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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

Who cares? MAGA are the dumbest people around. Who cares if they heckle Walz or anyone, for that matter?! I guess we should be happy they can say more than a three word chant. Their opinion means nothing. They’ve lost all credibility. At one point, they might get a clue and STFU. Nobody cares about MAGA.

Cult members that somehow got duped into believing that they are “independent thinkers.”

Exactly. The country is being held hostage by a minority of total morons.

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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

Who cares? MAGA are the dumbest people around. Who cares if they heckle Walz or anyone, for that matter?! I guess we should be happy they can say more than a three word chant. Their opinion means nothing. They’ve lost all credibility. At one point, they might get a clue and STFU. Nobody cares about MAGA.

Cult members that somehow got duped into believing that they are “independent thinkers.”

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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

Who cares? MAGA are the dumbest people around. Who cares if they heckle Walz or anyone, for that matter?! I guess we should be happy they can say more than a three word chant. Their opinion means nothing. They’ve lost all credibility. At one point, they might get a clue and STFU. Nobody cares about MAGA.

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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

But a rich draft dodger is ok? I don’t get people.

No, silly. They're all awful. Just awful.

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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

President Bone Spurs….

Issues people care about that tend to be bi-partisan:


- being able to afford life on full time wages
- clean and safe neighborhoods and low crime (affordable for everyone, not just affluent)
- Affordable healthcare and childcare
- upward mobility for those who invest in higher education and careers
- not being afraid to go broke due to medical issues or inability to work full time
- Affordable education that doesn't send one into debt slavery while paying wages similar to those not requiring a degree
- Clean air, water, environment, nutritious healthy food that's not junk or poison
- Medical freedoms and respect for one's personal bodily autonomy
- lower taxes for people who get hit the hardest
- respect for people's personal life choices within lawful order (live and let live)

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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.

Tim Walz is finished.

But a rich draft dodger is ok? I don’t get people.

Anonymous wrote:These threads are just for Republicans to vent about why they dislike Democrats. Nothing useful here.

How about those people that are ahead of the curve far enough to realize the inevitable truth? Both of our major political parties have become failed entities incapable of putting the needs of their electorate ahead of the needs of their mega-donors.

Anyone who disagrees is a dimwit party sheep or someone with a financial stake in the success of these two awful major political parties. Sorry, truth hurts.

These threads are just for Republicans to vent about why they dislike Democrats. Nothing useful here.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever they need to do, they need to do in now and not just when people start campaigning. I am not hearing enough on the news about the destruction Elon Musk is doing to the government and how it affects the American people. Dems need to pushing this in the news cycle over and over again until people can regurgitate the talking points in their sleep. Their social security, Medicare, and other benefits can be gone in a click of a button… by someone who doesn’t even have a security clearance.

This isn't going to win you anything, because people don't believe this unless this starts happening. Right now it's being chalked up to the domain of fearmongering propaganda. If people start seeing their benefits cut and elderly struggling to survive they don't need you to tell them this, don't you think? They will be up in arms already. As far as information being stolen, this already happened if it happened, it's too late to do anything about it.

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.

I think not sending the issue out is a mistake. I'm looking for some substantive signal that the party has done a 180 on the issue. Not just messaging but actual action like repealing sanctuary city laws across the nation. That sort of thing. The message I get, is they want the issue to go away without actually doing anything, and like Biden will spend most of their time undoing whatever Trump did -if- they get back in, which isn't making the issue go away.

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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.

Won't that just happen by virtue of the Rich leaving the party after they get tired of investing in losers? You're already seeing that happen with the tech Bros.

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.

Tim Walz is finished.

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".

As usual, we’re outfoxed and outmuscled.

Our nice intellectual “ethics” makes us pushovers & leaves a vacuum for oligarchs-tech money-Trump to swoop in.

No one can even command the stage in the Democratic Party. It’s depressing. Half of them are talking about nonbinary BS. That ships has sailed folks.

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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?

They'll do nothing differently. They don't get what just happened.

They are so tone deaf. All the crazy policies that made zero sense didn't work. We MUST appeal to common sense.
ZERO chance Dems retake the Senate next cycle. Look at the map and retirements. Dems have a slim chance for the House. It is clear things will be put in place to make the battle to get the house an uphill battle. The only shot is 4 years from now.

This is just a perfect picture of what is wrong with the world and why we are completely screwed.

Racism and sexism is exactly why Kamala lost, and the racists and sexists loudly proclaim "calling us racists and sexists racist and sexist only makes us want to be more racist and sexist!"

So our choices are placate the racists and sexists (and by doing so give up any chance to improve racism and sexism) or let the racists and sexists run the asylum.

lol literally learning nothing in real-time. Vance2028 it is.

Oh look it's literally what I just described...

I should clarify. I'm a black woman. I will be voting for Vance if he runs in 2028 if the Democrats keep up this delusion. Also, Kamala couldn't form a coherent sentence. To deny that is to deny reality

Say what you will about Harris but she was a HELL of a lot more coherent than Trump.

But I agree, Democrats need to significantly dial back on identity politics and redirect their primary attention to the kitchen-table issues - affordable, healthy groceries, safe and affordable medicines, being able to afford an apartment or buy a home and not having wall street jack up real estate prices, good jobs for the working class, improving our school outcomes, having access to good healthcare, getting corporations and the rich to pay their fair share, safety net for Americans who are struggling, dealing with the opiate and meth crisis, a strong economy, strengthening our alliances with other countries and so on.

Identity politics is what cost Democrats the election. Anyone who disagrees with that is seriously out of touch. I have no problem with progressives running in safe, deep blue districts but they CAN NOT be driving the bus on the bigger picture issues, because, though well-intentioned, they've already driven us into the ditch.

The DNC needs to know this and needs to address it.

Going to disagree she was more coherent. Why? Because she was unable to mingle with common people at places like a supermarket and express a simple message or statement. It is unbelievable that leaders of the Democratic Party fail to understand charismatic people have a vastly easier time being elected.

Trump goes into a supermarket and actually mingled with people. He compliments a mother and her three boys, hands her a $100 and says her grocery bill is going down. Egg prices are going down. He pays for his groceries and then tells the cashier if there is money left over it is a tip for her. He got free press when news replayed the scene, when the mother was interviewed on TV, etc. Was it partially staged - of course it was but even though I can't stand Trump, he can mingle.

Harris rarely extemporaneous spoke to common people even if it was staged. Videos of her visiting a store had secret service securing areas, and she is talking to Walz about Doritos. Then she blamed price gouging (except she pronounced it gaging in one speech) on food prices and said they would pass a law. I would guess a large percentage of Americans have no idea what price gouging is and how it can be fixed. Trump just said "I will be your food prices down" and people buy it. Who cares if it doesn't happen (obviously look at egg prices today). No one wanted to hear Biden /Harris deny that inflation was under control when most people are grocery shopping and were reminded every week their grocery bill was way higher.

So the number one thing Democrats can do is find charismatic people who can mingle with the people and who can succinctly deliver a message in sound bites. The attention span of Americans is so incredibly short that long winded explanations don't work.

Secondly, pick issues that aren't polarizing. Stop blaming and insulting people with whom you don't agree. The level of whininess and blaming everyone else is epic. You just have to look at the title of the threads to realize way too many Democrats don't understand this. The posts from some liberal women are shocking. It is posts like - African American and Hispanic voters who voted for Trump - full of racist assumptions and so incredibly patronizing. Or other posts that Hispanic and Black men are misogynists and are Hispanic who voted for Trump are too dumb to realize they voted incorrectly. James Carvel was spot on with his way too many "preachy women" take on the Democrats. Stop lecturing adults. In the real world not many people like a Hermione [it's leviOsa, not levioSA], it's sad but true.