re: #103 EPR-radar

IMO the only way to make real progress with this part of the electorate is to confront their lies, bullshit and willful self-delusions head on. The alternative to that is essentially trying to come up with good policy proposals while pandering to their irrational resentments, and this is impossible at this level of delusion.

No doubt. They don’t want to hear that but the fact is they did get conned. They did fall for lies. And they’ll do it again and the way to prevent that from happening again isn’t infantizing them. I think many white liberals have this romantic vision of the working class. Perhaps because so many of our families came from families like that. I don’t think every or even most WWC is a bigoted person but I do think there are resentments unique to that group that the right has pounced on from Nixon to Trump and many white liberals simply can’t see it. They think if we just go back to New Deal economic rhetoric, that will get these people back into our fold and I just don’t think it’s that simple. A lot of them (not all) have a problem with the fact that our party and ideology champions immigrants, LGBT, racial minorities, poor people, etc.