Devastating population decline predicted in deep red state by 2040 as counties lose up to a third of residents

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15. Perhaps you noticed that the post I was replying to literally called them stupid

Do poor kids who get sucked into joining gangs think that the gang has their best interest at heart or is it that the gang at least short terms offers protection/money/power? At least Trump gave lip service which we haven't been as good at based on how these people vote. Obama talked about there's no red or blue America, but many of our policies have been targeted towards the wealthy. Student loan forgiveness (which I benefited from) for example mostly benefits those of us higher on the economic ladder. It's a hard sell to a car mechanic that their tax dollars should go to student loan repayment to someone making more money and not getting dirt under their fingernails.

You can say that they should vote for us because Trump's a fraud (which is true), but the fact is we lost the working class particularly among whites and have been losing it for a long time. Shrugging our shoulders isn't going to change their voting patterns. Harris did support limiting the requirement of degrees for federal jobs and talking about apprentice programs, but we've spent years saying get a college degree or learn to code while the good union jobs got outsourced, but we have to make it more of a focus. If we don't find a way to reach them, if they don't hear our message, then we're going to continue to struggle. We have a hard road to a Senate majority because we aren't competitive in many states. That also hurts us in the presidential race and in the House. But we need to do more of that down ticket to help build our brand as a party.

Notice how Trump isn't popular on the economy now after winning on it in 2024 while Biden and then Harris were trying to sell the economy was doing good because of the stock market while people were struggling to afford things due to inflation? With a 2 party system, if people are unhappy with one party, they really only have one other option. So yes, people voted for Trump to fix the economy because they weren't feeling us doing enough on it in their opinion.

And while you didn't use the word stupid, there's definitely an implication there that they voted "wrong" because obviously Trump isn't going to care about them, so clearly they got fooled. Notice you didn't actually talk about Harris's policies, just about how bad Trump is. You aren't going to sell people on us without saying how we're trying to help them.