I agree that overall the Democratic Party is more successful than the GOP is. However, a few points on that. First, their local candidates don't run on cultural issues everywhere. They do it in areas in which there's no Republican threat. They do it in San Francisco and Portland, not in Iowa or Indiana.
Second, their ability to run on cultural issues in Democratic areas isn't a cause of their success. It's a product of it. The cause of their success is the built-in advantages they've constructed over the last century by taking over almost every institution that influences public opinion and culture. For the last several decades, we've encouraged our kids to go out and make money. They've encouraged their kids to "change the world." So our kids became bankers, engineers, accountants, physicians, etc. Nothing wrong with those professions, but they aren't very culturally influential. Their kids became college professors, teachers, and journalists, and the nuttier ones became entertainers. Those professions are culturally influential, and they've given Democrats and people generally of the Left a major advantage, and the more influential those professions are, the bigger the advantage.
Finally, just becaue some Democrats in big cities have been electorally successful in running on cultural issues even when they're not relevant to the office sought that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, and it doesn't mean it'll be successful for us. It's utlimately dishonest to the voters.
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