I should have known. 
Kind of like asking what the insurance on a cadillac would cost.
Hey man! That ad is inappropriate.
“But the broader meaning of fairness is really proportionality – are people getting rewarded in proportion to the work they put into a common project? Equality of outcomes is only seen as fair by most people in the special case in which everyone has made equal contributions.”
“Conservatives are more cautious about infringing on individual liberties (eg of gun owners in the US and small businessmen) in order to protect vulnerable populations (such as children, animals and immigrants).”
“Here’s a more painful but ultimately constructive diagnosis, from the point of view of moral psychology: politics at the national level is more like religion than it is like shopping. It’s more about a moral vision that unifies a nation and calls it to greatness than it is about self-interest or specific policies. In most countries, the right tends to see that more clearly than the left.”
Relevant to that last quote, the US left was so blind to it in 2016 that a wholly immoral, reprehensible, and ego-driven candidate won the presidency because he simply told working class people what they wanted to hear: I’ll bring jobs back, I’ll prosecute your hated political enemies, I’ll take America back to a bygone age of greatness, I’ll make people say Merry Christmas, I’ll make sure you never fear the PC police again, I’ll wall off immigrants and scary religious minorities. Who cares if Donald ever delivered on those lofty promises? It’s what middle America wanted to hear in the right proportions of the right states. To that end, you have to give him credit - he played on the right psychology.
Who are you calling man? You misogynist?
Kerry’s message didn’t resonate with the working class for the reasons the article stipulated.
Very good find.
Working people tend to be conservative, they aren’t making their way through life on the backs of taxpayers, they pay their own bills and all they want out of gov’t for the most part is for it to leave them alone and create a level playing field.
They tend to rais intact families, work hard, and try to put something together to pass on to their children instead of demonizing those who have succeeded at a higher level than they have. Instead of demanding that the rich give up their wealth by force and have it redistributed by gov’t they want to find a way to earn and accumulate their own wealth and one day raise themselves or help their kids to raise themselves up in class.
When polled on individual issues most people tend to end up somewhere in the center or right of center, they don’t all off of the deep left end until they get whipped up over identity politics or otherwise convinced that they really are miserable and it’s always the fault of the right that they are.
It’s only by finding ways to divide the country that the left has any success at all.
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Trump never promised to “wall off immigrants”. Such comments make having an honest discussion impossible.
After eight years of “Hope and Change” he gave people hope that they might be living off of more than a gov’t handout and pocket change and return us to an economy that grows from the bottom up improving the lives of everyone.
Take a look at the economic and employment numbers, he’s keeping that promise and as long as they keep improving that Blue Wave has been predicting is going to be a washout in the wrong direction and Trump will likely be reelected in 2020.
Democratic leaders see that which is why the two year tantrum and resistance instead of moderating and fading gets a daily dose of hate poured on top hoping to keep people as divided as possible over identity politics and whatever else they can dream up to salvage some seats in November.
They realize that unless Trump can be impeached or forced to resign they are fighting a losing battle.
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Kerry had all the warmth and sincerity of a plaintiff’s trial lawyer in a deep freeze, and the charisma of a burnt out stump.
No message he delivered was going to inspire anyone other than partisan sycophants.
What a complete load of absolute ■■■■■■■■■
It’s completely factual but by all means I hope you and your party keep living in denial for another five months so we can have a repeat of 2012, 2014, and 2016.
Until you folks figure out what you’re doing wrong, you’re never going to get it right.
The above is a perfect example of how unhinged and in denial the left has become since Election Night Nov 2016.
Hate, division, and desperation is all they have left to run on.
Sure, but I wasn’t commenting on why his message failed, I was commenting on what his supporters blamed its failure on. Same ■■■■ they blame all their failures on…someone else.
That is really the best response you could come up with. I can’t say I’m surprised. The typically hypocritcal rhetoric that you’ve been come to be known for.
That’s universal. I remember during the Obama years, when every failure on the right wasn’t because the message failed, but because “true conservatism hasn’t really been tried.”
No one wants to do the painful work of looking within to find the source of failure, at least not initially.
“true conservatism” was tried here in Kansas where I live. What it ended up doing is completely bankrupting the state. So much so that after 6 or so years of it even the most hardened conservative ended up voting for moderate candidates in the most recent election who promptly reversed all the stupid ass trickle down policies advocated and passed by their previous peers and then forced the retarded ex governor out of the state when he realized no one in the state legislature would support him anymore and he would be a lame duck for 2 years.
But get this the leading GOP candidate for the same race coming up is actually telling people he wants to roll back the rollback. Its nearly comical at this point.
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I’ll agree with that, the zealots on either side tend to be more alike in their tactics then not.
I remember reading about Kansas’ woes back then. Made me nervous they’d want to try the same nonsense here, even as it was failing.
Kansas has one major flaw, the lack of diversity in the economy. It is entirely too dependent on oil and agriculture which while both are extremely essential are both very volatile and of course agriculture tends to run on about a 10 year cycle where on average you spend 5 years trying to simply hang onto what you have, a couple of years of success and maybe 3 years of knocking it out of the park.
They had the right idea, but the wrong economy.
Trust me is was bad. Brownsack randsacked the highway transportation fund for god awefull amounts of money to make up for the shortcommings he caused. Then tried to cut education funding to get the rest and the state supreme court told him to get bent.
Fortunately I was in a market segment that was fairly immune to his bs but lots of other people in other industries were not so fortunate. He totally ■■■■■■ us but like every other state we will find our way out of it, through moderate policies, not crazy extremism by either side.
I know. I read the book.
He won because he was running against a wholly immoral, reprehensible, and ego-driven candidate.
