The Big News of the 2024 Election – Woke Died
A number of things happened in 2024 that hopefully will change future election campaigns forever.
The first thing was identity politics. It died.
Oh, to listen to and read the legacy (big mass, corporate) media, it still lives there. And their high-salaried faces still think they sway the voters with their self-appointed, lordly empowered elite status.
Certain political leaders and staff are ignoring what happened as well. They say identity politics was just applied incorrectly and needs refinement, not discarding.
They and many others still espouse the book on identity politics. Their political leanings remain tied to the idea that certain groups of people are discriminated against and persecuted by those not in those groups. Under the notion, Americans are divided by ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class – and I’m sure, other “groups.”
So, for example, black-skinned people, especially women, need special attention, support, and exception for social and employed advancement. Historically, blacks, Jews, young adults have been registered with the Democratic Party and were expected by the ‘dividers’ to vote along party lines forever regardless of the candidate or his/her stance on issues. Frankly, they still assume they decide what the issues are and how they will be solved by the government. The votes are/were expected to be there because they believed people blindly support their Party.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Project 1619 are ways to describe why certain ‘identities’ need their specific political party to achieve success. And success is defined as diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI).
When you listen, watch or read about the 2024 national election, you see how the media breaks the population into defined groups. Examples include males and females of different races and ethnic groups, i.e. white, black, Hispanic and Asian, different religions, different sexual orientations, urban, suburban and rural.
To the identity politics way of thinking, anyone can predict how these different people are going to vote. The assumption is that these various demographics are ‘blocks’ where all members of various groups think and vote the same.
That assumption has permeated their conversation. This breakdown of the voting public is what many of the polls conducted on behalf of the media were/are designed to reveal.
This thinking has also evolved into “swing states.” This assumption reduced the 2024 election results to six states. The idea is that voters in the other 44 states are locks for one or the other political party.
So before election results are reported by the media, they assume the number of electoral college votes for one or the other presidential candidates in 44 states are known without waiting for the counting of votes.
If truth be acknowledged, political parties are becoming less and less important to voters. To suggest otherwise ignores independent voter registrations now total 45% of all voters, with Democrats and Republicans each now representing only 27% of those registered. There are likely even more voters who are registered with one political party or the other only so they can be eligible to vote in Political Party controlled primaries in their states. As more and more independents register, primaries need to be open, not partisan.
While some major media outlets are now indicating some modification to their one-sided political leanings and the pre-planned narratives of their programming and print, and re-start reporting just plain news. Gee, journalism?
What everyone should have learned from the 2024 election is that Americans don’t all fit into boxes of identity or anything else. Most Americans have assimilated to the culture and could care less about the pronouns I want you to use when talking or referring to me.
What Americans exhibited in this most recent election are obvious problems they’re directly dealing with – or put another way, just plain common sense.
As the adage goes, it’s not rocket science.
We expect our representatives, including those serving nationally, to represent our values, our concerns, and the issues created by unwanted or negligent policies and spending.
The 2024 election was won by a person who made it clear what would be done and change the course that too many reps and bureaucrats and college professors would have us think, believe and support.
Voters did not vote for Trump because he was the Republican Party nominee.
The point is Americans voted for a president and a Congress that they believed would seal the border to illegal crossings, deport criminals here illegally, get off the climate change religion of the immediate ban of fossil fuels and raising the cost of living for everything, including staples, playing with ‘limited’ war by employing a weak foreign policy, interpreting Title IX as a license for males to compete against females in sports, etc.
In other words, it marks the beginning of the end for the whole ‘woke’ toxic counterculture.
That’s not America, and the recent election proves it.
As Americans, we can all think for ourselves, thank you very much – and are expected to do so.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://spectator.org/big-money-and-big-media-lost-in-2024/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4995789-democrats-identity-politics/
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