The midterm elections are a year away, but now is the time to focus on winning solutions for Democrats.
Democrats have always been weaker at messaging that Republicans. Nuance takes more effort to convey than bumper sticker slogans.
“Trump betrays America” and “Trump is a CRIMINAL!” would be a good start. “We hate Trump” doesn’t cut it, even though Trump declared he hates them, “I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them."
Democrats first need to clean up their act by refusing corporate and AIPAC cash like Republicans do.
They need consistent messaging that aligns with Bernie and AOC’s “Fighting Oligarchy”.
They need to TAKE A STAND for the needs of the American people over the demands of the economic and corporate elites.
They need to hammer on voter and civil rights like it’s1964 again.
They need to repair our campaign finance laws and declare by legislation that corporations are NOT persons entitled to the same rights as human beings.
They need to increase income taxes on the rich. Since they are masters of loopholes and tax-evasion, we need to demand a progressive wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaire oligarchs.
They need to boost public education and stop tax dollars going to private and religious schools.
They need to go beyond settling for ACA subsidies that just pour more money into insurance companies. They need to demand single payer public healthcare for all Americans, and emergency care for non-citizens, like the rest of the civilized world.
There are plenty of policies and issues for Democrats to propose and defend, while still reminding Americans how bad the Criminal President Trump has been for Americans and the world.
They need to relentlessly label Trump and his regime for what they are. “The CRIMINAL President” and his mob.
They need to keep saying, and proving, that Trump, his supporters, his cabinet, his appointees, and Mike Johnson are LIARS. Don’t depend on squeamish and appeasing corporate media to say the word, “lie” when what they say is clearly a lie.
They need to call out the constant corruption, crimes, and cruelty by the Criminal Trump Cartel’s secret police. They need to condemn Trump’s politicized DOJ and FBI’s lawfare and persecution of innocent civil servants who investigated his crimes and those of his January 6 thugs. Defunding ICE while expanding Border Patrol security would be better than rounding up peaceful, law abiding working immigrants.
They need to condemn the law firms, news media, universities, institutions, and oligarchs for submitting to Trump’s extortion.
They need remind Americans that Trump’s six corrupt Supreme Court Justices enabled a dictatorship with unconstitutional “presidential immunity”.
Here’s another bumper sticker for them. “Restore Equal Justice Under Law!”
Democrats need to tell Americans that they STAND AGAINST criminals in the White House, AGAINST MAGA, AGAINST racism and bigotry, AGAINST white nationalism, AGAINST secret police thugs, and AGAINST "Project 2025"
And they need to tell Americans they STAND FOR the values, rights, and liberties that have enabled a more perfect union.
Here are a few more policies that Democrats need to emphasize they STAND for.
Democrats stand FOR Ukraine, and AGAINST Putin's war crimes.
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 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Democrats stand for a FREE press, and against Trump’s far right state media, extorted established networks, and oligarchs’ propaganda outlets.
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 the RULE of LAW and against any dictatorship above the law.
How hard can that be?
I’m not writing their platform for them, just offering a few commonsense suggestions.
AND we also can't repeat this enough.
EVERY PERSON who voted for the Criminal President Trump in 2024 CONDONED his Big Lie, and the POLITICAL VIOLENCE by his J6 THUGS. They CONDONED both Trump's PRAISE and PARDONS for them.
All they need to do is admit they fell for Trump’s lies and denounce his hate and cruelty.
And how hard can that be?
Obviously it's beyond the abilities of incurious and unthinking Americans. They will only wake up when it happens to them or those they care about. See Marjorie Taylor Green's support for affordable health insurance, and for the victims of Epstein (and Trump) when the truth is revealed.
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20 Jeffrey Epstein victims are urging Mike Johnson to immediately swear-in Adelita Grijalva.
Why?
It's what ENEMIES of democracy do, AND the Republican Party is in the Pedo Protection business for their CRIMINAL leader.
So... a lot of things can be true at the same time.
Back in the Obama days when the Dems were in power, they demanded a clean CR. The GOP wanting to kill Obamacare, balked and the government was shutdown. The Dems crowed, the GOP cowered and ended up taking the blame. Those are just facts.
So here we are today.
The GOP still wants to kill Obamacare. But now the Dems don't want a clean CR. And once again the GOP is taking the blame.
Again, facts.
If your political opponent is not principled and will not negotiate, even though their constituents disagree with them, your screwed in our system. Plain and simple.
I've said elsewhere as it relates to health care, let's put the two competing plans, Obamacare and the GOP on the public table. Costs, coverage, benefits, preexisting conditions, all of it. And let the American people decide via the mid term elections.
Let's trust the majority of American people to, after seeing the actual plans of both parties, to be smart enough to choose between the two. And then the winning party gets to enact their plan.
But in the meantime, get the government open. WIth no changes to the current structure of Obamacare.
Dave, you think any of your conservative readers would accept putting it before the voters, a la an initiative?
Dave,
Conservatives don't care what the majority wants. Remember democracy is antithetical to conservatism. The masses must be kept in their place.
According to Gallup in 2023, a 57% majority of U.S. adults believe that the federal government should ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage.
It's not about comparing and debating policies and negotiated compromise. You know, back when America was great.
Now it's down to one thing. Autocratic Republican rule. It's not governing anymore.
How long ago was it, and how many times did Trump promise us a healthcare plan in "two week"?
That made it clear they really don't give a damn about us. The Republican "healthcare plan" has always been "get sick and die". It will be that way as long as they have conflict of interest in their portfolios and reward rich insurance CEO's instead of providing care for the American people.
"Conservatives don't care what the majority wants." What a crock, prove it Dave, site sources, if you can.
BTW, Mich debt is near $40 billion or $3891 per citizen, what are you doing about YOUR states debt, blame the GOP?
Vern,
Cons have enjoyed presidential minority rule when they won by the antiquated and undemocratic electoral system imposed by Southern slave owners. Are you saying they ever gave a damn about what the majority wanted?
Hell, no.
Your "heritage" has ALWAYS been about racism, inequality and minority rule. Look what they're doing in Texas. Trump ordered them to gerrymander Black Americans out of representation.
And BTW Michigan ranks #16 in state debt.
Texas is #4 at $217 billion. That's $7,443 per person.
https://reason.org/transparency-project/gov-finance-2025/state/
What are YOU doing about YOUR state's debt, blame Democrats?
While your malevolent mendacious messiah DEPRIVES poor people of Medicaid and doubles the cost of health insurance for many Americans, (So billionaires get more tax cuts) Governor Whitmer announced the first round of medical debt forgiveness, totaling over $144 million for nearly 210,000 Michiganders.
Jesus would approve, but conservatives hate public and single payer healthcare. You're one of those fake Christian hypocrites.
Conservatives really don't care about Americans needing healthcare. They voted to cut them off. "Get sick and die" has been their policy for the poor.
There's Christian Nationalism working its poison into our republic.
Vern... a majority of Americans favor universal access to abortion, with some late term regulations/prohibitions. Conservatives do not favor, vote, or legislate this way.
A majority of Americans believe the 2020 elections were free, fair and devoid of any fraud that would have changed the outcome. Conservatives and Pres Trump continue to push policies to fix a problem America does need fixing.
A majority of Americans support Obamacare/ACA and want it strengthened, not repealed. Conservatives have consistently voted for people calling for an end to Obamacare.
Vern, I could on and on. If you simply Google my statements, you'll find plenty of sources from multiple sources to support my claims, if you choose to look, or care.
On the flip side, perhaps you can cite sources that refute my statements...
Dave,
Like a vampire hiding from the sun, Vern scampers away from the light of facts and reality. This seems to be the MO for gutless and willfully ignorant con-servatives.
We'll both live to be 100 years old before Vern responds in good faith. More trolling is expected and will be deleted if off topic.
Something else for Vern to ignore.
Americans are waking up.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
Trump Approval 43.1%
Disapproval 54.3%
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.
-Harry Truman
Indeed.
The grift by Trump and his family is now in the $billions.
Of course, he was a CRIMINAL all along.
Trump hosted a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween Party at Mar-a-Largo over the weekend while millions of Americans wondered if they'd be able to feed their families.
Can ANYONE imagine what the reaction would have been had Biden or Obama done such a callous thing?
It's amazing what deplorable actions Republicans will put up with from their cult leader, isn't it?
Shaw,
Yes, America has had a dark underbelly of Nazi sentiments since the 1930s.
Racists have always been cruel and conservative.
They bred MAGA.
Anonymous was annoyed by Shaw's point about Trump's Great Gatsby-themed Halloween Party at Mar-a-Largo. Obviously he has no idea what the book was about.
"Shaw Kenawe THAT WAS A PRETTY STUPID ANALOGY OR A COMPARISON, you know as well as t Millions of Americans of ALL kinds, and or Races, and Political parties had Halloween Parties,"
He's not bright enough to see the "let them eat cake" mentality of Trump denying food stamps for the hungry while he hosts a decadent tribute to greed.
Or am I mistaken, and "millions of Americans" throw their own Great Gatsby Halloween parties? Only the most arrogant elites can afford such a thing.
But he wasn't done. He's also very annoyed at being compared to Nazis. (It's fine for him to call us communists, though. Like a Nazi would do.)
He also does the Nazi thing by LYING and demonizing "illegals" by saying they, "destroy our hospitals destroy our healthcare system and quadrupled my healthcare costs".
Never mind this is exactly what his malevolent mendacious messiah has been doing all along.
If Anonymous wants me to post what he says, he must first use a name and then define what communism is, and finally CITE the words of any democrat espousing communism.
Somehow I'm skeptical of his ability to do that.
Another POS that is a Waste of time and space by the Asshole who thinks it's Cute to call Patriotic Americans Filthy , disgusting words like "Nazi" as he gets a thrill out of doing. But everyone else seems to agree that it's Childish, and , pretty Stupid, but what can we expect from David Dubya. The Moronic Super SCHMUCK?
Gosh, ASTROSTAR,
First, THANK YOU, for wasting your time.
Nazis ALWAYS say they're "patriots", as in "Patriot Front" and neo-Nazi MAGA when they accuse democrats of being "America-hating communists".
Say, ASTROSTAR, what does the "patriotic" Proud Boy t-shirt with "6MWE" mean?
I'll help. "Six Million Weren't Enough". Go figure that one out for us.
And Trump's "J6 patriot" with the "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirt? I bet he thinks we're commies too.
And do you remember the Republican Peter Giunta who was photographed with Trump, got caught saying, "I love Hitler"?
ASTROSTAR, can you define what communism is, and CITE the words of any democrat espousing communism.
Somehow I'm skeptical of your ability to do that.
That's OK, sport. Nobody expects any answers from you. We know what you are.
Ted Cruz: "The heart of the Democratic Party today is communist and jihadist and extremist."
Just don't call Ted a racist, fascist, and Nazi. That would mean you hate America.
Morning Dave... look up "Who Goes Nazi" by Digby, based on a Harper's Article from 1930s. It's a little off topic, but since you opened the door with your Cruz reference, it fits. Here's a link...
https://digbysblog.net/2024/07/16/who-goes-nazi/
You can delete this afterwards if you want. Peace...
Dave,
Thanks. I remember that one.
I've looked at it this way. The Nazi/MAGA/autocrat type is determined by where they are on the spectrum of bigotry, greed, and authoritarianism in their personality. I call it the "unholy trinity of con-servatism". The preponderance of any one of these can get you to fascism, but we are under the rule of a criminal president's regime characterized by all three.
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