both sides for being too soft or not hard enough on whomever at some point. We need to forge out own path if no one else will.

Once someone declares themself my enemy, I will believe them. I need no further evidence.

I will agree that many on the left are merely dupes of the grifters on top, but you could say the same about the average resident of Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.

If all out war comes, many people will become collateral damage due to nothing more than poor judgement. It's unfortunate, but that is the way the world works.

 

[SomeSoldier]

This is what happens when the focus of politics has been demonization of large demographics of people, rather than a deep intellectual discussion of ideas and approaches. This isn't unique to democrats. @SonOfSun or @SomeSoldier can tell you that any tech company office is just as toxic against conservatives as rural America is to liberals -- blindly against the other side.

It won't be until people agree that we all differ in approach, but have the same fundamental goal -- to make our country better -- that we will begin to turn our ire from each other and to ineffectual politicians. Until that happens we're essentially stuck in the mud with the tires spinning on any meaningful change.

The problem is too many people have come to this country with the idea of making this country like the one they came from. Most people fail to assimilate to us.

 

[tirwin1]

It won't be until people agree that we all differ in approach, but have the same fundamental goal -- to make our country better -- that we will begin to turn our ire from each other and to ineffectual politicians. Until that happens we're essentially stuck in the mud with the tires spinning on any meaningful change.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I don't think you can find many people who claim they want to make America worse. So we already share the same goal. Everyone on the left thinks their approach is the only way to make America better.

The means of making this country better is what the arguments are all about. There is no solution to any problem that we can get complete agreement on.

I think the founding fathers recognized this and it is the reason they created the government structure that we have. They knew there would be vicious fights on all kinds of issues so they created a process that fosters compromise over conflict. It sure as hell doesn't work perfectly (cough civil war cough) but it's better than most structures, particularly for a non-homogeneous group of people.

 

[Modean]

This is what happens when the focus of politics has been demonization of large demographics of people, rather than a deep intellectual discussion of ideas and approaches. This isn't unique to democrats. @SonOfSun or @SomeSoldier can tell you that any tech company office is just as toxic against conservatives as rural America is to liberals -- blindly against the other side.

It won't be until people agree that we all differ in approach, but have the same fundamental goal -- to make our country better -- that we will begin to turn our ire from each other and to ineffectual politicians. Until that happens we're essentially stuck in the mud with the tires spinning on any meaningful change.

Ah, but that’s the thing. Our ineffectual politicians and their allies in the media work very hard to stoke the division, because they know it gives them cover.

 

[libertysnake]

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I don't think you can find many people who claim they want to make America worse. So we already share the same goal. Everyone on the left thinks their approach is the only way to make America better.

The means of making this country better is what the arguments are all about. There is no solution to any problem that we can get complete agreement on.

I think the founding fathers recognized this and it is the reason they created the government structure that we have. They knew there would be vicious fights on all kinds of issues so they created a process that fosters compromise over conflict. It sure as hell doesn't work perfectly (cough civil war cough) but it's better than most structures, particularly for a non-homogeneous group of people.

I disagree with you. The only way you get this level of hatred, is if you think the other side is genuinely evil and malicious. We didn't get here via humanizing people.

 

[meketrefe]

Dont make fun of democrats. This type of mental sickness is very contagious in certain areas.

 

[Blimey]

I disagree with you. The only way you get this level of hatred, is if you think the other side is genuinely evil and malicious. We didn't get here via humanizing people.

I believe the main difference between a democrat, a commie, a republican, a socialist, a libertarian is how/where we were raised. Most people in this thread, including me, could have been participants in any number of atrocities in history had we just been put on the same path as those who did them. Starts with a seed of us vs them and it grows into a tree of dehumanizing them. Genocide is impossible without successfully first classifying the victims as sub-human/animals.

If you took 50 hardcore dems and 50 hardcore republicans and randomly paired them to hang out for an hour, but also explicitly banned them from discussing politics or wedge issues, you'd find out that most of them get along pretty well. Politics is weaponizing us.