03-23-2025, 05:52 PM
sekker wrote:
[quote=anonymouse1]
Abundance is one, important part. It's necessary but not sufficient. You also need reform of the Cabinet Departaments/Agencies Ala Jen Pauli/Dan Davies, and you need good messaging, and you need local organizing,
Klein and his co-author goes into each of these topics.
The Democrats need to be messaging what they are FOR.
Srlsly?
What was Trump FOR? Not immigrants. Not women. Not those struggling. Not for Ukraine. It was all about Trump, Trump, Trump. Only I.
What were his goals? Pulling out of NATO. Letting Putin have Ukraine. Seizing Greenland and Panama and Canada, apparently.
Cruelty. Taking it out on other people. More tax cuts for the most fortunate.
Dems message like crazy. They are for equality, a decent chance for young people to afford education, homeownership, a good life. They want to preserve Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, all things they delivered; all things the GOP would like to tear down. They produce detailed plans and proposals and put them on their campaign pages.
But sadly, that’s all for naught. People can’t be bothered; they seem to like negative campaigning better. And especially the easy suggestion that their problems are all due to the other.
Meanwhile, when the Voughts and Millers of the world assemble their plans, and the world hears of them, candidates like Trump say they’ve never heard of them, that they have nothing to do with that. And then when elected, they appoint those people to leadership positions, where they follow that plan to the letter or beyond.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I dislike this kind of brain-dead analysis, especially that which says Dems should move to the Right. No thanks. We have enough jerks in leadership positions in this country.
I say 'they' as I am not a fan of the extreme goals of the far left, which seems to me to be the main messaging right now.
Call me more of a 'Warren Buffet' political view - he has always said he should be paying as much (as a percentage) of his income as his secretary. Is that what AOC means 'tax the rich'? Don't think so.
Why don’t you think so? I would guess she would be delighted if the Buffet rule came true. It would go a hell of a lot farther toward solving our problems that DOGE, which will very likely make them worse.