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The Democrats' propaganda game is miserable in 2023. The big difference is that Clinton promoted himself effectively. Remember when George Stephenopolous called George HW Bush on Larry King's show back in 1992, just to humiliate him? Remember Clinton's bulldog communications officer, James Carville? Back in the 1990s, Democrats knew how to puff up their accomplishments and tear down their opponents. Now, they're too timid to try. Time to drop this pathetic facade of objectivity and civility and fight, HARD. Their lives as a political party depend on it. OUR lives depend on it.
I never thought I'd see the day when carville is propped up as the paradigm of what a Democrat should be.
Bernie Sanders is what a Democrat should be and he's been fighting basically alone since the 60s.
You're right about their messaging tho. This is a direct reflection of rejecting the progressive wing which is mostly young people.
If the Dems would get their shit together and brace the next generation thos would be no contest.
It's not that Carville is a hero. It's just that he did what our current Dems won't. I wish our team would be half as aggressive as the GOP. We would have a more solid standing with less effort. "Humans > corporations." Done.
I don't think most of the establishment actually believes that, is the problem.
They don't. But you answer the problem in your statement when you say "the establishment."
It should be abolished somehow.
I am hopeful that with things like unionization movements gaining steam, and the ease of communication of social media, that some capable young people will be spurred into running for office this decade. It really needs to be a grassroots movement IMO.
Their donors with deep pockets don't like that message, best we can do is Humans >= Corporations.
It's not popular to say, but when people like Pelosi who make millions on insider trading stay in office for decades, it's not because of their policy. It's how much money they generate for the party.
I want a party for the people which protects our rights to healthcare, education, housing, wages, and food. The rest is up to us.
Also because committee memberships are determined by how long you’ve been in office. Hence Feinstein.
They are. They just direct that aggression at the left of their own party instead of to the right.
Not in Carville's party.
The Democrats have been bringing spoons to a gunfight since the 70s.
The current Democratic party doesn't want to fight. It's pathetic, and it is difficult to vote for "pathetic" even when the alternative is... well... you know.
You mean there is a flaw to the strategy of repeating, "listen, Jack, the economy has never been better, and you're an idiot if you don't see that"?