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LGBTQ Americans and the 2024 election: "I don't feel welcome here."
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After hearing Democrats talk about how they were "too woke" on transgender issues, I don't blame anyone for feeling unwelcome.
My problem with that is, the only time I heard Harris say trans was when she was talking about prosecuting transnational gangs. Democrats didn't lose for being too woke, they lost cause they don't know how to talk about the economy to blue collar workers.
But with this Congress, this President, and this Supreme Court, including any additional conservatives judges Trump adds, no one in the crosshairs of Project 2025 should feel comfortable right now.
Talking about the economy? Yeah I don't think the majority of Trump supporters care. That's way too abstract for them.
And one of the many problems with Harris is she kept reaching right and changed approximately zero minds. She could have said "the economy" is the bank accounts of the rich and we all know it, it's time to change that. But yeah very unlikely to hear that from a politician whose name isn't Bernie Sanders.
The problem is to the voters "the economy" is the price of gas or eggs or whatever. In fact it was the self-reported number one issue in the election. So politicians just keep talking past the voters because they mean completely different things by "the economy".
Yeah Biden and Harris' (along with the right though they won't admit it) version of "the economy is good" only applies to you if you're earning your income via capital gains and not earning your income from wages.
Of course there's an argument to be made that healthy companies mean healthy jobs, but these companies have tainted and perverted this so bad that average workers don't really benefit from it at all.
According to AP VoteCast (who surveyed 110k voters), the top issue for voters was the economy, with 6 of 10 considering the economy to be not so good or poor, two-thirds were very concerned about the cost of food and groceries, 7 of 10 thinking the country is on the wrong track, and 8 of 10 looking for substantial change to how the country is run.
This is why the Democrat messaging about the inflation rate coming under control (true) or stronger post-pandemic recovery than most other comparable nations (also true) fell flat for most voters. If someone's real wages didn't match the price increases to food, rent, and everything else over the last four years, then how good the GDP is doesn't really matter to them.
Campaigning on "things will largely be the same", or saying you wouldn't have done anything differently over the last four years, is always going to be a real uphill battle against an overwhelming desire for significant change.
Even with perfect messaging on the economy I don't think it would do much. Hell Trump fucked the economy the first go around, Biden mostly fixed it.
IMO we need to tap into fear and lean on social media or non MSM sources. It's sad we can't appeal to better angels and a bright star, but we are passed that now.
But Biden didn't completely fix it, so let's try the salt again. -Slugs
This is the main thing that scares me....
I'm actually worried it's a bout to be open season in both Blue and Red states alike for LGB and especially T.