They Still Don’t Get It
BY Herschel Smith
3 days, 14 hours ago
This is their antidote to the massive change in American politics.
Political commentator Anand Giridharadas said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Democrats needed a “feminist” version of Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Giridharadas said, “You know when one person has a traumatic experience, we know what to do. we go to a counselor, a therapist, maybe they take some medication. When an entire country has a traumatic experience, it’s just called life. It’s just called history. We have an entire country and world that had a traumatic experience, whether it was my kindergartner wearing a mask to school, which I’m very glad we had masks, but also watching my kindergartner not being able to recognize the faces of their best friend because eyes are not enough at age 6 to recognize a face. And the enormous amount of mental health challenges that I don’t think we even fully realized were unleashed. The sense of defenselessness people felt economically. And you’re right that when you have that kind of traumatic event, it’s just in the blood in ways that historians may make sense of, sociologists may make sense of. I don’t think we right now are in a position to make sense of it.”
He added, “Particularly the media ecosystem, it is not it’s not a good one. It’s a negative one, it is a radicalization funnel. What they have done in the online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, the way militant groups do around the world. It takes people from low level annoyances with the world, ‘Why are eggs so expensive? Why are my kids learning things in school I didn’t learn? And then moves through You Tube videos, podcasts, moves them from the annoyance, to a full blown fascist politics. It’s an elaborate multibillion dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side. We don’t have, when a man is lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.”
While understanding just a little bit about what happened, Scott Jennings end with “We have to figure out how to talk to …”
Scott Jennings masterclass on CNN last night.
Donald Trump now has a mandate.pic.twitter.com/LtjTkBOh05
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 6, 2024
Jen Psaki tells us how she feels and wanted a woman to be elected president.
Watch the moment Jen Psaki calls the race for President Trump on MSNBC before delivering one of most hyperbolic, unhinged descriptions of Donald Trump you’ll ever hear.
What an epic day!! pic.twitter.com/9MzPjR3CFt
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 6, 2024
You see, they still don’t get it. They think this is all about an influencer.
The party of “We don’t know the difference between a man and a woman” wants a woman to be elected president. It would be literally impossible to make this up if you hadn’t heard someone say it out loud.
The problem isn’t that leftists don’t know how to talk to more than half of America. The problem isn’t a lack of communication. The problem isn’t that they lack an influencer.
The problem is that their policy choices were all too clear: Gender confusion, DEI, inflation, more theft through taxation, more onerous control, whether gun control or wage and price controls, more wars of foreign adventure, more out-of-control deficit spending, more kowtowing to both the extremely wealthy on the one hand, having made deals behind closed doors for “special” deals for them, and the lay class on the other hand who wants to do the same thing as the elitists, i.e., fleece the middle class, more unfettered immigration – both hurting wages and increasing loss of income from taxes to pay for the medical care of immigrants (because the elitists won’t pay them medical care), and on and on the list could go.
They heard the message loud and clear. They rejected it, and soundly so.
The problem wasn’t a failure to communicate. They communicated all too well.
They still don’t get it. I hope they never do.
On November 10, 2024 at 9:48 pm, Archer said:
Do you ever want to pull aside every Right-leaning pundit explaining to the Left what they did wrong, smack them upside the head, and say, “Don’t help them!”
The Left doesn’t understand the American people. As long as they continue failing to understand, liberty, goodness, and common sense will prevail. Why would anyone who wants goodness to win offer help to the enemy?
The Left wants to control everything they can and destroy everything they can’t. Don’t help them!
On November 11, 2024 at 4:52 am, Joe Blow said:
I’ve said this before (here) and I will end up saying it again. Folks still don’t get it.
They believe in their hearts and souls, down to the tips of their toes, that they are right! No amount of factual evidence will ever change their minds. No matter how large the margin in the vote, they will still never, ever be wrong.
YOU are simply too ignorant, too stupid to understand things at the level they do. YOU have ruined what would have been a better world if you would just get out of their way and let them lead! It’s all your fault! Don’t you get it!???!!
… Listen, I used to live there. That IS how they think. No matter how many times communism has failed, it rears its ugly head with the argument: We didn’t do it right the last 56,000 times, but this time, THIS TIME, I’m smarter, and will be able to pull it off! EVERY SINGLE TIME it has failed, every single time it comes back, they argue it wasn’t done right. No matter how many times it fails. I’d at least try to come up w/ a different argument as to why it failed and we should try again. But they don’t! Same tired old argument, doesn’t matter that it doesn’t hold water. It’s not about logic.
You won’t reason with them. You can’t change their minds, or convince them they were wrong. You still see idiots wearing masks alone in cars fer crying out loud! Why? B/c if they stopped doing it that would mean they were wrong earlier. Which is impossible. That’s how their brain works. They WILL see it all burn down before accepting fault and failure, because those concepts don’t exist in their world. They grew up as snowflakes who could never do wrong, you think that changed when they turned 30?
On November 11, 2024 at 7:35 am, SteadySteve said:
The left is not capable of critical thought, they emote only. They are as thoroughly convinced of the righteousness of their cause as any Nazi was. Unbelievable as it sounds, the MSM does not lie. They are so bought in to their propaganda no other viewpoint is possible. They can not evaluate new ideas or re-evaluate their own. Pretty sad bunch.
On November 11, 2024 at 10:43 am, snuffy said:
To paraphrase Barney Fife, She’s a NUT! I wonder what they’d say if a man who identified as a woman ran for President as a Republican? Now that would really bake their noodle.
On November 11, 2024 at 11:13 am, george 1 said:
The truth is Trump got approximately 2 million more votes than he got in 2020. The difference is they did not massively cheat this time (82 million votes for Joe Biden in 2020.) We need to ask ourselves why that happened. At about 74 million votes for Trump, the election was obviously not “Too Big to Rig.”
Were the Republicans that good this time at preventing the cheating? Note that many if not most of the professional Republicans hate Trump. If they did prevent the cheating, they neglected the down ballots because there was much cheating there. Did the left suddenly develop a sense of shame at selling us another 80 million or so votes for Kamala? I have never know the left to be shameful or cautious at any of their antics.
We need to ask ourselves these questions. IMHO Trump was allowed to win. Did he make a deal? If so what did he promise TPTB?
On November 11, 2024 at 3:42 pm, RCW said:
“Confusion to the enemy.” An always appropriate toast, made by the Duke in Chisum.
On November 11, 2024 at 4:13 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Archer,
They don’t read my stuff. Not to worry. My readership is small anyway.
On November 11, 2024 at 9:15 pm, PGF said:
If they could just find a better way to talk down to me…
On November 12, 2024 at 5:13 pm, For Victory said:
This just in from Napoleon, step back do not intervene.
The petulant kindergarten CPUSA (D) would be hilarious if the useful idiots didn’t hunger for the Red Terror.
Coexist?
This continent just ain’t big enough, comrade.
On November 13, 2024 at 4:35 am, Lori G said:
I still think sane women select their president on merit. At least….I do.