Grampa tore his ear drum by using a metal screw...

Exactly

No, I'm specifically talking about the multiple campaigns on the left going back to 2016 that heavily focused on awareness and education of Trump's many issues. The left consistently banks on the logic of 'if I just make people aware of this wrong, then they will vote/protest/demand change'. They think simply educating people will magically get them to agree and take appropriate action.

Instead of actual political maneuvers similar to what the right has been pulling for years, they think 'awareness' is the only real work they have to do. There have been multiple times the right has blatantly ignored procedures, laws, etc and the left routinely fails to do anything beyond making their voters aware that the right is being a bad guy. They don't attempt to hold them in contempt, they don't choose to proceed forward anyway, because 'tradition' says they shouldn't. They haven't responded with any of their own schemes to counter the right at all.

The right is doing every possible action they can get away with and the left is so scared of doing anything even slightly controversial that they don't even take the options available by the rules, but instead hold themselves to even higher standards than necessary.

Yeah, feels like most of the left's strategy has been 'See what a horrible person he is!?', feeling absolutely positive that people will agree it's bad and will shun Trump.

Except a huge chunk of people seem to be completely happy with all of these horrible things, so the whole effort backfires.

These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.

My concern since late 2018 or so has been that America is effectively terminal, it's just that we don't know it yet. That we've passed some internal tipping point before waking up where even if we try to course correct, it's too late to stop the decline. I'm not sure we can get the momentum anymore to fix it. Biden and even Kamala feel more like a temporary reprieve where we'll only have enough power to stave off total collapse, but not enough to actually make any headway. Which is basically all Biden has been able to do.

I tended to get the impression that implied sex (such as fade to black scenes) were also not appreciated. That effectively they just didn't want their media to include references to sex pretty much at all.

Maybe most people are reasonable about it, but online at least it feels a bit like the old Tumblr days, except now these people are super anti sex everything and want to erase all mention of it.

Most of the (supposed) younger generation people I interact with online seem even more prudish and conservative about sex than my very religious parents were growing up. It's super weird to be the older person who's ok with sexual content. I don't really get it.

And yes, I know people will claim it's because it's only when it's not done right or when it feels shoved in, but honestly from the way they talk about anything dealing with sex, it feels like that's just an acceptable excuse and they really just don't want the content to exist at all, even if 'done right'. It's like a huge chunk of the generation is asexual or something.

Agreed on the emotional intelligence approach. I'm tired of democrats thinking logic and facts will just sway everyone and then being all high and mighty when that doesn't work on some people.

The whole thing with Trump being weird was an excellent attempt at actually messaging in a way that resonates with people. There's a reason ads for stuff like cars and medicine focus more on happy experiences and not on what the product actually is.

We need to be building a brand identity, shaping how people feel about us and focusing less on the raw facts and logic. It doesn't work on seemingly most Americans, continuing to use it despite the lack of results really makes me question whether we really are controlled opposition.

Yep. I think there's a huge amount of left leaning online people in denial.

They keep thinking that they just need to tell people about all these issues and then obviously those people will see it as wrong. Nope, a huge number of their fellow citizens are absolutely aware of this shit and actively approve of it.

Bringing 'awareness' is pointless if the people actually approve of this horrible stuff.

It's 'ugly'. Also the rules were set in the 80s and I guess people didn't care then. And it's not like a law has been passed removing their authority to do so.

HOA has banned solar and Gas heat is still way, way cheaper here. I could go heat pump, but I'd be paying 4-5x higher just to stick to my principals.