1) Republicans have been consistently bad faith liars for literally your entire life.Harshax wrote:If the resulting dialogue of what I proposed generally to address malfeasance in the democratic process is imperceptible to you, then your perception is unqualified. Because it is categorically factual that voters make choices based on perception of intent. And it is categorically factual that voters do not choose candidates that cross the grain of what they believe.
2) Republicans have consistently performed in elections well above the support for their actual policies.
If the conclusion you reach from these facts is that obviously if you show that people are hypocrites people won't vote for them, and you just need to tell people this information then you are absolutely fucking not someone anyone should listen to on political messaging.
Unlike you, my theory, that people know their politicians are lying, and willing to make some effort to understand what the lie means and then vote based on that interpretation has many powerful advantages.
One advantage is that I can describe why a Dog Whistle is a term that exists and describes a thing politicians do to get votes.
You seem to be projecting arguments you want to have with someone else onto me. "People think their politicians are lying to them and vote for them anyway" doesn't say people are monsters. Some of them are monsters, but some aren't. Ideally I would HOPE democrats think their politicians are lying to them because Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have both recently said how they want a strong republican party. So if you believe they are not lying then OOF.Harshax wrote:If your position is that the voting registrar of the right is filled with indomitable monsters, then your perception is unqualified to weigh the degrees of success the impeachment process garnered.
If your only measure of success of impeachment proceedings is to see Trump swinging from the same gallows that his army constructed on the west lawn of Congress, then your political acumen is questionable
"Believe your politicians are lying and will vote anyway" doesn't have anything to do with monstrosity one way or the other.
Likewise, I specifically explained why I think the democrats should have called witnesses and it wasn't "So they could execute Trump." It was specifically because I believe that calling witnesses would demonstrate the importance of the events to the American public in a way that saying your vacation is more important than impeachment doesn't.
You don't have any idea how to run a long game. You want to run a very stupid "long game" that won't accomplish jack shit because that politicians are lying to them is not NEW information to the american people. It is the message being conveyed by those lies that people respond to.Harshax wrote:If you don’t have an idea on how to run the long game politically, you will always be reactionary to people who do. Republicans like Mitch McConnell have left generational marks on branches of government because of those rules.
I have no idea what point you think you were making with this, and I doubt anyone else could articulate it from reading this sentence either.Harshax wrote:Only an emotional child would suckle the teets of disenfranchisement and throw blocks at anyone who suggests a way to make the body politic more accountable when it doesn’t turn sour grapes into honey.