The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Episode VI: No Witnesses, One Defector, No Checks or Balances

6ix · January 8, 2020, 10:26am

boredsocial:

No. I disagree with them about every issue of substance. Messaging != substance is one of the few things we absolutely should have learned from them by now. It’s how they keep beating us.

Their messaging is pandering to their core voters, who they carefully picked based on demographic realities. Then they do what they can for the people who fund them.

Democrats messaging is based on a loosey goosey idea of what is sort of right (although they are wrong about a good bit) and then when they get power they still have to work with the GOP so they compromise like crazy on substance.

How about we just run the best campaign for WINNING we possibly can, win big, and then do what we want on substance?

This right here is everything wrong with the left in 2020. You guys care way more about signalling your virtue than actually being virtuous. Being virtuous is making the world a better place. Talking about trans rights a lot when you need to win the swing states in the US is just masturbation. It’s like celebrities talking about insert stupid cause here. It’s about your own ego, not about being a good person.

I think you’re receiving pushback because you’re not being blunt enough in your description and this,

is still understating it. You’re saying we should trick them and… I kinda agree. At least, the idea has merit. Tell them about the quasisocialist goodies and when they ask if we’re also giving them to the minorities we act like we didn’t hear them.

“Give it to whom? The flax and the pelicans? Sorry you’re breaking up, I’m going through a tunnel.”

Then in power the blacks mexicans obviously also get them and by the time the whites get to throw a tantrum in the voting booth again they’ll realize all the goodies are actually good and we’ll say, yeah, we tricked you, your daughter has insulin now and your son won’t be crippled by tuition debt, stfu and walk it off. It’s not a bad plan.

p.s. I grunched:

boredsocial:

It’s not about appealing to the transphobic, homophobic, racist, or islamaphobic parts of those people. You appeal to their real life problems. You talk about how they are losing their way of life and talk about how you’re going to help them personally. And then you specifically don’t talk about stuff that will trigger those parts of them super hard. Healthcare, pensions, childcare, ubi, or whatever else. Run hard on that stuff. Run on doing something about opiates (and pack it into a criminal justice reform bill that disproportionately helps blacks because politics).

Then… in the dead of night you do the stuff they probably wouldn’t like using the same tactics the GOP uses to fuck up their pensions and healthcare. They won’t punish you at the ballot box later as long as you deliver the other stuff.