DNC: "Best we can do is neo-liberal corporate pandering and a refusal to hold anyone to task."
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The Democrat Party will totally not listen to this and instead run center-right candidates and try to sway Trump supporters.
5th time's the charm
All the ones mentioned are center right.
The lesson they need to internalize is that the policy is the message. People just want leaders that try to improve society somewhat.
Until they get the entire concept of messaging beaten out of their skulls, we'll all continue to suffer.
The article still misses the entire point...
It focuses on what kind of candidate the party should push. When what's been working is the party staying out of it, and just letting the voters pick the candidate they want in fair primaries.
Democrats absolutely abandoned the working class in favor of courting rich people. They need to get their act together
Given the choice between courting rich people and courting poor people, why would anyone choose to court poor people? They don't have any money or anything of value to extract from.
Douglas Adams was right. The only people who would choose to become politicians are the same people who should by no means be allowed to have the job.
Tip the stylist, not the owner of the salon.
Wasn't the unedited DNC port mortem nearly exactly the same word for word as what they found here?
People don't give a shit about the homeless, banning cars and firearms, gender affirming wars or what's happening in the middle east.
They care about feeding their kids, they care about having a job, some time off, not having medical bills and making sure the billionaire class is held accountable.
But the DNC and GOP will never take those positions... Unless it's lip service.
These “race-class narrative” appeals, so popular in progressives circles, finished at the bottom of the field. Why? Because telling people they’ve been duped comes off more like a condescending sermon than an invitation.
Something I've realized for years and leftists (not liberals, LEFTISTS) insist on doing anyway. Scoldy millennial politics need to be stamped out.
Sometimes people need to be shocked out of a lazy political engagement pattern, there arent a lot of ways to achieve it consistently.
It doesn't work though.
I don’t really get the obsession with kitchen tables. Maybe it’s because I’ve never had a table in my kitchen. It really seems like it’d get in the way.
The top-performing messages we tested have a simple formula. They focus on Americans’ day-to-day struggles to pay for rent and groceries, and the widespread frustration with prices that rise faster than working-class wages. They insist that working people should be able to give their kids a better shot. They promise to bring costs down, make the biggest corporations pay their fair share, and crack down on the people who game the system. Ultimately, they tell a simple story: hard work should pay off. We call this winning combination “kitchen-table populism”.
My kid is a smartass who has to tell me that the kitchen table is in the dining room every. Fucking. Time.
Wait, have they been talking about dining room tables this whole time and I’m just now finding out? I thought it was like, literally a table in your kitchen, like you’d have a dining room table and a kitchen table.
Edit: I guess I’ve just been dodging this by calling the corner of my kitchen a nook when I lived in apartments that were too small for a dedicated dining room? I dunno why I assumed a kitchen table would be a table for doing kitchen tasks on and not eating.
Yeah, the kitchen table is the smaller, "informal" eating table closer to the kitchen, as opposed to the larger dining table in the formal dining room. It's an older concept by today's (US) architectural standards. I'm sure there's some more formal definition, but I've always thought about it as the place where people itemized their deductions by combing through receipts in various media. Or had discussions about other important things. You know, kitchen table stuff.
I guess this is where I’ve gotten confused — I’ve never been rich enough to afford a house big enough to accommodate a dining room and a kitchen spacious enough for a table. Either it was small enough that the kitchen and dining room were a single area, or the dining room is separate and I didn’t have space for a table in the kitchen. To me, this is like talking about "breakfast nook politics" -- like, what rich people are out here talking politics in a breakfast nook?