General Discussion

Instead of assuming what they think, putting them in boxes, and then talking over and past them when they tell you their concerns.

That's like the easiest step possible. But if this past week is an indication, that simple step is going to be very difficult for people to manage.

Even your reply makes wild assumptions based on a worldview that just got rejected at the ballot box. They "ignored facts". People always do. It's the human condition. But did some people simply prioritize differently? And did we ignore facts? Because I know lots of people who just pretended crippling cost of living increases weren't a thing that mattered much. They're still arguing about it. "Desire to stick it to the Dems" So that was all of them? Half the country just went, "I'm doing this to spite you." Because that sounds like your characterization based on bias instead of objective perception of behavior. "Short of groveling to them" - Talking to people is groveling in your view. Don't you think that's a bit revealing? That you can't see a mutual back and forth conversation, only submission and dominance in exchanges with people? "Treated by disdain" - some people disdain us. There's no talking around that. But all of them? There are no people who simply made choices they deemed part of their self-interest? It's just all about me personally? "You did this because you hate me!" Isn't this attitude a bit narcissistic? In my experience, most people aren't even thinking about me much less making major choices based on it. A few will. There's always a few. But the world in general doesn't run based on it.

The lens through which these attitude are expressed strikes me as a very self-centered one. How I feel, how this affects me, how my pride or my self-perception will be affected if I have to, you know, talk to people.

Egos have gotten in the way of too much. And now we're "I have a right to all my rage!" Well, of course people have a right to their feelings.

But this stuff scares off the normies. As in, "I will cross the street to avoid that person" levels of off-putting.