I guess we can go back to 2004 and re-run the Air America experiment. Randi Rhodes would probably be pretty happy with that. But I hope that doesn’t mean we have to sit through Million Dollar Baby again.
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Think we have a chicken/egg problem similar to that posed by Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: people aren’t voting for Dems if they don’t do anything tangible, but also Dems can’t pass transformative legislation without people voting for a substantial, Manchin/Sinema-free majority.
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Obviously not directly relevant to winning national elections but that list is tailored towards addressing the large slippage among the working class in NYC and other deep blue areas. Indirectly relevant to national politics because they are an avatar of the ideas that Ds can’t govern, especially without Rs checking them.
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Not nearly conspiratorial or online enough. Right wingers know what’s up: gotta mash the rage button to get engagement.
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Third option aka republicans vs obamacare. Just vote for bills that wont pass and then shout how youre keeping up the fight
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I actually blame this on Biden, he didn’t promote the things he did. If Trump has any skill, it’s as a self-promoter. He never missed an opportunity to talk about the things he did even when he hadn’t done it. He made sure his signature was on those checks. He puts his name on everything. That’s basically one thing the Dems are going to have to do. Just be shameless in talking about the things they have done for people.
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she was trying to peel off those moderate republicans who respect mass murderer cheney but hate trump.
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I think it’s the exact opposite of this and will continue to voice this opinion even though few people apparently agree with me.
The reason there’s no Joe Rogan of the left is that everyone on the left recoils at the idea of inviting people from all over the political spectrum, getting high, and chatting with them for a couple of hours.
The best political discussion of this election cycle happened not on UP, or SPE, or NMNM. It was sadly, back on 2p2.
To succeed in politics you need to sell a vision and win over hearts and minds. None of this is currently happening.
To the post this was responding to - how about trying to talk to her like a normal person and explain why you think she’s wrong. In a non-smug non-condescending way. Ok so she read some bullshit on the internet and believed it, what happened to being the side with compassion and empathy. Or idk the other option is we can keep slowly eliminating people one by one the same way we’ve been splitting up our forums.
Catching up on the last few posts - Air America but with Bill Simmons, Derek Thompson, and Destiny instead of Rachel Maddow and Al Franken is an ok start.
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I wonder if 10-20 years of mashing the rage button vs the billionaire class would work. The Republicans have been doing this since 2008. Remember the Tea Party and how they were “FeD uP!”?
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So basically the Cheneys? 
https://x.com/YAppelbaum/status/1854513400203690244
Democrats are fundamentally opposed to the shit you’re talking about. It would work
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Meanwhile Trump can give completely mixed messages on a national abortion ban and the glassy-eyed base just hears the one they want to hear.
The problem is the forums, says the dude who broke his tongue apologizing for the people who fucked the 2020 primary 
To be clear a way bigger problem than the “forums” is that Elizabeth Warren took a giant dark money donation from Karla Jurvetson and then abandoned her progressive ideals. This poster doesn’t think that is any sort of big deal. What is a big deal is the FORUMS
At this point, it might be the only thing that can. As much as Trump’s supporters consider themselves Christian, the teachings of Christ clearly do not resonate at all. Love your neighbor? Nah. People want someone to hate much more than they want to listen to the teachings of their religion or even their own financial wellbeing. Billionaires are a perfect villain because they are the real villains.
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Stop living in the past brah
Edit in response to your edit: The problem isn’t just the forums, you act this way in real life too
What did Biden do here?
The spending on chips I got. I think that happened. Some one time infrastructure spending. I was going to say expanded overtime pay rule, but that never happened and now it surely won’t. Maybe you mean his tariffs.
Stop living in the past he says as he cries about the forum splits that gave us trump
Yeah in the real world I follow the money. That’s what matters, not the FORUMS
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It’s just funny how you personally, in the real life poker community, have caused more people to distance themselves from the left than almost any other factor. There couldn’t possibly be a better example of the point I’m making.