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Sticking their heads in the sand is part of the reason Democrats are losing ground.
by rednerrus 10y ago
Sticking their heads in the sand is part of the reason Democrats are losing ground.
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- scarface74 10y agoNo. I unfriended people because I got sick of reading conspiracy theories like Sandy Hook was a government conspiracy to take away guns, that Obama was a secret gay Muslim, that Michelle Obama was really a man and that their children weren't really theirs. Let's not forget the investigation by Chuck Norris that the government was secretly trying to declare martial law in Texas, "proof" of a 6000 year old Earth, and that Noah's ark was found. And then news that people are using welfare to by weed in Colorado and that parts of Minnesota are under Sharia law.... If "sticking my head in the sand" means ignoring the looneys on the right that believe everything they read, guilty as charged.
- jcizzle 10y agoSounds less like an issue with a particular side, but more an issue with the people you are friends with.
- dogma1138 10y agoAnd for every one of those you have a 'Dem' spreading nonsense about vaccines causing autism and about how GMOs will mutate you. While the media might make it look like it does no side has a particular monopoly on stupid.
- rabbyte 10y agohold up, I agree with you but you can't say "for every X there's Y" because that's not at all true. "it happens on both sides" is a far cry from "both sides do this about the same amount" not to mention "both" itself implies there are only two sides and everything is flat.
- scarface74 10y agoHow often does the mainstream conservative media go out of its way to debunk the idiocy on the right? The guy that started the "news" that people are using welfare money to by weed was actually trying to pull a prank on the right and see who would fall for it. Not only was there an uproar on the right. Fox News even reporter it. The myth that vaccines lead to autism is repeatedly debunked by the mainstream media and they report all of the time about places where diseases on the rise because of anti-vaxxers And while I use to think that nothing getting done in America without the support of big business was a bug. I'm starting to think it's a feature. For instance, once big business broke away from the religious right on issues like gay rights, the "moral majority" didn't have a say in the matter. I expect the same thing to happen when it comes to immigration, trade, and the demonizing of "other". Trump supporters may have the numbers but they don't have the money.
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- untog 10y agoAre the Democrats losing ground? With white, middle/working class voters, yes. But almost every minority leans Democrat, and it's the Republicans who have their heads in the sand about the reasons behind that. Not to mention, Republican voters were found to be far more likely to share fake news. These two things are connected. Yes, Democrats are disengaging from discourse. But the quality of discourse in 2016 has dropped considerably. There aren't any particularly easy answers here, and heaping blame on anyone but ourselves is a pattern we need to get out of.
- xvedejas 10y agoI'm curious where you have gotten this trend from, because it seems to be the opposite of what I can find. Compared to Romney, Trump only did slightly better with whites. Trump did much better with minorities. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...
- untog 10y agoI'm afraid I don't have a source to hand (on my phone) but I would absolutely believe that this year's election is atypical. It will remain to be seen to what extent Trumpism and Republicanism coverage, separate or what in four year's time. Trump is much not a typical Republican candidate (to the extent that any of his positions can be nailed down) - to my knowledge, down-ballot races were more typical of previous years.