Have liberals actually contributed to a toxic atmosphere that ostracized the white working class? Even if that's the case, who's responsibility was it to manage these shifts? Or is this just an expression of guilt by some, who are now just getting more opportunities to discuss these problems while the left desperately tries to understand what happened?
Absolutely, though you can logical see why Liberals are angry. And Liberals have every right to be. Why wouldn't you be angry when they run on their platform of racism, gay-conversion therapy, abortion banning, racial profiling and carte balche endorsement of terror, torture and war crimes?
There is a lot to be angry about, but liberals hurt their own chances of winning, unification, bringing updecided disinfranchised voters over when they go full "regressive liberal" when they don't want to be the bigger man.
They call Trump voters racists, man children, misogynists, shames them, deduces them, ridicules them, calls them ignorant voters. This breeds hate and contempt. And once you hate somebody, everything they do is offensive. You have many trump supporters who hate trump and find him disgusting, but their toxic interactions with shaming liberals who talk to them has made them see red.
What happens is that people can't publically say their feelings without feeling prosecuted, so in polling stations and interviews they say Hillary, but inside the voting both they wrote for Trump because they are angry.
Why the fuck would you ever think you get people on your side by talking to them condescendingly or like an asshole? If you're not going to meet them eye to eye, as terrible as their views might be, you will never change them. This wasn't about politics. This was hatred against liberals who angered them, and they took their anger to the voting booth.
Petty? Yes. But that's the emotional irrationality of the human conditioning. So you can call them privileged man children all you want, but that doesn't stop it from just creating a connotation more strongly that liberals are bad feelings. people who shame, people who are extremists and who are not for the process but just for attacking them.
The only way you can change these people is not by making them irrationally angry or making them feel prosecuted but to sneak empathy under them. Kill with love. try and make them see the suffrage of others without lecturing them.
But liberals have become increasingly worse than this. Liberals say they don't have time to argue with bigots, followed by pointless hand signals and blanket statements. And then it's over.
But of course saying that progressives should be bigger, better, turn the other cheek and endure the disgusting beliefs as they try and manipulate these voters without making them feel like they are being lectured or putting them on the defensive which makes them put their walls off is easy enough to say if you're not on the receiving end.
Conservatives win because they play dirty and double down on fear mongering, populist opportunity and anger. When Liberals try to fight fire with fire, they will never be as good as the conservatives because Liberal ideology goes against many of these ideas. Being a Liberal is not about condescending shaming, it's about being a better example. And did YASS Queen help with that? This was counter productive. White men were ignored like they didn't matter and this reflects in the anger.
The feelings of poor whites doesn't matter because according to opression olympics they don't matter. So they are pissed.
If we had all been better at showing another path forward. An alternative to automation- a path from being a coal miner to evolving into something else. a path for them to re-educate themselves as they get better lives. But that wasn't done. What was said: fuck white people. Nobody cares about you because other people are worse off.
These people vote against their own self interests. These jobs never coming back. and even if they did, automation would take them right up. corporations will always look for the cheapest solution. removing human labor is the easiest thing to do it. And yes, many of these are low educated, but how does insults, generalizations and condescending memes help get them to vote for the liberal choice? They believe the billionaire will give them jobs because he has the money, so it must be true. And if you're not paying attention how should you know?
Liberal media is not appearing on their FB. They are not seeing rachal maddows. its an alternative reality of right wing news that plays them.
The liberal base should have reached out to them. But people hiss and fit and it makes us divided. Liberals must endure the impossible in the face of abuse and endure more and be bigger than them. They cannot have their minds changed if they are angry and defensive. It doesn't happen.
