The Democrat tale: "Let me explain the problem to you in an honest and factual way. It is (fifteen lines that explain the problem in an honest and factual way). That's it. We would solve it by (fifteen lines that explain the solution in an honest and factual way)
The Republican Tale "They're coming to rape and kill you! They'll change your children's sex at school! Democrats are Demons! The solution is - Vote Republican! Don't listen to anyone else!"
The problem is not with the politicians - it's the voters. If people don't use the brains God gave them, nothing the democrats can do or say will help.
After all the chaos and job losses, the disastrous Zelensky debate, Musk's obvious lunacy - trumps polls still stand at around 50% approval. Nothing the Dems say or do can stand against that level of brainwashing.
I’m 80 and liberal and progressive. Hence, I like Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and cringe when I try to watch Fox News. But these modern platforms are alien to me. Until they can be navigated easily they will stay that way. My impression? They want their hands in my pockets. They want membership and subscriptions and donations and ‘upgrades’. I feel like I am the product, to be bought and sold, and not the consumer. I made the mistake of donating to the Harris/Wold campaign and have consequently been marked as a ‘sucker’ to be milked and exploited. I get the feeling that MAGAts ARE being milked and exploited and don’t mind. Now the Dems are doing the same thing and it is irritating. The temptation is to leave it all behind and jump ship, not out of depression and despondency but out of resignation and self-preservation. Fighting fire with fire might work, but it’s disheartening in the political arena.
I feel your pain. I think all of us Dem donors are being targeted by grifters—I get numerous highly questionable fundraising texts a day. I assume offshore scammers are responsible for many of them, although at least some of them are homegrown. The DNC needs to put a stop to them.
Here's where the Democratic Party can be authentic: Town halls. The party could broadcast those on their channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@TheDemocrats/
But the real key to making social media work for anyone is to make it two-way communication. That's the next frontier. The party needs to invest in that.
Forget about Donald Trump. He's not a role model. He's wrang-wrang.
What is the point of getting on TikTok if it's going to be shut down? And, for that matter, do you really want to be associated with the Chinese government? It might be nice to be on Instagram or Twitch, but Instagram is owned by Meta and Twitch by Amazon. And why be on X at all? Who owns X? Oh, that's right, Elon Musk!
Democrats need an authentically neutral platform, one not owned by a billionaire in Donald Trump's pocket.
And, for that matter, the Democratic Party is on BlueSky. Which is where the growth is.
Also the election was not a "nightmare". It's easy to forget when Criminal Trump acts like he won. He didn't even get a majority of the popular vote! The election isn't the nightmare; Trump is.
Let's maybe not judge someone on their first efforts. Remember the original Windows OS? Not actually an OS, ran on MS-DOS. Newsom has an opinion. That's authentic, like it or don't.
Dems have a hard time LYING. Ad lib LYING is brand #1 in MAGA LAND. Remember, Trump’s the guy who says whatever is on his mind.
On the other side you can’t teach economics to anyone who isn’t interested. Trump basically had a two year presidency and economy. He was stagnant in those two years with 4.8T going to his tax cuts then COVID.
The Fed cut rates back to Great Recession emergency rates so no one felt the sting of what sustainable economic growth looks like. Fed funding rates at or near zero for over a decade and a half isn’t sustainable but that made things cheap and voters associated that with Trump.
He then added another 4.2T the last two years BUT he had those cheap funding rates.
He campaigned on 23T of offshore money coming back to the US to be taxed, NO. Promised clean coal, whatever that is, NOPE.
Repeal and replace OBAMACARE, NAH, and after a decade has concepts.
Got out of the Paris Agreement, Iran Nuclear Deal, negotiated with the Taliban without the Afghans while Al-Qaeda was occupying the presidential mansion. Claimed a peace deal with no war. Moved the consulate in Isreal to Jerusalem. Helsinki JFC.
Promises broken. Biden was the first on a picket line, Trump at a Superbowl and killed the NLRB.
But eggs. No mention of Musk or DOGE and he explicitly took an exodus away from P2025 and has NO mandate.
Yet, here we are because Garland failed. Roberts gave criminal immunity to a criminal after his convictions.
Protest votes because Genocide Joe. They were warned.
Every bill helping working Americans was a NAY by most all MAGA.
Two impeachments, rape, tax fraud, and espionage indictment and J6 indictments that were bought and paid to run out the clock.
Every economist said Biden would crash and then soft land. He smoothly avoided both.
Biden made mistakes but he didn’t use his own immunity, wasn’t a shithead and his legacy of decency was tar covered and ushered in a bro era of oligarchs and authoritarian rule.
What rabbit do people desire and want out of the hat? Messaging is hard against Russian style propaganda. It requires deviance.
A simple lie told over and over and over until the felon is elected. The media sucked. They didn’t sane wash. Trump is sane. They didn’t expose. Period.
Conspiracy theories are fun. Excitingly titillating.
Is that all we have, deviant lying to counteract the same, because it is all they have?
We have to use Kindergarten language to expose what this fast/slow roll into exiting the Constitution, as flawed as it may be, will do because without it all liberty is lost.
Ironically, Roberts used Hamilton’s Fed 70 as a sword when it clearly was his intention to have the Executive be a shield. Roberts failed miserably on civil precedent, subpoenaed privilege, and an utter disregard to what Fed 70 meant.
It contains one sentence that without this element is a rejection of a free government. Criminal immunity was not Hamilton’s intent ever. Immunity was not his intent at all.
Time to start explaining why the timing, precedent and absurd interpretation on Fed 70 means as a whole.
If we need messaging that document is it.
What a crypto sovereignty fund means. They have no idea what is coming. EXPOSE. Then expose some more. Simply. Transparently and with energy needing no immunity.
The espionage act indictment is also messaging. Beryl Howell in her memo opinion should scare anyone away from the lies of the crisis at the border. God help us he uses Martial Law under false pretense.
As long as we have the same ole democratic leadership, nothing will change. Democrats currently have one DEI hire (Schumer), and then there’s Jeffries (another useless invertebrate); without a clue! Good luck with that!…:)
The bottom line: democrats need to run as independents in red states, and drop the democratic label. It’s toxic in the Confederacy of Dunces. Thats even if free and fair elections still exist.
Democrats govern very well. Republicans used to but now can't. It has gotten much worse with this new group.
Just look at Red states, they are mostly a total mess, and poor, so poor. They can't govern.
Democrats have mostly governed fairly well, with a few exceptions.
Accentuate the positive, downplay the negative.
What have the new republicans done for you lately? Throw monkey wrenches into the workings of the government that will totally screw up services for most of the MAGA voting population, but they are used to it. If MAGA can screw up democrats it is worth it to them even if it also screws them up. It is a lose, lose situation. Yeah for MAGA.
We are now pro Putin, which is the opposite of our position since WW2. Why are our friends our enemies and our enemies have now become our friends??
Democrats also don't outside have well funded think tanks that work directly with their own social media outlets that have sports games as a lock on. And Dark, Dark Money by the billions. You have to go nuts to offend DJT or Musk if you are a republican. Organized crime running the government, soon the FBI will be rounding up the usual Democratic Suspects.
Starting about Rupert Murdoch too late to this party. Democrats have been asleep at the wheel, or drunk. Lots of what Trump loves is catch up and that is what we need. Splatter it on the walls of the White House and The People's House. I am pissed that Democrat's let it get this bad.
Coming out of their individual Fox Holes to rapid fire and picked off one by one. They have been a joke, A very sad joke. Not laughing.
Can Gavin Newsom be ‘authentic’? He always comes across as someone created by the consultant class — he looks great, straight out of central casting, but rather robotic. I say this as a voter who has voted for him in California.
One thing democrats need to start doing and doing fast is anchoring their arguments and values in the American tradition. MAGA may do the most in-American things, while wrapping themselves in the flag. While Democrats seem to be afraid about embracing their Americanness.
But supporting trans people is American — letting people live their own lives, treating people equally. You can argue about the specifics later, but anchor your trans support in America and freedom for all.
Trade war with Canada and Mexico? Threat to the American way of life.
Trashing NATO and American hegemony In Europe? Again a threat to the American way of life.
Letting a billionaire who is the product of apartheid South Africa destroy the government?
Another threat to the American way of life — arcane arguments about the separation of powers will lose people, but focus on veterans loosing jobs and real benefits people won’t get so that some South African billionaire can get his feelies by cutting jobs.
The post-war order is what has made us the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Does it need updating? Sure — its was designed in and for a different era. But Trumo running it as his personal enterprise for his personal gain is not the answer and is un-American.
It's clear by now that Dem leadership by and large doesn't yet get new media. I'd be interested in coverage of the opposition organizations and movements that *are* effective. I started getting spam from Public Citizen in the last few weeks and I have little context for a decision whether they, or other organizations, are worthy of a donation.
"In an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin said the best solution was to “let the local community figure it out.”
This is the best solution for the trans and most other social issues - let the state and local communities find their own solutions. National democratic office holders should focus on economic issues. Democratic positions on economics are broadly popular.
The Muskrat keeps chewing on the government….and making the news. But people should look at his record: his cars have crashed; his trucks have burned. His rockets have exploded; and he is not articulate or even minimally good at communication. His modus operandi, when something fails, is to go back to the drawing board and start all over again.
That’s not how things work….we learn by examining our mistakes and making corrections. That is also the history of our country…fixing things, making things better. Musk’s chainsaw approach is ridiculous. He is ridiculous. And he is rich only because he has sucked money out of our government, with lucrative contracts. And it is no surprise that he has teamed up,with the Grifter in Chief.
People "should" do a lot of things - maybe while they're looking at Musk's record, they might take a look at trump's - which is FAR worse.
But they won't - Ee-lon is FUNNEEE! He makes them LARF! Haw, haw, haw. . . and they giggle all the way to the gas chamber. . . at least the Jewish people during the Holocaust had some idea that they were in trouble. MAGA voters only want to be entertained - then they'll happily drink the Kool-Aid.
The average voter listens to:
The Democrat tale: "Let me explain the problem to you in an honest and factual way. It is (fifteen lines that explain the problem in an honest and factual way). That's it. We would solve it by (fifteen lines that explain the solution in an honest and factual way)
The Republican Tale "They're coming to rape and kill you! They'll change your children's sex at school! Democrats are Demons! The solution is - Vote Republican! Don't listen to anyone else!"
The problem is not with the politicians - it's the voters. If people don't use the brains God gave them, nothing the democrats can do or say will help.
After all the chaos and job losses, the disastrous Zelensky debate, Musk's obvious lunacy - trumps polls still stand at around 50% approval. Nothing the Dems say or do can stand against that level of brainwashing.
I’m 80 and liberal and progressive. Hence, I like Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and cringe when I try to watch Fox News. But these modern platforms are alien to me. Until they can be navigated easily they will stay that way. My impression? They want their hands in my pockets. They want membership and subscriptions and donations and ‘upgrades’. I feel like I am the product, to be bought and sold, and not the consumer. I made the mistake of donating to the Harris/Wold campaign and have consequently been marked as a ‘sucker’ to be milked and exploited. I get the feeling that MAGAts ARE being milked and exploited and don’t mind. Now the Dems are doing the same thing and it is irritating. The temptation is to leave it all behind and jump ship, not out of depression and despondency but out of resignation and self-preservation. Fighting fire with fire might work, but it’s disheartening in the political arena.
I feel your pain. I think all of us Dem donors are being targeted by grifters—I get numerous highly questionable fundraising texts a day. I assume offshore scammers are responsible for many of them, although at least some of them are homegrown. The DNC needs to put a stop to them.
Well, you said to ask - so I'm asking.
How WAS that 72 hours after that Biden debate? Did he think he'd done well? Was it a "set up"? If so, by whom?
Nice piece
Here's where the Democratic Party can be authentic: Town halls. The party could broadcast those on their channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@TheDemocrats/
But the real key to making social media work for anyone is to make it two-way communication. That's the next frontier. The party needs to invest in that.
Forget about Donald Trump. He's not a role model. He's wrang-wrang.
What is the point of getting on TikTok if it's going to be shut down? And, for that matter, do you really want to be associated with the Chinese government? It might be nice to be on Instagram or Twitch, but Instagram is owned by Meta and Twitch by Amazon. And why be on X at all? Who owns X? Oh, that's right, Elon Musk!
Democrats need an authentically neutral platform, one not owned by a billionaire in Donald Trump's pocket.
And, for that matter, the Democratic Party is on BlueSky. Which is where the growth is.
Also the election was not a "nightmare". It's easy to forget when Criminal Trump acts like he won. He didn't even get a majority of the popular vote! The election isn't the nightmare; Trump is.
And that's right. I used a semicolon.
Let's maybe not judge someone on their first efforts. Remember the original Windows OS? Not actually an OS, ran on MS-DOS. Newsom has an opinion. That's authentic, like it or don't.
Dems have a hard time LYING. Ad lib LYING is brand #1 in MAGA LAND. Remember, Trump’s the guy who says whatever is on his mind.
On the other side you can’t teach economics to anyone who isn’t interested. Trump basically had a two year presidency and economy. He was stagnant in those two years with 4.8T going to his tax cuts then COVID.
The Fed cut rates back to Great Recession emergency rates so no one felt the sting of what sustainable economic growth looks like. Fed funding rates at or near zero for over a decade and a half isn’t sustainable but that made things cheap and voters associated that with Trump.
He then added another 4.2T the last two years BUT he had those cheap funding rates.
He campaigned on 23T of offshore money coming back to the US to be taxed, NO. Promised clean coal, whatever that is, NOPE.
Repeal and replace OBAMACARE, NAH, and after a decade has concepts.
Got out of the Paris Agreement, Iran Nuclear Deal, negotiated with the Taliban without the Afghans while Al-Qaeda was occupying the presidential mansion. Claimed a peace deal with no war. Moved the consulate in Isreal to Jerusalem. Helsinki JFC.
Promises broken. Biden was the first on a picket line, Trump at a Superbowl and killed the NLRB.
But eggs. No mention of Musk or DOGE and he explicitly took an exodus away from P2025 and has NO mandate.
Yet, here we are because Garland failed. Roberts gave criminal immunity to a criminal after his convictions.
Protest votes because Genocide Joe. They were warned.
Every bill helping working Americans was a NAY by most all MAGA.
Two impeachments, rape, tax fraud, and espionage indictment and J6 indictments that were bought and paid to run out the clock.
Every economist said Biden would crash and then soft land. He smoothly avoided both.
Biden made mistakes but he didn’t use his own immunity, wasn’t a shithead and his legacy of decency was tar covered and ushered in a bro era of oligarchs and authoritarian rule.
What rabbit do people desire and want out of the hat? Messaging is hard against Russian style propaganda. It requires deviance.
A simple lie told over and over and over until the felon is elected. The media sucked. They didn’t sane wash. Trump is sane. They didn’t expose. Period.
Conspiracy theories are fun. Excitingly titillating.
Is that all we have, deviant lying to counteract the same, because it is all they have?
We have to use Kindergarten language to expose what this fast/slow roll into exiting the Constitution, as flawed as it may be, will do because without it all liberty is lost.
Autonomy. Freedom. Money. Rights. Children’s futures.
Ironically, Roberts used Hamilton’s Fed 70 as a sword when it clearly was his intention to have the Executive be a shield. Roberts failed miserably on civil precedent, subpoenaed privilege, and an utter disregard to what Fed 70 meant.
It contains one sentence that without this element is a rejection of a free government. Criminal immunity was not Hamilton’s intent ever. Immunity was not his intent at all.
Time to start explaining why the timing, precedent and absurd interpretation on Fed 70 means as a whole.
If we need messaging that document is it.
What a crypto sovereignty fund means. They have no idea what is coming. EXPOSE. Then expose some more. Simply. Transparently and with energy needing no immunity.
The espionage act indictment is also messaging. Beryl Howell in her memo opinion should scare anyone away from the lies of the crisis at the border. God help us he uses Martial Law under false pretense.
Sorry for my crappy grammar and length!
As long as we have the same ole democratic leadership, nothing will change. Democrats currently have one DEI hire (Schumer), and then there’s Jeffries (another useless invertebrate); without a clue! Good luck with that!…:)
The bottom line: democrats need to run as independents in red states, and drop the democratic label. It’s toxic in the Confederacy of Dunces. Thats even if free and fair elections still exist.
Democrats govern very well. Republicans used to but now can't. It has gotten much worse with this new group.
Just look at Red states, they are mostly a total mess, and poor, so poor. They can't govern.
Democrats have mostly governed fairly well, with a few exceptions.
Accentuate the positive, downplay the negative.
What have the new republicans done for you lately? Throw monkey wrenches into the workings of the government that will totally screw up services for most of the MAGA voting population, but they are used to it. If MAGA can screw up democrats it is worth it to them even if it also screws them up. It is a lose, lose situation. Yeah for MAGA.
We are now pro Putin, which is the opposite of our position since WW2. Why are our friends our enemies and our enemies have now become our friends??
Democrats also don't outside have well funded think tanks that work directly with their own social media outlets that have sports games as a lock on. And Dark, Dark Money by the billions. You have to go nuts to offend DJT or Musk if you are a republican. Organized crime running the government, soon the FBI will be rounding up the usual Democratic Suspects.
Starting about Rupert Murdoch too late to this party. Democrats have been asleep at the wheel, or drunk. Lots of what Trump loves is catch up and that is what we need. Splatter it on the walls of the White House and The People's House. I am pissed that Democrat's let it get this bad.
Coming out of their individual Fox Holes to rapid fire and picked off one by one. They have been a joke, A very sad joke. Not laughing.
Can Gavin Newsom be ‘authentic’? He always comes across as someone created by the consultant class — he looks great, straight out of central casting, but rather robotic. I say this as a voter who has voted for him in California.
One thing democrats need to start doing and doing fast is anchoring their arguments and values in the American tradition. MAGA may do the most in-American things, while wrapping themselves in the flag. While Democrats seem to be afraid about embracing their Americanness.
But supporting trans people is American — letting people live their own lives, treating people equally. You can argue about the specifics later, but anchor your trans support in America and freedom for all.
Trade war with Canada and Mexico? Threat to the American way of life.
Trashing NATO and American hegemony In Europe? Again a threat to the American way of life.
Letting a billionaire who is the product of apartheid South Africa destroy the government?
Another threat to the American way of life — arcane arguments about the separation of powers will lose people, but focus on veterans loosing jobs and real benefits people won’t get so that some South African billionaire can get his feelies by cutting jobs.
The post-war order is what has made us the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Does it need updating? Sure — its was designed in and for a different era. But Trumo running it as his personal enterprise for his personal gain is not the answer and is un-American.
It's clear by now that Dem leadership by and large doesn't yet get new media. I'd be interested in coverage of the opposition organizations and movements that *are* effective. I started getting spam from Public Citizen in the last few weeks and I have little context for a decision whether they, or other organizations, are worthy of a donation.
"In an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin said the best solution was to “let the local community figure it out.”
This is the best solution for the trans and most other social issues - let the state and local communities find their own solutions. National democratic office holders should focus on economic issues. Democratic positions on economics are broadly popular.
Lauren Egan - This is an excellent addition - congratulations- I look forward to more- Keep up the great work
The Muskrat keeps chewing on the government….and making the news. But people should look at his record: his cars have crashed; his trucks have burned. His rockets have exploded; and he is not articulate or even minimally good at communication. His modus operandi, when something fails, is to go back to the drawing board and start all over again.
That’s not how things work….we learn by examining our mistakes and making corrections. That is also the history of our country…fixing things, making things better. Musk’s chainsaw approach is ridiculous. He is ridiculous. And he is rich only because he has sucked money out of our government, with lucrative contracts. And it is no surprise that he has teamed up,with the Grifter in Chief.
"people should look at his record"
People "should" do a lot of things - maybe while they're looking at Musk's record, they might take a look at trump's - which is FAR worse.
But they won't - Ee-lon is FUNNEEE! He makes them LARF! Haw, haw, haw. . . and they giggle all the way to the gas chamber. . . at least the Jewish people during the Holocaust had some idea that they were in trouble. MAGA voters only want to be entertained - then they'll happily drink the Kool-Aid.