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Friday, February 25th, 2022

Democrats Are Losing the Culture War. A Messaging Shift Won’t Save Them.

Author:     JEFF GREENFIELD
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     23 February 2022 | 04:25 P.M. EST
 Link: Democrats Are Losing the Culture War. A Messaging Shift Won’t Save Them.
Stephan:   Always remember that culture is an expression of collective intention and awareness, and when you stress any system, whether it is mechanical or human you see its weaknesses and flaws. When I look at America, what I see is that a large percentage of Americans hunger for an authoritarian White supremacist, male dominant, christofascist culture. And that is what they want to vote for. The 2022 elections are going to show whether this sad scummy worldview prevails. The only thing stopping this from happening is you, your family, and friends. Don't say you haven't been warned.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Credit: Francis Chung/E&E News/Politico

After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, JFK observed: “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” It’s one of his more famous aphorisms — but it’s wrong.

In politics, defeat (or the prospect of defeat) has a thousand diagnosticians, each one pointing to the cause of the malady, each prescribing the cure, the magic incantations that will bring back armies of discontented voters.

As Republicans seize on crime and schools and Covid to win in Virginia and beyond, President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are falling into a Trump-like trough. And with signs of further erosion among working-class voters who were once the core of the Democratic Party, notable voices from the center to the left are offering an assortment of rhetorical tools to staunch the bleeding.

All sides of the debate agree that Democrats are currently losing the culture war to the GOP. But the harsh reality is that a simple shift in messaging — either to rebutting Republican attacks or shifting the ground to economic issues — […]

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