I value your enthusiasm to participate in the protests, truly. Good on you :) and so I mean absolutely no offense when I say that USAID is very much a beltway bubble issue that most everyday Americans don't even think about.
My mother is a perfect example. She is someone that will vote but onl…
I value your enthusiasm to participate in the protests, truly. Good on you :) and so I mean absolutely no offense when I say that USAID is very much a beltway bubble issue that most everyday Americans don't even think about.
My mother is a perfect example. She is someone that will vote but only if motivated. All she has been saying for two weeks is that she is freaking out about Elon Musk and billionaires controlling everything.
Keep our messaging concise and focus on a handful of "pillars" to hammer home our differences with the GOP every single day.
Don't detour into the weeds on every issue.
If we have to explain an issue for someone to get motivated/outraged, we've already lost.
My pillars would be:
1) Trump and his billionaire friends are seizing the government and giving themselves kickbacks and racking up our debt to do it. We will stabilize US finances by taxing personal wealth on billionaires.
2) Trump promised peace but now he is suddenly promising to attack our friends for land and returning troops to the Middle East to seize Gaza.
3) Trump is incompetent and outsources the tasks to dangerous Christian nationalists.
4) It's easier to build more wealth when you already have it. In order to combat inequality in addition to taxing personal income on billionaires we will also break up their monopolies. Billionaires control every facet of American media and can legally buy elections.
These the main ones I can come up with on the top of my head. But add one or two more planks and it would still be concise.
Democrats need to be focused and not engage on every issue. Average Americans need messaging to be kept simple.
Seeing Chuck Schumer scream like he's at the super bowl about winning while standing in front of Treasury is not helping break through.
Trumps approval is near 50%. Don't give him what he wants.
Shuttering USAID may well cost millions of lives! And, no, that is not hyperbole. Moreover, it will seriously weaken soft, non-military American influence throughout the world. And it dangerously increases the risk of a new deadly pandemic reaching our own shores.
You are mistaking me for personally not caring about USAID, which is untrue, and me trying to explain that the average voter does not know what it even is.
Methinks you are mistaking my mistaking. At no point am I suggesting you don’t care about USAID; such a thought had not even crossed my mind. My only objection is to labeling and dismissing this as a "beltway bubble issue".
Not to reply to my own post but I want to add:
I value your enthusiasm to participate in the protests, truly. Good on you :) and so I mean absolutely no offense when I say that USAID is very much a beltway bubble issue that most everyday Americans don't even think about.
My mother is a perfect example. She is someone that will vote but only if motivated. All she has been saying for two weeks is that she is freaking out about Elon Musk and billionaires controlling everything.
Keep our messaging concise and focus on a handful of "pillars" to hammer home our differences with the GOP every single day.
Don't detour into the weeds on every issue.
If we have to explain an issue for someone to get motivated/outraged, we've already lost.
My pillars would be:
1) Trump and his billionaire friends are seizing the government and giving themselves kickbacks and racking up our debt to do it. We will stabilize US finances by taxing personal wealth on billionaires.
2) Trump promised peace but now he is suddenly promising to attack our friends for land and returning troops to the Middle East to seize Gaza.
3) Trump is incompetent and outsources the tasks to dangerous Christian nationalists.
4) It's easier to build more wealth when you already have it. In order to combat inequality in addition to taxing personal income on billionaires we will also break up their monopolies. Billionaires control every facet of American media and can legally buy elections.
These the main ones I can come up with on the top of my head. But add one or two more planks and it would still be concise.
Democrats need to be focused and not engage on every issue. Average Americans need messaging to be kept simple.
Seeing Chuck Schumer scream like he's at the super bowl about winning while standing in front of Treasury is not helping break through.
Trumps approval is near 50%. Don't give him what he wants.
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"beltway bubble issue"?? Are you serious?
Shuttering USAID may well cost millions of lives! And, no, that is not hyperbole. Moreover, it will seriously weaken soft, non-military American influence throughout the world. And it dangerously increases the risk of a new deadly pandemic reaching our own shores.
You are mistaking me for personally not caring about USAID, which is untrue, and me trying to explain that the average voter does not know what it even is.
Methinks you are mistaking my mistaking. At no point am I suggesting you don’t care about USAID; such a thought had not even crossed my mind. My only objection is to labeling and dismissing this as a "beltway bubble issue".
We all know this. This isn’t a question about morals but a question of political strategy.