...why they lost: the refusal of the Democratic Party to trust the people....
I think underlying that lack of trust is their drumbeat of accusations, or their own actual assumption, that anyone who disagreed with them or with their candidate had to be racist and sexist.
After a time, even many of those opposed to Trump would grow tired of being targeted like that.
And when kindergarteners and early grade-schoolers have been getting a curriculum that I've cynically dubbed "Jimmy Savile memorial sex ed", with parents and other legal guardians locked out of the loop and told that their concerns are proof of vile motives...
But it's not the reason this English professor thinks it is. The reason is that there is an awful lot of peer pressure-- and even MORE pressure from the administration and the professoriate-- in the university to support the Democrat/Progressive/Liberal narratives de jour. Outside the university, do you see a similar amount of workplace pressure-- from peers or from management-- to support a given political point of view? I very much doubt it. I certainly haven't experienced it.
I am hearing this drivel from an English professor. English was my least favorite course in high school and college, in spite of my being a heavy reader from grade one onward. Having suffered through English professors pushing the Junior Literary Critic role on me, I'll be damned if I'll listen to what a twit of an English professor has to say about politics.
Post-mortems abound today, but in my opinion this is why they lost: the refusal of the Democratic Party to trust the people, i.e. the demos.
ReplyDeleteSeveral "hostage situation" metaphors in the press this morning.
Gabriel's comment is likely much more effective than anything I was going to say.
ReplyDelete...why they lost: the refusal of the Democratic Party to trust the people....
ReplyDeleteI think underlying that lack of trust is their drumbeat of accusations, or their own actual assumption, that anyone who disagreed with them or with their candidate had to be racist and sexist.
After a time, even many of those opposed to Trump would grow tired of being targeted like that.
Eric Hines
And when kindergarteners and early grade-schoolers have been getting a curriculum that I've cynically dubbed "Jimmy Savile memorial sex ed", with parents and other legal guardians locked out of the loop and told that their concerns are proof of vile motives...
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason why educated people vote blue
ReplyDeleteBut it's not the reason this English professor thinks it is. The reason is that there is an awful lot of peer pressure-- and even MORE pressure from the administration and the professoriate-- in the university to support the Democrat/Progressive/Liberal narratives de jour. Outside the university, do you see a similar amount of workplace pressure-- from peers or from management-- to support a given political point of view? I very much doubt it. I certainly haven't experienced it.
I am hearing this drivel from an English professor. English was my least favorite course in high school and college, in spite of my being a heavy reader from grade one onward. Having suffered through English professors pushing the Junior Literary Critic role on me, I'll be damned if I'll listen to what a twit of an English professor has to say about politics.
Professors live in a bubble.