This clip should be run ad nauseum by the GOP and every Republican candidate from June 2020 through election day
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono says Democrats have a hard time "connecting" with voters because of how "smart" they are and because they "know so much."pic.twitter.com/S7Hwr2whnP
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 4, 2018
Not elitist in the least
(Fox News) Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday told a conference that she heard one of the reasons that her party has a difficult time connecting with voters is because Democrats know so much, and have a tendency of appealing to voters’ minds instead of their hearts.
Hirono made the comment at a conference in Washington, D.C. She was asked by the moderator about ways Democrats could drive voter turnout.
“I wish I had the answer to that because one of the things that we, Democrats, have a really hard time is connecting to people’s hearts instead of [their heads],” Hirono said. “We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here [pointing to her head] but not here [pointing to her heart].”
Hirono, 71, said Democrats need to stop speaking in a way that comes off as manipulative or strokes fear and resentment.
“But we have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons– it was told to me at one of our retreats– was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain,” she continued.
Well, she is correct on one thing, in that Democrats are uber-manipulative and stoke fear and resentment. But, if she thinks that this type of elitist claptrap will help in an age where the average voter are demanding to be heard over the elites, she has another thing coming.
