re: #277 JordanRules

I hear about no messaging and how we have to state what we are for, not just being against them. And I hear we have to use our limited bully pulpit to indeed call them out and point out all the differences. Guess what? At the convention I watched, I saw both.

Granted, I’m mainly referring to the convention’s prime-time speeches (which is what most people who watched any coverage would have seen). I remember Obama actually saying nice things about Paul Ryan, and no mention whatsoever of Merrick Garland and the grotesque obstruction he was subjected to. As for what should have been done instead (generally speaking), as always, George Lakoff says it best: Why are you a Democrat?

It is also the only major party to accept the founding idea of our nation, that citizens care about their fellow citizens and work through the government to provide public resources for the benefit of all. Whether private lives or private enterprise, public resources from roads, bridges, airports, and sewers to public education and public health, to science and technology — computer science (thank NSF and DARPA) to satellite communication (thank NASA) to modern medicine (thank NIH). The private depends on public resources! Every Democrat knows this truth, and it is assumed by almost all Democratic legislation.

Yet almost nobody says these truths out loud and defends them in public discourse. A short paragraph each, powerful truths, yet there is no Democratic message expressing these truths.