Democrats who are upset

[Anonymous]

Dems are just not relevant I hate to say it as much as I despise Trump. Dems need to get back to center - it's too progressive and alternative for most people. And be real. Dems are terrible at honesty. In the sense of talking to people like they aren't idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a former republican from a red state with MAGA parents. Here is what they need to do to win:

-Give up on increasing taxes for a cycle. Don’t touch trump’s tax code bc they think it helps them (it doesn’t)
-don’t focus on trans issues / pronouns. Most people in these red states have never met a trans person and they just don’t care
-focus on military, securing our nation
-focus on a strong immigration plan
-course correct everything T is doing. How will you fix federal funding? How will you protect our elderly? How will you help our college age kids? This is your largest base of voters.
-Get a Tim Walz type in. We need someone who has lived on a teachers salary. Limousine Liberals were the reason I hated democrats for so long. I was struggling financially and then someone making $1mil a year was trying to raise my taxes and just didn’t get my struggle.
-childcare: if you can make raising kids more affordable, you might be able to win some red state voters. You have to shape this in a way that doesn’t hurt kid free people.

Agree especially with the final point.

Push for affordable health and childcare and, although I know this would be tough politically, education reform including vouchers for people to send their kids to better schools.

Be on the side of workers and those struggling in today’s economy.

Drop the cultural issues - you are losing on them.

[Anonymous]

I think Democrat Party leadership has decided to let Trump do whatever he wants on immigration. There will be some people in media complaining, giving red meat to their followers. There are no lawsuits before a friendly judge who will issue a nationwide injunction. The party wants this issue gone, but are not sending the message out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a former republican from a red state with MAGA parents. Here is what they need to do to win:

-Give up on increasing taxes for a cycle. Don’t touch trump’s tax code bc they think it helps them (it doesn’t)
-don’t focus on trans issues / pronouns. Most people in these red states have never met a trans person and they just don’t care
-focus on military, securing our nation
-focus on a strong immigration plan
-course correct everything T is doing. How will you fix federal funding? How will you protect our elderly? How will you help our college age kids? This is your largest base of voters.
-Get a Tim Walz type in. We need someone who has lived on a teachers salary. Limousine Liberals were the reason I hated democrats for so long. I was struggling financially and then someone making $1mil a year was trying to raise my taxes and just didn’t get my struggle.
-childcare: if you can make raising kids more affordable, you might be able to win some red state voters. You have to shape this in a way that doesn’t hurt kid free people.

I see your point but Tim Walz was the wrong pick. I’m a teacher and couldn’t relate to him at all. I found him creepy as hell.

Someone like Mark Kelly would be a good choice.

[Anonymous]

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Push for affordable health and childcare and, although I know this would be tough politically, education reform including vouchers for people to send their kids to better schools.

Two thirds of union workers are teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Push for affordable health and childcare and, although I know this would be tough politically, education reform including vouchers for people to send their kids to better schools.

Two thirds of union workers are teachers.

I don’t know how to thread that needle. But parents don’t want to be trapped in failing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Democrat Party leadership has decided to let Trump do whatever he wants on immigration. There will be some people in media complaining, giving red meat to their followers. There are no lawsuits before a friendly judge who will issue a nationwide injunction. The party wants this issue gone, but are not sending the message out.

Agree

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Push for affordable health and childcare and, although I know this would be tough politically, education reform including vouchers for people to send their kids to better schools.

Two thirds of union workers are teachers.

Which is actually a significant problem. If teachers are the most numerous union, labor has been abandoned by Democrats.

[Anonymous]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ny-dems-working-keep-stefaniks-house-seat-vacant-months-latest-scheme-against-trump-assemblyman

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I'm fine with this. This is exactly out of the Mitch McConnell playbook. The GOP does stuff like this. The Dems need to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a former republican from a red state with MAGA parents. Here is what they need to do to win:

-Give up on increasing taxes for a cycle. Don’t touch trump’s tax code bc they think it helps them (it doesn’t)
-don’t focus on trans issues / pronouns. Most people in these red states have never met a trans person and they just don’t care
-focus on military, securing our nation
-focus on a strong immigration plan
-course correct everything T is doing. How will you fix federal funding? How will you protect our elderly? How will you help our college age kids? This is your largest base of voters.
-Get a Tim Walz type in. We need someone who has lived on a teachers salary. Limousine Liberals were the reason I hated democrats for so long. I was struggling financially and then someone making $1mil a year was trying to raise my taxes and just didn’t get my struggle.
-childcare: if you can make raising kids more affordable, you might be able to win some red state voters. You have to shape this in a way that doesn’t hurt kid free people.

Agree especially with the final point.

Push for affordable health and childcare and, although I know this would be tough politically, education reform including vouchers for people to send their kids to better schools.

Be on the side of workers and those struggling in today’s economy.

Drop the cultural issues - you are losing on them.

Housing, health care and education- would be a winning slate. alas Dems are also in the clutches of the teacher’s unions that restrain their ability to advocate for charters let alone vouchers. Maybe there could be some room to argue for Ed reform in the form of reducing mandated testing and promoting sound literacy and math education.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a Democrat and unhappy with things politically, what do you think the Democrats should do differently so they win?

Become the party of the working class again.

Mandate e-verify
Support policies that stop illegal immigration
Support limits on birthright citizenship
Repeal h-1b and OPT

It really is common sense. Do what you can to help your fellow neighbors.

This. Dems stopped being a party representing working class long ago. Nothing they did during many years of them being in power has helped ordinary people get ahead, quite the opposite. The culmination was a massive transfer of wealth due to Covid measures, and a "culture revolution" on the co-tails of lockdowns and frightened population shaken by the "killer virus" and willing to do anything to "go back to normal". People were fired and silenced if they spoke out or didn't want to go along with the pronouns, identity politics, BLM riots criticism, questioning Covid measures, toddler masking, ridiculous and discriminatory vax mandates/vaxxports, etc, etc. The outcome we are facing now is no surprise and totally predictable.

LOL. You’re read that the felon said lowering prices is not a priority for him? You read that the felon said he is going to tank the economy and now all the hedge funds are betting against it? They are going to make money off the working class this week! So spare me this effing nonsense about Dems!

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch the MSNBC Democratic Convention panel last night? Lmaooooo - yikes - it's gonna take awhile for these folks to realize what's going on.

Many of "these folks" are obviously from one parent families. The stability and lessons they do not receive from a second parent, and the lifelong pain it causes really shows.

I do not know why democrats continue to attack the nuclear family, but it does a disservice to everyone.

I've never seen this. If anything we expand the family

[Anonymous]

I am beyond enraged at the inaction of the Democratic Party. It's not even been 2 weeks and the Dems in the Senate are caving to nominations and witnessing the dismantling of our government and acting like it's a normal day with "tough" questioning and finger wagging. Bipartisanship ended when we all saw a Sieg Heil performed from behind the presidential seal of the United States and the governing party defended it. Now we have a Neo Nazi private citizen forcing resignations, harassing federal staffers, locking them out of databases and trying to access the governments payment systems. It is an absolute emergency, yet I have not seen one statement by the Dem leadership about this. We should be seeing a phalanx of lawmakers every single day outside the Capitol in front of microphones screaming about this hostile takeover of our government. Where are they? Too busy texting us for money for 'fight funds".

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a Democrat but I think they could have won the last election if they had found a moderate Bill Clinton type.

100%

Kamala sucked. But we do need to become more moderate.

DEI was so unpopular. What were we thinking? Democrats and educators pushed too far, and when you push too far, there is always blowback.

Trump will push too far and the pendulum will swing back. Hopefully Dems don’t interpret that as popularity for progressive ideas.

Unfortunately they will because that's exactly what they did in 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am beyond enraged at the inaction of the Democratic Party. It's not even been 2 weeks and the Dems in the Senate are caving to nominations and witnessing the dismantling of our government and acting like it's a normal day with "tough" questioning and finger wagging. Bipartisanship ended when we all saw a Sieg Heil performed from behind the presidential seal of the United States and the governing party defended it. Now we have a Neo Nazi private citizen forcing resignations, harassing federal staffers, locking them out of databases and trying to access the governments payment systems. It is an absolute emergency, yet I have not seen one statement by the Dem leadership about this. We should be seeing a phalanx of lawmakers every single day outside the Capitol in front of microphones screaming about this hostile takeover of our government. Where are they? Too busy texting us for money for 'fight funds".

They have already stolen sensitive personal info and classified material. They have downloaded OPM, GSA, USAID …and more on the way. They have this info ready to give to Putin or XI or anyone. Kids who have no idea of the scope of the agency or even what the material they are stealing means. This is happening right under our noses and not secretly. It’s 1930s Germany here in the good ‘ol USA and we see those who so easily are sucking up to it out of fear.

Stanford prison experiment —it’s how they win over ppl and make them evil doers