06-14-2024, 04:39 PM
anonymouse1 wrote:
My take, which I really want to write up as an article, but I don't have time.
1. The Republicans have become the party of resentment; they primarily try to whip up resentment, and have few or no policies to put forward that will really benefit peoples' lives.
2. The Democrats suck at messaging and counterattacking. They just let the Republicans spew lies and misleading statements without any effective response. They're bring logical knives (or even spoons) to an emotional gunfight.
3. There is a pretty small number of radicals on the left. There are a large number of radicals on the right. Show me who on the left has the reach and is as radical as Murdoch, Speaker Mike Johnson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, the Heritage Foundation? They aren't there.
4. The media has become center right, where it used to be centrist.
That's all I've got time for on this
Democrats can't force the media to carry it's "messages." That doesn't make them incompetent at messaging. It's not about who is a "radical" or not. It's about what has become effective at diminishing it's messages.
The biggest, most gigantic fear on the left is Kamala Harris. She's Black and a woman at the precipice of power. They just don't want to come out and say it.
But they say it by their nuances. If white man Gavin Newsom was Vice President, people would be lunging forward to embrace Biden. K-Hive wouldn't exist, if that wasn't a problem. If Obama wasn't Black and a "problem" on the left, Black Twitter wouldn't exist.
The right is filled with "radicals" as you say. The left has a generous faction of latent misogynists (and latent racists). Right now, it's going to take a month or so before the election for these misogynists to wake the hell up and say "we can't let Trump win, screw my hidden concerns."