Dems listening To Left-Wing Activists Instead Of Voters Is A Recipe For Disaster!!!

Even though he's stating blatantly obvious things, the political sage who's all the rage right now, 30-year-old Democratic consultant David Shor, is making a stir.

Things like: To win elections, Democrats should talk about popular issues rather than unpopular issues. They should make promises to do things that people want rather than things that don't appear to matter.

The point is, liberals are starting to recognize that they need to hear these self-evident truths. They can see the iceberg ahead of them in November 2022, and they only have a few months to change course before their party becomes the Titanic, and their careers vanish like Leonardo DiCaprio's body into the frigid waters.

And you get the idea that Kate Winslet's Rose would roll her eyes and kick them right off the raft into the North Atlantic if top Democratic politicians tried to address the crime epidemic by arguing that the data don't look that awful except for a 30 percent surge in killings.

They have 5x the worry with a skipper like President Stuff an Ice Cream Cone in His Mouth Before He Says Something Stupid at the helm.

Democrats aren't the only ones who need to hear it. Republicans, too, need to hear it, albeit on different topics and in different ways.

Republicans are likewise fixated on hot-button subjects that don't provide solutions for how ordinary people can thrive and succeed (such as former President Donald Trump's alleged non-defeat).

National political control in the United States has shifted so frequently in the last two decades that you'd think those who live and breathe politics would learn from history that much of what they do results in their side losing power rather than gaining or maintaining it.

Nope.

Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was elected president in 1992 with 43% of the vote, proposed the most intrusive expansion of the federal government into the private economy in decades, and then lost Congress to the Republicans two years later, with Republicans taking control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

Republican George W. Bush won a close election in 2000, but his party lost and regained control of the Senate three times during his administration — and control of the House shifted decisively for the first time in 12 years during that time.

Barack Obama's Democrats took control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in 2008, only to lose the House two years later and the Senate six years later.

Donald Trump took office in 2017 with his party in control of both chambers of Congress, then lost the House to the Democrats and, in the aftermath of his defeat, single-handedly lowered GOP turnout in Georgia recall elections, handing the Senate to the opposition party.

This incredibly little history of the last 30 years reveals that the American people are of many minds on how the country should be managed at any given period.

Meanwhile, the parties are becoming further entangled with increasingly irrational activists who continue to maintain, despite all evidence, that their most radical convictions are the key to garnering tens of millions of votes. Then the next election occurs, and they are humiliated.

However, in the aftermath of these humiliations, party leaders spin themselves fairy tales about how what happened actually didn't happen. Trump's absurd "I didn't lose" story post-2020 was reminiscent of Obama dismissing the results of the 2014 midterm elections, in which Democrats lost nine net Senate seats, by claiming that not enough people had voted to make the results relevant.

Trump triumphed two years later, in no small part because Democrats were captivated by Obama's self-justifying nonsense.

Democrats, according to Shor, must examine why they are losing support among working-class, non-college-educated African Americans and Latinos.

His Democratic colleagues are irritated by the question. Republicans despise the prospect of continuing to serve as Trump's blocking tackles in 2024, since it raises the question of what will happen to suburban voters who despise him.

However, dealing with unpleasant truths is part of the job description in politics. If you can't manage it, find another profession.