I’ve been watching some of the testimony of the hearings. You can find everything here.
Much of it is damming.
But this very person:
Bottom line: this might make Trump more unpopular with those in the mushy middle, and it might hurt Trump’s chances of winning the nomination again. But..it isn’t going to flip a hard core Republican.
Yes, I am worried about President Biden. I like him but he has clearly lost a couple of steps (though he had steps to lose to begin with). But..our political bench is so bare.
Oh..maybe you disagree, but I honestly think that we have a big problem:
Our candidates come from mostly elite universities where the social justice jargon is common (“Latinx”, “BIPOC”, “cis-gender”.. lots of different new pronouns ), all made up by academic “activists” or researchers.
It is one thing to use lingo in one’s academic work or at an academic; yes, I say things like “let X be a compact 3-manifold without boundary and let Y be a topological embedding of S^1” but I’d never speak that way in public.
People who want to be good at politics need to learn how to communicate with the public! They have to say stuff and have the public WANT to listen.
And our instincts are just terrible. For one: if we see a “community” that we consider marginalized, we’ll bend over backwards, often to the point of absurdity to placate them.
And too often, our candidates appear to run on issues that poll well, instead of running on, well, attitude.
Example: yes, raising the minimum wage polls well. And you ask: “Yeah, we should.”
But a candidate that runs on the message: “we will raise the minimum wage and be more generous to poor people” isn’t going to win on that.
After all, who wants to make minimum wage? Who wants to be poor? Sure, we might want to help out, but IMHO, “help the poor” isn’t a winning slogan.
People aspire to do things. They want success. YES, WE CAN: uplifitng. Hand UP, not hand out: yes. No surprise those were the slogans from our most successful Democratic Presidential candidates.
Life of an old goat 