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Anonymous wrote:We just have to decide on priorities. Who are we fighting for? We can do it with either centrist leadership or progressive leadership. The question is, which parts of our coalition take precedence? Is it the urban poor? The urban rich? Public sector unions? LGBT folks? Migrants? NGOs? Corporate folks? All of the above, of course, but in which order? And at whose expense?

We're fighting for each other against the wealthy elites in control of our two major political parties. The sooner the hyper-partisan regular folks gain this understanding, the better.

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Anonymous wrote:What actions do you have in mind?

The action I’m proposing is getting is giving the voters what they want, both now in government and in a new policy platform for the campaign trail. My proposed action is, try to win elections.

What are your proposed actions?

How do you propose getting through to voters in rural areas whose only news outlet is AM talk radio, and they’ve been told for thirty years that Democrats are devil worshippers?

How do you propose getting through to college kids who listen exclusively to Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan?

How do you propose getting through to a voter who doesn’t watch TV or listen to news or follow politics at all, but they think Trump is funny and tells it like it is?

Rural voters know exactly what the New York Times perspective is. It’s ubiquitous. It is we who live in a media bubble, by choice. Most of us avoid conservative media like the plague as a matter of purity principle.

Rural voters (and swing voters of all kinds) have a good understanding of what our party offers. They just don’t want it.

So we can either change, in hopes of winning more votes (and elections), or we can stay pure with our unpopular policies and remain the minority party.

No. Absolutely none of this is true. Rural voters do not have a good understanding of what Democrats offer. It’s all filtered fourth and fifth hand through layers of disinformation, Facebook conspiracy groups, bro podcasts, and right wing cable news. These outlets lie and lie and lie. Their viewers think Hillary Clinton is running a sex ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor. Fox News viewers consistently rank very low in factual understanding of the news.

Of course those voters don’t want what they think the Democratic party represents. That’s because Republicans are allowed free rein to characterize the party in the most alarmist, unflattering, and distorted terms possible.

Giving the voters what they want doesn’t work when what those voters want is supremacy, even if it comes at a steep personal cost. There’s already a party devoted to giving that to them. It’s called MAGA.

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Anonymous wrote:No on e-verify. We cannot dehumanize migrants in an immoral attempt to curry favor with redneck voters. What we need is a to citizenship for those already here.

you will never win another election.

No human is illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Buttigieg can bridge the gal between gay trans folks and DCurbanmom folks. He does less well with BIPOC folks, who fund him boring.

Sorry no.

Anonymous wrote:Buttigieg can bridge the gal between gay trans folks and DCurbanmom folks. He does less well with BIPOC folks, who fund him boring.

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Anonymous wrote:What actions do you have in mind?

The action I’m proposing is getting is giving the voters what they want, both now in government and in a new policy platform for the campaign trail. My proposed action is, try to win elections.

What are your proposed actions?

How do you propose getting through to voters in rural areas whose only news outlet is AM talk radio, and they’ve been told for thirty years that Democrats are devil worshippers?

How do you propose getting through to college kids who listen exclusively to Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan?

How do you propose getting through to a voter who doesn’t watch TV or listen to news or follow politics at all, but they think Trump is funny and tells it like it is?

Rural voters know exactly what the New York Times perspective is. It’s ubiquitous. It is we who live in a media bubble, by choice. Most of us avoid conservative media like the plague as a matter of purity principle.

Rural voters (and swing voters of all kinds) have a good understanding of what our party offers. They just don’t want it.

So we can either change, in hopes of winning more votes (and elections), or we can stay pure with our unpopular policies and remain the minority party.

No. Absolutely none of this is true. Rural voters do not have a good understanding of what Democrats offer. It’s all filtered fourth and fifth hand through layers of disinformation, Facebook conspiracy groups, bro podcasts, and right wing cable news. These outlets lie and lie and lie. Their viewers think Hillary Clinton is running a sex ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor. Fox News viewers consistently rank very low in factual understanding of the news.

Of course those voters don’t want what they think the Democratic party represents. That’s because Republicans are allowed free rein to characterize the party in the most alarmist, unflattering, and distorted terms possible.

Giving the voters what they want doesn’t work when what those voters want is supremacy, even if it comes at a steep personal cost. There’s already a party devoted to giving that to them. It’s called MAGA.

Are the voters wrong to want an end to mass illegal immigration?

This is the most unproductive thread:

The Dems are wrong about everything.

No current Dem could win an election, except some mythical cis, white, able-bodied Christian male.

Rural voters and angry white men should be catered to over everyone else.

Dems won’t win elections unless they apologize for every Democrat has been president in our lifetime.

Dems don’t deserve win if they give a shred of support to a LGBTQ or migrant.

Dems won’t win unless they tack further right and get no donations from a single billionaire.

Anything the Dems have said in this thread are stupid, out of touch, not enough, unduly combative, or elitist.

Am I missing anything?! 🙄

This (angry) comment does make a good point. Why are we so focused on catering to some mythical, archetypal type of 1950s American? Most white, cisgendered, able-bodied Christians vote against us. So why are they the “focus group” we’re so worried about? Why is it so unthinkable that a woman of color could win the Presidency? One almost just did, and suddenly we’re giving up and trying to recruit Republican lookalikes to be our candidates? Come on! We actually could lean in to the stereotypes instead of running from them. We actually could admit that we are very very strong in America’s biggest and most prosperous cities. We actually could admit that we care about civil rights for the LGBTQ community regardless of how “ready” homophobes feel for various things. I’m not saying we have to run an uber-progressive, but we don’t have to rule it out either. We have nothing to be embarrassed about. They do.

Anonymous wrote:We just have to decide on priorities. Who are we fighting for? We can do it with either centrist leadership or progressive leadership. The question is, which parts of our coalition take precedence? Is it the urban poor? The urban rich? Public sector unions? LGBT folks? Migrants? NGOs? Corporate folks? All of the above, of course, but in which order? And at whose expense?