TheDemonBuer

I am not a leader or strategist. I wouldn't know how to begin to construct the plan necessary to achieve what I've outlined, assuming such a plan could ever actually exist.

It doesn't. It's not possible. I'm a silly dreamer, nothing more.

Don't patronize me. I'm not a child. I understand my ideals are likely unrealistic and unachievable. I'm not a revolutionary leader, and I don't claim to be. I was just trying to explain my ideal.

I have no idea. It might not even be possible. I simply wanted to clarify what it is people like me desire for the world.

Yes, I am reminded nearly daily of why a better world is likely not possible. I was simply clarifying my position. I want liberals to understand our desires, I'm not necessarily predicting what will or can happen.

Like I said, I want hegemony itself to be abolished and replaced with a democratic order. I don't want a world dominated by any nation. I want the order based on domination to be replaced with an order based on democracy.

Fuck the liberal hegemonic order. Even if a liberal hegemony is theoretically "better" or "preferable" to other hypothetical hegemonic orders, that is not a justification for the existence of hegemony itself. Many of us who want to see the liberal hegemonic order abolished want that not because we want to see it replaced with another hegemonic order (like, for instance, a Marxist-Leninist/Maoist hegemonic order), but because we want hegemony itself abolished, and replaced with a democratic order, in which the nations of the world collaborate, cooperate, and strive for peaceful coexistence.

The Democrats are definitely the party of elites: celebrities, experts, academics, artists, and intellectuals. While many of these people are relatively wealthy, their status as an elite is not defined by their wealth. Unlike the Republicans who prioritize wealth over essentially all else. But it does not necessarily require great expertise, academic success, or intellect to become very wealthy. The Democrats are the smart, cool, accomplished, and popular kids, the Republicans are the ultra rich weirdos.

I don't think the "average" person really likes either of these groups. The Democrats are the party of the people who think they are the smartest and most important people in the room, and they may be right but that attitude is very off-putting. And, again, the Republicans are extremely rich and they are insane.

I don't understand at all why anyone would want to vote for the ultra rich weirdos, but I do understand why people wouldn't want to vote for someone who thinks they are more beautiful, more talented, more successful, more intelligent, and more accomplished than you, even if it is true.

Only sometimes?

I seriously doubt left wingers were the difference in this election. I doubt there are significant enough numbers of far left people in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin for it to have made any real difference.

Conservatives tend to have more kids than liberals. Maybe that has something to do with it. Seems to me, people are often heavily influenced by their parents when it comes to politics.

People can feel whatever they want about the economy.

Yes, that's true.

The question is, should they feel that way?

You're making a normative claim. It's the is/ought distinction. There is no objectively true way to determine how someone ought to feel. You think they shouldn't feel that way. Yet, they feel that way regardless. It's not up to you, you are not an all powerful god who gets to decide how people should feel.

Or to put it another way, if I asked you why you feel the economy is bad, and you can't point to anything to explain that it is (or flatly refuse to accept any explanation) that I give, then you should rightly be told you're wrong, because you are.

I'm sure if you asked them they would give you a number of reasons for why they feel the economy isn't doing well. They might say they feel housing prices are too high, or that they're struggling to pay their bills, or that they feel pessimistic about their employment prospects, or that they're worried they won't be able to save enough for retirement, or that healthcare costs are too high, etc, etc.