John Pavlovitz: No, the Democratic Party Can't "Message Better" to Racism, Misogyny, and Ignorance

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26. Umm . . . Seriously?

You've explained why most Trumpers went Trump.
Fine. Point conceded.

What you haven't explained is why a large portion of Democratic voters sat on their hands this last election and refused to pull the lever for their own corporate party candidate. Were these voters just too racist, misogynistic and homophobic to vote for a mixed-race woman? (Forgive me; I should have said "BIPOC birthing-person". I'm old.)

If that's the case, well . . . I guess you're conceding that the Democratic party will remain out of power for decades. Because good luck chiding fundamentally evil bigots into behaving better (electorally speaking), eh?

Or . . .

Could it be that many of the working class, paycheck-to-check people are so fundamentally enraged, despairing and (now) nihilistic at seeing the Democrats serve the same corporate-monied donor class as the Republicans while abandoning the fight for a public option, living wages, family leave and other pressing, pertinent issues that they simply couldn't stomach the thought of participating in the farce of voting for the lesser of two evils again? Like many have been doing for forty+ f--king years now?! While more and more of the country's wealth is transferred upward to a plutocratic few?

Nah... That can't be it. "They're all a bunch of (fill in the blank with the insults of your choice)."

Right?