I submit your 2 friends are as dangerous to nation as the typical MAGA stereotype. We can although, I wouldn't give a high school graduate making 27k in a menial job a pass, your friends should at least be able to use the critical thinking of their brain better but fall into their base fears and bias. In the end with your description of their beliefs today they are MAGA. As far as competing or not in doomed races ? How else are democrats going to begin to make any headway if we capitulate in the arena of ideas? And that retreat plays into the rhetoric of the right " democrats have abandoned you" etc. As you stated no one has the answer here but we must continue to engage.
I submit your 2 friends are as dangerous to nation as the typical MAGA stereotype. We can although, I wouldn't give a high school graduate making 27k in a menial job a pass, your friends should at least be able to use the critical thinking of their brain better but fall into their base fears and bias. In the end with your description of their beliefs today they are MAGA. As far as competing or not in doomed races ? How else are democrats going to begin to make any headway if we capitulate in the arena of ideas? And that retreat plays into the rhetoric of the right " democrats have abandoned you" etc. As you stated no one has the answer here but we must continue to engage.