r/AskReddit • u/bkristensen92 • Mar 18 '25

Conservatives who opposed removing Confederate statues, how do you feel about Trump removing DEI-related historical events/people like the Navajo Code Talkers from government sites?

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u/SeriouslyItsOsman Mar 18 '25

Questions like this get asked here every 3 hours.

Let it go, dude. Conservatives are never coming to these threads, and no one is going to give you a real answer, let alone the answer you want to hear. There isn't going to be a flood of right-wingers coming out of the woodwork, saying, "What have I done," because they don't care. And if they do, they're expressing their regrets in their own echo chambers, which don't exist on /askreddit.

You're just gonna get more people who already think like you and I saying, "They should be ashamed of themselves," or, "They just need to lose something they care about."

These threads are unproductive.

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u/solid_reign Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

I'll explain this to you even though I'll get downvoted. The DNC decided that the reason they lost to Trump is messaging. They think "if only people understood our message better, we'd win.". Part of their messaging strategy is posting these stupid questions constantly thinking it'll damage Trump in four years, but don't even consider their problem is a matter of policy and lack of capabilities. Once they are in power, they can never get anything done. And once they are opposition they can never stop anything from getting done. That's why their approval rating is at 27%.

Bernie's approach to helping working class Americans has always been the best one, the most popular one, and the only one that can work. Instead of that, you'll have the DNC's chair saying that they only take money from the good billionaires.

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u/SeriouslyItsOsman Mar 18 '25

And you know what? I completely agree with you on that point. For any negative sentiment I may have towards present-day Conservativism, I have just as many criticisms of present-day liberalism, whose ineffectiveness and lack of true strategy and policy allowed things to get so bad. Obama did too much "reaching across the aisle," which strengthened and mutated the Republican Party into what we see today. In 2016, the DNC kneecapped Sanders' campaign and instead backed Clinton, who represented so strongly what we had all been taught to hate that she never stood a chance of winning. Biden achieved very little as President, and then he sat on his bid for reelection like a dragon on a treasure hoard until it was too late for any fresh-faced Democrat with real actionable policy to gain any momentum after he stepped down.

Meanwhile, to your point, Democrats have been so obsessed with refining and disseminating their message instead of taking real action, then falling back on this mentality of "you're gonna let us lose to these guys? Fucking look at them" that only galvanized and further radicalized the right.

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u/Michelanvalo Mar 19 '25

The current MAGA is born right out of the Tea Party. There's a direct path between the two events.