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wildcat09

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  1. Most of those nobody actually affiliated with Democratic politics even use. This is just third way ratfucking.
  2. Dems could probably make some hay at this point pressuring the Times, WaPo, CNN, etc. to explain why they're helping Trump cover it up.
  3. I see they actually already made some Justified episodes about this.
  4. It's impossible to know how many children have been abused because of Dobson. Millions surely, maybe tens of millions. I hope his death was slow and painful.
  5. There's good and bad ways of doing that. A ton of Texas Democratic candidates for statewide office have run against the party in bad ways over the past 30 years. Their message tends to essentially be "look everyone knows Democrats are communist monsters but I'm not like them, I'm a conservative Texan who happens to think the Republican party is a little mean for my liking." That doesn't work. The best candidate we had (Beto) ran a far more progressive campaign than any of the others. He should've shut the fuck up about taking guns (there's always one or two issues you do in fact have to be careful with), but he was unapologetically progressive and the only thing that actually hurt him was the "hell yeah we're coming for your assault rifles." Note that I'm not arguing that actually progressive issues are electoral winners; I don't think they matter much. It's the attitude. Running as a Republican-lite just tells voters that they have more in common with Republicans than Democrats, that Republicans are right about the issues that are important to them, and that Democrats either (i) don't really believe in anything (even the dumbest voters can smell focus-grouped, poll-tested bullshit) and/or (ii) are actively opposed to their interests. Running unapologetically as a Democrat is better than that. In this environment, I think that can and probably should include running specifically against New York Democratic leadership (but no AOC slander). They're feckless losers more focused on spats with other local candidates and officials than on their actual duties as elected officials and as leaders of the party. That can rally demoralized base voters AND appeal to dumb undecided "centrist" voters who hate Schumer/Pelosi/Jeffries, while recharacterizing part of the party's image problems as specifically about them and not as the party more generally.
  6. It's complicated because issue polling is only so useful, given how many different ways questions can be framed, and "issues" themselves are poorly understood. "Universal health care" is popular. But when you get into the weeds of what that actually entails, Republican messaging is very effective at diminishing its support. We're all having different conversations here. I fully agree with bozo that voters don't vote for policies, they vote for candidates. Your post i was responding to was arguing that Dems aren't sufficiently reorienting around popular policies due to interference from "The Groups." I think The Groups interfere in harmful ways, but that the electoral impact of that interference is pretty minimal and that the biggest problem, The Problem as I've described it, would remain and things wouldn't look much difference in a week if all of The Groups disappeared completely from this plane of reality tomorrow. What's frustrating is that the solution to The Problem is fairly simple (not easy and it will take an extended period of time to really show results, but it is simple). Hell, we've seen the GOP do it already. Dems need to bully the media and begin standing up their own partisan media alternatives. We've seen it work, and I don't mean just on Republican base voters. It has worked incredibly well for the GOP on mainstream media editors and producers and the "centrist" voters and even center-left that listen to them. It works just the same way working the refs does in sports. Unfortunately, too many Democratic officials still feel constrained by shitty consultants, norms, collegiality, etc. to even consider working the refs.
  7. There's also that whole thing where it's not actually functionally possible to have a system in which citizens get due process and non-citizens don't. Due process is sort of necessary in order to determine whether a person is a citizen or not in the first place.
  8. When issue polls are conducted, policies that Democratic officials and candidates support are pretty much always overwhelmingly popular. I'm talking 60%+ in favor. Meanwhile you look at polls of nearly every issue the GOP cares about and it's like 35% for or worse. If prioritizing or supporting unpopular policies was an electoral problem, the Republican party would be about as popular as the Green party.
  9. I think bozo probably has some personal grievance with someone involved with one of “The Groups” in particular and is misdiagnosing a problem as The Problem. Yes, it’s a problem if someone influential is convincing candidates to speak in off-putting ways. But on this issue, The Problem is that media convinces voters that anything random people say online is the official position of the Democratic Party. Right wing media, mainstream media, and social media all do this. Hell, even posters on message boards do. This is just me working from memory here and not based on specific data, but I think actual Democratic candidates used a lot more identity-based messaging in 2018 and 2020 than they did in 2024. I don’t say that to suggest it actually helps electorally, only to illustrate that eliminating that shit doesn’t really help solve The Problem.
  10. I only talk down to you because you've repeatedly demonstrated anything more would be a waste of time.
  11. It's amazing that you manage to post here despite being functionally illiterate.
  12. Bozo, very simple question: did any Democratic politicians in the RGV use "latinx"?
  13. You said Democratic politicians in the RGV were using "latinx." Now you're suggesting that the use of latinx by "The Groups" was the problem. Did the first actually happen? To the extent it was simply rhetoric from "The Groups," you're implicitly proposing an impossible solution (somehow get "The Groups" to achieve perfect party message discipline). I agree that certain organizations purporting to represent special interests have too much power and influence within the party, but that's a different problem and much more easily fixed than if the problem is that literally anything anyone who doesn't vote Republican says can be effectively weaponized against the Democratic party.
  14. Did we actually have any candidates for office use latinx? I don't recall any. Yup, Democrats invented shaming in 2018, everyone knows that.
  15. I really don’t love that Maine guy saying we’ve entered 3 new wars since 2009. It’s giving off some grey zone vibes.
  16. We should quarter some troops in your home to make sure your wife is safe.
  17. You can’t fool me, that’s Big Moose propaganda.
  18. What do you hunt moose with? A howitzer?
  19. This. Returning to a world where countries can expand their territory by invading their neighbors and having that expansion recognized by the global community would be a massive step back.
  20. I don't think it's even a coverup? There's numerous interviews with people who've worked with him talking about how he's changed and how difficult he is now.
  21. It doesn't excuse his behavior, but it does explain it. Most people don't just recover from a stroke and they tend to make most victims worse in pretty much exactly the same way he's gotten worse.
  22. Well that and a stroke.
  23. Govern yourself accordingly, wildcat09
  24. @DalTxHornFan literally watching Trump molesting kids: "HEY Y'ALL LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SCARY BLACK MAN!"
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