re: #167 Lidane

It’s not that Democrats don’t have a way to get their message out. They do. They’re just goddamn cowards about it.

Red State Democrats spend every election running as Republican Lite. In some cases, they ARE Republican Lite because there’s a good chance they were an (R) that decided to run as a (D) because they could win or because there were already 148957109487514 other candidates trying to run in the GOP primary. Why would anyone in a red state vote for a Republican Lite candidate when they can vote for the real thing?

Also, Democrats rarely, if ever, make full defenses of their ideas and policies. The last one I remember who gave a full defense of Democratic ideas was Bill Clinton in his DNC speech in 2012. Most of the time liberals and Democrats play right into the GOP and RWNJ narrative and make excuses for why their ideas aren’t communism or whatever. Bullshit. Don’t play their game and they don’t get the advantage. Just articulate your ideas FFS.

I think this is very insightful. Think about Obamacare. If the Democrats all trumpeted the benefits and talked about what the voters would lose if it went away, at least people would understand that they can’t get rid of OCare and keep Kynect. Obviously that one keeps sticking in my craw. :-)