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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Have to Be More Than the Anti-Trump Party [View all]bigtree
(93,636 posts)...if people want to know what I believe then they need to read what I express to them.
I read and fully understood what you've written.
I just don't think any of it means a thing if people aren't prepared to listen. Maybe they are now.
There's a man in the WH, with a majority party that's trying to either own or kill you. That's not something new that Democrats haven't been relating.
The people who voted for Trump said they cared more about their groceries than their liberty.
Like the people who looked at black youth being gunned down in the streets, or watched school massacre after school massacre, but still voted for the party that refused to lift a finger to act and blocked the party that did.
They needed to care enough to listen. I'm not the person that can be convinced the party didn't do or say something the right way, and has some control over whether people are choosing self interest over the state of the nation.
I can, however, envision they will more compelled to our party's messaging the more they feel their own interests and condition are threatened. But this isn't something I agree the party hasn't already done.
I think the issue of messaging has been pushed forward by so many interests (not you) which have never supported the party and doesn't care to even look sometimes before bashing our leaders for things they either haven't said, or have already repeatedly promoted for anyone bothering to look beyond the teevee news.
I just don't buy it. No one is making a monosyllable appeal to voters just centered on Trump. No one is doing that.
But we are undeniably the anti-Trump party, and that should be enough - and if it isn't, why the fuck not?
Why are these people we're supposed to be appealing to putting all of our lives at risk, and why the hell should I need to mollycoddle them into understanding the danger?
That's been my experience, for anyone new to appealing to Americans for their very lives.