Following my thought further… the reason Trump and the other R leaders were well received in the right wing ecosystem was their message of outrage, which is the kind of message that spreads like wildfire. Centrist neoliberal Dems aren’t going to get anywhere on the left wing ecosystem either their milquetoast proposals. Gaza played on th…
Following my thought further… the reason Trump and the other R leaders were well received in the right wing ecosystem was their message of outrage, which is the kind of message that spreads like wildfire. Centrist neoliberal Dems aren’t going to get anywhere on the left wing ecosystem either their milquetoast proposals. Gaza played on the left but hurt our centrist candidates. We need similar outrage to fire up the base. We need bold Progressive ideas like Medicare for All and No More Oil. We need the Democrats to be bold populists and civil rights and gun control and climate activists and not cede the outrage to the far right. We have plenty of real problems to solve!
However, Dems need to have conventions like GOP. They have cpac, Texas GOP have their own convention, Turning Point, etc. They get on one sheet of music.
We need to meet and discuss ideas. I would love a convention where Bernie discussed medicare for all and Pete discussed the public option. We could ask questions and then choose one.
(I prefer the public option and if successful, would evolve into Medicare for all).
Imagine conventions for how to manage gun control. There are probably one million things we could do that I don't know about because Dems don't meet and build on ideas.
Imagine a conversation on education where we meet candidates running for school superintendents or librarians, discussing book bans, the department of education and what we can do to keep it solvent.
Each convention discuss what we can do, who's running for office, and help develop a platform.
They also need to go on the road to these areas where the low information voters are. We laugh at all the Trump rallies in podunk towns, but those rallies down hundreds of Podcaster and bloggers to gather where it makes these hot takes easier. Plus, it is much easier to show a rural food and health desert community that Dem policies are better for them when you're saying it from Norfolk, NE than from Norfolk, VA. Remember--we don't need to win those communities. We just need to create enough doubt that the other side is the right one that some people stay home.
Following my thought further… the reason Trump and the other R leaders were well received in the right wing ecosystem was their message of outrage, which is the kind of message that spreads like wildfire. Centrist neoliberal Dems aren’t going to get anywhere on the left wing ecosystem either their milquetoast proposals. Gaza played on the left but hurt our centrist candidates. We need similar outrage to fire up the base. We need bold Progressive ideas like Medicare for All and No More Oil. We need the Democrats to be bold populists and civil rights and gun control and climate activists and not cede the outrage to the far right. We have plenty of real problems to solve!
However, Dems need to have conventions like GOP. They have cpac, Texas GOP have their own convention, Turning Point, etc. They get on one sheet of music.
We need to meet and discuss ideas. I would love a convention where Bernie discussed medicare for all and Pete discussed the public option. We could ask questions and then choose one.
(I prefer the public option and if successful, would evolve into Medicare for all).
Imagine conventions for how to manage gun control. There are probably one million things we could do that I don't know about because Dems don't meet and build on ideas.
Imagine a conversation on education where we meet candidates running for school superintendents or librarians, discussing book bans, the department of education and what we can do to keep it solvent.
Each convention discuss what we can do, who's running for office, and help develop a platform.
They also need to go on the road to these areas where the low information voters are. We laugh at all the Trump rallies in podunk towns, but those rallies down hundreds of Podcaster and bloggers to gather where it makes these hot takes easier. Plus, it is much easier to show a rural food and health desert community that Dem policies are better for them when you're saying it from Norfolk, NE than from Norfolk, VA. Remember--we don't need to win those communities. We just need to create enough doubt that the other side is the right one that some people stay home.