.. to the point of voting. I have deep and extensive family roots in the industrial Midwest-- Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. I am directly removed from that demographic, and have been for most of my life, but I still keep in touch with many many people out there. The dismissiveness and disdain shown toward that demographic, quite widely, in the MSM does not and has not sat well. Most of those folks, like folks everywhere, want the same thing everyone else does: peace, prosperity, three squares, to be left alone to live their lives for the most part. It doesn't help, sure, that the most offensive sound bites get isolated, cut out, and then thrown up all over Twitter and facebook, but that doesn't change the fact that they are still deeply offensive sound bites. And when the bias of much of the media, which has always been there to a certain extent, but which has become more pronounced in recent years, starts crossing the line, as it has here, it absolutely does push some people off of the fence, and they are pushed in the direction opposite of which they think the press is advocating, in this case for Biden (and, in 2016, for Clinton). People don't like being told what to do or what to think, and they especially don't like being told what to do or what to think after having been pissed on by the same folks who are now trying to tell them what to do and what to think.

And, fwiw, my impression is that the press and the DNC are making many of the exact same mistakes they made in 2016. One of which is underestimating the disaffectation of the blue collar demographic in those industrial and formerly industrial swing States

Again, this is not me, I'm just the messenger.


[Post edited by EAPo at 08/28/2020 12:12PM]