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View submission: Expect More Bulldozings
Democrats need to clean house and embrace a switch focus to millennials, full stop. I feel like they are still hoping boomers will reliably turn out. But millennials are the sleeping giant. Target messaging to them and their needs, we will be the largest generation moving forward. Get younger charismatic candidates, and hammer economic issues starting with a laser focus on housing and increasing supply and bringing costs down, creating jobs in that industry, etc. And, repeat your messaging ad nauseum for the next 4 years.
Idk if I’d Amp up the rhetoric towards conservatives and call them out for what they are, a bunch of fascists. That was attempted last election, not to great effect. The average voter is going to be incredulous to that idea, and may come across as overreacting to them (as ill informed as that is), but it will alienate folks in states you need to win.
But: No more of this Obama era reaching across the aisle, that is dead.
Embrace new media, television interviews don’t matter anymore. People keep saying “the left needs a Joe Rogan”. I disagree. The media landscape is there, you need to meet people where they are at and use those channels/king makers to get your message out ther. And again, hammer your populist economic message over and over again.
Comment by horseradishstalker at 24/01/2025 at 19:56 UTC
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The only way not reaching across the aisle workers is if you have a huge majority or use the law to hold the majority down.
I know it is human for some people to pretend someone who believes differently than they do is automatically subhuman or somehow "less" - we see it everyday. But I always smile ironically to myself.
You see, a long time ago there was an Emporer, and being a kindly person the Emporer entrusted a small child to carry the pearl of absolute truth. And being a small child, the child tripped and fell. The pearl shattered into millions of pieces. And ever since humans have unironically held up the tiny shard they have proclaiming that they have found the whole truth.
Someone on the other side of the aisle can just as easily be holding another shard of truth. Maybe one that matches yours. Humans accomplish the most when they work together as a cohesive community.
Comment by Stanford_experiencer at 24/01/2025 at 21:33 UTC
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the left needs a Joe Rogan
the left could have **HAD** joe rogan