It happens a bit: You’ll learn about a new movie or TV show with a really nice, completely unique premise, but alas, the writers and actors fumbled the football in the execution. The first few days are promising, but you immediately realize that the show’s premise far exceeded the participants ‘ skills.
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It’s annoying and unpleasant.
An instance of this is the 1995 divine movie” The Prophecy”, starring Christopher Walken and Viggo Mortensen, where people discover a “lost” chapter in the Book of Revelation:  ,
Joseph:  , What is it?
Thomas Daggett:  , Twenty-third section of Saint John’s Disclosures.
Joseph:Â And?
Thomas Daggett:  , There is no twenty-third paragraph.
Joseph:  , Also, maybe this is the Teacher’s Edition.
How’s the 78-second unique teaser:
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The film has its moments ( and actually spawned a ridiculous number of straight-to-video sequels ). But I didn’t propose it, way too much foolishness and absurd reading. But there’s an totally amazing range of dialogue in the very outset:  ,
” Some folks lose their trust because God shows them too much,” says one person. But how many individuals lose trust because” Heaven gave them too much”?
When I read the article in The New York Times today,” Most Americans Claim the Democratic Party Does No Share Their Interests,” I was thinking about that statement. As the post says:
Many Americans claim that they do not believe the Democrat Party places too much focus on social problems that they believe are less serious and otherwise concentrates on the financial issues that matter most to them.
Asked to identify the Democratic Party’s most significant interests, Americans most often listed pregnancy, L. G. B. T. Q. right and weather change, according to a poll from The New York Times and Ipsos conducted from Jan. 2 to 10.
The issues that people cited as most important to them personally were the market and prices, health care and immigration, the ballot found. Progressive protesters have pushed for a number of social causes in recent years, but they have received substantially lower marks. ]emphasis added]
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The GOP is frequently forced to go off-road when it comes to brand-building and attention because the mainstream media are hostile. At first, this considerably handicapped the GOP’s referral, but as we say,” Necessity is the mother’s milk of technology”.
The Republican adapted and evolved: They learned how to optimize their information, grasp the social media activity, and claim an equity interest in emerging, nontraditional stores.  ,
And now, we’re better at it.
Meanwhile, the Democrats always had an embarrassment of riches: They didn’t have to streamline anything! They controlled broadcast television, the daily papers, and all the syndicated news services.  ,
There’s no need to streamline when you’ve been given unlimited real estate.
And so, they didn’t: On issues likes gender, Hamas, late-term abortion, and radical climate change initiatives, they let their liberal freak flag fly. They continued to circle back and forth to the left.
To echo” The Prophecy”, the Democrats didn’t lose in 2024 because they showed the voters too little. They lost because they lacked sufficient voter support.
The article continued:
The country is still polarized over Mr. Trump’s leadership, with roughly equal proportions of voters saying his second term is either a cause for celebration or concern.
However, the poll suggests that people don’t consider the Democratic Party to be a compelling alternative.
In a broad sense, the poll, which surveyed a representative sample of 2, 128 adults nationwide, found that Americans think the Republican Party is more in sync with the mood of the country. The issues that people said mattered most to Republicans were also, for the most part, the issues that mattered to them: immigration, the economy, inflation and taxes. ]emphasis added]
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That’s the beauty of competing in a binary marketplace: You don’t have to be perfect. You can still make lots of mistakes. All that matters is that you’re better than the alternative.
It’s like the old joke about two dudes hiking in the African savannah, when they’re suddenly chased by a lion. When the first guy starts sprinting, the second guy yells,” What are you doing?! You can’t outrun a lion”!
” I don’t need to outrun the lion”, he replied. ” I only need to outrun you”.
The article continued:
According to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted the week after Mr. Trump took office, voters overall view the Democratic Party more negatively than the Republican Party. Democrats have the highest unfavorable rating Quinnipiac has ever had for the organization since it first began asking the question in 2008, at 57 percent. ]emphasis added]
Right now, the Democrats are in a PR freefall. Keep an eye on the numbers: Should the Dems ‘ unfavorable rating hit the mid-60s, it will likely lead to a full-on liberal-on-liberal civil war for control of the party. Those numbers would threaten their ability to raise money or compete nationally, and simply aren’t sustainable.
And if we know anything about today’s Democratic Party, we know how much it values money.
The LGBTQ plank is a particularly problematic for the Democrats ‘ public image, according to The New York Times, which is interesting:
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On lesbian, gay and transgender rights, people perceive the Democratic Party’s priorities as particularly misaligned with their own. Just 4 percent of Americans listed L. G. B. T. Q. issues as very important to them personally. But 31 percent said they were a Democratic Party priority. ]emphasis added]
Once more, the Democrats lost because they lacked direction and a clear message to the voters. Instead of the voters, they were marketing to their activists.
I’ve never met Democratic strategist Adam Jentleson ( I don’t believe ), but he 100 % nailed the problem:
Politics is about perception, according to Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who has urged his party to reconsider how much influence it grants activist groups over its agenda. And “people think Democrats are more focused on the demands of activists than on kitchen table issues,” they say. ]emphasis added]
I suspect Jentleson’s advice will fall on deaf ears. The liberal activists are not leaving; instead, they would rather destroy the Democratic Party internally than cede an inch of ideological turf. They’re ( im ) moral absolutists.
And thus, the cycle will continue.
Please click here for the full results of The New York Times poll.