I live in Texas where we got some big wins but the rest of the country I’m confused. You have people who are upset about inflation and Biden policies but still voted for dems. He will keep pushing the climate cult agenda and I feel bad for those who live where winters get very cold. I truly hope heat isn’t an issue.
I really hope more states address mail in ballots. I guarantee if a democrat lost due to days of ballot drops after the election the media would be screeching. It just seems suspicious. Only people who have mobility issues or the elderly/military should use it. Otherwise I don’t get why votes can’t be counted by the end of Election Day. I love the convenience of early voting but if they made it one day I could take time to vote.
But anyway, life goes on but I’m honestly surprised. I thought red wave wasn’t going to happen but I didn’t expect this. Trans nonsense, climate cult, economic illiteracy, and politicians who care more about criminals than victims. I think abortion made some difference as well and the media but that’s always there. Should people on the right just move to red states? Or maybe we can ban lefties from moving to red states.
I remember a guy here in the Dallas Ft Worth area got mad because after he complained about conservative nut jobs in Texas (he moved from Illinois) I asked him why he moved here. He said he has a right to move where he wants and I said I’m not moving to Chicago and whining about the far left policies there so I don’t like people moving here and trying to change things
Normies have been sold the meme that the left is kind and looking out for the little guy, while the right is mean and only cares about the rich.
Voting left is the default option for many.
With vote harvesting, people come to them months before the election, before they've had a closer look at the issues, and get their vote with a "vote for the good guys, no need to think, clearly you're one of the good guys, that's right let me see you put that check down just making sure you're not a bad guy, heh heh heh, that's right buddy, we are just the same, thanks bye now"
You can't win this. It's not about good candidates.
The right is running on generalist principles. Less immigration helps us all. Lower taxes is good for the economy.
The left's running on pure clientism. "We will take from those people and reward you, our beloved comrades".
It's not that nonwhites vote D because they're more progressive. In fact they're often much less progressive.
They vote D because they're clients, and stand to benefit. Simple as that.
As long as this continues, the R's can't win. The only way to defeat clientism is to form a coalition of your own clients and reward them.
Economic incentives work!
You don't win by trying to get 50% of black women to vote for you, instead of 8%. You win by getting 65% of whites to vote for you instead of 57%.
The right must change their tactics, and in doing so they have to abandon some of their principles regarding handouts. They need to change the perspective. Because there are more important things at stake now.
A message that would win would have to include some sort of economic support to the middle class. Could be government provided healthcare. Free university for middle class kids as longs as the university is unbiased / supports free speech. That would also go a long way towards challenging The Science and the cathedral. Tax break for blue collar workers. Child support checks for kids of truckers. A 20% salary raise for police officers, firemen, and other first responders. Remove taxes on small businesses taking in less than $5m gross p/a. Grants to small businesses that are looking to open a second location. Just something. Anything that your clients benefit from. Something to reach out to the base and support them.
Target the white middle class, that you're now getting just over 50% votes from, and get that to 70% and run your own vote harvesting operations to this demographic. Do this and you will win every election (at least for the next 10-20 years), regardless of what the D's are doing.
Right but the right is hardly not doing this either.
The last rightwingish person I talked to on ye-propaganda-site was babbling on about how awful it was that people got unemployment and $1k during covid lockdowns.
But they spend no time talking about not having lockdowns in the first place
So they'd still do lockdowns, then you'd get fired with no unemploymemt and no assustance, and just burn through money and die? That's only a position that appeals to people who lock themselves into mansions.
The right lacks the backbone to stand up to leftist insanity, only finding a voice to tell the peasants they don't deserve anything.
it's Mitt Romney's comment all over again.
I agree completely.
The right needs to model itself after the benevolent king. Instead of the neoliberal god that cares only for progress and producing economic value.
Keith Woods is an interesting voice here, as are many others on the right who are waking up to the fact that our cultural and societal struggle shouldn't be to protect and defend capitalism and the elites at all cost - but to make sure that people can live freely; free to make their own rules, free from globalist degeneracy, free to preserve their own cultures and traditions, free to protect themselves against the Empire Ideology.
In return for loyalty and devotion, the king must care about his followers.