Democratic Party hits lowest polling numbers since Q'Pac started polling Party Approval.

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30. It's not that complicated: we care about everyone and they don't. Democrats have ceded a lot of ground in...

...the culture wars.

I live in a very red area of a very red state, and I can tell you that out here all "they" care about is whether abortion is illegal, guns are available, and if a trans boy is allowed to beat a girl in a sport. Full stop.

Yes, it is insanity, but it's true.

They would rather have their culture wars than healthcare, safe jobs, or anything else you can name.

We've been roundly punished at the polls for caring about everyone. Because we think even one marginalized person deserves love and respect, we are in the situation where hundreds of thousands are bring deported to countries they have never been in, where marginalized communities are losing their rights, and where every one of us is sliding into an authoritarian state.

I don't claim to know the answer to how we counter this and get back to relevance, but this is what I see on the ground. Standing up for people outside of the mainstream--as Jesus so famously was purported to do--has unfortunately cost us in rural areas of the country.

Until we can convince the majority of Americans that they should support people they have nothing in common with, we are in trouble electorally. It's either that or abandon them--which none of us are prepared to do. Heck, even a lot of them do not support us at the ballot box.

So where do we go from here?