This might be what she's getting at:
Viroqua, Wisconsin: 97% white, 0.6% black, 0.3% native, 0.7% asian, 0.4% other races; 1% hispanic/latino of any race.
San Francisco, California: 48% whites, 33% asian 6% black, 6% other races; 15% hispanic/latino of any race.
So, you read the article and came away with this conclusion? [emoji848]
That’s not even close. The author of piece nailed it here, “I wondered if any of the tourists from the coasts would be open-minded enough to absorb a reality that might cut against their preconceptions. Did Third Way and Zuckerberg and Huffpo and all the rest want to confront an angry and divided nation head-on, or would they settle for a series of earnest exchanges that left their core assumptions intact?”
Unfortunately, they settled for the last option. They learned that a majority of Americans don’t share their world view. Approximately 67 million people (Republicans & Libertarians) demonstrated at the polls that most of America have no interest in their “Third Way.” Add in another 1.1 million Americans who wrote in candidates that’s ~68 million voting Americans, many in middle America, who disagree with their left-centrist platform. Instead of seeing the diversity in our country they concluded these communities were isolating themselves & didn’t represent most of America. This was at best intellectually dishonest. Ignored the evidence and drew their own conclusions.
This whole tour was about ideology not demographics as you wrongly suggest. I understand those two things are not completely, mutually exclusive. They sought to gain an “understanding” across a large sample of people from several backgrounds. Even some who were Democrats.
To me, this shows yet again how a group connected to the DNC, pumping them information is woefully disconnected from most of America. Yes, they want a “third way” and “mutual understanding” as long as they can define what that means. Their search of a monolithic view point is an exercise in futility until they are willing to engage in the discussion instead of blaming it on isolation which, ironically, is what they’ve done to their organization. They’ve isolated themselves from most of America.
All add this as well- the Republican Party starting down this exact same road. Seeing what they want to see and hearing what they want to hear. The DNC has just traveled farther down it than them.
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