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Eleanors38

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10. Eltes talking to elites about culture war. I think the DNC has given up on...
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 04:15 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Fri Jul 29, 2016, 02:50 PM - Edit history (1)

...down-ballot candidates, and written off whole legislatures. The speeches are meant to reassure older Demo elites that they are still in the fight over something, somewhere, and for some reason think it will help the presidential race.

There is a lotta big money behind gun-control, and the Party has for some 40 years signalled its willingness to talk seriously about the demands of the extremely wealthy, so no surprse there. But there is a strange symbolic game in which Party leadership is running down the hall way, banging on doors and fervently whispering "gun-control! gun-control!", not knowing that most of the rooms are empty. Personally, I believe the issue is thought to resonate most with women, esp. black women. In the long run, however, this will not ring true -- too many women are arming up, for hunting and SD, thus growing a newer, younger constituency. But older elites still cling bitterly to GunControl, Inc.

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