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I feel let down. I didn't think that America was this racist, hateful or destructive to its own people. They have no idea what they have unleashed because eggs were expensive.

...and right there, Susan, is the problem. Democrats have a messaging problem, and Americans have a listening problem.

I think Democrats’ problem is less the messaging and more owning the mighty propaganda machines ( and the will to use them with regard only for power, not truth)

Bullseye! The medium is the message - and the medium is controlled by the billionaires...

...either the right wingers who want a christofascist nation or the bothsiders who normalized this.

They created the stupidity that put egg prices and criminal convictions on the same playing field, stripped of context.

I suspect disapproval of being shushed and threatened for protesting an ethnic cleansing and a genocide has more to do with this than eggs. Let's see how many registered Democrats sat out this election as compared to 2020, because that is going to reveal how impressed the rank and file are with their DNC operatives. When you up the ante of "lesser evil" to backing a genocide, that really does confuse a voter over what is "lesser." Independents turned out more than either party.

You're absolutely right that Biden voters stayed home - and that was the key difference.

But, I'm sorry to disagree on the "genocide" argument. It never occurred to me to abandong the only candidate demanding a ceasefire and two-state solution because I don't think their tactic was agressive enough.

America has now made her choice. Let's see how long it takes until we miss the Biden policy of diplomatic pressure.

Like you, I didn't make the choice to abandon what I saw as the only hope we had to avoid being ruled under a resurrected Confederate States of America, but I know those who could not bring themselves to support the genocide by lending their vote to give approval either. To call them "bothsiders" is a terribly shallow fabrication that trivializes the role the Democratic Party operatives took in bringing us both to being party to a genocide and installing Trump a second time. They followed their…