Yes, this. Stop framing everything as some bit of legislation he cutting. The middle class don't identify with legislation. They identify with what it does or doesn't do. Dems need to start being blunt with voters.
Doesn't matter; Dem messaging has run the gamut of ultra-nerd to single syllables. Theeeeey dooooont caaaaare. We're Navi with HEY LISSEN and they're hitting the x button as fast as possible.
Apparently not many of the elected Dems are smart enough to act on this….. they know that they need to message better and in a different way but lack the conviction to do it….
One thing Rs take full advantage of is the Ds incompetence to market themselves.
If they don’t make a significant change to their message and approach, MAGA will be so normalised, and sanity will fade into obscurity.
How did they drop the ball on a dude that ogled naked 15 year olds against their will? I swear, he could fill the oval office with child sex slaves and the Dems would still somehow lose the moral argument.
Trump is both a symptom AND a disease. Trump is a cancer, and with the amount of cancer my family has suffered I can assure you I don't use that term lightly. But it's the best way to describe him. He's a malignant tumor metastasizing across the nation. Only fighting back will stop his spread.
At this point, I don't think there ARE any non-Trumpers in the GOP. Whether they openly supported him during his campaign or not, they've bent the knee regardless. I don't see a future for the GOP without MAGA.
This is why the Dems have got to get rid of Schumer. His ego to be seen as a master politician is so tired and outdated. He knows nothing about how to communicate what needs to be done.
Amen. Clear, concrete language like this is what reaches people. No one cares that Trump canceled an executive order. Most people care that Granny will have to choose between insulin and food.
Democrats failed democracy by refusing to hold MAGA accountable and doubled down on losingby not bothering to hammer into stupid voters heads what the fallout of another Trump presidency would look like for them, in words a 1st grader could understand
Agreed. Their gentle governing has blown up in our faces. Time to do hard things. Find the mistakes and exploit them, loudly. Drive it home to voters that MAGA Republicans are not supporting their interests with clear simple explanations. There are too few of you for any to sit idle.
and one of the reasons the Dems messaging has been so Terrible for so long is because MOST Mainstream Dems have been in the same Pockets as the GOP for 4+ Decades....
I haven't heard but once that funding is authorized by congress that money has to be spent on the project funed. Trump can cancel further funding but yes not supporting the infrastructure bill will realy hurt our country.
Dems also need to realize that knocking doors is antiquated, ineffective, and generally just irritating to people. We live in a digital age. I barely know my neighbors, why do I want a stranger at my door? Just energy and money wasted.
Yes, messaging and language matter -- a lot! Here's my blog post today on that very issue with its four components and suggested solutions: https://bit.ly/3PPpb7Q
Use the language of the common folk. Be informal, direct, and personable. Heck, be like common depictions of Teddy Roosevelt. Policies for the everyman are impotent without the everyman-appeal.
We got bombed in November.
The DNC needs to act like it & enlist t record, film, fashion industry & revisit how effective the USO was beginning in '41.
The messaging needs to be personal.
Bishop Buddle follows this rule.
Nobel Laureates follow this rule.
The DNC needs to follow this rule .
Yep, people need to know how stuff affects them without having to learn anything. One common criticism of the Dems was that they didn't speak at their level.
Trump does.
Tell the voters cause-and-affect in a way that a 15 year old dropout can understand.
That may even be too advanced. A 6th grade level would be appropriate. The Dems have been too academic since the Clinton administration. More blue collar, less ivory tower.
You give too much credit to MAGAts. I have arguments with them numerous times. They cannot communicate at 15 year old level. We need to go down far lower than teenage level. It is a known fact that majority of US citizens can read only at 5th grade level. Dems should go down way low.
I agree. Most people don’t know the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. You need let them know how it affects them personally. Most don’t know the function of World Health Organization. Explain the consequences of dropping out…. You need to remember we have an ignorant electorate.
The last time I saw Dem leadership really "spring into action" and all get on message was during yhe 2020 primary when they were able to hijack Bernie Sanders momentum. Sanders one the first 3 states, and suddenly leadership all said that S. Carolina was a make or break state. Basturds.
I swear, the gerontology Dem leadership still thinks it's 1995. Do they refuse to face reality on purpose? The Republicans are no longer a political party. They are a fascist cult determined to overthrow our constitutional order. WAKE UP!!!
To be fair young activists often use even more convoluted messaging... It's TBH more a case of being isolated in school / politics bubble than age.
I guess term limits may help more than age limits here :)
Even better, just make short slogans, they seem to get fanatical about short slogans, almost like there's not much room in certain peoples' heads for other things, like knowledge or critical thinking... 🤔
I get so frustrated with the way dems report like cable news. What are you doing dems? What does angry look like from you, because we’re mad? We know what they’re capable of doing. Stop playing a gentleman’s game you’re failing at it and they’re confident you won’t change it up.
Most Americans don't speak like Democratic leaders. If you want to get through to them, I agree that you need to spell out what's happening as simply and plainly as possible.
Uh-huh! Here's my "Make it understandable, make it personal, to the punter" re-terms:
1. Stop calling it ABORTION - call it Womens' Reproductive Health
2. They are not pro-life - call them pro-birth (or mother/wife killers)
3. It is not The Trump Administration - it's The Trump Kakistocracy
4. Don't use Billionaire - use Oligarch or Plutocrat (and explain the term)
5. It is not the 'Conservative Party' - it's the 'Billionaires' Tax Cuts Party'
6. They are not MAGA - They are MAFO Minions (Muck About and Find Out)
7. They are not MAGA - They are Trump's Unknowing Clueless Minions
Also if you've yet to figure it out, the near four years of the Republicans going after Hunter Biden was, from the start, meant as nothing but a distraction.
Biden Bad, Trump Good.
"The going-after of 'President Trump' was in retaliation for the GOP 'rightfully' going after the 'Biden Criminals'."
The whole thing I'm getting at here, for those who haven't figured it out yet, is this is part of how you take ownership of the discussion/debate of an issue.
This is also how the GOP have managed to take and hold onto the issues for the past thirty plus years.
Plus, le's say someone asks what your views are on abortion?
Your answer should first include a 'corrrection' and a prompt answer.
"By abortion did you mean to ask for my views on womens' reproductive health? I believe it's between a woman and her doctor and should _never_ be any of my business."
No, I do not. But, due to the 300 character limit, I could not add that the person added words along the lines as, "In case you didn't know, Kakistocracy means ruled by the worst or most incompetent," (or words to that effect).
Plus, how does a word become acceptable and common parlance? Repetition, repetition, repetition.
'Skeet' is a great example of how it begins
For those on 'our team' who're social influencers, that effort starts with you as you are the ones with both the audiences and the power of message diaspora.
For the MAGA Minions, I firmly believe that for the most part they are not ready to be 'educated' to the truth. FAFO is going a long way to proving it for us. IOW, let them come to the truth by themselves.
Then, once you see they're 'eyes open', educate without belittling.
Saying "We told you so!" to awakening MAGA might be cathartic for you, but it:
1) Doesn't help them, and
2) Could easily led to them hating one, many or all of us for our 'smart-arsery', 'holier-than-thou' attitudes or making them feel like fools.
It will morph into a lose/lose situation. Not Good
This is how is really needs to be done.
Democrats shoot themselves in the collective foot, because they have this almost "need" to phrase everything in an educated tone.
Democrats need to face the fact that the vast majority of Americans are just plain stupid and uneducated.
Git 'er done!
Victor isn't so smart. This isn't just about roads and bridges, as some people would like to simplify it to. This is airline safety, train safety, public transportation of all kinds, and millions of jobs that were created because of this will now be lost.
Yes they do need to phrase it that way. Our electorate doesn't understand politics. Show them that Trump is just a big liar who will do damage to average people.
no, Schumer and Pelosi are vital, and so is AOC. AOC is still young, her time is yet to come, and in the meantime, she would do well to learn from her elders.
Vital? The House has a new leader and Schumer is just the next Dianne Feinstein. If your organization (any) depends on people 80+, you are doomed. Obama became President at 47. Let's move on, this is the perfect time.
MAGA still is too dumb to understand that. I told Alaskans about the billions that were coming to Alaska to fix roads & bridges and they scoffed. There is no convincing these people.
I've pointed them to the actual executive orders from Trump, begging them to read even part and they do the "But Nancy Pelosi..." bullshit. They are mentally gone.
I don't think it's in our interest to focus on whether the message reaches MAGA. We need to focus on the disillusioned 90 million who sat out the last election and left us at the mercy of this monster. Some in that group may be still redeemable.
This is my biggest frustration with the Democrats. They seem convinced we need to see them as friendly and fuzzy and non-threatening, so when the bully takes their lunch money, all they do is cower in the corner and say "not the face!"
Yup. Because they don’t understand what tariffs are; however, they believe 🍊 when he says he will punish foreign countries by imposing tariffs on them. These Americans do not understand that they will end up paying for the tariffs (through higher prices).
Yes. Doing what we can to get the word out. There have been reports of increased google searches for things like "Can I change my vote?," "tariff," and "oligarchy." 🙄
This is why 34F "loves the uneducated." Grrr.
It is obvious that trump couldn't allow Biden to have succeeded in getting infrastructure repair accomplished after he failed so miserably, especially after the repeated claims of 'next week is infrastructure week' that he made through much of his term!
In the midst of all that is going on, may I just express my appreciation for your use of the word, “concrete”, when referring to our roads and bridges. It was my “giggle” at a funeral moment. 🤭
You know the "-tard" suffix is from "retard" which is a derogatory label for people with Down's Syndrome and other neuro, learning, and developmental differences and is no longer an acceptable diagnostic term included in the DSM-V. Choose better words.
Then, there are all of the people who think that, in an aging society, senior/retired people should not pay any taxes. How is that going to work one day?
Will democrats please please please improve their messaging!!?? It reminds me how people were surprised to know that their health insurance they have through the ACA is actually Obamacare! Please. Apparently we need to really dumb these things down for people!!!
Dems and especially progressives are the single worst group of salespeople I’ve ever met. Every one of them need to read at least 5 sales/marketing books before saying another word
Trump is turning the US into a breeding ground for corruption and infrastructure failure, just like South Africa, where we have scheduled power outages for up to 12 hours a day, daily.
Teachers aren't being allowed to TEACH anymore. Learning to shoot to protect the children seems more important to the politicians than improving our educational system!
It's a reason I started saying that Trump is a threat to our "Constitutional Republic" instead of a threat to democracy. Every time I said "Democracy" they would do the "but actually it is a Constitutional Republic. Now they are silent. They haven't been programed how to respond to that yet.
We've all been shouting from the top of mountains to Dems about using simple words and communicate directly to the point. But after 10-years Dems just couldn't do it, hence continuing to lose seats.
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These brazen assaults on our very existence to satisfy their morbid greed are untenable.
If they don’t make a significant change to their message and approach, MAGA will be so normalised, and sanity will fade into obscurity.
Never forget, Trump is a SYMPTOM, not the disease.
Blaming everything on Trump and failing to blame Republicans is cutting the mole off your nose and ignoring the golfball-sized tumor in your brain.
It's the mistake Hillary made in 2016, and Kamala made in 2024; pretending non-Trump GOPers are respectable and sane.
Never say, "Trump did X."
Never say, "Congress did X."
Say, "REPUBLICANS did X."
Until people realize that something impacts them directly, they tend to ignore the message.
Democrats failed democracy by refusing to hold MAGA accountable and doubled down on losingby not bothering to hammer into stupid voters heads what the fallout of another Trump presidency would look like for them, in words a 1st grader could understand
-Trump is sidelining construction workers
-Trump is the reason your commute sucks
-Trump is making roads less safe
Be to the point. Show how it impacts us.
Use the language of the common folk. Be informal, direct, and personable. Heck, be like common depictions of Teddy Roosevelt. Policies for the everyman are impotent without the everyman-appeal.
LITERALLY “focus on the concrete.”
The DNC needs to act like it & enlist t record, film, fashion industry & revisit how effective the USO was beginning in '41.
The messaging needs to be personal.
Bishop Buddle follows this rule.
Nobel Laureates follow this rule.
The DNC needs to follow this rule .
Trump does.
Tell the voters cause-and-affect in a way that a 15 year old dropout can understand.
I don’t know if it’s all that legislating but they can’t seem to speak in simple terms.
But the turd understands this better than anybody.
“Drill Baby,Drill!”
I guess term limits may help more than age limits here :)
1. Stop calling it ABORTION - call it Womens' Reproductive Health
2. They are not pro-life - call them pro-birth (or mother/wife killers)
3. It is not The Trump Administration - it's The Trump Kakistocracy
../🧵
4. Don't use Billionaire - use Oligarch or Plutocrat (and explain the term)
5. It is not the 'Conservative Party' - it's the 'Billionaires' Tax Cuts Party'
6. They are not MAGA - They are MAFO Minions (Muck About and Find Out)
7. They are not MAGA - They are Trump's Unknowing Clueless Minions
Biden Bad, Trump Good.
"The going-after of 'President Trump' was in retaliation for the GOP 'rightfully' going after the 'Biden Criminals'."
This is also how the GOP have managed to take and hold onto the issues for the past thirty plus years.
*5. It is not the 'Conservative Party' - it's the *'Oligarch' Tax Cuts Party
STOP... using the terms the Republicans use; 'Obamacare' being an obvious example. If someone uses it, promptly correct them.
Stand firm and refuse to use it and similar terms. It is the 'Affordable Care Act' (not the ACA, either).
Think. There are others.
Your answer should first include a 'corrrection' and a prompt answer.
"By abortion did you mean to ask for my views on womens' reproductive health? I believe it's between a woman and her doctor and should _never_ be any of my business."
'Skeet' is a great example of how it begins
For those on 'our team' who're social influencers, that effort starts with you as you are the ones with both the audiences and the power of message diaspora.
Hi, that's what is not working for us, but, by all means, let's keep doing it.
Then, once you see they're 'eyes open', educate without belittling.
For now, Annie's right.🤷♂️
1) Doesn't help them, and
2) Could easily led to them hating one, many or all of us for our 'smart-arsery', 'holier-than-thou' attitudes or making them feel like fools.
It will morph into a lose/lose situation. Not Good
#RESIST
#NATIONALSTRIKENOW
Get these trending. The Courts are NOT OUR SAVIOR.
Flowery speeches can't stop a unified government which has a rubber stamp at SCOTUS.
DISRUPT THE FLOW OF REVENUE TO THE BILLIONAIRES WHO ARE NOW RUNNING THE COUNTRY.
#NATIONALSTRIKENOW
#AmericanSpring2025
Democrats shoot themselves in the collective foot, because they have this almost "need" to phrase everything in an educated tone.
Democrats need to face the fact that the vast majority of Americans are just plain stupid and uneducated.
Git 'er done!
I'll leave it to the gentle reader what the letters mean.
Hint: they got the salute down.
Not enough to reliably win elections anyhow. 🤷♂️
The evil genius of the right wing is the way they use language on the big cultural issues that move people to vote for them.
No one is gonna go to the pols because of roads and bridges.
This is why 34F "loves the uneducated." Grrr.
They're too busy scrambling to stay in the power circles to give a crap about what we think.
https://bsky.app/profile/saneplanet.bsky.social/post/3lgggsuub6c27
Don't say: Trump cut funding and your prescriptions are going to get more expensive.
Say: Trump made your medicine more experience.
That nazi shithole won’t go away if we keep referencing it.