In the battle between the Popularists and the Wokesters... it turns out they are both wrong

Ezra Klein has a loooong article in the Sunday NY Times titled, “Can Democrats Find a Winning Message?” It details a battle within the Democratic Party between two rival groups of pollsters — the Popularists (led by David Shor) and the Wokesters (led by the BLM, MeToo, climate change, and immigration reform crowd). Like nearly everything Klein does, the piece is well-written, meticulously researched, and almost certainly wrong. I’ll briefly summarize the argument and then (*ahem*) explain why it completely misses the mark.

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Senate Democrats could win 51 percent of the two-party vote in the next two elections and end up with only 43 seats in the Senate.

nytimes.comOpinion | David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to HearHis forecasting model shows a looming disaster for Senate Democrats. Are they going to do anything about it?

Democrats are very worried about the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 Presidential election. Almost all of the modeling by various pollsters shows Democrats losing the House and Senate in 2022 and then losing even more seats and the Presidency in 2024.

There are a number of theories as to why Democrats’ grasp on power is slipping. Foremost among them is that the Democratic Party does not represent the working class anymore. Democrats are now a technocratic party that represents college educated people. But with only 1/3 of the U.S. population having a college degree, that’s not enough to build an electoral majority. In the past, Democrats could count on support from the working class — primarily unionized factory workers. But when Democrats led by Bill Clinton became free traders and started sending U.S. factory jobs to Mexico via NAFTA and China via its entry into the World Trade Organization, the working class turned on the Democratic Party. Because these voters (along with traditional Republicans) are concentrated in smaller and rural states that are overrepresented (relative to population) in the Electoral College and the Senate, they provided the margin of victory for Donald Trump in 2016 and will likely hand the Congress to Republicans in 2022.

Democrats want to try to find a way to reverse this looming electoral tsunami that threatens to lock them out of power for at least a decade. This has led to a clash between two rival groups of Democratic pollsters. The Popularists (not to be confused with Orange Man Bad Populists) argue that the way to win elections is to poll voters relentlessly, figure out what’s popular with them, and only talk about the popular issues. Pretty obvious and not really that controversial. But it’s a strategy focused more on messaging than anything else — as if Dems’ biggest problem is only how they talk about issues (this is very post-modern and stems from a generation of Democrats studying Foucault in college).

But the Popularists are opposed by a different group of pollsters who are labelled the Wokesters (a term they hate) who argue that the purpose of both policy and messaging is to change the minds of voters by doing what is “right”. The idea is — who cares if defunding the police, relaxing immigration laws, and mitigating climate change do not poll well. They are the right thing to do and when you do the right thing people will eventually recognize that and come over to your side. It’s this sort of social justice paternalism infused with ruling class superiority and “nudge” behavioral economics. Both rival groups of pollsters would surely dispute this over-simplification of their position. But it does not matter because they are both a million miles off the mark and not really worth discussing further.

My view: The Democratic Party is indeed going to get wiped out in 2022, 2024, and thereafter. But it’s not because of demographics nor their messaging in connection with race, immigration, or climate change. The Democratic Party is about to get wiped out because they only believe in one thing — Pharma Fanaticism. And this will lead to not just the end of the Democratic Party but to the end of the United States of America as a viable nation and the end of life as we know it on earth.

Here’s what voters actually care about. The U.S. spends a small fortune on education and yet has declining test scores and IQ. The U.S. spends more per capita on “health care” than any other nation in the world and yet has declining health (over 54% of American children have at least one chronic health condition). The U.S. spends $750 billion a year on Defense and yet the D.o.D. partnered with a Chinese bioweapons lab to develop chimera viruses that have killed more Americans than all foreign wars combined.

ALL OF THESE BAD OUTCOMES ARE THE RESULT OF PHARMA’S CAPTURE OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM AND DEMOCRATS’ REFUSAL TO SEE THIS.

The reason the U.S. has such abysmal educational and health outcomes is because throughout the life cycle (from pregnancy through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age) doctors pump our citizens full of known neurotoxins via vaccines. The reason the Department of Defense does not stop Fauci from sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to the bioweapons lab of our biggest military adversary is because the entire political system is captured by Pharma. The reason why the media does not say anything about all of this is because they are captured by Pharma. The reason why the Democratic Party does not say anything about the genocide is because the Democratic Party is wholly owned by Pharma.

EVERY DREAM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS — FROM RACIAL JUSTICE TO EQUALITY FOR WOMEN TO ENDING POVERTY IS ALREADY CRASHING AND BURNING BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE SCHEDULE.

According to the best data set in the world on vaccine benefits and harms every vaccine on the U.S. schedule causes net harms. But Democrats never examine the underlying data because the white coats leading the genocide are a key part of their technocratic electoral base. To question vaccines would be to question their largest donors and the elite educated core of the party (and the entire notion of “meritocracy”). And Dems are not willing to do that. So the Democratic Party does whatever Pharma tells them to do. Pharma’s business model is to maim the entire world so that they can suck all of the wealth out of 6 billion people and put it into their pockets and so this has become the business model of the Democratic Party as well. And then the Democratic Party uses their massive messaging machine to blame critical thinkers for their declining popularity.

THE PROBLEM FACING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOT POLICY NOR MESSAGING PER SE, IT’S THEIR PHARMA FANATICISM.

Republicans thus should be able to win every election for the next 100 years. But most Republicans do not realize that they hold the winning hand. Hammering Dems for leading a genocide against the American people since 1986 via the vaccine schedule is a winning political issue. Instead both federal and state-level Republicans focus on dumb cultural issues — “open borders”, critical race theory, various conspiracy theories, and whatever the Orange Man is on about that day. At best those issues can get a political party to 50% of the vote. But blowing the whistle on Pharma’s genocide of the American people will get the party to 80% or 90% of the vote (because it turns out that most voters are anti-mass-murder).

Any Republican Governor who wants to get elected President should put out an arrest warrant for Tony Fauci, ignore the FDA and CDC (explain that they are staffed with criminals), and pass out free ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and zinc to everyone in the state. But thus far they have not bothered to drain this two foot putt. Instead we get contradictory half measures and battles over masks and “exemption” rules when the real battle should be about stopping the Pharma genocide altogether.

So it’s anybody’s ballgame at this point. Whichever political party stops the Pharma genocide will be rewarded by voters for generations. But right now neither political party seems capable of strategic thinking or strong leadership. So the way forward very likely will be a popular uprising that wipes out both political parties and replaces them with people who respect personal sovereignty.