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I talked about it and got straight up bullied. I shut up about 45 days before the election because it was just harmful at that point. But you can not bully people into voting for you. You can not tell them the economy is great when they're in pain. You can not transparently be the puppet of a foreign government. You can not tell your base to get excited about people they've hated for literal decades.
The list just goes on. You can not win an election by enforcing a top down attitude. The Republicans worked ground up. Yes they did a lot of lying and gaslighting. But that brought people in and they worked from that during the actual campaign period. The Democrats did nothing to educate people and then told them they were wrong during the campaign.
This is a big thing in most western nations right now. The "economy" does not mean a healthy middle class, it does not mean higher wages for people, it does not mean affordable heating/food/shelter. I can see people struggling to make ends meet, and nothing pisses them off more then being told the "economy" is great. Basically the wealth inequality at this point has mostly removed the middle class and people being told the economic equivalent of "Git Gud"
And when those people complained that they're literally unable to make a decent living despite working hard, they were told "you don't get to complain, you're a white male so you live life on easy mode".
That is liberal identity politics which everyone hates. Real leftists like Sanders and AOC have never said anything like that.
Oh I don't even need to make it an identity politics thing, there is always someone "less privileged" to use. I have seen single non white mothers told that they have a house so need to "think hard" about that before complaining. A large part of the "western world" has become tone deaf to the reality of the working people. No one cares (clearly shown this election) that the numbers went up.
Anyone telling a single working mother that she's privileged needs to SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP!
Agreed, I have also seen a Vet get told to remove their veteran license plate because "they where not a real veteran", A man fighting cancer to "shut up and stop whining, just take it like a man" and watched a fight break out when someone was not let into a reserve casino because they said that the people there "where not real Canadians and they need to be deported".
People suck, and identity politics is just another way for people to be tribal and awful to each other while maintaining a perceived moral high ground.