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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats 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.
senseandsensibility
(25,852 posts)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)... 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.
orthoclad
(4,919 posts)SamuelTheThird
(1,382 posts)Trump and ai tech bros are going to collapse society
spanone
(142,135 posts)RetiredParatrooper
(260 posts)He called his opponent a crook straight to his face in their debate.
Call them what they are. FTP.
H2O Man
(79,417 posts)Recommended.
progressoid
(53,443 posts)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)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.