Its funny. Even after this happens the comments continue to keep the echo chamber going instead of wanting to understand how this happened. Until the DNC has an honest conversation with itself this will just keep happening.
I hope this is a giant wake up call that causes them to clean house. The current leadership and strategists are clearly horribly disconnected from the average voter, and they should be replaced by a team that actually enfranchises its base by pushing for robust primaries (unlike this year), without putting a thumb on the scale (unlike 2016).
You can't win with a backroom of overeducated analysts putting together a "platform" of issues that they feel like will appeal to the median voter, then trying to shove a pre-screened, crappy establishment candidate down everyone's throats.
The best way to figure out what people want to vote for is to hold an actual vote.
Problem is, this is the best way to increase engagement because it gives the most people the most compelling content. So this will never change.
1. Eliminate anonymity by requiring real names and profile pictures attached to usernames. This humanizes users and encourages accountability, as attaching a real name can act as a natural filter for behavior.
2. Introduce a cost for downvoting to make it a more thoughtful action. This could involve a quota based on account age and karma, or my favorite option—having each downvote cost a bit of karma or an upvote on one of your own posts.
3. Discourage bot accounts by requiring a hard-to-obtain token, like a verified phone number, which is straightforward to implement and would reduce low-effort accounts.
4. Higher barrier to entry to join an online community. This doesn't parallel how communities work IRL. You need social credit to join a community.
They don’t want to understand why so many people see the appeal of Trump but not the Democratic Party. They are so caught up in whatever their personal ideological take on some fringe issue is that they miss the big issues and the popular support for change away from the status quo on those issues.
They don't like that eggs went up in price so they elect the opposite party. They think Trump will bring prices back down because he's a businessman, even though his tariffs will be hugely inflationary.
I'm not sure what kind of an honest DNC conversation would be able to address this.
Also your view that dumb voters led to this is counter productive and insulting. It is what I am seeing in almost every reddit post as well. “Well people are just too dumb to know what they need”… yeah ok.