We can't be the party of patronizers

It occurs to me that complacency, patronizing and condesenscion  among Democrats in the mediasphere, especially when it borders on or even crosses into smugness, might actually drive away some voters. Especially in places like Arizona, Montana, Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, Texas, Florida, even Maine... where lots of people are realizing that MAGA has screwed them but they don't like the attitude of traditional "wiser than thou" Democrats either. I agree with those who say we need new leadership, especially in the Senate, but we also need to recognize that for the present the Democratic Party just is the only party that actually stands for American ideals, and it needs to act like it. Not by compromising principles, but by communicating straightforwardly the things it stands for: restoration of honest government responsive to the people, real work on the economy for real people, funding the necessary changes to provide health care, job growth, energy inftrastructure, etc. through fair taxes, having an honest immigration policy that enforces fair laws but doesn't demonize immigrants, and perhaps most important, ending corruption. Emphasizing fairness rather than "tax the rich" which has never worked well with traditional conservatives. But the reality is that, issue for issue, Democrats stand for traditional American values much better than the MAGA party, and it's fairly easy to stick to those points. More abstruse "saving (and reforming) democracy" ideas and ideas for Constitutional reform are important, but they have to be brought in at the right time. And every conceivable effort to avoid the "I told you so" "Maghats are so dumb" attitudes will be absolutely crucial. 

 

  

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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything isn't 42 (Sorry, Douglas Adams), but the fine structure constant, α (alpha), equal to the proportional strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles:

α = ⁠e²4πε₀ħc ⁠≅ 1/137.0