Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Democratic Party and Men - One Good Way to Preclude Listening

As noted in a previous post:

http://smolyhokes.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-2016-election-and-middle-class.html

the Democratic Party seems to have written off doing much of anything for men. Now prominent Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren say that they want to listen.


As for the protests that have sprung up across the country in opposition to Trump, Warren said, “People are upset and they’re right to be upset. This is our country, and people have a right to have their voices heard.” But, she added, “we also have an obligation to listen.” Not necessarily to Trump, but to those who decided to vote for him despite his “bigotry.”

There seems to be a disconnect between  Warren's "obligation to listen statement" and the way her web-based email is set up. I wanted to send her a message saying that the problem was that the Democratic Party was entirely focused on women and was not doing anything for men; it should not be a big surprise that men do not vote for Democrats in big numbers. Here is Warren's email contact link:

https://www.warren.senate.gov/index.cfm?p=email_senator

Note that one must pick a topic from a drop down computer list. There is no topic on that list that would seem to fit the "listening" that Warren claims should be happening. The closest topic to allow men to comment that they voted for Trump because the Democratic Party had deserted men is, I guess, "women's issues." There is, of course, no topic choice for "men's issues," I suppose because  men do not have any issues that the Democratic Party deems worthy of attention, let alone action. Half of the constituents she represents are men. Even if the Democratic Party has no intention of doing anything for men, it would help her "listening" objective if men at least were considered in her topic list.








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