Posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Insiders agree the party has lost focus on bread and butter economic issues.
Elizabeth Warren may have captured the imagination of the Democratic Partys base, but many in her party worry that it does not have a message that can reach beyond its most loyal supporters.
In recent weeks, Democratic operatives have begun to voice concerns that the 2014 midterms made plain the limits of an approach that failed to reach beyond minority groups or those who are reflexively liberal. And yet what should come next is not yet totally clear.
You have to answer the mail about what peoples concerns are, said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, the preeminent liberal think tank and advocacy group. Democrats, she said, need to emphasize an economic focus on 'bread and butter' issues that matter to peoples lives.
For CAP, that will mean releasing a series of new policy ideas in 2015 to address the middle-class squeeze, as the group calls the cross-pressures created by rising living costs and years of stagnant or falling wages.
For Warren, the first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, that means talking about fighting for the middle class and then standing up for her beliefs even if it means leading a rebellion against her Senate colleagues. Her pointed comments on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, arguing that Citigroup and other big banks should be broken up into smaller pieces, galvanized and excited the progressive left wing of her party. But even as the calls for her to run for president are growing louder, she remains known more for what she is against than what she is for.
Being oppositional is something that unites the populist right and the left because of a now commonly held set of concurrent attitudes....
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How about, “Soylent Green is the Middle Class. Yum!”
Democrat message would be...
We are Democrats, at least unlike Republicans we have a spine take a stand for something!
Of course they stand up for Dictators and Communists, but they won’t advertise that.
We already know what it will be (same as every year):
“Destroy more wealth to support the welfare state!”
Of course the media won’t use such straightforward words.
Their message has devolved into that of Epicurean lawlessness.
DNC slogan:” Obama half destroyed the middle class. Vote Elizabeth Warren................let’s get it over with!”
“Please give us another chance!”
“It could be worse.”
How about: “Everything we say to you is a lie”
No?
Maybe "RESET" - remember that one, that was Hillary's stroke of sheer genius how she invented the reset button for Russia. That worked out really well, that was her big success as Secretary of State and major accomplishment.
I really wish they’d get some sort of truth serum...
or something like “Liar, Liar” happened to them,
where they’d actually say out loud what their true agenda is.
By the time the journ-0-lists are done with Warren, she’ll be a proud Native American grandmother fighting for the middle class against Wall $treet and the banks. Throw in a black VP to bring out the entitlement army vote, and you have a combination capable of winning.
How about: “What difference does it make?”
Fauxcahontas - or Hillary, for that matter - would put one of the Castro brothers (Texas variety) on the ticket. Mexican vote is much more valuable than the black vote.
Could be.
I’m just saying don’t take her lightly.
Remember how everybody LMAO’d when the Mob chose SlowJoe?
Near as I can tell the only message the GOP has right now is "Oh my God! We've got to stop Ted Cruz!"
What, it’s my turn isn’t working for Hillary?
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