Democrats have spent far far far too much energy focusing on controversial wedge issues like gun control and trans issues.
If they focused on the issues that virtually all Americans can get behind, things like fixing our healthcare, getting corruption out of Washington and other parts of government, holding large corporations to account when they destroy our economy and ruin the environment, and overall making life and upward advancement affordable for average Americans, they would absolutely clean house in every election.
Instead they spend a ton of effort on things like gun control (which does nothing for their base but only alienates rural moderates and Republicans that might make the switch), and spend a ton of time getting bogged down in debates over stupid shit.
When that happens if they had a half a brain they would be doing table flip moments like why the fuck are we talking about which bathroom somebody uses when millions of Americans can’t feed their fucking kids? Why are we obsessing over what kind of ID gets you into a voting booth when the middle class is dying? Why are we wasting billions of dollars in Iran when the same money spent here at home would fix healthcare or hunger or education? Are our own citizens not worth the time or expense? And why do we have national policies that encourage a CEO to amass more wealth than all of his hourly employees combined?
And if any of these things are important to us, why then could the Republicans as a minority grind the government to a halt under Obama, forcing us to negotiate with them, why can’t we do the same? Why aren’t we doing the same?
Get a bunch of Democrats to say this every time, every camera, every interview, and that they will stand up against their own party when it doesn’t work to fix this, that’s how you win elections.
In concept, he’s right.
Democrats have spent far far far too much energy focusing on controversial wedge issues like gun control and trans issues.
If they focused on the issues that virtually all Americans can get behind, things like fixing our healthcare, getting corruption out of Washington and other parts of government, holding large corporations to account when they destroy our economy and ruin the environment, and overall making life and upward advancement affordable for average Americans, they would absolutely clean house in every election.
Instead they spend a ton of effort on things like gun control (which does nothing for their base but only alienates rural moderates and Republicans that might make the switch), and spend a ton of time getting bogged down in debates over stupid shit.
When that happens if they had a half a brain they would be doing table flip moments like why the fuck are we talking about which bathroom somebody uses when millions of Americans can’t feed their fucking kids? Why are we obsessing over what kind of ID gets you into a voting booth when the middle class is dying? Why are we wasting billions of dollars in Iran when the same money spent here at home would fix healthcare or hunger or education? Are our own citizens not worth the time or expense? And why do we have national policies that encourage a CEO to amass more wealth than all of his hourly employees combined?
And if any of these things are important to us, why then could the Republicans as a minority grind the government to a halt under Obama, forcing us to negotiate with them, why can’t we do the same? Why aren’t we doing the same?
Get a bunch of Democrats to say this every time, every camera, every interview, and that they will stand up against their own party when it doesn’t work to fix this, that’s how you win elections.