the lesson I'm taking away from this election is not that the Democrats need to become more left wing or more right wing but moreso that they need to find a way to cater their rhetoric towards people who genuinly have no idea what is going on. the target audience for every speech and political appearance should be someone who doesn't know what the three branches of government are because they were drawing a Cool S during high school civics
political scientists have failed to consider the possibility that the silent majority is silent because they didn't understand the question and are trying to play it cool
Part of why people mistrust wellspoken seemingly educated speakers is because they're afraid that they are secretly being made into the butt of a joke they don't get. They feel like they're being sold something, or being derided in some way. It goes hand in hand with classism, too! They're scared and trying to play it cool and have been being turned into the ignorant butt of the joke for being the rednecks or white trash or dumb average Joe for so goddamn long that they don't trust nobody who talks like a goddamn thesaurus. They jsut tune right the fuck out.
I propose the next democratic nom be someone who knows how to drive a monster truck.