Not just saying people need to be nicer online, nor am I saying Dems just need to show empathy to conservatives. The people I’m talking about, as I say explicitly in the piece, are working class voters who tend to be less partisan, ideological, and tuned in - ThreadSky

jonfavs.bsky.social • 76 days ago

Not just saying people need to be nicer online, nor am I saying Dems just need to show empathy to conservatives. The people I’m talking about, as I say explicitly in the piece, are working class voters who tend to be less partisan, ideological, and tuned in

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wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•76 days ago

I’m sorry, Jon, I like your podcast, for the most part, but I have no empathy for immoral, unethical bigots (racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and homophobia) are what drove MAGAts to vote for a Psychopath. They all lied and said it was the economy.

wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•76 days ago

A quick google search will tell everyone, that the US economy is ALWAYS BETTER UNDER DEMOCRATS, and Republicans consistently tank the economy. My issue with right-wingers has NEVER BEEN POLITICAL. My issue is a moral one. They are selfish and have no empathy for anyone.

wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•76 days ago

They PRETEND that they are good people. They are the opposite. Good people care about women, people of colour, immigrants, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Enough making excuses for them. They are BIGOTS, and I have no empathy for bigots. None.

alfredinglethorp.bsky.social•76 days ago

The left has lost the propaganda war. Take Andreessen on Rogan, delivering 3 hours of lab-reared disinformation on financial regulation as brazenly bullshit cover for DOGE. Where is the equally-credentialed democrat who can sit with Rogan the following week to debunk him? That person doesn’t exist.

compliancedivision.bsky.social•76 days ago

Rogan won't have them on, in any event.

jackjrm.bsky.social•76 days ago

1) none of that is true: Obama won two terms because '08 Republican incumbency and promised healthcare, '12 weird Mormon automaton guy.

2) Funny how the answer to corporate Dems fielding rubbish candidates and being right wing is always to be more right wing

3) Jon Fartreau

doctorvive.bsky.social•76 days ago

Who's going to fund a deep-canvassing project that begins with six months of knocking on doors and listening? That is a real question: how can we get this funded?

karpuzbaby.bsky.social•76 days ago

I think you should invite this doctor onto your podcast - https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/emotion-logic-science-decision-19959764.php

abedelia.bsky.social•75 days ago

Did you really join a board of an insurance funded advocacy group to advocate against Medicare for All? Is that real? This group: https://unitedstatesofcare.org/

jencarole.bsky.social•72 days ago

I am so frustrated by what you said tonight. Politics isn’t about winning. It’s about governance.

HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN THIS?

I could now give a sermon. But I’ll pace myself. I’m sick of living in a world of winners and losers.

That’s not what our founding fathers imagined. They expected more.

blamethecraft.bsky.social•76 days ago

I kinda agree with Jon here. I don’t think it’s even being more conservative, but I do think one way to fight the right wing media onslaught is getting in front of people, in person if possible, and talking. It’s not easy, but it humanizes the “other side” for many.

blamethecraft.bsky.social•76 days ago

I do wanna note this has to be a minimum requirement for whoever chairs the DNC. Ground level organizing and modern media literacy & investment are musts. They have to build very long term, well beyond the next two elections.

tmanickam.bsky.social•66 days ago

Working class voters are close to the coal face - I would argue they are the most tuned in voters of all re. consequences of policies that are merely talking points for more “clued-in” voters

imdumfounded.bsky.social•76 days ago

An absolute waste of print space.

loisjlane99.bsky.social•76 days ago

Be specific when you say working class voter because there is a separation by race. Black working class mostly gets the message. White working class hasn’t voted Dem in a while. And also, study the impact that ID laws have on turn out.

anoosh100.bsky.social•76 days ago

I’m not showing empathy to people who constantly lie to argue in favor of my death.

There’s no moral universe where that’s OK.

And I don’t believe for a moment that a political party needs to say, “These people count, these others don’t so they can die” in order to win.

TRY HARDER.

shelia57.bsky.social•76 days ago

Empathy? To those who voted to take away from EVERYONE of us, Except the WEALTHY!

funkfunky.bsky.social•69 days ago

This is what terrible Dem strategists say after every lost election. Stop doing the same dumb thing. Dems need to lead. People will vote for them if they are compelling. Instead they will choose to focus group their way to another loss.

michaelander45.bsky.social•76 days ago

I like a lot of what you have to say here, but I also think it would be helpful to flesh out what the specifics of this ask would be in terms of a mass communication strategy.

compliancedivision.bsky.social•76 days ago

Tens of millions of people living, informationally, where our messages never reached them is IMHO at least as significant a factor; agreed.

carolthecrone.bsky.social•76 days ago

College educated people can never solve this problem.

We need the working class to lead.

Or better yet, college-educated people should partner with the working class in pointing at billionaires for this mess.

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