Imagine talking to a group of people struggling to feed their families, to pay their bills, worried about whether or not they can make their next rent of mortgage payment and, as they look to you for some glimmer of hope that you are going to make things just a little bit better for them, all you can talk about is how your opponent is the new Hitler and how they should love abortion. That’s what Democrats have become.
When I was a kid, Democrats tried to talk to people about the things that mattered in their lives – the economy, taxes, the schools. Most of what they said was lies, but you at least had the sense that they were aware of your existence and problems. Not anymore.
Growing up in a lower-middle class area in southeast Michigan, just 6 streets outside of Detroit on the “wrong” side of 8-mile, Democrats were everywhere, promising to make things better. All they did was make things worse. For all the talk of Detroit’s revitalization, it’s really only about a two mile stretch down Woodward Avenue from Wayne State University (where I went to college) and Hart Plaza on the Detroit River. You can still play golf in most neighborhoods, as vacant lots are the order of the day (the abandoned crack houses have been largely torn down or burn up on Devil’s Night over the years).
Democrats did that. For a long time, they blamed Republicans, and it was common for the left to scream about how Ronald Reagan “screwed over Detroit,” but no Republican has sniffed power in the city in 62 years. Reagan left office 34 years ago. What lasting policies do you think are keeping Detroit down? I’ll save you looking it up, there are none.
There was no case for Democrats in the past, there is no case for Democrats today. If there were, they’d try to make it. They aren’t even trying.
All they offer is hyperventilating zeta-males and Karens on MSNBC screeching about how “Trump is Hitler.” What they’re really saying is anyone who votes for Trump, or even likes some of his policy proposals, are Nazis. They aren’t trying to convince anyone, they’re trying to coral the weak-minded.
Their base is very impressionable. Rachel Maddow routinely spins a web of fantastical paranoia and conspiracy that would make Alex Jones blush, but because she does it for Democrats, she has an office riddled with awards. The gang at Morning Joe is an orgy of outrage and out of context clips so absurd that only people dropped on their heads as a baby would stand a chance of believing them.
Nothing on that network is remotely designed to inform or convince, it’s to scare and anger. Stupid people will fall for just about anything, but they won’t necessarily get off their asses and do things about it. That’s where the outrage comes in. As I wrote in my book, Democrats want to keep people in an emotional frenzy just below boiling. They need a simmer – you can get people in an emotional state to do just about anything, like vote for the Democrats who’ve screwed up their cities and limited their family’s economic health, if they’re scared or angry enough. There’s always the chance that simmer could boil over – two Democrats did try to murder Donald Trump this year (so far) – and ruin your plans, but when you’ve got nothing to offer you have to take that risk.
That’s the story of the Democrats. They simply have nothing to sell. Morning Joe is about the only things as vapid as a Kamala Harris stump speech, and both are telling you the same things: A) Kamala has a plan to fix all the economic problems facing the country (just don’t ask why she’s kept these plans secret the last 4 years and is perfectly happy to let Americans suffer until January 20, 2025, before trying to implement them. And B) You simply have no idea how much better you have it under Democrats than you had it under Trump. Who are you going to believe, the millionaires on Morning Joe or your own lived experience?
Oh, that and you’re likely to get pregnant tomorrow and die from not being able to have an abortion, because pregnancy kills, either hopes and dreams or they physical bodies of “pregnant people.” That goes for men and women, though they have no idea what those things are.
Let’s the men and women who know what men and women are head to the polls and vote against biological and economic ignorance, because we far outnumber the weirdos who pretend not to.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.