Message to Dems: More Respect for the People You Want to Help

This article describes in a nutshell why I dislike liberals even when nearly all of my social beliefs mirror theirs.

Democrats regard their policies as self-evidently in the interests of the US working and middle classes. Yet those wide segments of US society keep helping to elect Republican presidents. How is one to account for this? Are those people idiots? Frankly, yes – or so many liberals are driven to conclude. Either that or bigots, clinging to guns, God and white supremacy; or else pathetic dupes, ever at the disposal of Republican strategists. If they only had the brains to vote in their interests, Democrats think, the party would never be out of power. But again and again, the Republicans tell their lies, and those stupid damned voters buy it.

Their problem is that they almost never have respect for the same people that they are trying to help. The Dems seem to look down on rural, middle class and working people as a reflex action and say they "cling" to guns and religion. It is so easy to portray them as elitist when they think of themselves as a privileged elite.

A good majority of the middle and working class are religious, enjoys outdoor sports usually with guns, and are unapologetically patriotic. So when a Dem comes up to them and says "God is a little man in the sky," we need to take away your guns, and shouts "God damn America" then they will support the GOP candidate. How can you support someone that has such contempt for your way of life?

The thing is that you can't trust an elitist party that thinks that the majority of their fellow Americans are dumb, uncouth, and are there to be pitied. Unless the Dems respect the people they are trying to help and actually get down there and understand their values and way of life they will keep losing Presidential elections.

I mean Clinton won twice because he was a populist that loved fast food, played the saxophone, and was a football fan. He was also a Rhodes Scholar and went to Yale law school but that stuff was downplayed for the most part because it is meaningless to the majority of the people that put him in power. If he wasn't a serial liar and womanizer he may have been one of the better Presidents in our history.