This is a very important column. Very. It also puts a smarter spin on what I’ve been saying for years. Basically, we need to do for the Democrats - not quite the same - what Newt did for Republicans, and add media. We’re the majority in this country. Most of what we believe - on health care (abortion), gun control, etc is the popular consensus. But it doesn’t get out there. And it must. Why Democrat leaders are so short-sighted is beyond me.
That's exactly what won't work. You can just copy the methods of people who have core values and imagine that you will create something cohesive. And cohesive isn't enough. Because of the moral bankruptcy of the Democrat Party, you have lost anyone that can claim to be an actual intellectual, any Civil Libertarians or independent thinkers. In short, you have no real visionaries and the "cabinet" of Mr. Biden, if it's a core sample of your leadership, they resemble nobody as much as they do the "last of the failed bureaucrats" in Atlas Shrugged. The Democrats knew how to seize wealth and power to themselves without delivering to the people. What they didn't know was how to pilot the ship once they seized the wheelhouse and now the wheel has become disconnected from the rudder (the people) and they will try in vain to pilot the vessel anywhere at this point.
Thank you for this. Yeah clearly it’s an all out war, not with bullets, but with laws and governments and media and words. It shouldn’t be that way but alas it is. It really is. Has been for decades. And while democrats rightly blanch at power at all costs, we do need to realize we do have to be team democracy and freedoms. We cannot take our eyes off the ball.
The idea that we are fighting a war with our current politics is actually a very positive one, if you think about it.
Politics is, after all, a replacement for war. If it can continue to stand in for war up through the current level of acrimony, then it is still a useful endeavor.
Once we were in a bang-bang war, we would be really nostalgic for the shouty war.
I agree politics is much better than bullet wars. What I regret are the constitution being so hard to amend, the minority rule so easy to lean into as to be a cudgel, and the national media being so relentlessly right wing.
To think that in the 1970s the Senate came one vote short of passing a constitutional amendment that we would use the national popular vote! How different the last 25 years would have been!
I like your thinking - I want to help - I’m a suburban woman in northern NJ. I’ve thought about starting a radio show and talking everyday for 1/2 hour about helping Dems, is this what you mean?
I just signed up to make a (tiny!) monthly donation to the Biden Victory Fund. I think a significant post-debate uptick in the number of donations would be a nice datapoint to pull at least a little attention from everybody's favorite narrative of "Dems in Disarray."
Democrats need to be doing grassroots, door-to-door outreach in EVERY STATE, EVERY COUNTY, EVERY PRECINCT. Here in the State of Oregon, the DPO has more or less written off Southern and Eastern Oregon. That's a HUGE mistake and it will bite them in the butt.
It's what the Republicans have been doing since Reagan, and guess what? It works.
Republicans and the media are dying. They have unsustainable business models based on demographics that won’t be around in 4 years time. Young first time voters don’t watch TV, cable news or read newspapers. They piece together information from a variety of social media sources of varying degrees of truth. But it’s this variety that makes them less prone to gaslighting. They aren’t loyal to FoxNews, CNN, the NYT or MSNBC.
Biden is a great politician. As VP under Obama, he saw first hand what the anti democratic media can do. His steadfastness pisses off those who think they know better. Which includes Democrats. It’s great to watch. I had thought that he wouldn’t last a week under such heavy bombardment. Yet he’s still here. And discussion of Project 2025 is looming to end Republicans instead. lol
This is a very important column. Very. It also puts a smarter spin on what I’ve been saying for years. Basically, we need to do for the Democrats - not quite the same - what Newt did for Republicans, and add media. We’re the majority in this country. Most of what we believe - on health care (abortion), gun control, etc is the popular consensus. But it doesn’t get out there. And it must. Why Democrat leaders are so short-sighted is beyond me.
That's exactly what won't work. You can just copy the methods of people who have core values and imagine that you will create something cohesive. And cohesive isn't enough. Because of the moral bankruptcy of the Democrat Party, you have lost anyone that can claim to be an actual intellectual, any Civil Libertarians or independent thinkers. In short, you have no real visionaries and the "cabinet" of Mr. Biden, if it's a core sample of your leadership, they resemble nobody as much as they do the "last of the failed bureaucrats" in Atlas Shrugged. The Democrats knew how to seize wealth and power to themselves without delivering to the people. What they didn't know was how to pilot the ship once they seized the wheelhouse and now the wheel has become disconnected from the rudder (the people) and they will try in vain to pilot the vessel anywhere at this point.
Thank you for this. Yeah clearly it’s an all out war, not with bullets, but with laws and governments and media and words. It shouldn’t be that way but alas it is. It really is. Has been for decades. And while democrats rightly blanch at power at all costs, we do need to realize we do have to be team democracy and freedoms. We cannot take our eyes off the ball.
The idea that we are fighting a war with our current politics is actually a very positive one, if you think about it.
Politics is, after all, a replacement for war. If it can continue to stand in for war up through the current level of acrimony, then it is still a useful endeavor.
Once we were in a bang-bang war, we would be really nostalgic for the shouty war.
I agree politics is much better than bullet wars. What I regret are the constitution being so hard to amend, the minority rule so easy to lean into as to be a cudgel, and the national media being so relentlessly right wing.
To think that in the 1970s the Senate came one vote short of passing a constitutional amendment that we would use the national popular vote! How different the last 25 years would have been!
I like your thinking - I want to help - I’m a suburban woman in northern NJ. I’ve thought about starting a radio show and talking everyday for 1/2 hour about helping Dems, is this what you mean?
An excellent post! I am very grateful to read it.
Love the part about talking in bumper sticker. This suggests a matrix for communicating simply and quickly.
Thanks very much!
I just signed up to make a (tiny!) monthly donation to the Biden Victory Fund. I think a significant post-debate uptick in the number of donations would be a nice datapoint to pull at least a little attention from everybody's favorite narrative of "Dems in Disarray."
A+ on that timely bit of written truth.
The other thing?
Democrats need to be doing grassroots, door-to-door outreach in EVERY STATE, EVERY COUNTY, EVERY PRECINCT. Here in the State of Oregon, the DPO has more or less written off Southern and Eastern Oregon. That's a HUGE mistake and it will bite them in the butt.
It's what the Republicans have been doing since Reagan, and guess what? It works.
Your hard truth is easier to swallow than Trump.
Republicans and the media are dying. They have unsustainable business models based on demographics that won’t be around in 4 years time. Young first time voters don’t watch TV, cable news or read newspapers. They piece together information from a variety of social media sources of varying degrees of truth. But it’s this variety that makes them less prone to gaslighting. They aren’t loyal to FoxNews, CNN, the NYT or MSNBC.
Biden is a great politician. As VP under Obama, he saw first hand what the anti democratic media can do. His steadfastness pisses off those who think they know better. Which includes Democrats. It’s great to watch. I had thought that he wouldn’t last a week under such heavy bombardment. Yet he’s still here. And discussion of Project 2025 is looming to end Republicans instead. lol
Good stuff.
Beautiful!!!