James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats "roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble"
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Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Your point?
I mostly agree with Kyle outside of the showing up on Sunday morning shows screaming about everything the Republicans do. The literal last election showed us that talking about whats happening is not enough. The base who are going to vote Dem, sure, a lot of them key in on it. Independents didn't give a fukk. Those without a college degree REALLY didn't give a fukk. Carville's big-picture miss is that he said "Make them miss us."
No fool, there are things to be done, but the smartest thing is to retreat a bit, focus the message, and stop being reactionary. They have to be on the attack but on a broad scale: billionaires. Telling people that Trumps evil ass is evil lead to "Orange man bad" bullshyt. The same way to media doesn't care that Trump goofs constantly, people have gotten used to Trump doing awful shyt and tune it out especially with this second win. The Dems should all be touring like Bernie and focusing on anger. fukk trying to explain that Democracy is at stake cause people think Dems are elitist for using simple words to explain what something is. Key in on the anger and point people in the direction of who is causing their misery. Also, stop chasing fukking billionaire dollars, Jeffries.
Pull Up the Roots
Veteran
This is an oversimplification that ignores the massive structural differences between our political systems. Mexico's multi-party system allows smaller parties to gain representation, while we use a winner-takes-all, first-past-the-post system that guarantees third-party failure. They succeeded because Mexico doesn't have an Electoral College and uses proportional representation, which makes it far easier for new parties to compete.
Hasheesh specializes in spamming not point making
He's suffering from a few of the same missteps that's fueling Carvilles belligerence…. You can't just neg...you have to also roll out ideas that people want... Healthcare, wages, education...etc...you have to actually start offering large scale transformative policy...not incrementalism to pacify.… the whole idea of a “wet paper bag” can beat the republicans now is silly
