politics

My work's been having internal discussions on the following question. 

Do we begin to advocate for the policies that the majority of voters want/voted for even if it destroys historic social programs. I'm in the yes camp but interested to hear your thoughts.

Political activist. Founder of mydemocracy.app and /advocacy. Host of the /politics channel. RCs may or may not = endorsements.

Voters overwhelmingly voted against their interests this cycle. These policies are not actually what they want - it’s an issue of not being properly informed due to overwhelming amounts of misinformation. Advocacy should take this into account first and foremost.

If I was trying to convert Trump voters into Democrats I would never mention anything close to the idea of misinformation.

That attitude is exactly the kind of thing they voted against, and if they hear anything like that, they’ll immediately tune out any other message you have that they might actually agree with

My point is that it would be an extremely ineffective strategy to tell Trump voters that they are voting against their interests because of “misinformation”

Regardless of the actual validity, these people hate the attitude that elites/PMC/deep state/etc. have who are telling them that they know their interests better than they do.

His response was that it’s not an attitude, it’s just a fact that they know better. 

This is the exact attitude that makes people vote for Trump/MAGA/broader RFK anti-establishment people. 

In a conversation about convincing people to vote for somebody else, it will fail and antagonize those voters to tell them that they are wrong about their own interests.

I largely agree with @aaronrferguson's take. There's a significant lack in policy understanding amongst voters. I've also heard lots of conversations that people didn't/don't think Trump will really do what he said he'd do while campaigning. 

That being said, people voted for change. The question that I'm struggling with is the definition of change.

Lmao

Absolutely perfect response. Good luck 👍🏼