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Look we're all grateful for the Americans that do care about The Alliance but we've seen the political trends in America and it looks bad. You can't elect Trump twice and say it doesn't represent America. Trump's politics isn't going away. The Democrats allowed 'radical' social change to dictate the party platform and didn't implement enough reforms to please the average citizen. Until they do or Trump makes massive blunders we don't have a hope that the old America is coming back.



Everything you're saying about the international trust American voters have betrayed and thrown away is pretty reasonable. But this:

> The Democrats allowed 'radical' social change to dictate the party platform and didn't implement enough reforms to please the average citizen.

is false.

Democratic policy has done plenty to benefit average citizens, in a long tradition (at one point bipartisan) going back to WW2.

And it's never been centered around any idea more "radical" than taking seriously the words of the declaration of independence about equality, inalienable rights, and life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, even for people who are doing something others think is weird.

It's even pretty clear that Democratic policies have strong electoral popularity:

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50802-harris-vs-t...

https://www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/8/22/harris-ca...

But "swing" voters (assuming they really exist in any form as popularly understood) among others are often not really clear on who supports the policies they prefer. My suspicion is that this comes from Democratic underinvestment and poor investments in media and culture while their opposition has been doing this aggressively, which allows others to define them as radical.


It’s a grave mistake to assume that some “old” America is ever coming back.




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