Comment on Elections Have Consequences
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 days agoNot gonna lie, I saw this meme and thought, “You’re learning the wrong lesson!”
Comment on Elections Have Consequences
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 days agoNot gonna lie, I saw this meme and thought, “You’re learning the wrong lesson!”
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How?
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was a lot of legitimate issues with the “woke” movement. Republicans used this as motivation to turn out the vote. Democrats have since chilled out quite a bit. Most didn’t do a 180, but just quit focusing on it.
This win was more a reflection of that than it was legitimizing the “old ways”.
Besides, pronouns never left the emails.
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I don’t recall the Democrats ever being so woke that it was a legitimate issue. Random individual people with zero power might have said or looked “cringe,” though, and that was somehow upheld as representative of everything. Virtually all of the backlash to “woke 1” was just memes and Youtube videos usually featuring the same three random nobodies…
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…putting words in their mouth, taking them out of context, and holding them as representative of all liberals/leftists.
What was one actual policy position advanced or enacted by the Democratic party that was problematic because it was too woke?
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I listen to some podcasts that talk a lot about polling data, and analyze not only how people vote, but why. It’s not political, and just about analysis.
It’s my understanding that there was a backlash to democrats going all in on woke issues. This drove republicans to the polls when they might have been more likely to stay home.
It’s fine to be woke, but let’s just stfu about it. Last thing we need is to encourage republican backlash.
This same thing applied to guns. Democrats talked too much about gun control, which drove Republicans to the polls at massive levels. Now they don’t talk about it, and that’s one less motivation for Republicans.