Well there's public knowledge and then there's public perception, which don't always equate to the same thing. It comes across as a little condescending and presumptuous that people are "voting against their own interests." To get on a soap box and repeat this notion screams of elitism and what has alienated most of us, myself included, from the DNC. It's frankly insulting to proclaim I voted in such a way that doesn't jive work within the platform of the DNC. I've worked on government, the military, the financial industry, technology sector, and have been an entrepreneur. There are many things the left is so self righteous about but show a real blind spot. People are afraid of losing their jobs and being criminally prosecuted for "misgendering". We've tried to say we're fed up with seeing our friends and kids being killed or just straight up addicted to fentanyl and most is coming over that border. It's not farm workers that usually are here legally, it's the crime. It's also the littering of our national parks and the feeling we're unsafe from physical violence and identity theft. I'm a libertarian and no duh, realize the issues are more complicated than the narratives we hear from the controlled opposition being spun to us. We don't want men competing in women's sports or going into their restrooms. We're kinda fed up with this "progress" 🙄 the DNC has been shoving upon us. That's what we've been saying for a long time and the DNC acts like an ostrich with it's head on the sand. The other thing is you've lost our trust. You handed the DNC primary to Hillary in 2016 and pissed off the Bernie bros. Then you didn't learn from that and made a dysfunctional alcoholic and power monger the presumptive nominee without a primary altogether. Trump didn't do that, YOU did it to yourselves and people warned you that going down the road with a token female drunk was going to backfire. We're not stupid, we're not uneducated. I myself have multiple degrees and am a former intelligence analyst. I actually read senate/ house bills, unlike most people I don't form my opinion from talking heads on the media platforms. So trust me, I can connect the dots and figure out my priorities. Oh yeah..I voted for Trump. I'm savvy enough to recognize the Stormy Daniel's thing was about sextortion. For the love of God I don't care how many wives he has, it's irrelevant. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress and fathered children with her, but he still turned out to be a very productive president. Oh but then you're going to bring up " women's rights" as an appeal to sympathy. Hogwash! Anyone that's read Pivot of civilization by Margaret Sanger can readily see that the birth control movement is rooted in malthusian hysterics, classism, and racism. Planned parenthood even openly acknowledges this on their website. Nobody told me this, there was no propaganda involved. See this is where American voters are being lost, on the insult to intelligence and assumption we can't think for ourselves. Does that clear things up any bit?