This is an interesting article in the National Catholic Register. But, I don't think
that it is insightful. For the following reasons...
1 Trump still has not won over 50% of all the votes cast. Most votes cast
(and they are still being counted) are for a non-Trump candidate. To claim
a great "mandate" with less than half of the votes cast, is a large and
problematic exaggeration.
2 The author of the article does not seem to realize that "Latinos" are not
a single group. There are hispanics, and chicanos, and middle class
people who have immigrated legally from "latino" countries, and
"latinos" who are legal immigrants, but still working uneducated jobs
that are essentially manual labor. There are "latino" men, who were
attracted by Tump's crude language of male superiority (and disregard
of policy). There are simply men, who are alienated by the Democratic
Party's endless praise of women (among their "diversity" language), and
(like some Christian congregations who endlessly underline "diversity"),
latino men just didn't feel comfortable in an openly and almost exclusive
feminism of the Democratic Party. This is more a reaction to sexual biases,
than an ethnic one.
3 The situation with Catholic Christians is also complicated. Some Catholics
are one-topic voters (abortion on demand), and don't seem to understand
what the Pope himself said -- that Catholics should take into consideration
more than one topic, when voting. Also, many Catholics seem to not know
that Trump has changed his view on abortion on demand, and is not the
strong pro-life candidate he claimed to be, a year ago. The emphasis of the
Democratic Party on an "in-your-face" feminism, lost Catholic voters. But,
so did the ignorance of Trump's true position on abortion on demand,
also left many Catholics voting for Trump.
4 Still, about 40% of Americans get their "news" from non-news sources,
such as social media. Those who read only Fox News, and not the top
20 news sources in America, are often raised on a diet of conspiracy theories
that the rest of the news sources in America recognize as fairy tales.
If analysts bothered to investigate how individual voters get their "news",
I think that you would find that those who are not critical of their "news"
source, often held positive spins about Trump that are not supported
by credible information.
5 For those who do not credible fact-checking, many voters would not face
the endless lies and misrepresentations of the political candidates. The
professional journalists tended to NOT want to mention this problem
of outright lying by political candidates. So much for their claims to be
objective speakers of truth, regardless of the popularity of such speaking.
The language used to characterize candidates, turned from the crude,
often, to the VILE. And, it seems that Christians could not process all the
different claims of the candidates, AND the fact that some candidates were
speaking vile lies, endlessly.
6 The situation is complicated, as the "electronic screen" generations have
gotten used to living in a fake reality of logically invalid arguments, and
logically unsound definitions (used in those arguments). They seem to live
their life as if they are playing an online game, that is completely disconnected
from history, and the destructive definitions and policies of past dictators,
that lead to World War II. Trump also, seems to be ignorant of the historical
meanings of some of the shock vocabulary that he uses. With 3 generations
of electronic screen gamers, many of them are oblivious to logically valid and
sound arguments. They have become largely "gamer voters", cut free of
the historical definitions of Democracy, and the founding documents of
America.
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This election was "historic".
But not because it was some sort of "great mandate" for Trump and his policies.
The Republican Party has dumped its historic conservatives. In their place
are popularity figures, who make their case with parochial social media
commentators, who often embrace ridiculous conspiracy theories. For the
Republican Party, this was an election based on social media propaganda.
(This is why so many conservative Republicans openly advocated voting
for Harris.)
The Democratic Party doubled down on the far left of its members, and the
resulting message was something that could not connect with a lot of the
Middle Class (the Moderate Middle) of America. The Democratic Party should
have shed its entire far left, and embraced the Moderate Middle of America.
Both parties have shifted so far from their historic roots, that Americans really
need to consider whether or not either Party represents the Moderate Middle of
America, and the values/morals that are needed to uphold the fair rule of law
in America, and justice.
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The author from the National Catholic Register, got almost all the dynamics
of this latest presidential election, wrong.
But, many of the electronic screen Catholic Christians who read
the article, don’t have critical thinking skills, and won’t recognize
The weaknesses of the analysis.
www.ncregister.com
