So having on your side 90% of media, academia, secondary education, and business isn’t enough? That wasn’t decisive but a dozen more influencers will be?
What will it take for the Dems to accept that the problem isn’t that the vehicle of delivery is flawed but that the ideas they are trying to deliver are bad?
It’s not an “influencer” problem, as you’ve pointed out. Their problem is that their ideas break down when confronted with any opposition, which is why they need to maintain absolute control of all media platforms they participate in. It’s a feature, not a bug. This is why any calls for dems to moderate themselves will fail.
https://simonlaird.substack.com/p/democrats-cant-change
Democrat spaces have a very censorious climate. Their side actively censors dissident news outlets and there’s also a climate of fear around saying the wrong thing. Centrist democrats think that their party can simply stop being censorious and hold on to all of its real policy positions, but I don’t think that’s possible. Once you drop the censorship, a lot of democrat ideas fall apart.
Democrats also can’t afford to stop being censorious, because if the people being censored are allowed to speak, Democrats will lose. There are many issues where one side is vehemently demonized and censored, and many people think that if only the Left would stop demonizing the other side, people would be more sympathetic to the Left. But actually, once you hear from the non-Left side, it immediately becomes clear that the issue does not actually have two sides.
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