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"meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.
you take a step towards him. he takes a step back.
"meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.

It's obvious that Liz Cheney wasn't enough. Next time we must revive Henry Kissenger to get his endorsement. Surely that'll win the moderates

"Next time"

It was time in 2016. Biden barely won in 2020 and somehow Dems took that as a mandate to be even more conservative. At this point I have no idea how progressive ideas ever get implemented.

One would think

I am 35.

My entire lifetime, the way Dems run presidential campaigns, the way they push the message is heavily, heavily reliant on mainstream legacy media outfits talking about and repeating their announcements and rallies.

Meanwhile, the Republicans do the same... but they also control the vast majority of talk radio stations, and since the internet came into wide use, the number of popular internet figures with overt right wing tendencies just vastly, vaaaastly outstrips similar figures on the left, in terms of viewership and funding.

Basically, the Dems still think that dying legacy media, with fewer and fewer readers/viewers, that increasingly has to sell out by running more bombastic, shocking news, and/or cowtowing to the whims of their corpo owners...

... they still think that this nearly dead legacy media will give them the same treatment as in the 70s, when there were only 3 fucking TV news channels and newspapers op eds were far more influential.

They should have learned that they needed a real way of pushing their message after 2015/16.

Trump dominated the media without paying anything for it simply by being bombastic and saying insane shit.

That should have set off a whole bunch of alarm bells that ... Dems can't rely on news stations giving roughly equal air time to them.

But it did not.

The Republicans, through their various think tanks and foundations, funded the hell out of every one willing to repeat their message on any medium for 35 years.

Dems have never had anything like this, even though the average Republican thinks George Soros is doing something like that.

Now, combine all of the above with another trend the Republicans have manifested into reality over 35 years:

Public Education has been decimated. The average American now has critical reading comprehension skills roughly equivalent to a 6th or 7th grader.

So even if huge numbers of people were still reading Op-Eds in papers... they would not understand any moderately complex discussions of policies, or history, or economics or anything anyway.

... And this is all just a critique of how the Democrats have been at distributing their messages.

The actual content of those messages is an entirely different failure.

The error would be expecting it to be any one thing. It’s a large large large combination of various factors.

I genuinely beleive that Joe Rogan alone will be responsible for at least a million votes getting mobilized

But Kamala went on The View and played the opening act for a Beyonce concert! She did everything right

We have always been at war with Eastasia

dnc had spent 1.6 billion on ads vs a billion by trump, so we don’t get to make that excuse.
there was plenty of pro-harris spam on insta, reddit and even my linkedin feed.

we are again not accepting that dnc is a corporate entity fooling us. they support lgbt, abortion etc because it cost their donors nothing. ask them to compromise on inflation, housing or even genocide and we are told “stfu, do you want to get trump elected ?”

they don’t care about america, bernie said it best here

"Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not,"

edit: source on media spend https://digiday.com/media-buying/presidential-ads-mark-a-divide-as-both-candidates-spend-big-in-battleground-states/

wow I can't believe Republican voters preferred to vote Republican rather than Republican Lite. you can't expect even career politicians to see this coming.

Liz Cheney was a great get on their part. It's the rest of it that was the issue. They should have gone hard left and still had Liz up there, for the full-spectrum effect. "Even this crazy conservative woman thinks Kamala's great" but then everything else: left left left.

I don’t think that tweet is saying it’s the democrat’s fault, but that we have to give more attention to this fact.

I mean Matt McDermott is a democratic strategist himself.

The Democratic party is stuck on this idealistic platform of unity and appealing broadly to the American people.

That's the marketing for "moving right every chance they get."

I dont think it is. If I understand the American election process right, the next step is in January, when democrats are allowed to violently assault their elected government, but I'm really not sure if the plan at that stage is supposed to be for Harris to move in or for Biden to stick around. How exactly does that part work again? I don't think other countries do this part.

Fight fire with fire.

Dive into social media and be shameless. Get dirty. Lie. Pay influencers. Promote conspiracies. Push meme policies.

What are Republicans gonna do? Demonize Democrats more? That will just get them more eyeballs, which is exactly how Trump won.

The actual answer is that the world should have banned targeted advertising/engagement optimization so assholes don't trend so much, but we are way past that.

They could at least try to end corporate personhood.. make it so that corporations are not protected by the 1st amendment and don't get free speech... Anything they blast out needs to be scrutinized and any misinformation needs to have heavy penalties... Sure the actual person saying the thing is protected, but the corporations pushing it out or allowing it to go out through them get crushed under fines... This would require a party that is not working for the oligarchy/donors though

Just because the election is called does not mean we are done counting votes.

The largest state (California) only has 50% counted.

Trump will likely surpass his 2020 total.

I have to second this one.

Most of the people I hang with tend towards 3rd party. All of them proudly touted their votes for the democratic candidate in this/the last election, but each was also very clear they were only voting that way as a way to vote against Trump.

They all hate Biden and Harris.

They need to come to terms!!

I've been coming to terms and I never see them there!

waiting for a chance to elect the least shitty candidate every 4 years is how you got into this mess.

If we don't organize and start taking direct action then nothing will change.

People need to join organizations in their community or labor unions and begin to directly sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes should be something that the American left are actively planning right now.

Don't sit down, stand up