Posted on 06/23/2017 12:50:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh right....that’s what obozo kept saying
Go and arrange for a public forum of a hundred people from some rural region of Arkansas, and a hundred from urbanized Miami. It is a total disconnect for the Democratic Party in dealing with priorities of the rural region. It’s been that way since the mid-1990s.
I give part of the credit to Bill Clinton’s team in remodeling the party into a politicized group with various agenda teams. The rest of the credit should go to lobbyists who felt that the rural vote didn’t matter.
A total rebranding of the Democratic Party needs to occur.
Not many voters want to transform America into Venezuela.
They have a hatred of America and Constitution problem, and that’s just a start.
I could offer some suggestions:
Gosh, there's all sorts of unexplored territory here.
He talks about the great D policy(ies) and doesn’t cite a single one.
This author lacks a sense of reality and it is sad. This reads like a high school newspaper article.
Yes, that’s right Democraps, you merely have a problem with “messaging”.
If you simply do a better job communicating your Jihadi-hugging, max tax, anti-Second Amendment, Big Global Government, child-predating, anti-family policies, you can’t lose!
Heh
Decent people keep Democrats away from children...
> There is no policy area about which Democrats don’t have both a general orientation and specific ideas and goals. Indeed, the “You don’t have an agenda!” critique is often paired with “Stop with all the white papers and 10-point plans!”, which shows that when people say Democrats don’t have an agenda, what they really mean is that they don’t have a bunch of simplified messaging and pithy slogans that describe their agenda
In other words, “you dumb voters are too stupid to appreciate our brilliant policies”
The WMN’s have figured out who has their backs-—Trump!
The Dems and Rhino's have WMN’s wallet and purses open for every nonsensical expenditure.
WMN coalesced around Trump after failure of the Rhino to act on the will of the people concerning Obamacare repeal and Targeted bathroom issues, after placing R's in control of both congress and then the senate under Captain Cool, Obama.
You are right in a sense but to have a marketing problem, one must first have something to market. They have small market (issue) appeal but have never had mass market appeal. All they can do is to appeal to as many small issue sectors hoping to have a convergence of those into some sort of coalition of single issue voters. The big problem with that approach is if the other side offers five issues to the one offered by the other, no wonder they are losing.
It used to be easy for them before the alt-media got engaged. Now their media propaganda arm is really looking like a bunch of petulant fools. Because of their arrogance, all they know how to do is to double down in the belief they still hold the reigns of what and how anything is to be reported and the Democrats have no other outlet so the whole thing is swirling down the drain and they are taking the rest of the establishment with them.
. . and Trump keeps tweeting, over, under and around them before they can get their socks on. He controls the narrative now, not them and that is why they hate his tweets so much.
Yeah, right. If these ideas are "the popular ones," then why do Democrats keep losing? If these ideas are so great, why don't Democrats make that case? Instead, all we see are Democrats belittling and marginalizing ordinary people while demonizing anyone who runs against them--and now, trying to encourage their loony followers to assassinate the winners of elections that do not go their way.
While the author of this screed tries to portray Republicans as barely literate troglodytes who reflexively pull that voting lever for R because they fall for slick marketing, the reality is that we discuss every point of our philosophy ad nauseum. I think this author is attributing to Republicans the traits of Democrats.
It would be awesome if elections were about policies, not power. For example, I'd love to see two candidates facing off and explaining to the voters why *their* plan to reduce crime is better and more likely to work. How are these candidates at problem-solving? How well do they bring together a group of experts and laypeople of differing backgrounds to examine an issue and make recommendations? Etc.
“address climate change”
Ha! Any Democrat who tries to push that pile of trash around will be booed out of the room anywhere where average folks can be found.
Or—if the audience is polite they will conclude the candidate is an idiot and pawn of DC insiders and one worlders and ignore anything else they have to say.
It kind of difficult to sell fresh turd sandwiches to someone who’s had a taste.
Boy this writer is a dinosaur. They old marketing explanation for failure belongs in the last century.
How about...
Democrats for the Communist Revolution!
or
Communism has only killed 100 million in the 20th century.
Lets give it another try!
Raise the minimum wage, FREE PAY RAISE
have strong worker protections, FREE BENEFITS PACKAGE
protect the safety net, FREE WELFARE
address climate change, FREE MONEY FOR 3RD-WORLD
protect abortion rights, FREE INFANTICIDE
guarantee secure health coverage, FREE INSURANCE CARD
make college more affordable, FREE COLLEGE
and so on. FREE STUFF ALL AROUND
THERE. They DO have an agenda. It is to coddle the 20% or so of the population whose sole defining virtue is that they make poor decisions. In other words, it is to redistribute the funds earned by those who make good decisions.
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