It would be a good thing if it caused the Democrats to go and talk to people and find out what they actually want, instead of deciding from first principles what they should want.
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Serious question - do you have a sense of how much time most elected officials (especially state & local) spend speaking with constituents? The ones I know have 1-2 breakfast meetings daily and are out evenings and weekends with constituent groups.
Sure, I know local politics is mostly about cutting deals over mundane stuff. I'm talking about the other extreme: which issues presidential candidates choose to focus on.
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Perhaps it is the advisors and consultants should spend more time with people. And not in a scientific poll or focus group setting
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Well, Joe Biden did pretty well at that, right? It's the activists who are the problem; successful moderate Dems are pretty good at exactly what you say. The activists also ask people what they want, but only as a first step toward lecturing them about what they *should* want.
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To be fair, there's 2 kinds of moderate Dems. One kind is moderate in the sense of not going beyond what their constituents support. The other kind is moderate in the sense of not going beyond what their corporate backers and lobbyists support.
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I'm not referring to stop sign discussion. I'm speaking of, for example, the NYS legislators who worked on reproductive health, gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform and other issues this session. They are out there with constituents every day.
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If you view them simply through the lens of the media, it's you who is getting a distorted view, not them.
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I can name a dozen terrible PM's off the top of my head who held more user interviews in a week than I did in a year and still somehow managed to build what they wrongly believed users should to want. It's a mindset.
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Do you think they don’t talk to regular people? They are obsessed with canvassing and small donations.
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