The greatest failure of the modern Democratic Party is the apparent belief that basic elements of politics -- selling your policies to voters and reminding them what you did for them -- is somehow tacky and beneath them.
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Oliver Willis
It is hard to understate how silent Democrats went after Biden won. The right filled the vacuum with bullshit and aside from an obscure message or two from the White House, the GOP dominated. It didn’t have to be but Democrats don’t believe in comms. That’s a big reason we are here.
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George W. Bush sent them a check for $300 with his fucking signature on them.
Which one do you think voters noticed?
1 speaking at voters with scripted talking points & not listening (seems to be a constant)
2 oversaturating suburbs & missing entire city neighborhoods explaining drop in turnout there
3 Too top heavy with orders from top & no autonomy at grass roots
What good is messaging with greed tv brainwashing grandma and grandpa daily?
And the military with Fox News on in their common areas?
The Dems messaging was good. Just not relayed.
Get real.
Pretending “it was the dems messaging” is not going to accomplish anything.
At least I was truthful.
And the truth sets you free or so I’ve heard.
The (R) party felt their message was getting diluted/buried in the 1980s, so in the 90s they went around the problem, launching RW talk radio and the FNC. What (if anything) will Dems do? It could just be more viral (eye-catching) talk on TV news and socials.
I think we’ve been good copped/bad copped into an oligarchy.
Let’s face it, we don’t have the money that the Elons of the world have stolen.
I think we’re heading into a world war or depression due to greed.
That seems to be the only reset these people understand.
When we all go under.
The child tax credit was lifting kids out of poverty. The GOPQ killed it & paid no price.
Also, takeover of state legislatures by the GOPQ happened on Pres Obama's watch. Just fyi. It mattered.
Also, even mainstream media do not carry Dem messages repeatedly, as they carry GOP ones. Liberal nonprofits need to buy or create new media that WILL carry Dem messages.
https://upine.medium.com/time-to-solve-our-propaganda-problems-like-the-military-does-e97eda71ba7b
https://upine.medium.com/democratic-politicians-get-terrible-advice-5a69081fed90
instead they got stronger, morphed into maga and kicked out odious cheney their own selves
…And people screamed that he raised taxes when he in fact cut them. I remember well.
The 1% got much, much more because the marginal rates were cut.
2001: "We're rich, here's $300!"
2008: "We're broke, here's $300!"
When Kamala was running she could have taken every dem running and turned it into a gigantic “boy/girl” band extravaganza that traveled across the country.
People just don’t think the same.
They are just as guilty for the divide as Trump's puppet masters.
Are democrats responsible for the choice they made to ostracize and condemn, instead of including and respecting opinion?
This divide in our country will not cease until one side puts their pride away
I'm saying we (we - not us or them) would be much better off if we spent more time trying to move people closer to the center instead of pushing them to the edges.
Yes, a-holes exist. Let's use or educated brains and not just be another one.
Couple that with my ADHD and other invisible disabilities and I have never once felt anything but dread and fear of termination regarding performance reviews.
I have also *never* been promoted.
And stop allowing them to define us.
They control the media now.
Conservatives control 90% of the media ecosystem.
Many *economic* things voters want are populist in nature. That’s not a narrative the corporations are keen to feature.
So instead we get divisive political theater.
There are simply too many braindead democrats.
What the hell are we supposed to do with people like THAT on our side?
No equal on the LW
Also known as neoliberalism by the resulting policy preferences they share.
40+ years of forcing the choice of lesser evil does not inspire voters.
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3ld22f3mirs2s
Incompetence or malfeasance?
Dems been taking bran muffins to gunfights for years.
When Republicans do something, their base says, "THANK YOU, SIR!"
When Democrats do something, their base says, "Is that it?"
Implicated me in genocide
Sold me out to corporations
Traded on insider information
Let Trump get away with insurrection
Passed fake climate legislation
Dropped progressive legislation
Condemned me for not supporting their awful policies
Nuff said about this BS
https://www.facebook.com/100PERCENT.ALL.IN/posts/969199455242007
@gregsargent.bsky.social
asked the DNC chair candidates. How are you planning to address that - to start to make some headway in the information wars. It goes way, way, way beyond what D pols are saying to the press. /3
We have work to do.
They create Fox News, the Daily Wire, etc to attack the left and there is no equivalent left wing media safe space or cheerleader.
And posts like this act like this isn't the reality or Dem politicians have the same platforms.
I think the biggest failure is assuming telling people the truth is an effective way to combat disinformation.
i think an appalling criminal accountability from democrats lusting over migrating republicans instead of holding them to account is the problem
liz cheney saving democracy? yeah no
In the UK we know the leader of the Labour Party is Keir Starmer. We know the leader of the Conservative Party is Kemi Badenoch.
Rightly or wrongly, we know that in America Trump is the leader of the Republicans.
Who's the leader of the Democrats ?
Meantime, who do you ask what Democrat policy is, what their political philosophy is, what their budget priorities will be, what their foreign policy will be ?
Three more years of ? ? ?
Fox, RBN, ONN etc are free and in your face 24/7. Democrats have no equivalent.
You gotta sell what you’re doing.
It should have continued, escalated, added a pyrotechnics show.
There was no push for accountability and they thought Americans couldn't possibly vote for Trump again.
They lose the message wars every time.
Biden or Harris should have held a rally in front of every factory that opened with IRA money. Instead they let Rs tell folks the economy is awful.
Who hates the Democrats as much as Republicans?
The Democrats
😣
If this party had been around during the Revolutionary War we’d likely say today “Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight shrug of Paul Revere”
Where was the Lina Khan flexing? Why mute Walz after he mentioned healthcare as a right? WTF was this?!
(And it's super-tacky, but they don't think it's beneath them.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/11/schumer-nlrb-vote-manchin-sinema
Haven't we been saying the problem is that they believe in it too much?
1. The MSM stifled the truth
2. Social media stifled the truth
3. We don't lie as a principal method of communication. We don't lean into conspiracy. We try to make space for more people.
Let Americans feel their votes.
Dems have the opposite talent. We’ve got to overcome that!
GOP wins on words because our media happily repeats complete lies & fails us
Dems lost on words because they need to fix their media messaging. It sucks. Dems do lots of things for the common man but no one out there associates it with helping them or their own household.
But it could not compete with the avalanche of disinformation from Republicans and their media supporters, which was intentionally sanitized by our broken MSM.
https://bsky.app/profile/hanssolo4love.bsky.social/post/3ld27as7wac2h
Pick 3-5 and focus on them.
Hammer them home.
All the time.
Dem comm "experts" are dumb. "tl;dr" is a way of life for most swayable voters. Or apathetic voters.
1. Quietly pass good legislation and keep the system functioning
2. ???
3. Election Victory!
That it's better instead to work, day-to-day, with third parties--unions, "neutral" newspapers & networks, etc?
This is made up echo chamber nonsense
The democrats are the polar opposite of that. NEVER talk about good news because someone somewhere might be doing badly at the moment.
I am calling for the resignation of @schumer.senate.gov
We need fire-breathing leaders.
this cannot be done on the face of fascism.
they needed to play hardball and end corruption, crony-ism, to see that certain people paid for their crimes in court and so on...and failed.
They quail at the very idea of proposing Medicare for All, but if that was a GOP ideal there would have been a 30 year project to stack the Federal Bench to rule it was a right.
Relentless selling is a great idea, but how?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/about-those-alt-media-ecosystems
Most Americans don't have a clue about it.