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I think it’s insightful in that he was talking about where Dems are spending their money going into 2026 and it’s going to be on identifying where their potential voters get information. But it’s not a must listen. As for podcasts, citations needed is always good. Pod Save America is obviously well known and more insider. I don’t really listen to many podcasts that aren’t just about sports or something culture related tbh. I’d rather read the article because most people involved in politics are pedantic.
I’m just glad the mainstream dems is realizing that anti-democrat leftists (that I’ve been screaming about for 8 years) are a problem and often a bigger obstacle to electoral unity than republicans.

 

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We really need to reckon to the disastrous policy of letting foreclosure waves hit places all over the country






The 2008 collapse was a transformative event. Americans wanted a transformative government, but instead we got something arguably worse.

Obama ain’t really thought of that highly among a large segment of black people because of his presidency and talking down of black people.
 

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Seth Moulton, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts’s 6th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.


Since Election Day, I’ve learned two things about the Democratic Party: The word police will continue to patrol no matter how badly we lose, and a growing number of us are finally ready to move beyond them to start winning again.

Two days after Donald Trump’s victory, I gave an example of how Democrats spend too much time trying not to offend anyone, even on issues where most Americans feel the same way. Speaking as a dad, I said I didn’t like the idea of my two girls one day competing against biological boys on a playing field. My main point, though, is what I said next: “As a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

The blowback, which was swift, included the chair of a local Democratic committee calling me a Nazi “cooperator” and about 200 people gathering in front of my office to protest a sentence. My unimpeachable record of standing up for the civil rights of all Americans, including the trans community, was irrelevant.

What has amazed me, though, is what’s happening behind the scenes. Countless Democrats have reached out, from across the party — to thank me. I’ve heard it again and again, from union leaders to colleagues in the House and Senate; from top people from the Obama, Biden and Harris teams to local Democrats stopping me on the street; from fellow dads to many in the LGBTQ+ community: “Thank you for saying that!”
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The question of whether to have reasonable restrictions on transgender women’s participation in women’s sports wasn’t their point — though most agree — just as it wasn’t mine. They were simply glad that a fellow Democrat would violate the moratorium on speaking our minds. Voters want elected officials to give voice to their concerns, not tell them what they should think.

Until not so long ago, we were the party of free speech. We welcomed real, rigorous debate when orthodox conservatives in the Republican Party were afraid of change. We raised the struggles of the working class to become national issues.

That’s how we delivered Social Security and Medicare when wealthy Americans already had good health care and retirement savings. That’s how we protected people with preexisting conditions under Obamacare, against staunch Republican opposition. And it’s how we expanded freedoms by allowing women to make their own health-care decisions and everyone to marry whomever they love, changing the status quo.
In every case, we listened, we built trust, and we welcomed those who disagreed into our expanding tent — the definition of a majority party. Just 12 years ago, we even nominated a Democrat who was against same-sex marriage for president.

Independents and Republicans see what we do to fellow Democrats who disagree with the party line. Why would they think they’d have a prayer with us?
Often when Americans think differently, or raise concerns we don’t agree with, we go straight to denial. Two years ago, I asked a House colleague who wanted to lead our messaging strategy how we should address the southern border. “We should not talk about immigration!” I was told. Republicans are just “weaponizing” the issue, so, if we respond, we are “playing into their hands.” Another version: Trump is “just tapping into fear and resentment.”

But it turns out that voters knew better, and wanted answers. When 94 percent of Americans said they worried about the border crisis, Trump said he’d fix it.

Trump, for all his bluster and lies, sees and understands real fears. When Americans worried about crime, he promised to support cops (even though his White House budget didn’t deliver). Some Democrats, meanwhile, called to “defund the police.” When voters said they were tired of violence, shoplifting and a growing sense of disorder in their communities, some of us held up national and historical (i.e., irrelevant) data to prove their feelings were wrong.
As grocery prices soared, the Biden administration told us not to worry because it was “transitory,” whatever that means. About two-thirds of Americans went on to say that inflation caused moderate or severe financial hardship in their lives. Trump made lowering inflation a cornerstone of his campaign, a key message regardless of what his policies will actually do.

When Democrats don’t engage honestly on real issues important to Americans, we give the impression that we either don’t understand or, worse yet, simply don’t care. According to one exit poll, the No. 1 reason swing voters chose Trump was “Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.”

Worse, when we remain silent in the face of GOP attacks rather than decisively putting them to bed and moving on, as when the Harris campaign went weeks without even acknowledging Trump’s devastating anti-trans ad, not only do we lose elections, but these issues get defined and decided entirely on Republican terms. There’s no greater disservice to the people whose rights we claim to want to protect.
This should have been an easy election for Democrats. We lost the White House to a felon who has alienated many of the Republican faithful. Republicans are so dysfunctional that they couldn’t even elect a speaker of the House for three weeks last year, another first in modern history.
But the American people voted for Trump because he articulated a vision, however twisted and unconscionable, for solving their problems and addressing their fears.
The good news for Democrats is that we have a proud history of raising the challenges of working Americans and helping solve them. We didn’t do this by telling voters what to think or how to feel, but by listening when they told us.
 

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Normalizing Elon musk is wild
Is it normalize to acknowledge when an opponent is right on a particular issue? Are you supposed to sit back and pretend that everyone you mostly disagree with is always wrong on everything?

We just had an election cycle where it was suggested one side would possibly try to end democracy. That didn't work and they lost and now are walking that back.
 

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Is it normalize to acknowledge when an opponent is right on a particular issue? Are you supposed to sit back and pretend that everyone you mostly disagree with is always wrong on everything?

We just had an election cycle where it was suggested one side would possibly try to end democracy. That didn't work and they lost and now are walking that back.
Yes this is like calling trump a threat to democracy and literally Hitler but taking pictures and shaking hands with him saying he has great ideas. Everyone knows the pentagon has wasted defense spending, you can dicuss that thought process without normalizing the "billionaires " you're supposedly against. It'd acrually why the dems continue to lose, normalizing weirdos like elon matt gaetz liz cheney etc
 

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Yes this is like calling trump a threat to democracy and literally Hitler but taking pictures and shaking hands with him saying he has great ideas. Everyone knows the pentagon has wasted defense spending, you can dicuss that thought process without normalizing the "billionaires " you're supposedly against. It'd acrually why the dems continue to lose, normalizing weirdos like elon matt gaetz liz cheney etc

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You seem to be confused I'm not a fan of biden nor bernie :skip:
I didn't say you were a fan I said they're demonizing people only to later turn around and tell people it's not so bad. If he's the end of democracy you won't catch me shaking his hand in a picture ever. Just goes to show how inauthentic these politicians are.

I honestly believe the general public would rather you be authentic even if that means saying your opponents are sometimes right about some things.
 

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I didn't say you were a fan I said they're demonizing people only to later turn around and tell people it's not so bad. If he's the end of democracy you won't catch me shaking his hand in a picture ever. Just goes to show how inauthentic these politicians are.

I honestly believe the general public would rather you be authentic even if that means saying your opponents are sometimes right about some things.
I actually think it's the opposite, voters want an anti establishment dem whose going to fight for them. Its why trump has found success; dems have helped market trump as anti establishment republican, who fights for things white supremacist can get behind like illegal immigration.
 
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