Yikes! The “intellectual” response to people who are feeling the pinch is, “fuck your feelings”? No. Biden needs to talk about why it’s the difference between earnings and costs that make people feel poorer and that the economy is not working for them. Talk about those high paying jobs that are on deck with the infrastructure spending. R…
Yikes! The “intellectual” response to people who are feeling the pinch is, “fuck your feelings”? No. Biden needs to talk about why it’s the difference between earnings and costs that make people feel poorer and that the economy is not working for them. Talk about those high paying jobs that are on deck with the infrastructure spending. Republicans have raised victimhood to new heights. Democrats need to acknowledge the pain (remember the master of feeling your pain was Bill Clinton) but make sure they place the blame squarely on the GOP where it belongs.
They do do this but you don’t see it because it doesn’t make the news. Biden and his admin have been traveling the country doing ribbon cutting events (sadly with their Republican colleagues as well who voted down those exact bills). The reason you don’t see it is because the news would rather cover the wars, gop implosion, trump trials, Trump tweets, impeachment, hunter biden, etc. what you described will never breakthrough
I know right? I mean you have red states turning down help because that help came from Biden! Trying to defund the IRS? Without tax revenue how will the lawmakers and cops get paid? Suing over student loan relief even though student loans don't care what your political affiliation is? Keeping health care tied to your job, not the fact that you work..but the actual job you have??
Biden has said with both words and actions "that he feels your pain". Hakeem Jefferies too..giving votes to keep the country open. I mean at some point what more can be done at the Federal level?
It is one of the reasons why it is difficult for me to take the "what democrats need to do to convince (insert group here) to vote for them" advice without sighing. It feels like the goal posts are always moving!
Also Republicans aren't winning on their messaging. If they were they wouldnt have lost 8 of the last nine popular vote or whatever that stat is WI overwhelming voted D, but have a minority at the state level. And do the majority of folks really agree that women should be paid less then men just becuase they have vaginas?? Or that 16 year olds should only be able to read Anne of Green Gables?
They are winning on their gerrymandering, their voter purges, their taking over of schools, their shamelessness. For dems to be where the repubs are they would have to be willing to do these same things, to value power and control above all else.
This is well said. Republicans play ABSOLUTE power politics and never, ever win the majority of the electorate and yet we have to hear from ex-republicans that say “this is what you should do.” I used to be a Republican but I recognized my advice might not be as helpful but listening to people say “don’t do x or y or z” because moderates won’t vote for you drives me crazy. The Democratic Party has a huge tent so they have to do things for different parts of their electorate. Let’s be serious, if moderates are convinced about Trump over Biden now, I’m sorry there is almost nothing the Democratic Party can do with POLICY to convince those moderates to vote for Biden. It’s crazy but you cannot look at these 2 candidates and say “I would have voted for Biden but he did (insert some random policy idea here)”
No one is telling these people “fuck your feelings.” But we can tell people that more people are working today than at almost any other time in the history of this country. We can tell them that this isn’t a local problem, it’s a global problem. And I think it’s more than fair to expect people in the most advanced country on the planet to have a bit of common sense on what’s happening.
Yikes! The “intellectual” response to people who are feeling the pinch is, “fuck your feelings”? No. Biden needs to talk about why it’s the difference between earnings and costs that make people feel poorer and that the economy is not working for them. Talk about those high paying jobs that are on deck with the infrastructure spending. Republicans have raised victimhood to new heights. Democrats need to acknowledge the pain (remember the master of feeling your pain was Bill Clinton) but make sure they place the blame squarely on the GOP where it belongs.
They do do this but you don’t see it because it doesn’t make the news. Biden and his admin have been traveling the country doing ribbon cutting events (sadly with their Republican colleagues as well who voted down those exact bills). The reason you don’t see it is because the news would rather cover the wars, gop implosion, trump trials, Trump tweets, impeachment, hunter biden, etc. what you described will never breakthrough
I know right? I mean you have red states turning down help because that help came from Biden! Trying to defund the IRS? Without tax revenue how will the lawmakers and cops get paid? Suing over student loan relief even though student loans don't care what your political affiliation is? Keeping health care tied to your job, not the fact that you work..but the actual job you have??
Biden has said with both words and actions "that he feels your pain". Hakeem Jefferies too..giving votes to keep the country open. I mean at some point what more can be done at the Federal level?
It is one of the reasons why it is difficult for me to take the "what democrats need to do to convince (insert group here) to vote for them" advice without sighing. It feels like the goal posts are always moving!
Also Republicans aren't winning on their messaging. If they were they wouldnt have lost 8 of the last nine popular vote or whatever that stat is WI overwhelming voted D, but have a minority at the state level. And do the majority of folks really agree that women should be paid less then men just becuase they have vaginas?? Or that 16 year olds should only be able to read Anne of Green Gables?
They are winning on their gerrymandering, their voter purges, their taking over of schools, their shamelessness. For dems to be where the repubs are they would have to be willing to do these same things, to value power and control above all else.
This is well said. Republicans play ABSOLUTE power politics and never, ever win the majority of the electorate and yet we have to hear from ex-republicans that say “this is what you should do.” I used to be a Republican but I recognized my advice might not be as helpful but listening to people say “don’t do x or y or z” because moderates won’t vote for you drives me crazy. The Democratic Party has a huge tent so they have to do things for different parts of their electorate. Let’s be serious, if moderates are convinced about Trump over Biden now, I’m sorry there is almost nothing the Democratic Party can do with POLICY to convince those moderates to vote for Biden. It’s crazy but you cannot look at these 2 candidates and say “I would have voted for Biden but he did (insert some random policy idea here)”
No one is telling these people “fuck your feelings.” But we can tell people that more people are working today than at almost any other time in the history of this country. We can tell them that this isn’t a local problem, it’s a global problem. And I think it’s more than fair to expect people in the most advanced country on the planet to have a bit of common sense on what’s happening.