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Democrats SUCK at Messaging

Dec 2, 2021

The media keeps asking for your messaging, because what you’ve said is not good enough.

In this article on “The Hill” there is a video of Nancy Pelosi, being visibly annoyed at the media for asking what I assume, she thinks is a stupid question. Go watch that and then come back.

Ready? Here’s the problem.

Acting responsibly, to protect and provide for our people, those are moral values. That’s what Democrats are trying to do, and what irresponsible Republicans refuse to do, with regards to running government, following science, and distributing vaccines. Democrats keep describing policy, as if that’s what motivates people… NOBODY CARES.

The moral values that underpin the policy is what Democrats need to describe — FIRST — to “frame” the issue. It’s like setting the why of the issue first, then explaining the policy, if you must justify this through 17th century reasoning. Democrats are SO BAD AT MESSAGING. That’s why the media keeps asking for your message… All politics is moral, and the dumb stuff you say literally doesn’t make any sense from any kind of messaging stand point, unless you already agree with the unspoken premises. Pelosi. Makes. No. Sense. Literally can’t be comprehended.

Look, it only took me a few sentences to explain this. George Lakoff explains moral politics even better (all the time). When will Democrats learn?

Republicans DON’T SHARE OUR MORALS. They want to change them — and have been successfully changing them for decades, and we have to fight back. And all we have to do to fight, is simply state our morals. Better if we put a similar effort in to it as conservatives, but it is not complicated. Our morals are better than theirs. Progressives and even so-called centrist Democrats primarily emphasize care and nurture and sense that we are in this together. We have straight up, plain vanilla, better morals, than that scornful nonsense Trumpian (fake) big “C” Conservatives believe.

“Build Back Better”. 🤦 Get it together Democrats.