Since you're a thinking person please contemplate: How is it that you lose elections - when you OPENLY want to make it easier and better for people - and the WINNERS *openly* talk about taking shit away from them?

If you ever answer that - without conceit and sarcasm -- and then put that into action - it would not only be landslide time, but governing mandate time - with some bipartisanship included.

I never did poly-sci, but I gather that it's mostly about culture and bigotry. A lot of people, even on the Left, are uncomfortable with the embrace of gender issues (Obama was, and was on record prior to 2008 being against gay marriage). So when the far-left show no such reservations, they aren't just making the Right say "eww". People are uncomfortable with a more open culture, or one that they don't recognize.

And then bigotry...I had to look up the quote to get it right: If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. (LBJ) This, I think, is at the heart of the anti-DEI frenzy. We're NOT doing that (making the lowest white man feel better...), and we're seeing the backlash. Working class folks that normally would be in the Dem's corner are choosing to side with the party that is screwing them because the party that ISN'T screwing them also isn't screwing minorities (black, gay, trans, whatever). I don't get that psychology, but they're more interested in denigrating those groups than benefiting themselves.

It's likely more complex than that, but that's my take-away from events over the last decade or so. And, no, I don't have a solution to that, so can't guide them to a landslide.

As an aside, I try not to be mean to anyone. That doesn't foster conversation. I don't even rec posts that are direct attacks on people (though I will rec posts that attack their ideas). It may feel good to blast someone, but it's not productive.