Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to “American Men,” who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report.
Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.
The plan, code-named SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” promises to use the funds to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces,” according to the report.
As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”
The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.
Imagine finishing an online Match or beating a boss and getting this cutscene
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"im once asking for your financial support"
“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the plan urges.
Democrats have “lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues,” McCrary added.
"we gotta get more racist"
They might be the actual worst people out there. Their reason to exist is to put a friendly face on genocidal imperialism and to ensure common people with hearts are focused on their con and not people with whom they would otherwise empathize. And they're aware of their position, they are confronted by those on the left and their response is to do some version of calling the cops. They then do a little self-soothing dance like, say, reading Jay Tapper's book and patting themselves on the back.
Was it the new Tappee book about Biden's obvious decline and the media coverup that makes no mention of his participation in that coverup? Because peak liberal is reading that book and never asking that question, lol.
Edit: oh it was a novel. But I hate-listened to NPR uncritically talking about his new book so I still feel vindicated.
I don’t know how you can listen to NPR. It just crushes me. I was in the house belonging to these ghouls before the presidential election; it was a novel.
It's kind of like exercising a muscle to listen to them. I just heard then interview a CEO about movie theaters. That CEO dropped a ton of cisnormativity, complained about COVID lockdowns and the writers' strike, and talked about going to the movies with his wife as if he were a king being among commoners. The host praised him and provided zero pushback.
The premise of even having him on the air is its own media critical topic. With the option of talking about literally anything, they decided to do a puff piece on the "movie industry" by only talking to a CEO. Not even an industry rep, just some egotistical jackass. Several people sat down and planned this. Amazing.
I worked for a newspaper for a few months and got fired because they wanted to publish an article about trans issues at the high school without interviewing a single trans person or student, and I refused to approve it. The article only interviewed the principal, who of course maintained that everything was perfect at the high school. I offered to get in touch with students or just do anything to make the article better but the reporter and editor refused. Corporate media is such a fucking joke.
In my experience this is liberal careerists rationalizing reactionary approaches because it keeps their "connections" alive and avoids rocking the boat. Is that what was happening at your newspaper?
Possibly, but the newspaper is exclusively purchased by petite (and even some haute) bourgeois elderly whites who don’t want to hear anything about how their beloved community is changing, unless it’s about some new shithole business opening to hawk overpriced garbage to tourists. The editor who fired me ended up losing her job about a year later, and now she has a much harder job working as the town clerk; i.e., dealing with a shitload of extremely boring and complex paperwork forty hours a week. The reporter was a super old guy who croaked later on after publishing a rabid article or two about my political activities without ever mentioning that I had worked for the newspaper.
Oh man, the pair of vindictive boss + senior cowirker hits too closs to home.