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kentuck

(115,832 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 02:13 PM 8 hrs ago

Democrats must be straight with the American voters.

America is under threat. This is not politics as usual. Bullshit is not a foreign policy. Wars are easy to get into but not so easy to escape.

Talk is cheap and Republicans are good at it. But that is all that is cheap. Gasoline and groceries and electricity are not cheap. They have driven up the prices on everything and stolen everything that is not nailed down. They have ripped off our country.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. You see it with your own eyes. Do not be deceived by double-talking, wheeling-dealing politicians that want to rob our Treasury. Tearing down the White House is not enough for them. They want more.

They don't give a rat's ass about the people. Just look at their record.

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Democrats must be straight with the American voters. (Original Post) kentuck 8 hrs ago OP
I would love to see a Dem politician senseandsensibility 8 hrs ago #1
I'm definitely for straight talk... gulliver 7 hrs ago #2
Follow the money. orthoclad 7 hrs ago #3
Straight talk would be SamuelTheThird 7 hrs ago #4
K&R spanone 7 hrs ago #5
John Ossoff won his Senate race by doing this RetiredParatrooper 5 hrs ago #6
Truth. H2O Man 5 hrs ago #7
Democrats need a few Murdocks and Ellisons on our side. progressoid 5 hrs ago #8
Yes they must be straight with the voters. They need to tell them that the billionaires need to pay their taxes, the Fil1957 5 hrs ago #9

senseandsensibility

(25,852 posts)
1. I would love to see a Dem politician
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 02:17 PM
8 hrs ago

speak that simply and "rudely" for lack of a better word. Policy papers and critiques of Rs that run on for paragraphs may impress college educated voters, but we really need to work on simple blunt language. And we don't even have to lie. The truth is our weapon.

gulliver

(14,136 posts)
2. I'm definitely for straight talk...
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 02:45 PM
7 hrs ago

... but it definitely has to be wise talk too. Honesty and wisdom are hard to come by in a world where both are attacked, and their attackers are overly feared and unduly respected.

We have some good straight talking, smart Democrats. Ossoff for one. Kelly. Slotkin...many, many others.

Fetterman is out there too, but his deserved positive recognition will probably have to wait a bit.

RetiredParatrooper

(260 posts)
6. John Ossoff won his Senate race by doing this
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 04:46 PM
5 hrs ago

He called his opponent a crook straight to his face in their debate.

Call them what they are. FTP.

progressoid

(53,443 posts)
8. Democrats need a few Murdocks and Ellisons on our side.
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 05:00 PM
5 hrs ago

The right wing controls the media.

Democrats can be straight with the voters but doesn't mean much if the voters never hear it. Or if they are bombarded by right wing "alternative facts."

Fil1957

(936 posts)
9. Yes they must be straight with the voters. They need to tell them that the billionaires need to pay their taxes, the
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 05:02 PM
5 hrs ago

minimum wage must be raised, we have a right to a single payer national healthcare system and free college. And when the Republicans and the Fettermans of the Democratic party squeal and say "We can't do that!" We must remind them that it's being done right now all over the world, and if other countries can do it, so can we.

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