I donate to Democrats, not a lot of money, but enough to where most of their requests I send to spam after two or three requests. So, what do they do after the loss nationwide and here in Harris County? They sent me a survey on whether I support Gay and Transgender rights, but I deleted the email without responding, they were persistent. The next email asked me if I supported abortion, and I did not react and deleted the email. In the third email, they asked me how I felt about immigration; again, I did not respond and deleted the email. There won’t be any more such emails as I labeled the senders as spam.
There are a few Democrats who are starting to open their eyes. Whether the identity party members who run the party listen to the message of a Democrat and a Republican, time will tell.
First, the Democrat, James Carville:
I’ve been going over this in my head for the past two months, all the variables, all the what-ifs, all the questions about Joe Biden’s re-election decisions and what kind of Democrat or message might have worked against Donald Trump. I keep coming back to the same thing. We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is and it always will be the economy, stupid. We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else.
… Mr. Trump, for the first time in his political career, decisively won by seizing a swath of middle-class and low-income voters focused on the economy. Democrats have flat-out lost the economic narrative. The only path to electoral salvation is to take it back. Perception is everything in politics, and a lot of Americans perceive us as out to lunch on the economy — not feeling their pain, or else caring too much about other things instead.
To win back the economic narrative, we must focus on revving up a transformed messaging machine for the new political paradigm we now find ourselves living in. It’s about finding ways to talk to Americans about the economy that are persuasive. Repetitive. Memorable. And entirely focused on the issues that affect Americans’ everyday lives.
Now, Steve Bannon:
Donald Trump’s one-time White House strategist Steve Bannon warned Elon Musk Tuesday that he and other MAGA diehards are going to “rip your face off” unless Musk smartens up and stops pushing visas for skilled foreign workers to take good-paying tech industry jobs away from Americans.
… Don’t “come up and go to the pulpit in your first week here and start lecturing people about the way things are going to be,” Bannon added. “If you’re going to do that, we’re going to rip your face off.”
Bannon called for a “100% moratorium on all immigration until we get this thing sorted.”
Bannon the previous day demanded “reparations” from Musk and other tech leaders for cutting Americans out of jobs. The visa issue is “central to the way they gutted the middle class in this country,” he complained.
I used Wikipedia as a source since the Afrikan, Elon Musk, asked Americans not to donate to them. I have already made my yearly donation, but I will donate more this year. All of you who think we need to take care of our people first will give a few dollars to Wikipedia.
If Democrats want to know what I think, let them ask me, “What do you think matters?” rather than go down a list of what they think matters.