What might be a catchy hit to inspire the hearts and reinforce the identity of its majority following?
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Actually be progressive and say fuck off to the MAGA assholes. Don’t try and court them, don’t campaign with them, and definitely don’t compromise with them. Stop compromising with extremists. It only compromises you as it drags you down deeper and deeper.
First recognize the most important reason you’re losing, and I hate to be cliche about it, but it’s the Glengarry Glen Ross rule: coffee is for closers only. These are the Glengarry leads and they’re not for you losers.
The Dems simply suck at selling. They suck at critically self examining their own strategy and get high on their own supply—while hardcore Christians within the GOP are meticulously planning for years their long term plays for generational change in their favor. The Supreme Court is the ultimate example of this.
This has nothing to do with policy, being too right or left, etc. You simply (a) suck at selling, (b) are not clearly selling something simple.
Dems can’t sell well to their own customers on the left.
After you address the mechanics of this—the messenger, the message, the product, the ROI, the user and experience—then you can be concerned with policy.
The Dems mistaken think policy is what is selling. It is not. Trump is not selling policy or issues at the end of the day. He’s selling a vision of how to solve the biggest problems.
Sure he’s a pig rapist. The fact that you can’t outsell a pig rapist 78 year old should tell you just how bad you are at selling.
It is simply not about the issues.
There’s also a lot of cheating, backstabbing, lying, and gross misuse of funds required.
It’s not a thing to be “like” them. We can’t because what they are is stupid, evil, fascist, and wrong. They love power and money and will do literally anything up to and including destroying the actual planet everything lives on to get it.
There’s no “left wing” version of that.
It’s called doing the wrong things for the right reasons. Having the capacity to do negative things with the expected outcome being a net-positive should be seen as something worthwhile. Instead Democrats want to be pussies.
Granted, the Democratic party in this election was a classic case of “Those who don’t standfor anything will fall for anything.” I don’t agree with your assessment of what it takes to win, but agree that the Dem party leaders are pushovers when it comes to playing hardball against the opposition.
You should find a new slur though. Pussies are anything but weak.
trump doesn’t sell ‘policy’ or ‘vision’ or even the ‘concept’ of either.
he sells fear and hate.
and ~ 30-40% of the population is feasting on all he can dish up.
This is the tunnel vision that causes Dems to lose. This is simply a useless analysis if your goal is to crush the election and win.
You can be defeatist or get practical. We know Trump is beyond bad. He’s outselling. How do we win?
By selling his option as worse. Advertise how it would affect them. Tell them how much his policies cost. Sell it.
Fear and hate (of Trump) was all the Dems were selling too… They literally ran (again) on a platform of “at least we’re not him” and that’s about it… But the Dems will never outsell Republicans on fear and hate, and they shouldn’t even try because the people who might vote for them aren’t looking for fear and hate
Trump doesn’t need to sell a vision of anything… He has almost no thoughts of his own except loving being worshipped… Maga TELLS HIM what he’s going to support, and then he fucking supports it (so they’ll worship him)… Dems should try this whole “support what the people who might vote for you tell you to support” thing
Left wing economic populism.
Tax cuts for the middle class and tax hikes for the rich.
Healthcare subsidies.
Homebuyer programs.
National sick leave.
Childcare credits.
Strengthen unions and weaken restrictions on unions.
Class-based affirmative action for universities - bypassing the race issue and encouraging poor whites to vote D
Nothing.
They would have to stop being liberals to actually run a charismatic candidate with an actual platform that would change the status quo dramatically, be willing to bend and break some rules and norms.
The defining trait of a liberal is an unshakeable faith in the mechanisms of government, that things generally get better, baseless toxic positivity optimism.
When those get blown up, liberals have mental breakdowns and become depressed, instead of doing actual politics, altering the structure of government elements they do control to fight back.
Bare minimum we would need a new FDR.