Democrats lose because they hear voters complain about grocery prices and think “We have to get grocery prices flat!” - and absolutely refuse to consider or realize prices are ALREADY flat and what voters are responding to is a meme, not the reality.
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Groceries are more expensive, and companies have record profit margins.
Check out @halsinger.bsky.social to see what Kamala and Dems could’ve done
They want the prices to go down 20%+
Wages at the bottom went way up (pandemic relief funds), thus contributing to inflation, keeping their spending power stagnate or even lower.
Free money is not rewarded at the ballot box.
A very hard lesson.
This article explains the spending power well:
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/competing-narratives-on-real-wages-incomes-under-biden/
Half the left is too busy infighting to do that, and the other half can be extremely myopic or focused on things people don't care about
We need to convince some donors to redirect some capital.
https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lower-housing-costs
But also: Harris's messaging on housing clearly failed. So we need to look at alternatives.
So how do you convince people Democrats are going to lower housing costs?
That’s like, the minimal reasonable journalistic rigor required, and no journalist can meet it?
If data point X is good, it's always a red herring for (misinterpreted or counterfactual) data point Y.
It's not clear how to fix it!
You've made this same argument numerous times now. What we're looking for is the alternative.
What's the roadmap to combating this problem?
1) Be skeptical of anyone who claims they have a simple answer
2) Stop the mis-placed blame games
3) Beware of the Pundit's Fallacy
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-pundits-fallacy-9ee33c511a40/
4) Learn from Rs how to get MSM to cover what you want.... (cont'd)
5) Invest heavily & experiment widely with new channels (social media, CATV) for reaching detached voters, not just during election campaigns
It’s not that hard.
Evidently Will doesn’t do the grocery shopping if he thinks prices are flat.
Or, maybe he’s connected to Kellogg or General Mills?
But yeah, Will&co focused on charts and graphs instead of targeting the actual weakness: incumbency.
Pretty obvious why that failed.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html#:~:text=Race%20and%20Hispanic%20Origin%20by%20Age%20Group&text=The%20White%20alone%20adult%20population,2010%20to%208.8%25%20in%202020.
In the simulacrum of power, the government produces not actual governance but an endless series of simulations that masquerade as governance.
The American people voted for this. Trump was clear about what he would do and he won a solid majority.
You can resist force. Overcoming the ill will of millions is a lot harder.
e.g. Melon’s new advisory committee is not a real, government entity; it has no “legitimate” authority; it only masquerades as such. But that masquerade is not treated as such when it’s consumed as spectacle.
https://thewetsanddialogues.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/a...