Last night when I was reading that NYT Editorial, I looked right into my dog's eyes and said, "Oh, shit. They ripped off The Bulwark." Pretty wild to see this editorial coexisting with Charles Blow's column ascribing this week's schlonging to your run-of-the-mill white racial anxiety. Hopefully, the Dems can pivot to a popularist legi…
Last night when I was reading that NYT Editorial, I looked right into my dog's eyes and said, "Oh, shit. They ripped off The Bulwark." Pretty wild to see this editorial coexisting with Charles Blow's column ascribing this week's schlonging to your run-of-the-mill white racial anxiety. Hopefully, the Dems can pivot to a popularist legislative agenda. I don't understand why they don't disaggregate these spending bills and actually SELL voters on them! We should be seeing a series of bills with names like "The Joe Biden Money and Birthday Cake for Children Act" or "Everyone Has Good Roads and Internet and By the Way My Name is Joe Biden and I Did this Act".
I agree entirely on messaging. However, I do not agree on 'popularism.' Mainly, because we just had a popularist candidate in Virginia run on those things, and he lost. Popularism on its own is no way to govern. The technocratic, impartial, alienistic approach to government is not popular.
But you're dead on when to messaging. Most voters don't even know that Biden signed a stimulus this year, and that's his only achievement! Liberals are too focused on data and not enough on feelings.
It's a different kind of feelings. Liberals are focused on how things make individuals feel, rather than how individuals make other individuals feel. Example, it's bad if society causes people to feel oppressed, due to the systems that exist. But they never bother to think about how people might feel in regards to their plans or ideas. They rely too much on data and assume that if people just understood it, that they'd want to join on. The concept that people can do things that aren't in their interest, that people will cut off their noses to spite their face, often eludes them.
Last night when I was reading that NYT Editorial, I looked right into my dog's eyes and said, "Oh, shit. They ripped off The Bulwark." Pretty wild to see this editorial coexisting with Charles Blow's column ascribing this week's schlonging to your run-of-the-mill white racial anxiety. Hopefully, the Dems can pivot to a popularist legislative agenda. I don't understand why they don't disaggregate these spending bills and actually SELL voters on them! We should be seeing a series of bills with names like "The Joe Biden Money and Birthday Cake for Children Act" or "Everyone Has Good Roads and Internet and By the Way My Name is Joe Biden and I Did this Act".
I agree entirely on messaging. However, I do not agree on 'popularism.' Mainly, because we just had a popularist candidate in Virginia run on those things, and he lost. Popularism on its own is no way to govern. The technocratic, impartial, alienistic approach to government is not popular.
But you're dead on when to messaging. Most voters don't even know that Biden signed a stimulus this year, and that's his only achievement! Liberals are too focused on data and not enough on feelings.
"Liberals are too focused on data and not enough on feelings."
Which is ironic since we're the ones often accused of being squishy, snowflake crybabies.
It's a different kind of feelings. Liberals are focused on how things make individuals feel, rather than how individuals make other individuals feel. Example, it's bad if society causes people to feel oppressed, due to the systems that exist. But they never bother to think about how people might feel in regards to their plans or ideas. They rely too much on data and assume that if people just understood it, that they'd want to join on. The concept that people can do things that aren't in their interest, that people will cut off their noses to spite their face, often eludes them.