Yep. James Carville hasn’t had a progressive thought since Clinton. It needs young blood and new ideas. Clearly what they’ve done for the last 20 years just isn’t working anymore.
GAHHHH! Wake up and talk to GRASSROOTS! @indivisibleguide.bsky.social with 7 yrs AntiTrump experience and @moveon.org with decades
(I joined them in 2004 for @bigmacobama.bsky.social 1.0
and for #lgbtqia support.
Cornell Belcher told Democrats to stop wetting their pants over one bad debate. They didn't listen, stabbed their own candidate in the back, then lost the trifecta. You should have listened to Belcher.
Just watched some of his analysis on Threads & it blew my mind. Maybe this was more of a billionaire donor coup by the Obama-Clinton faction of the Dem Party against resurgent labour anti-capitalist wing of the Dems?
we sure do. i just kinda feel like anyone still using their obama clinton creds to offer their opinions (cough pod save america cough) should be retiring at this point
Honest question - where do they come from? How can we raise a new generation of strategists that break the mold of the ones established over the last 20 years. Do we have democratic think tanks that can pump these guys out?
I think our best bet is insurgent candidates -those challenging establishment candidates with their own strategy teams. Often these teams are people they developed at the local level. If they successfully win their elections, their strategists now have the experience for others to hire them.
Think tanks may be the wrong place to start and how we got into this mess in the first place. We need to be looking to bring everyday working class people into the party who aren't from the DC bubble
We should have some kind of Jedi counsel but for each kind of service industry and to be a consultant you have to have actually worked the job for 2+ years. We need a Secretary of Dish Pits, we need a committee of Black Friday veterans to weigh in on labor laws, ect. Not kidding.
Some of the smartest, most savvy people I ever met were 10+ year vets at corporate chain restaurants. If there was ever an opportunity for that wisdom to be put to use it could fix, like, so much. But it would be actually fair, so they aren’t allowed anywhere near power.
Perhaps a whole new leadership. I would like a f*cking pitbull, take no prisoners, balls to the walls goddam Godzilla to take over messaging, fund raising, strategy, execution. ..when they go low we become subterranean... We are in serious peril now and going forward for the next 48 mos.
Strategy-wise, I've never understood why Dems have refused to build up a parallel infrastructure to the propaganda network on the Right that began w Rush Limbaugh, spread w Fox and now is almost literally everywhere. The result is a citizenry is inundated and the MSM has moved starkly right as well.
This needed to be done yrs ago to counter the RW propaganda -- you can propagandize w the truth. Why have Ds refused to engage in the "marketplace of ideas"?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Talk about the real problems that affect everybody and that everyone can agree on. Educate people every day, every interview. Address wealth inequality. Citizens United and money in politics. The corrupt Supreme Court and how it's taking away our freedoms. Monopolies. Private equity.
I think it’s a bunch of stuff and at some point as I sort I will do something more long form but I think it’s obvious we need a personnel change and an attitudinal change.
mayor pete told us that it was republican propaganda that there was a health crisis in East Palestine. Fuck that lying rat fuck and his stupid sycophants
Can I ask— when your digital director comes to whoever is the boss of the digital director, because we are rarely top decision makers,
with a comms or digital organizing strategy that challenged orthodoxy of old, how do you respond?
Exactly. We need political strategists capable of drawing on lessons from other autocracies, integrating them with experience from recent US elections and generating a brand new playbook for the midterms and 2028.
Preferably with candidates who haven't been purchased. (Yes, I'm looking at people who spontaneously decided protecting cryptocurrency was a form of racial equality.)
The problems of the Dem party come not so much with age as with campaign finance. (Of course, I would say that as a Berniecrat!) As long Dems kowtow to rich donors and businesses, they're never going to fight hard for the 99%.
One of Kamala Harris' biggest mistakes was taking cues from her brother and other business/Wall Street types. Focusing only on small plans to help the "middle class" buy homes, for ex.,
is NOT going to inspire as many voters. Why didn't Biden & she prioritize getting Congress to raise the min. wage?
$25k downpayment assistance isn’t bad but ignores root causes. A high school degree used to be middle class: buy a house & car, raise kids on one income. Now two incomes can’t even do that.
$15/hr is good but let’s face it high school used to earn $20 + benefits + promo. Houses were cheaper too.
People of whatever age who realize the system has changed along with the rules of engagement, which requires being willing and able to think outside of the box and be fearless in abandoning old conventions.
How’s this for messaging and identifying new voters….ive been a pretty liberal Dem for years, grew up in NC, active in Young Democrats….but I’m also a season ticket holder for NASCAR in AZ. Do you think they would ID me?? And I can tell you, racing is not “backwater” stuff. Met many good people
The Party needs to have principles and not be available to manipulation by the highest bidder with a destructive policy agenda, be it PHrMA, crypto, AIPAC, or Charles Koch.
When MVP started her campaign w/ Project 2025, millions were shocked by Trump's horrible plans. But TV pundits & consultants said "Trump denies it" & she should focus on new benefits for the working class. & after Nov 5 they complained she didn't focus on the working class. https://bsky.app/profile/celerycaraway.bsky.social/post/3lbuh6whr6225
I ran for the Maine Senate. The party pretty much treated this past election like business as usual. The lack of help I got was really disappointing. I was surprised that there wasn’t activity in the rural districts earlier.
I’m sorry to hear. It is bonkers too since it is Maine, a state that could be left leaning if the party put resources in it. This is why nearly every candidate that is running for DNC chair is thinking about bringing back the 50 state strategy.
I’m no political pundit, but I would’ve been building community & team spirit in 2023! The GOP outspent us at the very end. We did keep our majority, tho. I have hesitated to join local DNC groups because I don’t want to see the same old strategies. I’m burned out & need some time to reset.
When you say majority, I assume your taking about Maine House of Reps which is very good actually. Honestly, I think a lot of people are going to be holding off on supporting the DNC until the new chair is selected which could indicate where the party may be heading.
It would also be great to not have the legislative leadership of the literal resistance to American fascism constantly bragging about how much they like the fascists. They make fools out of us who worked so hard at the doors and on the phones to stop fascism from winning. https://bsky.app/profile/murshedz.bsky.social/post/3lbvaawbcns2u
We have to learn to speak to the uneducated while rebuilding our education system so we no longer have to speak to the uneducated all while fighting the craziest regime of our lifetimes. No biggie 😩
Buckle up folks & Merry Christmas!
I certainly concur with your observation. And speaking as a longtime Hawaii Democrat, I respectfully suggest that we start by reviewing and reconsidering our own longtime political acquaintances and affiliations here in Honolulu, who for the past decade-plus have not served our islands well at all.
To quote Lily Tomlin, "No matter how cynical you are, it is impossible to keep up." In challenging times, there are three distinct choices before us:
1. Step up and lead.
2. Get behind a leader and follow.
3. Stand aside and get out of the way.
Too many Hawaii Dem officials need to be told No. 3.
PS, several years ago I asked you on Twitter to run for DNC Chair. I’d love it if you’d think about it again. You’d be great. And it would be amazing for the Democratic Party of Hawai`i if you won.
I realize you were skeptical in 2022 when we made eye contact at the unity breakfast. Understandable cause I got sent by the then party chair to shill on KITV.
But the last candidate I did strategy for flipped 1200 votes to beat an incumbent in the primary, and increased D vote performance in HD50.
As long as Dem short/long term strategies critically focus on:
1. Countering the powerful & pervasive far right disinfo-sphere (“messaging” alone is no weapon)
2. Addressing mechanisms GOP has put in place to maintain minority power: voter suppression, gerrymandering, malapportionment, SCOTUS, etc.
How about starting by not spending every minute they're in office sending money, jobs, and factories to red states, and instead actually going to work for the people who put you there?
Most of these strategists work for firms that pay the bills doing corporate work when they aren't in cycle. You can't tell me that doesn't affect their decision making when they are on a campaign.
all of the legacy and most of the social media has been bought by rich people and that is enormous power to reach voters , it is totally disproportionate against Dems, this is main problem.
It is almost impossible to deliver message without delivery system.
Part of the social media can be used to fight and reach other side like Youtube, but pro-dem forces need enormous financial injection (Reps. channels have that for years) and massive support from pro dem community in subscriptions likes , views comments. Imagine MeidasTouch with 30M subscribers.
Stop criticizing the Democrats for using truth and reasoning as a good strategy when it’s a peer pressure campaign; and they were not told to use a peer pressure campaign because that’s the traditional Democratic way; and yes, we have to break out of tradition. We have to start being assholes.
That's an understatement. You can start with developing a base of voters who you don't just abandon in yet another futile lurch to the right. People would show up for you if you would show up for them.
Also. If the “liberal media” is going to beat up Dem candidates, and hold them to a higher standard, may as well go on Fox and bring the fight to them with effective communicators like Pete B. Beat the Rs on their home turf. We have the talent, it’s the strategy and leadership that is stale.
Everyone one the national strategy team failed. There needs to be a complete remake of the party. We lost to a fucking felon! If the leadership doesn’t address the major flaws, as pointed out in previous posts, the party will continue to lose and take a truly free and equitable America with it.
The problem with the Democratic party is one you often see in academia--to wit, they've spent their entire lives drilling for truth dispassionately. You are disincentivized to believe in anything, lest it cloud your statistics, studies, questionnaires, and results.
The problem with the Democratic Party is the influence of money, and money's willingness to turn a blind eye to economically progressive legislation (which might hurt them) and embrace vocal special interests whose narrow needs only tangentially serve the greater good.
Why strive for economic policy that could make it harder to steal money from the working class when you win innumerable points standing up for bathroom use dictates, who plays in whose sports, and unrealistic foreign policy goals.
The reason people don't like academics is that you can sense that they don't believe in anything, that at any moment, they could change their minds when new evidence arises. And while that is *good* for a great many things, politics is not one of them.
Your ideals and principles are things you *believe,* they are what make you who you are, just as it makes Republicans who they are.
You can't fake it, you can't drum it up in a lab, you need people who legitimately believe in things. It HELPS to have the facts, but with enough power ...
You can *force* ideals that are less workable up front into working.
If all you have are people who can tell you the truth, the statistics, the things most people don't understand and never will, then you can't get through anything. You're just a stuffed suit.
My recommendation then, is to have speakers study pastors/priests and how they talk, you need firebrands, unabashed defenders of ideals even when they aren't popular.
By speaking of them, living by them, and vociferously holding others to them, you get people hyped.
The reason you can't fake this is because if you get people hyped up and then do nothing because norms--norms that cause structural and systemic inadequacies--you lose trust. You have to follow through, and you need people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE in order to do that.
11 out of the last 13 elections have been change elections. The W.H. has changed hands 3X in a row. Trump lost when he was the incumbent and won 2X when he was the non incumbent. 2026 will be a change election since Trump will jack up inflation w/his tariffs and deportations.
I totally get wanting to get fresh ideas and perspectives at the helm, but those guys won some TOUGH races…seems shortsighted to just put them out to pasture? Kamala came damn close to winning a previously unwinnable race, and if she had pulled it off we’d all be hailing Plouffe as a genius
Honestly Carville has become an old crank now.He has not won anything for a while and he is spending his time whining about “woke” & “Dei”. I do think, despite a short turnaround, the elections were winnable for Harris. I don’t think the campaign did enough to motivate traditional democratic bases.
We don’t just need a new *generation* of strategists, we need a reformed party that will listen to them and tell the Politico/West Wing crowd to go kick rocks. No one should listen to those people anymore. They should serve the country and humanity by getting hired as Shell and ExxonMobil PR shills.
They're working in universities and they have consulted decades of research on the questions you guys outsource to PR people. They're political scientists. Use them.
Who’s ever idea was to flood our phones with fear mongering messages should be banned from entering the DNC. The most counterproductive strategy ever! I lost count of the numbers I blocked.
Some of the younger one’s are just as clueless if not more so. Clinton’s 2016 staff became Harris’s 2020 staff who then became Warren’s 2020 staff who then became Harris’s 2024 staff, and they were all fairly young. I genuinely think Warren would’ve won if she hadn’t onboarded that crew.
More often than not the ground level campaign staffers are young. My spouse managed a congressional campaign office this cycle and he was elderly at 49.
We need nasty, ruthless, don’t give any fucks, FORMER REPUBLICANS to fight these degenerates! They’re the only ones who know how to fight mean and dirty enough to win against these pricks!!! SERIOUSLY
Faiz Shakir on the Ezra Klein show is where it’s at. I know Democrats want to win elections and keep their billionaire buddies, but they can’t. Gotta throw the billionaires overboard. Also Need to find people who sound authentic, not just say the right things, they gotta feel it in their guts.
Damn it, im in. But only if I can work from home, and only use my thumbs and nothing else, and I can be anonymous, and nobody yells at me, and oh dear I’m part of the problem…
Kamala Harris proposal to add senior in-home-care to Medicare was a really fresh and practical idea with a lot of appeal. She just didn't have time to market it to the public - and, of course, a dimwitted Senate Caucus didn't help.
With all due respect Senator, I bet you voted for the Infrastructure bill which provides for skills training and apprenticeship programs for non-college educated workers.
This is your strategy: Let non-college educated, blue collar workers, from all races, know what the Dems. accomplished.
Recent trainings Iwas in had Christian speakers who were pushing all of the BS propaganda. It led me to some research. 2/3 of the US identify as Christian, and they are more susceptible to manipulation. The Republicans understood the assignment. They bought church leaders to infiltrate everywhere.
Bro, those strategists on the pod save America episode are completely detached from reality. Zero lessons learned, zero to change from their perspective
Yes. Stop courting the right for crossover votes and start supporting and messaging to union members, who are middle class families, who are also American workers.
Agreed. Not giving any more $ to the Dem party writ large. I’ll directly support candidates I believe in but Dem leadership has been taking progressives and marginalized communities for granted, including while courting some mythical Trump voter who could be turned. Stop telling us to be content
Most importantly is messaging middle America can get onboard with. Very left 60'-70's gal here, very progressive but honestly, till we start reaching those Red states, Climate change is not the message.
We have incredible strategists in the Democratic party. But many of those who have the best analysis and ideas are critical of the losing strategies and mindset of Democratic leadership and get frozen out for speaking up.
I have examples of this at a local
Level and how when a lot of young progressive voices took on leadership roles within the party, the next cycle we were all shut out and how none of us had the energy to keep fighting the centrists in our state. It really happens at every stage of the process
Preach. This has been true for a long time. I remember being young and full of ideas, and getting them shot down left and right. I decided to run with one of them and ask for forgiveness later. Got a lot of great feedback, but DCCC was big mad. 🙄
Oh, I follow Mark. He's great. But there are lots of Democrats with intestinal fortitude. It's just that a lot of us get written off or even blackballed
Also, it's nice that they can't bitch at me (at least the pols can't, the consultants will snipe) as much bc what I started as as side project, my list, raised them $7MM this cycle. So at least there's that
There are a lot of brilliant people working their butts off, but if you challenge party orthodoxy you get labeled as a "problem" or "difficult" and ignored, while party leadership keeps turning to the same handful of losers who keep guiding us to losing
Yup. They have this misguided image that their longevity should be rewarded somehow—as it may have been in times past.
But the ground beneath their feet have shifted, even as they refuse to acknowledge it. They don’t have the tactical skills and revere the *institution* to fight asymmetricallly.
Is there a way to gracefully move on from ineffective party leaders while not losing even more seats & power to Republicans? As for the consultants, data don’t lie, right? The late Cheney/moderate pivot instead of firmly securing the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party failed. Again. End of.
Good questions. Probably the most important thing is if folks like Sen. Schatz are serious they need to apply upward pressure on the leadership in their caucuses. And consultants who pursue perennial losing strategies need to fail down, not up.
I do believe that Sen. Schatz is serious, and I know more than a few others in the caucus share his perspective. But if they're not willing to put the pressure on leadership across the board, then it's empty
This is correct! However, it has been at least a bit reassuring to see things like the Senator's skeet here and other more established actors echoing previously taboo ideas such as those about the general information environment and its substantive problem for Democrats.
Since Citizens United, the Dems have been terrified of losing the moneyed donor class. Honest question: how do you convince the donor class that progressivism is in their best interest? And how do you do the same for “strategists?”
You don't. We are in an age of populism. Forget the moneyed donor class and go to the people. We need a new Huey Long who can excoriate billionaires, make them the enemy, and rile up ordinary Americans in language a 3d grader can understand.
So do you think she should have gone on Rogan? That is kind of a litmus test. They were "protecting" her like they protected Biden. The result is Trump. We need candidates who do not have to be protected.
Like show up and no time limit? Seems like she should have accepted rather than doing SNL. Her appearances were too cautiously staged. It's obvious now.
Yes, we do. Ground game, modern media, investing heavily in new states and talking to working class people poised to be hurt by Trump policies. No more consultants who use the same playbook and lose.
Elected dem “leaders” blaming paid slogan makers & not themselves for failure to enact legislation or protect people & democratic institutions due to “bipartisanship” w/fascists they also call fascists seems on par w/waiting until “after the holidays” to address ⬆️. Rinse repeat 😒
K.I.S.S = KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID! We need a party that has 2-3 items it focuses on. Corporate reform, voting reform, and immigration reform. All 3 are easy to get behind for most Americans. We need powerful speakers to deliver the messages as well. No idea who to use but lets hold auditions 😅
Totally agree. Listening to some (though definitely not all) Obama-era strategists try to unpack why we lost has been really tedious. Many seem completely out of touch with how people perceive the Democratic Party and get their news
Just thinking about this post in the wake of the Connolly vote. Congressional Dems have learned nothing. We need a grassroots campaign to make real change ourselves - starting with primaries.
Ok. Thanks for the explanation. I agree that Dems need a new strategy and have for years. They need to listen to people, new people, not the same consultants. It’s a long game and they never seem prepared. The focus isn’t grassroots and that’s where change and ideas exist.
Which gets back to my point. We want them elected so they can give us results. Taking a deal to reduce the amount of judges they confirm so that they can get a vacation is not what we need.
first we have to take the democratic party out of the hands of the people who are running it....i am 72 i have watched the incompetency grow over the years and it's horrifying....
They need to follow the Repug strategy, use a script and everyone repeats the same message over and over. Never divert from the script.Ever listen to the Rs talk, they all use the same words.
Need more millennials and Gen z. Sorry, Kamala losing proved there won’t be a Gen X president until Gen X elects an 80 yr old white one of them. That Gen of people is a wash.
People vote for leaders as much as policies, if not more so. You need a party run by someone with empathy and charm for the middle of the country rather than hyper confident politics majors in their 20s from expensive coastal universities.
Agreed. The party needs to clean house. I’m sick and tired of these 120k+ paid strategists go on The Hill or something and be like “the party has moved far left” even when Harris ran one of the most centrists campaigns you could probably do.
People feel left behind and think Trump will help them. Corporate CEO’S make over 1000% more than their employees. People don’t have a choice but to work for whatever CEO’s want to pay them. The people make the corporate owners richer and paid crap wages!
We need to figure out a way to get past the Harvard, GW, Duke crowd — people who are on the ground doing political work at the state level deserve a chance to take their ideas state & region wide!
Indeed. Bernie Sanders would most likely have served 2 terms from 2016-2024 had he not been blocked by senior Democrats in the DNC.
The 2024 was lost because the Democratic party ignored all the main policies Bernie Sanders supported (from minimum wages to Palestine to the environment).
...them from knowingly misleading anyone, under pain of losing their charters and licenses. It's not a first amendment issue: it's a condition of existence. They are created by laws and regs and should be fully regulable by the same.
They're bringing back measles... and Democratic leadership is NOT going in front of every TV camera, with their hair on fire, and telling America, "Republicans are bringing back measles. Prepare for a surge in child funerals." Too bold. Our leaders want to sell hope, not fear. 🙄
I have a hard time believing 🍄rump voters would be swayed by child deaths. Gun violence, Covid, climate change all kill children and they don’t give a shit.
The anti-vax wing of our political spectrum will not believe any pro-vax evidence... and Trump voters are cultists who will vote for Trump & MAGAts no matter what.
Independents, moderates, intermittent voters... Dems need a good sales & marketing strategy to drive them to pull the lever for us.
So weird because I thought that’s what they were doing? You’re saying stark truths about Republican policy will reach those who are sway able that way? Because Obama won on hope.
Bush Jr.'s 2nd term was so horrible, a Dem was due to win in 2008.
in 2024 the president-elect has more baggage than any 20 other politicians I can think of, combined... make that 40... and we lost to him. Sorry for being frustrated about whatever 'strategery' we've been using.
Maybe. But folks need to read today’s WaPo editorial, and listen to Dave Roberts interview Dan Savage on a recent ‘Volts’ podcast to see that YIMBY urbanism is the future for Dems.
I agree on being the party of building and I’m one of the biggest YIMBYs in the senate but that is not going to unlock the electoral college. It’s just a great policy and that’s enough.
The Dems need a team and allies who will fight back against/counter the RU-backed disinformation that is flooding the US media and social media. In some parts of USA, it seems the right wing/RU propaganda is all folks can get as “news”.
This was and continues to be a losing message. I firmly believe that Americans would vote for Air Bud if that dog ran a campaign centered on Medicare for All and busting up the greed fucks on Wall St.
Trump didn’t win (solely) because Americans are racist/misogynist. He won largely because people who don’t follow politics/don’t watch the news inexplicably came to the conclusion that he could return the economy he broke to the state it was in before he broke it
I think when we attempt that angle ( and yes, it’s important), the populous is given such words as Socialism, Communism,Immigrants,etc. to roll around their feeble craniums.
Yes, but also we need to redefine “strategist” so it doesn’t mean “highly paid consultant whose needs and interests are totally disconnected from working people of all races & genders.”
Unsolicited advice: My party needs to stop projecting so much weakness and insecurity. Stop trotting out Republicans who agree with you, demurring on trans rights issues, trying to out-asshole the assholes.
We are decent/generous people. Voters (especially nihilistic ones) value authenticity first.
In Ed Rendell's words the party has fallen victim to wussification. We're too scared to stand up firmly for our values for fear of 'alienating moderates'
Hi. It's not about the strategists; it's about the leadership.
The strategists and the strategies exist. There are a lot of us who have been working our asses off AND winning hearts and minds on the periphery for years. This is about the willingness to listen, risk aversion, and moving the money.
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James Carville don’t win elections?
(I joined them in 2004 for @bigmacobama.bsky.social 1.0
and for #lgbtqia support.
Nobody's getting younger and his folks were off to a good start.
Talk about the real problems that affect everybody and that everyone can agree on. Educate people every day, every interview. Address wealth inequality. Citizens United and money in politics. The corrupt Supreme Court and how it's taking away our freedoms. Monopolies. Private equity.
I know that question 'dumbs' the issues down, but I'm curious to know what you think.
good luck.
with a comms or digital organizing strategy that challenged orthodoxy of old, how do you respond?
is NOT going to inspire as many voters. Why didn't Biden & she prioritize getting Congress to raise the min. wage?
$15/hr is good but let’s face it high school used to earn $20 + benefits + promo. Houses were cheaper too.
They have the best product imaginable, truth.
Republicans have shown that by winning with lies and a criminal nominee.
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Buckle up folks & Merry Christmas!
Because we have seen the results of only serving capital interests when it concentrates in record amounts.
And donors become so rich they find democracy incompatible.
https://bsky.app/profile/schatz.bsky.social/post/3lbuzjdou3c26
1. Step up and lead.
2. Get behind a leader and follow.
3. Stand aside and get out of the way.
Too many Hawaii Dem officials need to be told No. 3.
But the last candidate I did strategy for flipped 1200 votes to beat an incumbent in the primary, and increased D vote performance in HD50.
1. Countering the powerful & pervasive far right disinfo-sphere (“messaging” alone is no weapon)
2. Addressing mechanisms GOP has put in place to maintain minority power: voter suppression, gerrymandering, malapportionment, SCOTUS, etc.
Desperately…
It is almost impossible to deliver message without delivery system.
You can't fake it, you can't drum it up in a lab, you need people who legitimately believe in things. It HELPS to have the facts, but with enough power ...
If all you have are people who can tell you the truth, the statistics, the things most people don't understand and never will, then you can't get through anything. You're just a stuffed suit.
By speaking of them, living by them, and vociferously holding others to them, you get people hyped.
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They need to promote the young blood.
I never knew him before, and I could see potential written all over him
I just don't understand why they're not using their resources.
Those young folks ARE the future.
Let them make it theirs.
#KamalaWon
#TrumpCheated
#DemocratsRolledOver
Kamala? She jetted off to Hawaii.
Lots of evidence of fraud, Democrats walked away….
This is your strategy: Let non-college educated, blue collar workers, from all races, know what the Dems. accomplished.
Raising the minimum wage - 15+ an hour
Medicare For All
Repealing Citizens United
Term limits
I mean, just basic kitchen table things - and campaign on them!
Level and how when a lot of young progressive voices took on leadership roles within the party, the next cycle we were all shut out and how none of us had the energy to keep fighting the centrists in our state. It really happens at every stage of the process
He is the only democrat with balls.
It’s tough being right & having many get pissed at the time bc of it, only to figure it out a few yrs later themselves
But the ground beneath their feet have shifted, even as they refuse to acknowledge it. They don’t have the tactical skills and revere the *institution* to fight asymmetricallly.
It’s the latter who need to be purged, imho.
Leadership turning to people who tell them what they want to hear is part of how we got here.
AOC is being way underutilized. Listen to her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/democrats-interest-groups-majority.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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That man hasn't done a good job in decades.
If anything he's in the way.
The 2024 was lost because the Democratic party ignored all the main policies Bernie Sanders supported (from minimum wages to Palestine to the environment).
This situation exists because folks in the reactionary information silos have been lied to so often they believe it. That is how propaganda works.
Corporations, LLC's, 501's and other "juridical persons" should have charters that disallow...
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Fix Fox "News"
(fin)
Don't say that economy isn't bad; say it's improved & "Pay Raises" will get us over the hump.
Don't say that immigration is better; say I'll do more right away (Exec. Power is in the dead border bill).
Independents, moderates, intermittent voters... Dems need a good sales & marketing strategy to drive them to pull the lever for us.
in 2024 the president-elect has more baggage than any 20 other politicians I can think of, combined... make that 40... and we lost to him. Sorry for being frustrated about whatever 'strategery' we've been using.
we need new parties
not the bedraggled remnants of corporate owned crap
We don't need men that think women's issues are a distraction (fuck off Bernie)
Maybe just learn to listen. Your buddy Chris Murphy had some horrid (and wrong) hot takes after the election.
@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social
We are decent/generous people. Voters (especially nihilistic ones) value authenticity first.
The strategists and the strategies exist. There are a lot of us who have been working our asses off AND winning hearts and minds on the periphery for years. This is about the willingness to listen, risk aversion, and moving the money.
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