{"id":5278,"date":"2021-05-31T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:26:35","slug":"wokeness-is-a-problem-and-we-all-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWokeness is a problem and we all know it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Right, but we can\u2019t say, \u201cRepublicans are going to call us socialists no matter what, so let\u2019s just run as out-and-out socialists.\u201d That\u2019s not the smartest thing to do. And maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police<\/a> isn\u2019t the smartest thing to do because almost fucking no one<\/a> wants to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the deal: No matter how you look at the map, the only way Democrats can hold power is to build on their coalition, and that will have to include more rural white voters from across the country. Democrats are never going to win a majority of these voters. That\u2019s the reality. But the difference between getting beat 80 to 20 and 72 to 28 is all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they just have to lose by less \u2014 that\u2019s all.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like \u201cLatinX\u201d<\/a> that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like \u201ccommunities of color.\u201d I don\u2019t know anyone who speaks like that. I don\u2019t know anyone who lives in a \u201ccommunity of color.\u201d I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you\u2019re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22338417\/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Right, but we can\u2019t say, \u201cRepublicans are going to call us socialists no matter what, so let\u2019s just run as out-and-out socialists.\u201d That\u2019s not the smartest thing to do. And maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police isn\u2019t the smartest thing to do because almost fucking no one wants to do that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the deal: No matter how you look at the map, the only way Democrats can hold power is to build on their coalition, and that will have to include more rural white voters from across the country. Democrats are never going to win a majority of these voters. That\u2019s the reality. But the difference between getting beat 80 to 20 and 72 to 28 is all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n

So they just have to lose by less \u2014 that\u2019s all.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like \u201cLatinX\u201d that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like \u201ccommunities of color.\u201d I don\u2019t know anyone who speaks like that. I don\u2019t know anyone who lives in a \u201ccommunity of color.\u201d I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you\u2019re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,428,386,1280],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-electoral-system","tag-voters","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}