The Democrats' Divorce from Reality
Why the democrats lost the election
The Democratic Party has lost its way. Not in the usual political sense of simply fumbling policy. They no longer have a coherent sense of reality.
Imagine you meet someone who insists that the sky is green. They're not joking. They demand everyone agree, or face being labeled a "sky-denier." This is where we find ourselves with today's democratic establishment.
The party that once championed working people now lectures them about their "privilege." The party that built itself on labor unions and kitchen table economics now spends its time policing language and promoting fringe ideologies that most Americans find bewildering. And yet, democrats can’t seem to figure out why they lost the 2024 election.
The democratic divorce from reality shows itself most clearly in their response to basic questions. “What is a woman?” The party ties itself in knots trying to avoid simple biological truths, and they pull the wool over their own eyes when men enter women’s sports.
The democratic establishment has transformed into something unrecognizable to its former base. They've become the party of institutional power, of bureaucratic control, of telling ordinary people that their common sense is actually bigotry in disguise.
Their leadership seems genuinely shocked when voters reject their increasingly bizarre worldview. "How could anyone vote for Trump!?", they ask in a resentful tone. The democrats have convinced themselves that their academic theories represent the real world. The 2024 election showed them that more than half of the US strongly disagrees.
Progressive policies often sound like parodies to most Americans. They propose the elimination of biological sex from official documents while inner cities crumble. They focus on pronouns while inflation eats away at working families' savings. Their priorities exist in a parallel universe where Facebook hashtags matter more than the problems that Americans face in their day-to-day lives.
It's a form of collective delusion—an elaborate theoretical framework that bears no resemblance to how most people live and think. They've created a fantasy world where words mean whatever they want them to mean, where biological reality is dismissed as a social construct, and where disagreement is treated as moral failure (and sometimes even assault).
They push ideology when people need practicality. The result is a soulless political machine that won’t tolerate opposing views, and which can't connect with the average American.
America needs a reality-based left that can fight for working people without getting lost in postmodern word games.
The path forward is simple.
Democrats must reject the fantasy world that they've constructed and return to reality. This begins by recognizing that they were defeated in a free and fair election; by accepting responsibility for their failures.
They need to rediscover what it means to live in the real world, where words point to something real, and where human nature isn't infinitely malleable. Until then, they'll continue to lose the trust and support of the American people. And rightly so.