01-30-2021, 05:05 PM
Democrats need a few Zoom calls where the conversation goes like this:
"Do your colleagues on the other side of the aisle treat you as opponents or the enemy? We define the former as have policy differences and the latter as anarchy. If you have anarchists around you we recommend you respond at face value, and frame every single interaction thusly."
And then email everyone the PowerPoint slide showing those bullet point definitions. We need some basic, but coordinated methodologies here.
We're at a crossroads. You cannot "appeal" or "work with" someone who doesn't consider you an adversary worthy of consideration. Why worry about alienating people who literally do not care if you live or die?
Appealing to conservatives means nothing when conservatives stand for nothing but power for power's sake. Republican voters don't care about positive policy from anyone; it's why they reliably vote against their own interests like the one thing they can point to recently, their tax cut that only hurts them.
I see a few crises that need attention. Kill the filibusters and use the majority to protect and secure sweeping voting initiatives that give teeth against future SCOTUS attacks. SCOTUS just loves to say, "Well, we'd really prefer instead that Congress pass a law to address this ..." Democrats should truly take those frequent hints seriously. All of that works to put pressures on the state legislatures who work to stop voting.
Clone anything Stacey Abrams does. TN just got a young, new Democratic Party chair. He's already on record as saying he wants to duplicate what Abrams does. And we need to make noise. Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud, that they can't win when people vote. Amplify that to 11.
"Do your colleagues on the other side of the aisle treat you as opponents or the enemy? We define the former as have policy differences and the latter as anarchy. If you have anarchists around you we recommend you respond at face value, and frame every single interaction thusly."
And then email everyone the PowerPoint slide showing those bullet point definitions. We need some basic, but coordinated methodologies here.
We're at a crossroads. You cannot "appeal" or "work with" someone who doesn't consider you an adversary worthy of consideration. Why worry about alienating people who literally do not care if you live or die?
Appealing to conservatives means nothing when conservatives stand for nothing but power for power's sake. Republican voters don't care about positive policy from anyone; it's why they reliably vote against their own interests like the one thing they can point to recently, their tax cut that only hurts them.
I see a few crises that need attention. Kill the filibusters and use the majority to protect and secure sweeping voting initiatives that give teeth against future SCOTUS attacks. SCOTUS just loves to say, "Well, we'd really prefer instead that Congress pass a law to address this ..." Democrats should truly take those frequent hints seriously. All of that works to put pressures on the state legislatures who work to stop voting.
Clone anything Stacey Abrams does. TN just got a young, new Democratic Party chair. He's already on record as saying he wants to duplicate what Abrams does. And we need to make noise. Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud, that they can't win when people vote. Amplify that to 11.