re: #50 calochortus

Someone called in to my public radio station this morning and in the lead-up to her specific question about the tax bill, blamed Nancy Pelosi for not blocking it.
Not sure quite how she thought that worked.

See what I mean about low-info voters? -_-

The only solution to that sort of woeful ignorance is a sustained, aggressive, fuck-the-both-siderist-media-in-the-earholes campaign to talk to those voters directly. Much as I hate to admit it, Cheeto Benito does have a point about using social media to “bypass fake news” - there are communication tools available now that weren’t nearly so prevalent in Obama’s early days, plus good-old-fashioned boots-on-ground canvassing (isn’t this how Doug Jones was able to turn out so many voters, despite a woeful lack of existing infrastructure?)

And again, simple messaging is what works best - “We couldn’t block the tax scam because there were too many of them and too few of us. Elect more Dems to overturn the GOP tax scam and replace it [plan goes here]”