the ol' "keep it simple, stupid" still applies. when your party politics, not just your election politics, are obsessed with wonkery...
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then that makes it hard to communicate, and incredibly difficult to inspire any kind of enthusiasm or loyalty
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like i said before: "pragmatic misery" is not a winning campaign theme, nor is "everything's fine".
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either flat out address the realities of the horrors of what people face now, or offer some kind of inspiration for more. or both
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as i've pointed out, obama campaigned on inspiration, hope, change, optimism, yadda yadda, distinctively not "pragmatic" stuff
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and it fucking works. whether he's able to achieve it or not is irrelevant to whether it fucking works. pick a goal, fight for it, boldly.
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"this is the best we can do" is not inspiring and also communicates to voters that you're not really interested in fighting for better
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which brings back to the reality of that brass tacks organizational problem: dems not putting in the work in areas they aren't guaranteed
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dems organizational system is bad, regardless of their politics themselves. they're just bad at brass tacks shit, and that has to be faced
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that's enuff politics today, time to eat a calzone
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out of the politics zone, into the calzone
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