Posted on 04/30/2015 5:35:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The heartache and bewilderment is still prevalent in Wisconsin following three election victories for Gov.Scott Walker (the presumptive presidential candidate) in the span of about four years. This is also coupled with majorities in both state legislative houses for Republicans, which allows them to impose their agenda with little to no protest. All of these facts underscore a pretty dire situation for Democrats in this state. So what is being done to try to reverse this tide?
Within the last few years, a trend has emerged of people mischaracterizing the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They make statements about him which make it seem like they havent read anything about him beyond the material for a fourth grade book report.
King discussed a number of thought provoking, pivotal topics in his groundbreaking essay Letter from Birmingham Jail. Among these topics was the need for self purification before engaging in a campaign, meaning before you can try to convince others to side with you in a campaign, you must first rid yourself of all of the things that could potentially hold you back during said campaign. This purification includes reflecting on what makes you personally strong and focusing on those areas to ensure endurance during a campaign.
When King referenced this more than 50 years ago, it applied to non-violent direct action campaigns that lobbied for social change. But this advice is also incredibly useful in the political realm, as well.
The heartache and bewilderment is still prevalent in Wisconsin following three election victories for Gov.Scott Walker (the presumptive presidential candidate) in the span of about four years. This is also coupled with majorities in both state legislative houses for Republicans, which allows them to impose their agenda with little to no protest. All of these facts underscore a pretty dire situation for Democrats in this state. So what is being done to try to reverse this tide?
One solution is to teach a younger generation the ropes and get them immersed into politics instantaneously. Case in point: the Democratic Leadership Institute that was held this past weekend. I attended this event and had a wonderful time.
I met very intelligent, like-minded students and learned how to successfully launch a political campaign, as well as the ins and outs of financing one. I gained valuable information at this event, and it has me thinking that someday down the road would I might want to run a political campaign.
But for all of that valuable information I received, there was one thing that I thought was missing, not only from this institute, but also from the larger swath of state Democratic politics: the self purification and inventory King utilized. Democrats strongly believe in their causes, and based on referendum results, a significant amount of citizens believe in them as well. The biggest barrier to translating this commonality into a commitment at the polls is failure to cast a narrative that accurately showcases these beliefs.
Republicans have admittedly done a fine job over the years of crafting their own narrative, while also characterizing the narrative for Democrats. If Democrats want to take that narrative back in the next cycle, they need to reflect, go back to the drawing board and try to figure out why they believe in their causes in the first place.
They need to thoroughly determine how their causes positively impact the everyday non-partisan Wisconsinites beyond blanket answers that vaguely reference the one percent and/or the middle class. The most important step in this process is to figure out a way to get citizens to care enough about those impacts to come to the polls.
Kings idea was about releasing negativity and making the cause and mission that much stronger. If Wisconsin Democrats dont figure out a way to formally integrate this into their plan of action for the next few election cycles, a decade from now, we could be talking about Rebecca Kleefischs fourth term as governor and thats a future not even some Republicans want to envision.
Miles Brown (mjbrown22@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring political science and history with a certificate in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies.
That all sounds good and makes a liberal socialist [feel] good, but, then the reality of liberalism and socialism smacks them in the face:
Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., ............
Democrat socialist are finding it hard to run from their failed policies and the consequences of same!
Yeah, they can talk up their successes in Detroit, Ferguson, and Baltimore.
To be honest, I don’t recall anyone in the lamestream media predicting that Abortion Barbie would win in Texas. No one ever believed that Abortion Barbie had a chance, not even Abortion Barbie.
Abortion Barbie knew that she had no chance of even getting re-elected to her state senate seat. If she had run a losing campaign for her state senate seat, no one would ever hear from her again. By running a losing campaign for governor, she could become a liberal media darling and milk it for big bucks on the liberal talking circuit.
Take back the narrative = Tell lies better than the enemy.
It’s quite revealing that a so-called student doesn’t believe in objective truth but only in the spin.
It’s also interesting how MLK is treated as a deity while an actual deity is not.
That's what they've been taught. Note his majors and the emphasis.
Praise for Republicans “narrative” shows how far removed from reality this little twerp is
“.....The question is whether Bushs civility will turn his presidential campaign into a suicide mission. After six years of the Obama presidency, many Republicans not only the ones on talk radio want a fighter, not a lover. Polls by the Pew Research Center have found that most conservatives want their leaders to stand by the partys principles, not to compromise with the other side. (Liberals break the opposite way, in favor of compromise.)
Theres a path for Bush to win the GOP nomination, beginning in New Hampshire, whose contrary voters often embrace civility. It helps that independents can vote in the GOP primary there.
The path requires Bush to win solid support from a silent majority of non-tea-party Republicans, who make up a little more than half of the party. It probably requires several of the more conservative candidates Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz to knock each other out. (Thats partly how Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2012, although he faced less formidable challengers.) And it probably requires one more ingredient: a flash or two of unwonted pugnacity from the candidate.”....
Poor kid doesn’t understand that RATs have nothing to say other than “Vote for me and I’ll give you stuff.”
“.....Finally, Walker made an under-the-radar move that is worthy of notice. His presidential SuperPAC hired Shirley & Banister, one of the most respected P.R. firms in the conservative movement, to handle its messaging and strategy. The P.R. firm was founded by Craig Shirley, the best-selling biographer of Ronald Reagan. I know this firm well, because I retained their services myself the past few months. Their main interest is promoting causes/people that are advancing movement conservatism. So theyre not going to sign on with Walker in order to promote milquetoast (Commandment #9)....”
http://stevedeace.com/news/winner-of-the-week-scott-walker/
“This guy is already a proficient and embarrassing liar, so he should be a good Democrat. No protests?....”
I believe he is referring to the most recent, anemic non-protest when Wisconsin became right to work - the goons on the Left were spent from the March 2011 battle over public sector unions.
“......Here in King, Magnant and her fellow AFSCME members, workers at a local veterans home, have been knocking on doors on weekends to persuade former members to rejoin. Community college professors in Moraine Park, home to a technical college, are reducing dues from $59 to $36 each month. And those in Milwaukee are planing a campaign using videos and posters to highlight union principles. The theme: Remember......
.....While some union members have been energized by the fight, they say they notice a new, more vocal animosity toward them. It has been particularly pronounced in rural areas, where public-sector jobs were some of the most prized gigs in town.
In King, population 1,700, Magnant said she couldnt change a sign at the union hall without someone giving her the finger. Farther west, in Stanley, prison workers said they ditched their favorite pizza pub because the owner stood by while other customers called them leeches.
In Reedsburg, that tension surprised Ginny Bourgeois, 52, who clerks at a local Kwik Trip. The community had always been divided, defined as much by the factories manufacturing car parts as it was by cornfields now blanketed in snow. Still, it was a place where the community got together for spaghetti and corn feeds and filled bleachers to watch the Reedsburg Beavers play. Now, she said, people were fighting over politics at gas stations.
Still, she felt unions needed to sacrifice.
Everyone knows teachers insurance was some of the best you could get, Bourgeois added.They do fairly well around here, and they do a good job teaching. But everyone in this town has had to tighten their belts. They should too.........
It’s unbelievable.
Brown - nude week.
Northwestern - pron classes.
etc. etc. etc.
Then they scream rape, when there is no rape.
The common thread with the Wis and Tx battles for governor was the nasty, vicious, over the top attacks on the GOP candidate by their counterpart (and their supporters).
That drove voters to the polls to stick it to the Dems.
And it felt so good there will be more voters getting to the polls Nov. 2016!
Their overreach has come back to bite them.
btw, pron = porn.
Um....not really. If they don't want the party to hold the Governorship then they aren't Republicans.
>>This is also coupled with majorities in both state legislative houses for Republicans, which allows them to impose their agenda with little to no protest.
Uh, could it be that the agenda being “imposed” is what the majority of the voters voted for?
“Imposed” = something I personally don’t like.
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