Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.
This is not news or new. This has been the Republican playbook as long as i have paid attention. I fault the Democrats, were not getting ahead of he curve, for not going on the offensive and always p;laying defense, and even that ineffectively and half heatedly.
Dems should have been playing he same game only harder and better..
So what the eff is with the mentality of the Democratic party leadership? The defense never wins, even in sports, a good defense can stop the opponent from scoring, but you are not going to score unless you have a good offense
Fear is the only product Republicans trade in, and hate is the only service they provide. They manufacture monsters under the bed about inflation, debt, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, and godless commies. But they continually downplay and dismiss what we should rightfully be concerned about, like global warming, AI, corporate power, and pandemics. WTF?
All of us woke, aware, Dems KNOW this; the problem is how do we effectively convey these facts o the unwoke, cult tied, so called republicans to see how they've been conned? Key word: EFFECTIVELY. I watch fox spews occasionally and even tho I am appalled at the lies, innuendo, name calling, blaming and derogatory remarks from every host about the Dems, it's been drilled into their brains for so long, trying to get them to break from fox and tune in to a left true news channel is like trying to separate conjoined at the body twins after birth.
Thom clearly described how Republicans use what the late Hunter Thompson labeled "fear and loathing" to gain political power. America is a racist country, as are nearly all white-skinned nations. Brexit and most EU politics are rooted in fear of African and Arabian hordes invading their nations.
Having Haitian and other ethnic (usually Hispanic) immigrant "criminals s" moving into your neighborhood stoked "fear". Then preposterous claims of immigrants stealing and eating voter's pet dogs and cats triggered "loathing." Red states are far more racist than Blue ones, and that helped garner votes. Although, one additional factor ignored by pollsters after Trump's second election was asking Independents and Democrats who voted Red if they did so to punish their party for hiding Biden's dementia while running a Black woman with no significant political achievements.
Yes, all true. And, yes, it has been working since, at least, 1980: That's almost 50 years!!!
So, why cannot the Democratic Party, or some coalition of progressive organizations learn how to fight back???? When you are in a knife fight, you need to learn how to use a knife...
Why the decision to follow a kind of "Republican Lite" strategy? To appease the Wall St and Silicon Valley bros' money that used to line up behind the Corporate Dems? Hello! In case you have not noticed, the IT bros' and big money boys have baled on you, already.
The limo liberals are still trying to maintain control of the Democratic Party AND fight the GOP/MAGA infection. Can't be done. It requires strong medicine and commitment to purge the infection WITHIN the Democrats, first.
Try to envision what today would be like if the Corporate Dem leaders had not knee-capped Bernie and greased the path for Hillary to run in 2016.
DL said:: Try to envision what today would be like if the Corporate Dem leaders had not knee-capped Bernie and greased the path for Hillary to run in 2016."
Amen to that, Bernie is a real populist, Trump is a fake populist . It would have given the voter a choice between left and right populism., but the Wall Street Funded DNC is scared shitless of real populists, because we the people dont have the money that corporations and their PAC;s have.
And there are those professional consultants, analysts an lobbyists that suckled at the teat of Wall Street
My favorite example is James Carville, a consultant who play acts a liberal rabble rouser and his wife Mary Matalin, who was a right wing rabble rouser, and of course George Conway who plays a liberal married to a right wing Harridan, Kellyanne Conway. Both doubled their income by playing both sides as husband and wife.
Dems need to get a plan! List a few things we mutually have: Medicare for All --- means back to the original not privatized. Can they do that? How about free child care for those who must work to pay the bills. End for war and Trump to the ICC for war crimes.
The major cities have continued to vote blue, overwhelmingly, not falling for this. But the system we've built, which has made major urban centers so politically impotent they can be invaded by masked thugs beating and kidnapping people off the streets, on camera, against Judges orders, and existing laws, without any actual political answer.
We've made the donor cities into the new colonies, and the Republicans scam is proving to urban residents that we can't trust the government. It's turned into an extortion racket where the masked thugs don't want to trick you. They want to show you how weak you are.
This is not news or new. This has been the Republican playbook as long as i have paid attention. I fault the Democrats, were not getting ahead of he curve, for not going on the offensive and always p;laying defense, and even that ineffectively and half heatedly.
Dems should have been playing he same game only harder and better..
So what the eff is with the mentality of the Democratic party leadership? The defense never wins, even in sports, a good defense can stop the opponent from scoring, but you are not going to score unless you have a good offense
But the deficit!!! /smh
Fear is the only product Republicans trade in, and hate is the only service they provide. They manufacture monsters under the bed about inflation, debt, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, and godless commies. But they continually downplay and dismiss what we should rightfully be concerned about, like global warming, AI, corporate power, and pandemics. WTF?
All of us woke, aware, Dems KNOW this; the problem is how do we effectively convey these facts o the unwoke, cult tied, so called republicans to see how they've been conned? Key word: EFFECTIVELY. I watch fox spews occasionally and even tho I am appalled at the lies, innuendo, name calling, blaming and derogatory remarks from every host about the Dems, it's been drilled into their brains for so long, trying to get them to break from fox and tune in to a left true news channel is like trying to separate conjoined at the body twins after birth.
Thom clearly described how Republicans use what the late Hunter Thompson labeled "fear and loathing" to gain political power. America is a racist country, as are nearly all white-skinned nations. Brexit and most EU politics are rooted in fear of African and Arabian hordes invading their nations.
Having Haitian and other ethnic (usually Hispanic) immigrant "criminals s" moving into your neighborhood stoked "fear". Then preposterous claims of immigrants stealing and eating voter's pet dogs and cats triggered "loathing." Red states are far more racist than Blue ones, and that helped garner votes. Although, one additional factor ignored by pollsters after Trump's second election was asking Independents and Democrats who voted Red if they did so to punish their party for hiding Biden's dementia while running a Black woman with no significant political achievements.
Yes, all true. And, yes, it has been working since, at least, 1980: That's almost 50 years!!!
So, why cannot the Democratic Party, or some coalition of progressive organizations learn how to fight back???? When you are in a knife fight, you need to learn how to use a knife...
Why the decision to follow a kind of "Republican Lite" strategy? To appease the Wall St and Silicon Valley bros' money that used to line up behind the Corporate Dems? Hello! In case you have not noticed, the IT bros' and big money boys have baled on you, already.
The limo liberals are still trying to maintain control of the Democratic Party AND fight the GOP/MAGA infection. Can't be done. It requires strong medicine and commitment to purge the infection WITHIN the Democrats, first.
Try to envision what today would be like if the Corporate Dem leaders had not knee-capped Bernie and greased the path for Hillary to run in 2016.
DL
DL said:: Try to envision what today would be like if the Corporate Dem leaders had not knee-capped Bernie and greased the path for Hillary to run in 2016."
Amen to that, Bernie is a real populist, Trump is a fake populist . It would have given the voter a choice between left and right populism., but the Wall Street Funded DNC is scared shitless of real populists, because we the people dont have the money that corporations and their PAC;s have.
And there are those professional consultants, analysts an lobbyists that suckled at the teat of Wall Street
My favorite example is James Carville, a consultant who play acts a liberal rabble rouser and his wife Mary Matalin, who was a right wing rabble rouser, and of course George Conway who plays a liberal married to a right wing Harridan, Kellyanne Conway. Both doubled their income by playing both sides as husband and wife.
Dems need to get a plan! List a few things we mutually have: Medicare for All --- means back to the original not privatized. Can they do that? How about free child care for those who must work to pay the bills. End for war and Trump to the ICC for war crimes.
The major cities have continued to vote blue, overwhelmingly, not falling for this. But the system we've built, which has made major urban centers so politically impotent they can be invaded by masked thugs beating and kidnapping people off the streets, on camera, against Judges orders, and existing laws, without any actual political answer.
We've made the donor cities into the new colonies, and the Republicans scam is proving to urban residents that we can't trust the government. It's turned into an extortion racket where the masked thugs don't want to trick you. They want to show you how weak you are.