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Citizen60's avatar

Democrats have NEVER been able to create coordinated talking points--too many coalitions in The Big Tent.--almost never are they all happy enough in the tent to want to coordinate. The only certainty in the Democratic Party is chronic unhappiness by 1 or more coalitions at all times, which is really sad.

Clinton & Gore did it pretty well. Years of defeat, a new generation ,and better message discipline were tried--Ross Perot got them over the line.

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Dave A.'s avatar

“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”--humorist Will Rogers, about 90 years ago.

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Citizen60's avatar

I use Will's quote all the time, too.

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Mike S's avatar

The Republicans have done a great job of taking over AM radio and cable TV.

Every 20 Khz on the AM dial is another well funded right wing nut ranting all day and all night about the evils of socialism, Democrats, Biden, and baying at the moon when they run out of nasty talk.

The Democrats slept while all of this happened.

AM radio is still a main information source for farmers working in fields with radios inside the tractors blaring away.

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JDinTX's avatar

Farmers used to know who had their backs, a great loss

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Phil Balla's avatar

Well-put, Mike.

Yes, we could say Dems "slept."

Or that they simply found it convenient to go along with the various post-Powell memo plans for all to dehumanize, become silo-set, neutered, all in order to steroid the rich, as Jane Mayer documents in "Dark Money" and Sheldon Whitehouse in "The Scheme."

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

Phil, I think it is some of both. Some agree with the Powell memo, and some are just asleep, believing the tooth fairy will come and put their results under their pillow.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

If you have Sirius XM radio, have you tuned in to channel 127? It's Sirius XM Progress. Talking heads are Tom Hartmann and John Huegelsen plus many others. John Huegelsen is very smart and a great spokesperson for progressives.

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Kathy Clark's avatar

And truck drivers.

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Tom High's avatar

Bingo. And note how stupid Joe Scarborough is at the end, as are most of the political establishment operatives/pundits in DC, when he says about a potential ‘Democratic movement’, … “like Barack Obama did”.

No, Joe, you idiot, Obama created a moment, not a movement. Moments are killed all the time. Obama killed his when he filled his economic team with Wall Street bloodsuckers. Movements have staying power.

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Phil Balla's avatar

And, Tom, cut his roots with his great Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

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Tom High's avatar

Gutless political ‘expediency’. Reminded me of Bill Clinton disgustingly throwing Lani Guinier under the bus. There’s a reason the GOP accusations of weakness/cowardice towards Dems have resonance; it’s not all about the commies/socialists.

I remember a Clint Eastwood interview not long after the ‘72 election when he talked about a conversation he had sitting next to George McGovern on a cross-country flight after Nixon’s landslide. Eastwood had no idea McGovern was on a B-17 crew in WWII, and after spending just a bit of time getting to know him, said he wished he’d have voted for him instead of Nixon.

I have no problem talking with Trump voters, and actually making progress in finding common ground about what the impediments to the solutions to our problems actually are. We have to stop lumping every Trump voter into the KKK/deplorable bucket.

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Gina's avatar

Anyone who votes for him is in that bucket because his bucket is obviously filled with lots of venom and hatred for others. Why else would anyone vote for someone live him-tax cuts and easing regulations are ok but ignoring the rest of what he represents is reprobate.

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Tom High's avatar

People can ignore lots of things, Joe Biden’s complicity in genocide, for example.

Who would want to be in that bucket?

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