I’m fed up with Republicans calling Democrats communists, and corporate media getting away with saying Democrats stand for nothing but “wokeness” and LGBTQ rights, and that they have no agenda.
Low approval ratings for the Democratic party in recent polls reflect the success of this massive partisan propaganda. We've learned Republican messaging through simplistic bumper sticker slogans will always be more effective than Democrats’ nuanced discussions of policy.
Democrats need to make more of an effort to communicate their policies and agenda to the public and to emphasize what they stand for and against. I have these few suggestions.
Democrats stand FOR Ukraine, and AGAINST Putin's war crimes.
Democrats stand against CRIMINALS in the White House.
Democrats stand AGAINST Trump, MAGA, racism, white nationalism, and "Project 2025".
Democrats stand for protecting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public healthcare, public education, and other government services that are CONSTITUTIONAL provisions for the general welfare.
Democrats stand for CONSTITUTIONAL provision for the general welfare by environmental regulations that protect our land, water, and air from corporate pollution.
Democrats stand for government monitoring of banking and corporate crime and abuse of the public trust and for the enforcement of all CONSTITUTIONAL regulation of commerce.
Democrats stand for CONSTITUTIONAL taxes on corporations and the rich.
Democrats stand for an economy that works for EVERYONE.
Democrats stand for public funding of medical research in universities and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Democrats stand for a FREE press.
Democrats stand for protecting VOTING RIGHTS.
Democrats
stand for reproductive RIGHTS for women.
Democrats stand for an independent judicial system and against politicized or personalized law enforcement.
Democrats stand for EQUAL JUSTICE under law.
In short, most Democrats stand for a multi-racial, democratic, representative government OF the people, NOT just powerful oligarchs, BY the people, NOT just the rich economic elites, and FOR the people, NOT artificial corporate entities.
Democrats should unite in calling out the Right’s agenda.
Along with POWER and tax cuts for the rich, MAGA stands for the glorification of Trump and his deranged idea of “making America great” by punishing and tormenting people, law firms, universities, civil servants, scientists, educators, and anyone else they hate.
Democrats need a leader with a steel spine, a no nonsense can do positive agenda, and the ability to energize the masses by sending a strong consistent and honest message over, and over, and over again.
ReplyDeleteTrumpublicans have offered little to nothing positive (except the border and even that they've screwed up by denying due process ) but certainly have offered a truckload of negative initiativesas well as unlawful activities.
Thanks for posting this, Dave. I, too, am fed up with people saying the Democrats stand for nothing except anti-Trumpism. In fact, to be anti-Trumpism is to be a patriot. It is a fundamental stand against creeping authoritarianism. Wait. Did I type "creeping?"
ReplyDeleteWe are already there.
I believe there will be a reckoning, sooner rather than later, and those who continue to support the anti-American Trump will pay dearly, politically and reputation-wise, for their betrayal to their country for a convicted felon, sexual assaulter, liar, cheat, and fraud.
Buried by a blizzard of ignorance and propaganda, perhaps what either side stands for in their name-
ReplyDeleteD.ecent, E.mpathetic, M.odest, O.bjective, C.apable, A.ble. T.ruthful and-
R.epugnant, E.x-cons, P.ropagandists, U.ncouth, B.itter, L.iars, I.nept, N.aive
Simple letter by letter crossword stuff?
Les,
ReplyDeleteI think the Dems understand they need more dynamic and charismatic leader like Obama again.
Shaw,
It's my deepest desire to see the Trump Cartel face SOME kind of judgment and accountability. If, not, then what does this country even stand for?
BB,
Thanks for spelling it out for us.
Someone with the fire and convictions of a Robert Kennedy perhaps. An AOC type. Charisma is important.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe that's still a reach too far for most Americans. Our national conditioning since RWR has been consistent and brutally dishonest. And the rightwing media and Christian Nationalists have controlled the narative for the most part.
Les,
ReplyDeleteOne thing is certain. Democrats won't win because of their fewer indictments, a better economy, lower unemployment, better policies, and lower crime rate. Most voters pay no attention that stuff.
Democrats will win because of the usual reason. Republicans will tank the economy and spread enough misery and disease that even uninformed voters will notice.
It's almost unbelievable Dave. But having witnessed the decline of the party I once was a vice chair of in a previous town I lived in I know the party will never again be the party of Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteIt has been all down hill since the 80's. The best thing that could happen is for the party to completely implode so a rebuilding might happen. One with MAGAts missing from the table during the efforts.
We need at least two solid viable parties to prevent one party rule.Three would be even better. But until America figures out how to purge media from the misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies like rRump excels in I suppose nothing will change with that party. It's become so ignorant and delusional since it crowned tRump America's "savior" it likely will not recognize truth or reality for a couple generations. Long after many of us gone I'm guessing.
Les,
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid there's a terrible cost to living in our "post truth" era. Democracy and freedom depend on factuality. It was bad enough that corporate media failed us, but now the internet and mainstream media are being taken over by sociopaths and oligarchs.
Historian Timothy Snyder warns us in his books, "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom" that, “Post-truth is pre-fascism. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.”
The era of the Big Lie is here. Trump MUST be repudiated or our democracy is dead.