The narrative rules over the reality. I have said this multiple times.
The reality is that people DO NOT KNOW what they want WRT a lot of things. Sure they can get behind a general idea. Infrastructure! Voting rights!
Punchy little catchphrases or vague general ideas and principles. All in.
THEN you start talking about actually doing it. About what has to be done. About what it will cost. About how it will be paid for--and the popularity falls out the bottom--particularly after your opponents scaremonger and misrepresent the hell out of it.
Then, if you are lucky, you get some half-assed version of the original idea, full of compromises to get the reluctant members of your party to fall in line and the usual poison pills that corporate America demands that don't seem like much but that have been cunningly designed to gut whatever it is that you are trying to do.
The Democrats have consistently failed to set the narrative since the 80s.
They have consistently gone through what I have outlined above, turning out crappy (but at least possible) policy and action that they then fail to capitalize on because they do not self-promote and they allow something (for example) to become Obamacare (which people hate for some reason) while they like the ACA (which is Obamacare but without the spin narrative).
When are these people going to pull their heads out of their ass? The Republic KINDA depends upon them doing so.
Maybe America needs to get cornholed by the GoP and Trump for a decade or so before they wise up--but I sincerely doubt the mass of America will ever get that wise.
Well said. Regarding self promotion, my very trumpy neighbors next door with 4 children still believe that the child tax credit money they enjoyed each month was from a former trump policy that didn't go into effect until 2021. He had planned it ahead for his 2nd term. 🙄 I tried to talk to them about the ARP and all I got was "fake news".
Another thing I saw yesterday that made me think about self promotion was a side by side clip of Trump on the WH balcony for the 2019 Easter thing. Instead of talking to the children he very inappropriately sold whatever economic BS he was pushing at the time. The man never missed an opportunity to message and sell.
Last weekend at the same event with Biden, Jill excitedly, and appropriately, spoke to the children and parents from the balcony with Joe at her side, silent.
Average voters do not know what you have done for them unless repeatedly told, as sad as that is.
The problem is the people that'll get cornholed (racial minorities, non-white immigrants, LGBTQ people, and non-Christians) aren't the ones who need to learn the lesson
In the end, the reality is that everyone will get cornholed that isn't a member of the ruling clique or a corp that is willing to bend the knee to the GoP (which most will, in the end).
It will just take a while for the cornholing to become obvious.
The narrative rules over the reality. I have said this multiple times.
The reality is that people DO NOT KNOW what they want WRT a lot of things. Sure they can get behind a general idea. Infrastructure! Voting rights!
Punchy little catchphrases or vague general ideas and principles. All in.
THEN you start talking about actually doing it. About what has to be done. About what it will cost. About how it will be paid for--and the popularity falls out the bottom--particularly after your opponents scaremonger and misrepresent the hell out of it.
Then, if you are lucky, you get some half-assed version of the original idea, full of compromises to get the reluctant members of your party to fall in line and the usual poison pills that corporate America demands that don't seem like much but that have been cunningly designed to gut whatever it is that you are trying to do.
The Democrats have consistently failed to set the narrative since the 80s.
They have consistently gone through what I have outlined above, turning out crappy (but at least possible) policy and action that they then fail to capitalize on because they do not self-promote and they allow something (for example) to become Obamacare (which people hate for some reason) while they like the ACA (which is Obamacare but without the spin narrative).
When are these people going to pull their heads out of their ass? The Republic KINDA depends upon them doing so.
Maybe America needs to get cornholed by the GoP and Trump for a decade or so before they wise up--but I sincerely doubt the mass of America will ever get that wise.
Well said. Regarding self promotion, my very trumpy neighbors next door with 4 children still believe that the child tax credit money they enjoyed each month was from a former trump policy that didn't go into effect until 2021. He had planned it ahead for his 2nd term. 🙄 I tried to talk to them about the ARP and all I got was "fake news".
Another thing I saw yesterday that made me think about self promotion was a side by side clip of Trump on the WH balcony for the 2019 Easter thing. Instead of talking to the children he very inappropriately sold whatever economic BS he was pushing at the time. The man never missed an opportunity to message and sell.
Last weekend at the same event with Biden, Jill excitedly, and appropriately, spoke to the children and parents from the balcony with Joe at her side, silent.
Average voters do not know what you have done for them unless repeatedly told, as sad as that is.
Well said. Unfortunately, accurate.
The problem is the people that'll get cornholed (racial minorities, non-white immigrants, LGBTQ people, and non-Christians) aren't the ones who need to learn the lesson
In the end, the reality is that everyone will get cornholed that isn't a member of the ruling clique or a corp that is willing to bend the knee to the GoP (which most will, in the end).
It will just take a while for the cornholing to become obvious.