misguidedfunk

I firmly believe the Democrats don't know how to capitalize on a win. The incessant need to compromise with bad faith actors dilutes any win they actually are capable of. It is a bedrock principle of a republic, but only when the other side is operating in good faith.

I don't know what else you expect honestly? Either you give the non voters something to vote for or you accept the status quo, either way gerrymandered districts will not be looked at again until 2030. The voters you are trying to change, i suspect will not as most are single issue voters that have been told since birth that their worldview they are taught is correct. It's not a matter of changing their mindset, you also have to contend with their entire world view is misguided, and that of their parents. It's an uphill battle that I'm not sure will be won within a generation or even two. Many of the same voters you are talking about were raised by the same people who fought desegregation. The apple doesn't fall from the tree. Hate isn't an implicit idea we're born with, you gotta be taught to hate.

Progress has to start somewhere though, and making policies that directly impact non voters is a sure way to turn them into voters for your platform. Writing off an entire area as a lost cause however will just deepen the divide and allow Republicans to push even more extreme platform positions because they get to virtually run unopposed at home. Their only danger is not being conservative enough and getting primaried.

You can only hope to outvote them until redistricting happens in 2030. It’s sucks but winning elections, especially around the census absolutely have consequences. We need actual grassroots campaigns to get candidates with a winning formula. Stacey abrams should be heading the DNC because she is masterful at it.

I don’t think you will ever convince the ones voting for those policies. You need to convince the ones not voting that candidates actually care for their well being and inspire them to believe their vote matters. Our voter turnout remains low because most feel their vote doesn’t matter.

I honestly think the infrastructure bill is the message that needs to be pounded into their ears. So many rural areas are absolutely crumbling from an infrastructure perspective. Literally everything is old, crumbling, and jobs are leaving. Democrats need to point out where the money for projects came from and where the new jobs came from. Then build off that. Representatives always have to run off of constituents saying, what have you done for me lately? Show them and plan for their future, cause the republicans don’t have anything but identity politics.

Let’s be honest, they are not choosing that. Interest groups and their leaders are and it’s being disseminated to the populace through their mass media arms. Their voters have been conditioned to accept only the most extreme and conservative view because of a lack of opposing viewpoint that comes from their own communities. Democrats are always seen as the Other in rural areas largely because of the rural/urban divide and the fact the Democrats do not market their platform to rural voters. Even when they run candidates here it’s very rarely they actually run on how to improve people’s lives here.

Rural areas aren’t just farmlands. There is a symbiotic relationship between cities and rural areas that is often not discussed. Like it or not, natural resources that cities require to function must come from the rural areas. People will always live in rural areas and we shouldn’t just leave them to the whims of the Republican Party. The democratic party needs to return to being for blue collar workers just as much as white collar. These rural areas would see huge economic and political changes if unions came back.

Fsr really needs more hardware level help to match nvidia. Dlss is an absolute game changing feature that can often be imperceptible to base rendering in game. Fsr has never looked that good and I expect will never improve at the same pace as dlss if AMD only uses the open source assets they created.

Ignoring their economic issues is not an option. Republicans run unopposed in many rural areas because there is no counter to their platform.

Which is why they move and don’t come back. Rural America has nothing for college students to draw them back.

Democrats need to offer financial incentives to help bring back jobs to rural areas. There needs to be something to counteract republicans using Christian out as a means to get votes. Until that happens you want see the left winning anything in rural areas. It sucks but the democrat platform tends to heavily favor cities.

That’s really strange to not include the m.2 then.