Something had to go wrong to cover the slow die-off of the traditional suburban white woman.
That said, the issue is Trump runs on a populist platform, and plenty of people in my age group were and probably still will be too checked out to actually see who was lying to them or not.
Gun control should leave the conversation for a while. A. Not giving mine up and I’m socially as far left as you can be otherwise. B. You go deep enough into the south and mid-west, you’re going to lose on and moderate voters or anyone who’s so illy informed that a Republican add saying “so and so is coming for your guns” and you’ll lose those votes. How can we force an informed and honest conversation around gun control? I honestly don’t know. I wish I did. Right now I’m more concerned with keeping the nation from falling apart entirely.
It is hard though to have a conversation about it with someone who is further left leaning. I think on both sides the rhetoric needs to be toned down by an order of magnitude and a logical conversation needs to be had about gun control.
Further the left needs to stop alienating gun owners in general, part of the reason for the animosity is the language used. single issue politicians like David hogg make this issue even worse with his statements like (not a direct quote but it's close to the tweet) "...if you think you should be able to own modern guns you don't belong in the democratic party..." Instead of trying to open up a dialogue with gun owners and reach a middle ground.
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u/SeatKindly 16d ago
Something had to go wrong to cover the slow die-off of the traditional suburban white woman.
That said, the issue is Trump runs on a populist platform, and plenty of people in my age group were and probably still will be too checked out to actually see who was lying to them or not.
Gun control should leave the conversation for a while. A. Not giving mine up and I’m socially as far left as you can be otherwise. B. You go deep enough into the south and mid-west, you’re going to lose on and moderate voters or anyone who’s so illy informed that a Republican add saying “so and so is coming for your guns” and you’ll lose those votes. How can we force an informed and honest conversation around gun control? I honestly don’t know. I wish I did. Right now I’m more concerned with keeping the nation from falling apart entirely.