posted by Heretic
Can't say I disagree with much of what you're saying, other than being confused about the "iinternet subcultures" because I don't overly follow that stuff. And I thought that had been a big MAGA thing in past years, so my guess as to WTF are they doing would be taking the other side's "strength" and making it their own.
Internet subcultures are ideas born from places like Tumblr and make them your best policy ideas because . For example, the trans ideology really took root and grew from a specific subculture that grew up in that space (Tumblr) rather than other sites like Facebook or outside playing with friends. This is now a belief system that has grown to such a degree that entities like big pharma are pushing it because there is the potential for them to profit greatly. Big pharma has the ability to sway law and firm public mandates now. Just watch any regular show, event or news station and count how many big pharma ads there are. They have already partaken in writing domestic policy, as was exposed during Covid.
So now we have mayors and governors passing laws that remove parental rights and putting them into the hands of government. We have a president/whoever that has not only embraced this subculture but has signed into law a reshaping Title 9 to further integrate this subculture by force of government power. This Internet subculture now is gaining enough power to force people to say words they don't believe via the force of government.
So where are we now? A growing number of children and minors being permanently maimed and chemically castrated. There are no takebacks for them.
Meanwhile we got people who are now so afraid of appearing to be offensive in any manner, that want to white knight this subculture so badly, that they take it upon themselves to tone-police medical facts. We've all seen that happen in this very site.
That is just one particular example of what I mean by saying that the Dems need to stop chasing after Internet subcultures. And I mean not just the politicians but their voters too.
Another subculture that is being chased right now is portraying a politician as "brat". But if you asked anybody off the street what brat is,they will tell you the definition:

But only one part of music/entertainment culture will understand the vague and cloudy idea of a particular song that is propping up a politician.
Despite what anybody thinks about the Dems they will have to admit that this is a rather clever strategy in their part. Because it stops people from realizing or thinking about how the Dems no longer care about the working class, which their base has always been, and now affect this air of elitism.
I've pointed out a number of times just how quickly paradigms can shift and we are watching this happen in real time. While the Dems pretend that they don't know what a woman is, the Republicans just had a leader of a trade union speaking at their convention. For the first time in that unions history. That's WILD and would have been unimaginable 10 years ago.