There was a discernible shift in political discourse in the past decade, and not for the better. There was a time when politicians would focus their attacks on their opponents and only their opponents.
The voters were out of bounds. And rightly so. Any good politician will acknowledge he or she is likely going to need those voters, and their votes, down the road.
I think it's safe to say that rhetoric changed with Barack Obama. The supposed great uniter, Nobel Prize winning figurehead behind Hope and Change.
He was the one who, like all good adherents to Alinsky, 'picked the target, froze it, personalized it, and polarized it.' And that target was half of American voters. We were, as you'll recall, 'bitter clingers' who liked our guns and our Bibles and were just holding America back, gosh darn it.
Ever since Obama made it de rigueur to attack the voters, the gloves were off. Hillary Clinton called us a 'basket of deplorables', Joe Biden called us 'domestic terrorists', and Kamala Harris called us 'Nazis.'
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But the Left can only cry wolf so many times before the villagers stop showing up. And last week, the villagers ignored those cries and elected Donald Trump by solid margins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
I like to learn from the mistakes I make. I reflect on them, figure out what I did wrong, and strive to not repeat those errors. It helps both professionally and personally and that's where growth happens.
I am also not a Leftist. And if there's one thing I've learned during my time being elbows-deep in politics it's that the Left is incapable of that same introspection, reflection, and growth.
So they keep calling voters stupid, hoping maybe it'll finally browbeat us into compliance:
Are you still asking ‘How?’
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) November 13, 2024
Half of American adults read below a 6th level. That’s how.
What's the definition of insanity again, because I'm pretty sure that is the embodiment of it.
That being said, I should thank Ellen Barkin. She's just made the most solid, absolute case for abolishing the Department of Education and establishing universal school choice I've ever heard.
Because if the voters are that unintelligent, the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the DOE and government-run schools.
The irony of being called stupid by someone who can't see the very obvious flaws in her logic is not lost on me.
The election (roughly) if having a degree was a requirement to vote pic.twitter.com/KPeMrdQ1BM
— Basil🧡 (@LinkofSunshine) November 12, 2024
Remember how the Left screamed that voter ID was racist? That it was akin to a poll tax and basically Jim Crow 2.0?
I sure do.
Yet here they are, demanding a much steeper poll tax, and one that would exclude the vast majority of Americans. Between 35-37% of Americans have a college degree, which means 63-65% would be excluded from voting.
How very un-democratic, you tireless defenders of democracy.
Of course, I prefer to think that the majority of Americans who didn't go to college are smarter than the ones who went, studied intersectional feminism, and now can't pay back their student loans (but they'll happily let those stupid Trump voters foot the bill).
This is not a new tactic. Back before the election, The New Republic argued with a straight face that the only way Republicans win elections is by cheating, citing as an example the so-called 'misinformation' of telling voters to vote on the wrong day.
As I said at the time, if Democrats (who like to think they're so smart) don't know when election day is, perhaps they're not as bright as they claim. As further proof of that, I'd also like to point to the fact searches for 'did Joe Biden drop out' spiked right before and on election day.
I doubt those searching that term were MAGA Republicans.
So those intellectually superior Democrats -- who have cornered the market on most forms of media, social and otherwise -- didn't even know Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
There's a dearth of intelligence, yes.
But it isn't coming from Republican voters.
