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Arkansas Blue's avatar

I fully agree with your last paragraph, BUT... let's not forget several items you have not mentioned.

First of all, ignorant voters falling for the PINO orange felon's lies hook, line and sinker. He fought Kamala to a draw on Social Security, Medicare, and threats to democracy? Unbelievably ignorant.

"Overall, PINO was trusted over Harris on border security, crime, the economy, and the cost of living, while Harris was more trusted only on abortion and climate change...?" Except for the border issue, MAYBE, the Democrats were better at all the other ones than the republicons, where PINO himself and many of his ass-kissers are the biggest criminals of all. Again, unbelievably ignorant.

Then there are the lazy Democratic voters who do a lot of complaining, but never get their asses of their sofas to actually vote. And the very many young people who can't be bothered to organize or vote. These last two issues are the crux of the matter - too many Democratic non-voters.

Finally, there is the fact that a very large percentage of American voters are sexists. Way too many men will never vote for a woman, and wayyyyyy to many American women will never vote for a woman.

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This is another article that tells the Democrats that they are wrong because they lost. It also implies that in order to win they have to become more like Republicans.

Other commenters have already pointed out that this is misguided. Does the writer mean that since so many Republican voters are bigoted and misogynistic the Dems should be more like that? The Republicans, with a lot of dark money, especially from Musk, were able to make a big issue about trans people. They still are. This is the result of their new media, including X, Fox, and social media, constantly spreading lies and divisiveness.

The only way Democrats need to become more like the Republicans is they need to be more emotionally charged, and much more aggressive. They need to frighten people about the damage the new administration is doing, and also by showing clearly, in an understandable way, how the Dems would be different,

A couple of days a go, I received a message from a new group that promised to get out there with new ads that would take-on the Republicans. The ads made me sad. What they said was accurate, true, and exactly what someone like me would want to hear. They were much too reasonable. Not Good!

The Dems need to show hospitals being closed and people dying at the ER doors. They need to show floods ripping through NC, and Trump saying he wants to get rid of FEMA. They need to show foreign born mothers with protective status who are mothers of American citizens, who are also working necessary jobs like nursing, and paying taxes, being taken away in front of their children by ICE. These things are happening, and if there are’t videos, you can do dramatizations and put that in small print. They need to show how the billionaires in Trump’s cabinet live (yes, show their houses) while they are cutting your benefits and giving a bigger tax break to themselves.

The Dems have been given the gift of Elon Musk, who is mean and crazy, and show how he has been given possession of all of your data and that he intends to use it for his own profits. Also, how the cuts he is making are not money saving they are life-threatening to people who don’t make a million dollars. Show everyone the cartoons of billionaires dropping off $1 million each to Trump to protect their fortunes. Can you do that?

ALSO: Every Democrat in Congress has to find ways to go viral by attacking their colleagues across the isle. They have to ask if after allowing the FBI to be used as Trump’s attack dog, letting foreign government bribe government officials, and also allowing our Intelligence Service to be in the hands of a Putin sympathizer, will they stand up to Trump/Musk/Vance when they declare the Democrats a terrorist organization and then send in the goons from January 6 to drag the Democrats out in handcuffs, or worse. Show them what an authoritarian state looks like! Stop being gentile and reasonable!!! Tell the truth — graphically.

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