The left are still, against all evidence, clinging to the conceit that they are the ‘party of the worker’, which is odd, given that they’re populated by people who are not only as removed from the working-class as the courtiers of the Sun King, but who openly despise working people. Not a single MP in the Australian Labor Party has ever worked a day in a blue-collar job in their entire lives. Most of them have never had a job outside politics.
Some of them are beginning to realise it: when working-class voters, men especially, turned to Donald Trump in droves at the last election, the Democrats were flabbergasted. It was quite the shock to realise that they no longer owned blue-collar males any more than they still owned their slaves.
So out of touch are they, that they’re spending millions of consultants, to help them understand ‘American Men’. Because, apparently, ordinary American men are as remote and unfathomable to the modern left as any dusky-hued tribe of the 18th century confronting periwig-wearing European explorers for the first time.
Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.
The plan, code-named SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” promises to use the funds to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces,” according to the report.
Rumour has it that the Dems’ next campaign slogan will be, ‘You-ee wantem heap big shiny beads?’
As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”
Because that’s exactly how the elite chatterers of the left see the inhabitants of ‘flyover country’.
But, hey, they’re hep to the kids’ groove, man.
The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.
Oh, dear God. Satire becomes reality:
“The Democratic Party’s tarnished image could not come at a more inopportune moment,” the article detailed. “In this era of political polarization, the national party’s brand is more important and influential than ever, often driving the outcomes of even the most local of races.”
In response, Democrat operatives and donors have gathered at swank hotels to craft plans on how to draw back the working class and male voters, the Times reported.
Déjà vu: we’ve already seen out-of-touch leftist politicians try this out, right here in Australia. It went down about as well as you’d think.
In 2013, Julia Gillard decided to grace the plebs with her regal presence and, sigh, ‘listen’ to whatever it is that poor people whine about. Probably the price of beluga, or something.
So, La Gillard and her coterie travelled deep into ‘real Australia’. Yes: they ventured all of 40km into deepest, darkest Rooty Hill, and a fabled, remote citadel called, according to traveller’s tales, ‘Rooty Hill RSL’. It was a textbook lesson in how not to dispel the lingering conviction that you’re an out-of-touch snob.
With a stunning instinct for optics, Gillard, her entourage trailing in her wake, sailed, nose in the air, right past the Dazzas and Shazzas tucking into their parmis, and locked herself in a private function room with a coterie of mummy bloggers from the Harbourside Mansion set. Mummy bloggers who proceeded to publish sneering posts about the ‘muck’ on the menu: ugh, people EAT this? Lasagna and garlic bread? Well, really! All those carbs!
To make matters worse, sharp-eyed journalists noted that Her Majesty’s luggage was labelled ‘overseas’. As if Western Sydney was indeed a foreign country to the left elite.
As you imagine, it all went down about as well as a taking over Auntie Merle’s favourite pokie machine when she nipped out for a fag.
At least some Dems are aware of how ridiculous and condescending it all looks.
Democratic strategist Michael Ceraso told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he does not take issue with Democrats investing in voter engagement strategies but added that he found it “hilarious” that “people in suits are hanging out at luxury hotels asking how they can talk to day-to-day Americans” […]
Democrats spending millions studying American male “syntax” sparked condemnation from conservatives and Democrats alike on social media, Fox News Digital found.
Stand by for an avalanche of more cringe like this:
