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December 23, 2024

Focus Group Says That Democrats Are Weak and Overly Focused on "Diversity" and Other "Elite" Luxury Concerns Like Endless Gender Transitions for Children

You don't say.

Obviously, all of this was already obvious, and obvious for the past 10 years.

Trump didn't get elected in 2016 because the public supported in the Democrat "elite" agenda, after all.

New research shows the massive hole Dems are in

Even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites.

That massive hole? Doctor Jill Biden.

Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn't just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.

In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.

When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because "they've got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they're failing." Another likened them to koalas, who "are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need." Democrats, another said, are "not a friend of the working class anymore."


[W]hile some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame "losing hold of culture," the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats' problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.

...

"This weakness they see, [Democrats] not getting things done, not being able to actually fight for people -- is something that needs to be figured out," Russell said. "It might not be the message, it might be the policy. It might be something a little bit deeper that has to be addressed by the party."

The focus groups, um, focused on Democrats who had either jumped to Trump or had just stayed home.

...


"I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is," said a Georgia man who voted for Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024. "The elites that run the Democratic Party -- I think they're way too obsessed with appealing to these very far-left social progressivism that's very popular on college campuses."

...


Even though the focus group voters did not solely blame Harris for their distaste of the Democratic Party, they also weren't happy about her candidacy. Participants described her as "inauthentic," "very dishonest" and "did not seem competent."

...


Democrats disagree on the potency of the [Trump ad about transgenderism, sauing "Trump is for you, Kamala Harris is for they/them"], but several participants raised it unprompted in the focus groups.

Lagging turnout was a major problem for Democrats in November. One woman from Georgia who didn't vote in 2024 said that she didn't agree with Harris' "thinking that it's okay for children to change their body parts."

"I think that there needs to be some parameters on what's accepted in society and what isn't. Some of the societal norms, and I think that the Democrats have tried to open that up a little too much," said a woman from Wisconsin who also didn't vote in 2024.

When asked by the moderator if she was referring to the "trans issue," the woman said, "primarily that."

I can't imagine what Democrats can do about this. The problem is that they have made all of these bizarre policies categorical imperatives, as Kant would call them -- questions of pure good vs. pure evil. There is no possibility of compromise when you've defined something as a categorical imperative, one of the atheists' Ten Commandments. Their weird dark pagan gods have pronounced that transgenderism is a perfect good not just for everyone but children in particular -- who is mere politician to gainsay what Satan has decreed?

Democrats found themselves in a similar position post Jimmy Carter, and were not willing to moderate -- or appear to moderate -- until weak-kneed pussy George Bush (senior) embarrassed them in 1988. Only after that third electoral drubbing did the supposedly "centrist" Democratic Leadership Conference, an organization of alleged moderates including a lot of governors whose experience was more practical and less ideological, wrest control of the party from the effete pansy leftist academic/government lifer faction.

I know I've already said this and in fact said it already just today, but I can't see how Democrats can throw off their (Satanic) religious dogmas based on one lost election.

It will take multiple losses before a rebel "centrist" movement can take control of the Democrat Cult again. A group like the DLC doesn't even exist right now. There's not even a group of Democrats banded together to make the case that academic/tech bro leftist progressivism is an electoral dead end.

Before a (fake) moderate can win the Democrat presidential nomination, there first has to be a serious movement within the party to make such a thing happen. There isn't one. Basically there's John Fetterman criticizing some of the more loopy open borders/pro-crime stuff and Bernie Sanders knocking identity politics (while still making a case for a more colorblind socialism).

And who else is there? Manchin retired, Krysten Sinema was voted out.

All that's left is Pelosi, AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, and a ton of Democrats united only by anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight, anti-Christian hatred.

Update:


Thanks to andycanuck.

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