re: #465 Hecuba’s daughter

I think you are being unfair, The non-deplorables are not well educated, live in communities with local papers that are right-wing, and really want someone who seems to care about them. As I’ve said before, Trump speeches reached out to them and promised them the impossible; if you listened to those sections, you would understand his appeal. The Democrats need to talk to them too — not lie or mislead like Trump — but hear their pain and promise to work with them to find alternatives.

But you just identified why these people will never listen: They’re living in their own little cocoons and don’t want to leave. The Democrats made appeals all last year to these people, but the appeals weren’t what they wanted to hear. They didn’t want to hear that the jobs were gone, they’re not coming back, and it’s time to start working on a new future. They want to hear that the local factory’s gonna come back to life, all those jobs that were lost are gonna be back one day, and life will return to what it once was. They don’t want retraining programs, they don’t want investment in new technologies, and they sure as hell don’t want that factory torn down to make way for one that builds something like solar panels or electric cars. They’re clinging desperately to all those empty promises of the past and you’re not doing them any favors by saying they have a good reason for doing so.