It’s kind of an issue with democracy in general tbh. When the dominant party is constantly flipping its way harder to get things done long-term, especially as the parties become more polarized against each other. It’s not as much an issue in democracies where one party has been dominant for a long time (like Japan) but in that case you get into issues like corruption and shitty legislation never being challenged.
Polarizing is killing the Democrats right now. Democratic politics is ultimately a matter of marketing and sales. Yes, you want to heighten differences. If I'm leading marketing at Pepsico, I want to emphasize the differences between Gatorade and Powerade and convince you that Powerade might as well be horse piss. Yeah, in real life, the differences are marginal, but telling people that doesn't drive revenue into my bottom line.
But what you don't want to do is reflexively do the opposite of your competitor, and that's what the Democrats have done. When Republicans say black, Democrats say white. When we say up, they say down. When we say cold, they say hot. This is incredibly stupid
because sometimes your competitor has good ideas, and doing the opposite makes you look retarded and insane. When your competitor has a good idea, what you want to do is either outflank your competition with an even better product, or diminish the value of their product, convincing consumers it's just not that great.
Imagine if Coca-Cola comes out with a new bottle that has a built-in straw. Crowds love it, people go wild, CEO of Coca Cola gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Over here, at Pepsico, I look at Coca-Cola's marketing for its new No-Spill bottle, and they're advertising how it's easier to drink and never spills, so I launch a new bottle that makes it
harder to drink and is
constantly spilling down your shirt front or slopping out of the bottle as you walk. My advertising material centers on how Adolf Hitler didn't like spilling his soft drinks, and if you don't spill your drink on your shirt, you might be a Nazi.
This is obviously retarded and insane, but this is how Democratic political strategy currently works. Their various messages:
- You know who else didn't like getting stabbed in the neck? Hitler.
- You know else wanted people in his country to have jobs? Hitler.
- Oh, you like babies and families? Hmmm...Nazi propaganda celebrated babies and families, too, you know.
- Don't like international narco-gangs trafficking drugs and slaves into your country? NEITHER DID HITLER, YOU FUCKING NAZI.
- Whoa! Did I just hear someone complain about crumbling infrastructure? Mind screaming that in German? Who does that sound like?
- There are people who think it's funny and cool that Charlie Kirk took a bullet to the throat, and there are Nazis.
It's why their party is bleeding.
