We do have a team that can sell when the reigns are taken off. Buttigieg, AOC, Kinzinger, Crockett can burn the Trump house. They just need to get out of the reigns if old party controllers.
You would think after they got beat in Nov by a group who was going to implement Project 2025 they would have done a quick reassessment and understood the old ways did not work. Take the reigns off.
We have to have a unified message though! Across the board from politicians to what little media we have! We all have to stop using 50cent words and terms. Plain English and consistent easy/practical messaging! Talk to the weakest link in the chain.
All of them are “plain English” people. Who speak to Americans in normal every day simple to understand ..basic common denominator language and marketing better than even Trump does in his (often stupid despite being simple) marketing words.
We have a unified message: Inclusion and Opportunity
Two words! Simple! but candidates and organizers fail every time to deliver that message in a way their constituency will understand. EVERY single issue we fight for can be brought back to those two words.
They hear “inclusion and opportunity” and hear “woke”. We need a different message so we can get back to inclusion and opportunity issues without triggering “woke-ism”. “Woke” is a hot potato regardless of how being woke helps most!
Only woke if you’re messaging wrong. Go talk to coal miners in KY you talk about inclusion at the table when the corporation is taking away your benefits and opportunity so your kids can work here too like generations of your family have.
We need to look like inclusion and opportunity …and the best of American hope unification and sound like economic and foreign policy/security masters. Imho
100% agree! But/and we keep loosing elections when we make this the forefront issue. I know, I know that’s stupid!!! But it’s where we are! We have to react and form a plan with where the voters are. Then when we are back in power we can move our agendas forward.
All of these people lack the cut throat skills of old white haired republicans to create believable lies when they say the American people voted for DJT eventhough Trump said lower prices and no changes to existing programs that affect individuals.
Jeffries is not the man for the job... and the DNC, who we never hear from except to ask for money, just elected children. Once again, there is no message, no leadership.
That isn’t true. They all are incredible at cutting down the lies. Simply and in the cases of Buttigieg and AIC with the historical knowhow of economics in their past achievements to simply cut the bullshit with a grasp of economic populism in plain language.
And all four of them have won every round of a debate fight with Trump surrogates I have ever seen. (& the pollsters show that too in the case of sample polling groups with Buttigieg and AOC …they are both no bullshit and Buttigieg cuts a lie down faster than any politician I have ever seen ).
The Harris campaign was articulate, innovative and enthusiastic.
Most American just want to be angry. That's their culture. But I also think our progressive views was a big reason people didn't vote for her. I know she's a black woman had a lot to do with it too.
We need to moderate our stances.👇
I’ll say it again… economic populism. And the campaign did well but there was not a lot of off the cuff open interviews with a candidate that would “go everywhere.” I love Harris but the campaign chose not to have her off the cuff enough.
The border was out of control. Started at the beginning of Biden's term.
Student loan forgiveness. There are better ways.
LBGTQ, at the forefront. Why? .05% of our population.
Ukraine didn't get the weapons they needed when they needed them.
Israel is/was committing war crimes. 👇
This is all wrong. Honestly. The only reason we lost is paranoid bigotry and isolationism take hold when people don’t feel like you are the answer to their economic challenges. That is it period. It was republicans who put lgtbq at ghd forefront and it’s 8% of the population now.
For the middle of the road voters, these things would have changed minds.
Biden and dems did a great job for infrastructure, environmental initiatives, keeping us out of a recession, cost controls but
not enough grit to take on trump.
They needed to defeat on economic populism but you need people who are smart enough to explain economic and trade simply and with deep understanding to not get tripped up. Buttigieg and AOC (as liberal as she is portrayed) have that in their backgrounds in abundance. The other 2 have the fight game
Trump is evil and I know the election shouldn't even have been close but it was.
I'm all about equality but some of the studies I'm seeing are ridiculous.
After musk and trump burn us to the ground maybe we can rebuild smarter. More moderate.
Problem is AOC and others can sell, but once they buy the product and it doesn’t work as described, because it’s not as simple as a soundbite in Insta, then the customer/voter isn’t going to buy again. Case in point: 2024 Dem turn out.
But Dem turn out had a lot of headwind. And a campaign that was controlled and fighting with a bunch of old experts that made the campaign hard. And I love Harris but her off the cuff skills need work (likely partly because of over control by campaign). Even with Hitler wannabe running.
AOC I don’t agree with always but she is an econ genius.. genuinely. Her background is smarter than most and explains things in plain English. Buttigieg.. there is no one better. Kinzinger has become the best aggressor voice. & Crockett is the best meme/viral take.
Absolutely, but the question is: how do you fix this in a way that actually works? How do you get the Democrats to CHANGE? Mark, you're brilliant. Can you get them to wake up?
We need a consortium of patriots to buy up right wing radio stations nationwide... bit by bit introduce a different perspective to turn the ship... start deprogramming. We have to stop wishing this will go away. We have to take the steps. The rt wing media has no respect for their audience.
That is a terrible idea. There is a pervasive feeling throughout America that big money is massaging the message from behind the scenes. The way to change America is to make persuasive arguments, not backdoor censorship.
U missed the point. Persuasive arguments don't work if they are never heard. Right now the truth is never heard by MAGA. Do you get that? Their MAGA infrastructure bubble is locked down. We need platforms that peeps actually listen to. Arguing persuasively into the void is not working.
The learning and application of critical thinking has been gutted from our education system and has been under attack in society for a long time. Being dumb and extreme has been popularized. Platforms and infrastructure for communication is irrelevant until we solve that.
Agree critical thinking + ed a priority. But platforms & infrastructure are 100% relevant & currently carry the RW messaging 24/7. We can do more than one thing at a time. Education + viable platforms to spread facts & deprogramming, PLUS the right peeps to spread the message who can punch thru.
Larger population of Maga dingbats than 10 years ago, with Trumps emergence the stupid got vocal. To quote Kara Swisher on Hegseth speech " dumber than a box of bricks"
Well, they’re going to get their FAFO phase real soon & those of us who are not billionaires and saw this coming, screamed warnings from the rooftops are gonna get fucked too. 😩
We knew that boys were failing under "No child left behind." They were dropping out of high school, not learning to read, had no computer skills outside of gaming. Now, that they are voters we accuse them of being idiots. We, as a society, abandoned them and here we are.
Democrats were operating under the strange assumption that no one would vote for a rapist and convicted felon who had mounted an insurrection. How remiss of them. Save your outrage for the Republicans.
That, and what IS the real source of truth these days? Many MAGA do ‘their own research’ but WHERE they get their information from is also what is causing this ignorance and clusterfuck of stupidity.
I can tell you where a lot of them are getting their "truth" and it's on the radio. Even in the middle of nowhere there will be at least two stations spewing right wing hate. Those are playing are in barns, job sites, tractor cabs and pickup trucks.
This rings true for me. I spent the last few weeks working in rural Mississippi and occasionally we would end up on daytime talk radio while riding between work areas and my god, the hatred spewed there was unreal.
Wow! I had no idea. I’m Canadian. I’m sure there are conservative channels, but I don’t know of any hate spewing radio stations here. But I don’t run in those circles so maybe I’m naive and we have them too? We certainly have our version of right wing media and misinformation channels.
Russian has been orchestrating this propaganda machine for decades to divide and weaken. Republicans started leveraging that with Bannon and Trump last admin.
Mass success of their evil plan is apparent now. And heartbreaking. We are all fighting each other instead of the elites and oligarchs.
I get that Dems already do well with highly engaged voters and Trump wins the low-info vote. I've seen The Daily Show's street interviews with totally clueless people. But I bristle at declaring that most of us are dim and incurious. Do we know that for sure? Maybe talk to Frank Luntz.
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It's the perfect summation of the last few generations
Two words! Simple! but candidates and organizers fail every time to deliver that message in a way their constituency will understand. EVERY single issue we fight for can be brought back to those two words.
I also am totally sick of democratic fund soliciting especially starting out with question like which of these programs we list are important to you.
I DM’d some democratic leaders and saw results.
Our whole democracy is being undermined.
Do something!
Second is an ability to make a volcano eruption around the world an opportunity to promote DJT.
I got one wish today. News on us starting a podcast where he will interview the enemy.
They're not ruling.
Most American just want to be angry. That's their culture. But I also think our progressive views was a big reason people didn't vote for her. I know she's a black woman had a lot to do with it too.
We need to moderate our stances.👇
Student loan forgiveness. There are better ways.
LBGTQ, at the forefront. Why? .05% of our population.
Ukraine didn't get the weapons they needed when they needed them.
Israel is/was committing war crimes. 👇
Biden and dems did a great job for infrastructure, environmental initiatives, keeping us out of a recession, cost controls but
not enough grit to take on trump.
Listen and put some force behind what we hear.👇
I'm all about equality but some of the studies I'm seeing are ridiculous.
After musk and trump burn us to the ground maybe we can rebuild smarter. More moderate.
He has no sense of humanity on the whole. How each part contributes to the vitality of the whole.
Musk saying break it, find the problems once the experience has left is a ridiculous bandwagon every board/CEO will engage and not be able to fix.
Apocalypse is what you’re saying
Mass success of their evil plan is apparent now. And heartbreaking. We are all fighting each other instead of the elites and oligarchs.
The message they fail at is that America may be 1st in Weaponry, but we are only 45th in education.
Ramaswamy told Americans politely we were uncultured implying we were less capable.
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