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The democratic party is 3 political parties standing atop each other in a trench coat.
…arguing over which one gets to stick their head out of the collar
The other two keep hitting the one sticking his head out with a broom.
🤔lol - you and your fan club just perfectly described the entire maga cult. Js.
Closer to five, but yeah…
@@wildgoosedreaming1 but the maga culture is Republican!?
Katie’s take on the debt ceiling was perfect: You don’t stop paying the mortgage if your partner’s buying a too much furniture. Not an exact quote. Eminently relatable.
"The Republicans want to rule you, not represent you." That should be the Democratic Party's message in 2024. That is a simple message, and it makes sense and is true. Where do I keep hearing that? Oh yeah. From you.
Tell all your friends!
Sadly, the cynical among us (aka everyone) believes that every party just wants to rule over you, not represent you. So the message dies dead on the lips...
Got plain faced truth of it in NC recently with the Republicans reverse uno on the veto. They are supplying the ammo we just have to use it.
Democrats also want to rule you. You are mistaken. They like to silence speech. Just like republicans. They like war more than republicans.
Exactly. Disband Republican POTTY
I'm a rural Lefty currently posted up in the Bay Area. I died laughing when you said that what plays to rural folk is different than what plays in the coastal cities. It's so true and it's so frustrating.
Bill Maher had a quip about the Hillary campaign setting up an HQ for rural campaigning virtually minutes before the 2016 election. In Brooklyn!
I'm a Bay Area native - still here - and I agree 100%. The "coastal elite" bubble is all too real.
All I can think of is 2016 when Clinton practically threw away Pennsylvania's votes by talking about banning coal and teaching miners how to code instead.
As a trans person though, I have to say that while you have to be able to message to rural voters, some of those cosmopolitan issues are literal life and death so you can't just turn your back on them.
@@roundglasses3629 I'm interested in your opinion as a trans person. I'm cis and also I'm not even American but European, but a lot of things are the same I guess. And in my experience, rather than highlighting the whole life-and-death-ness of the issue, the self-proclaimed progressive left, to me, seems very occupied with language policing and inventing new acronyms every other day. And it was my impression that, while you could very well tell rural dwellers that people are suffering and their lives are put in danger, making them follow the latest pronoun standard is difficult. Am I wrong?
I'm not so sure its "what plays" as much as it is "how its played". At least for the biggest issues. Things like climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights.. those all affect country folk just as much (and probably more when it comes to climate change) than it affects city folk.
But yeah you need to talk to them differently. They tend to be much more practical-minded than ideological. You need to show them how an issue affects them or their community directly, not bring out some study that they'll off the top assume (often not incorrectly) only considered the plight of cities.
Then again in many cases, its not even about talking to country folk "correctly" - its about talking to them at all. They can't vote for a Democrat if the last time their Republican candidate had an opponent was 1988.
Opposing a devil isn't enough to make someone a saint.
No, but you gotta start somewhere.
@@NWPaul72 You can’t keep using that sentiment every 4 years.
Especially when you agree with the devil 90% of the time.
Can't have a hero if you don't have a villian.
@Brian Dewhirst how about the fact that every time the devil cuts the taxes for all of his minions and overheats the economy of heaven in the process the "saints" come in and raise taxes....but not back to where they were, and not in a way that helps people other than the minions.
I voted republican most of my life because it was what my family voted for. I'm forever ashamed. Now that I'm "woke," I find myself more progressive than even the Dems.
Learning is a good thing. Never be ashamed of growth.
I've kinda become a Katie Porter fanatic.... I've started taking a whiteboard with me places.
It gets the message across. It got my conservative family members to STFU last thanksgiving. Katie's work as an educator really helps her. When she takes out her board she's instantly transported to some otherworldly classroom, dealing with some disrespectful seventh graders...
That approach of hers has a lot to do with how she turned Orange county 45th district blue...
LOVE Katie's whiteboard! You see it and know someone's going to get schooled!
I'm curious what was the particular issue you addressed last Thanksgiving! Congrats for breaking through to them
@@tabularasait was a wide buncha things that coverd a few years of right-wing brainwashing.
Addressing 2022 midterm election fraud claims.
Debunking Mike Lindell.
Explaining how ranked choice voting works.
Proving that Trump's justice department ran a 3 year long investigation into Hillary's emails and didn't charge her with anything.
I was having fun....
@@tabularasaI had a cousin that insisted that Hillary's emails were never investigated by Trump's justice department.... He got programmed into believing that the case was killed by the Obama administration 😂
When the investigation ended in October 2019😂
I had to show him on the board how many months Trump had been the sitting president by October 2019!
He almost started crying
I'm right there with you
Love Katie!!!!
4:20 It helps that Porter is an educator, and that AOC is not only highly educated, but also knows what it's like to be a struggling American working a grueling job just to survive.
AOC was also a bartender so she's used to dealing with belligerent people and misogynists
All these different ideologies, different goals, in one party? It's almost like they're just trying to survive in this idiotic 2-Party-System we've got set up...
Telling conservatives you aren't a Democrat because they're too right-wing will get you some of the funniest reactions.
Democrats too me are 1970s Republicans.
True. In most areas, I consider myself “left of center” - for, perhaps, sometimes during the *1960s.*
True. In most areas, I consider myself “left of center” - for, perhaps, sometimes during the *1960s.*
Hillary Clinton Urine Russian collusion pee pee tape was a big lie and the media FBI and DOJ OBLIGED. All in the name of Democracy.
The Democrats and Hillary Clinton are a blue print for Democracy 🤪🤪🤮
Exactly. Republicans have fun so far right they're into pure fascism. Meanwhile the Democrats have moved right to try and "meet them half way".
The quote ascribed to Will Rogers keeps resonating with me:
"I'm not a member of an organized political party--I'm a Democrat!"
My grandpa loved him. I think he subscribed to his magazine? I love that quote myself, it just resonates.
His other quote that the Democrats would do well to pay heed to is, “if you give a poor man a dollar, it’ll be in a rich man’s pocket by supper, but he’ll be better for having had it.” That one simple quote shows you why supply-side economics doesn’t work as advertised.
Not quite: "I am a member of no organized political party; I'm a democrat."
@@almitrahopkins1873 That's one I hadn't heard. The Democrats really need this kind of message going out. It's simple, easy to understand but still profound.
@Almitra Hopkins,, I like that quote about trickle down economics that says it's like feeding a horse oats and what comes out the back side is for the sparrows. lol
A year ago Democratic messaging after someone answered their door was just "I'm a volunteer for (name of candidate for US house who is down in the pols) and I live over there". Then it was mostly respectful listening and answering questions, apologizing for interrupting their life and occasionally presenting an argument. She won her election.
Katie Porter is a firecracker! She gets her message cross and no nonsense!
The Democratic party also seems to go out of it's way to NOT support progressive candidates. So many Republicans run virtually unopposed when if the Dem party would just throw some support behind a progressive in these districts they can win some of those seats.
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The only things that Democrats and Republicans will always work arm in arm towards is increasing military spending and opposing Progressives.
Don't know if it's true or not that they could win some of those seats, but you can't win if you don't enter. I agree that a challenger should at least be on the ballot if only to push your message and question the validity of your opponent for all to hear.
Republicans used "progressive" as a snarl word for decades, which meant very few people could run as genuinely progressive candidates. Their runs would be over before they even really started. That only really changed recently, when somehow a large chunk of Americans suddenly and collectively realized that Republicans are full of shit, and the things they campaign against might deserve more attention.
It's paying off in other ways, too. They've been screeching about the evils of imaginary socialism for so long that interest in actual socialism is starting to come back. Unions are starting to show up again. Nothing ever happens fast in the world of politics, they only seem like it once we turn the events into stories for our history books.
If the R candidate is virtually unopposed, it is likely because the district is likely to go red. The D Party simply doesn’t back any D candidate - far-left or center. That is a problem. However, common sense indicates that a far-left D candidate is nearly impossible to win where a center D candidate may have a chance. But, many far-left voters would rather have the R win than “compromise their values” and vote for a moderate. 2023 for the D Party in a nutshell. And then the far-left voter is self-satisfied claiming everyone else is stupid. Why do people do this?
This needs to be played at every DNC planning session..
AGREE💯💯💯
My brother is an arrogant, liberal political science professor. They put on a 1% cap on his annual salary increases, so he joined a union and was bemoaning about how all the other people in the union were crazy progressives. I pointed out how much of the what we enjoy today happened because the progressives in FDR's period of time fought and won economic rights for all of us. He agreed, but he still maintains that elitism and arrogance about him. But I am grateful that at least my only sibling isn't a Trump supporter.
I know the type. Many academics have been insulated from the real world for decades and think endless discussions of Slavoj Zižek's "philosophy" (which is just misogyny as far as I can tell) are the way forward -- but this is starting to change for the better. Maybe for some of them Desantis's takeover of New College was a wakeup call. No workers are immune to abuse, not even PhD-bearing ones.
The only sibling I acknowledge is apolitical. He refuses to vote, refuses to talk about politics, refuses to express opinions about political matters, and refuses to get involved even on the most local basis.
But like you say, at least he isn't a Trump supporter.
Is he really all that liberal? Or just liberal in comparison to the far right Overton Window shift?
@@angelairidescenceartglass6289 "Liberal" is not the same as "progressive". Its easy to confuse the two (I do so myself often enough) but that's really only because American politics has such a small range - you're either Democrat (which has to cover liberal, progressive, socialist, leftist, capitalist, communist, etc) or Republican (which has to cover authoritarians, dictators, religious extremists and the just general hateful - they used to also cover capitalist and far too many believe they still do, but in reality they kind of abandoned that ship a couple decades ago).
And for the most part that division works well enough when talking about American politics, because that's all you've got in America. But on occasion there is reason to be more careful as while they might all fall under the same political party, they're not really the same ideology. Often not by a long shot (eg: capitalist and communist both falling under the umbrella of "Democrat").
Scare a GQP/MAGA Cultist - Vote for Public Campaign Financing...
Didn't Bernie push for this during his run?
Gotta overturn citizens united
Yes to all of you.
Absolutely Revoke Citizens United
And you scare even more dems because they benefit too
"Ron Desantis thinks Americans are too weak to learn about GENDER! He thinks you're too weak to handle new ideas. Are you gonna take that, Florida?"
-paid for by americans wanting to watch Ron Desantis vs Florida Man on PPV.
The most hilarious part to me is that I've been calling them weak and scared for years. If you're so scared of the real world that you need to reinvent new fairytales every couple of weeks or try to legislate it out of existence, you're a coward. And if you bought the absurd fairytales, you're an idiot. I don't see how it could ever be anything but cowardice, weakness, and ignorance.
I would love to see it!!!
They'll take "new ideas" wrong. They abhor change. Instead of using language that lets them infer the gender spectrum is new, tell them they can't handle the truth.
I wouldn't use the word "gender". Its become one of those trigger words that just immediately polarizes the discussion and eliminates any chance of getting through to those who need to hear the message.
That kind of thing is one of the many problems with Dem messaging. They insist on using "correct terminology" even when the correct terminology has been undermined by right wing fearmongers. You simply aren't going to convince too many people of anything if you set them into full combativeness mode within the first 2 seconds of your opening argument.
The "gender debate" is a tough one for that though of course, since half the debate seems to just center around how we want to define words (rather than whether or not we want to be a country that oppresses people we don't like - which is by far the more important larger discussion).
But there are plenty of other things you can attack ol' Ronnie on. For example, banning American history in school. Don't bring up the fact that he's only banning black history (black history in America is American history after all) and let _him_ be the one to have to waste his time and energy clarifying that he's a racist. Don't do his work for him, especially when it just makes you look worse.
Hell, banning books just in general. The _concept_ of banning books tends to be anathema to the right, even among those who would line up to light the fire when a book they personally don't like is on the chopping block - so just keep the ads focused on the concept and again avoid the specifics and let Ron defend his own antics.
And of course his attacks on Disney is an easy target. Disney is an American icon and there are a whole lot of folk who would see attacking Disney as an un-American act in its own right, never mind any discussion about the potential economic costs his little culture war has or is likely to bring to taxpayers.
I love Katie Porter!
The problem is only HALF that the Dems don't explain stuff. The other half is that Dems can explain stuff, but most Americans can't look past the 20 second sound byte. And the explanation doesn't fit inside that.
Republicans really do excel at bumper sticker and sound bite politics.
My mother is an old boomer hippie dem. She doesn't understand my anger and passion when it comes to confronting bad ideas. I realize that while she's been voting how I would hope, she's disengaged to the point that I feel like I need to give her a half-hour lecture just to bring her up to speed. And she just can't get her head around the hatefulness, so she pshaws it away. "Why are you yelling at me?" "Why are you acting like a wall?" It's been a fun little trip.
"...can't look past the 20 second sound byte" and can't look past the D on the label, that no good argument can turn into an R.
@@RevShifty sadly... Unfortunately, the world isn't that simple or easy to fix!
@@SusannaSaunders Many issues would be easy to fix... if you don't wait till the last second to do so.
It's why i don't like even the basic idea of conservatism. The world changes. Trying to keep things the same never works and is not a sensible policy.
Employ Robert Reich to draw it out - he's not only well informed, but he draws really well
Professor Reich's presentations are entertaining and informative. I do wish that "The Establishment" had made better use of him.
i remember back in the late obama years i was standing in dq waiting for my food and overhearing two guys who were waiting for theirs complain about obamacare. they then discussed how the marketplace should work and every single thing they suggested to each other is how the marketplace actually works.
"All politics is local," seems to have been forgotten by a lot of Democrats trying to speak to a demographic different than their own background. My hat's off to Katie Porter and AOC, as well as others of their like, for understanding that ideals are best exemplified in day to day realities that happen where people live.
I live in the middle-of-nowhere, TN. The Republicans have a strangle-hold on my district. With that said, Marsha Blackburn, who I can't stand, actually came to my district, as a Senator. I've actually gotten to meet and shake the hands of some of the highest-ranked government officials. I actually got a personally-written response letter from the TN Secretary of State. While I can't stand most of the state Republicans, they actually didn't ignore my district. The Democrats just brushed us off.
Nikki Fried is literally the only statewide dem I've seen outside of Tallahassee.
I live in the heart of Tennessee and it’s almost the same here; Democrats don’t even try here because it is such a lost cause and it has been ever since Senator Sasser lost reelection to Bill Frist. We were about to have the most senior and powerful senator and rw media convinced our state he was a “Tax and Soend Liberal.”
Having said that, I did meet Giv Haslam in Afghanistan and my US Representative did negatively respond to letter I wrote him.
I’ve been to one Democrat meeting here, spoke to the candidate and signed up for emails and notifications but I never heard from them again. In my districts, state and federal, there wasn’t a democrat running in the last primary.
Democrats do not answer people. Republicans do. I have the same issue. Republicans answer may not be what you want but they do interact with constituents. Democrats wall themselves off from the people.
End Gerrymandering end ELECTORAL COLLEGE end filibuster
That's the way it's been here in NC but we just elected a young, rural Democrat Party Chair. And she's making a big difference. Really laser focused on rural counties and calling out that the Democrats have been ignoring us for decades and just giving them to the Republicans. She's been going to these counties Rallies and Conventions and speaking to the people there. The ones that aren't organized and can't find people to volunteer for seats, she's right there helping try and find people and give support. And she's promised that when the elections start, she's bringing the candidates back to these counties. That we won't be ignored anymore. And people are responding. We went from 26 people at our Convention and not being able to find people for our Board positions, to over 100 for the Rally two weeks later that she was at and she helped find us a Chair that evening.
All this is to say, if you can find the right person to lead your Democrats who makes the rural areas the main priority... it can help.
We are organizing. It's going to be an uphill battle and we have to really win back a lot of hearts and minds lost to the neglect over the years. But it can be done.
They forgot where they came from and what they accomplished Going back to FDR .
Here's a thought: The Biden campaign should be selling Dark Brandon t-shirts. You put Dark Brandon on the front. Superimpose a list of Bidens policy objectives with the ones that have been accomplished checked off in red. Slap a big caption on top "Way to go, Brandon!"
I'd wear it.
That's actually a great idea! And would start a lot of conversations...
Dude, make the shirt and sell it. Super easy to create and sell shirts these days
...This country really needs rank choice voting and a more than two political parties....
Proportional Representation... Now there's an idea! 🤫If only people would get behind it enough to change the system!
There is power in Independent, both the condition and the word.
How about y’all Independents get off your dupas and throw a real political party? Hats, streamers, coffee cozies and vuvuzelas. And candidates and donors and a platform. Even Trumpus the Clown has a song.
Forming a new Party will castrate Richy Rich and the shitweasels on both sides of the proverbial aisle. Nothing would do more to turn off White Nationalists and Religious Zealots than a third party composed of free-thinking principled voters. Nothing nullifies and terrifies the alt-left and alt-right more or better. No need for guns and mess. A word to the Wise is sufficient.
“Peace is always beautiful.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
The third parties need money. Americans only see value in dollar amounts. This includes progressives
Reform proposals get us nowhere. We are in a war of survival.
@@JR-pr8jb and we need the tools to fight for that survival. Granted, at this point I'm leaning more towards guillotines and self-defense, but without reforming the EC and SC, the popular vote is meaningless. The last two Republican presidents were appointed, not elected. Now Republicans are gerrymandering, outright refusing to enact voted upon bills, and registering as democrats to immediately switch back to Republicans.
If we want a democracy, we need a clean house and guardrails to keep it.
For many years I’ve thought about and observed how Democrats allow Republican to frame the terminology such as “prolife”, “parental choice”, “job creator”, and much more.
How about my Social Security "entitlements" that makes it sound like I'm getting a big ole spoonful of unearned gravy? I was disgusted to see Dems go right along with that one for safety net programs. 😤
HA! This helped me figure out how I irritate the establishment yet do too good as the 3rd VC in my rural county in NC that they are just letting me do whatever I want...also, they don't have the balls to stop me from yanking this Overton Window to the Left through memes and Twitter posts.
I’m also in NC! Keep yanking left!!!
Wilmingtonian here! Please, keep pulling them left as hard as you can!
Rural NC organizing. An uphill battle we can win!
Rural NC and NC in general is RED minus the cities stop the bs
@DSNCB919 Bless your heart... I'm 6 generations deep into NC. Would you like to have a discussion about the impact of the past 50 years of gerrymandering 😘. NC is a Purple state.
I get accused of being a Democrat, just because I despise Republicans, but I also strongly dislike most Democrats. I can find Democrats I like, but haven't known a Republican I can stand. Eisenhower was the last Republican I could agree with on pretty much anything.
Isn't he from before the southern strategy?
Same here. I don't like Democrats, but I loathe Republicans. I've always been a registered independent, and's it's always hilarious when someone accuses me of being a Democrat. But I always tell them I have just too many brain cells firing to be a Republican.
@@radaro.9682, yes.
@Jjjj Jjjjkigghh I used to vote for Republicans until Donald Trump ran for office. At this point I'm independent in name only.
The Eisenhower Republicans are gone. We’re socialists now.
The Teddy Republican are Greens now, but they’re the Greens that other Greens call fascists.
Boy, do I understand the different ideology on the Democrat side. I am also on Quora, and I got praised by a person for bashing MAGA and the Republicans and then further down in the messaging and continued conversion got bashed for saying a few negative things about Biden by that same person. The hard core Democrat voters also drink their own brand of Kool-Aid and think that Biden and others don`t deserve any criticism which of course is wrong in itself.
I posted this elsewhere, but I think its a pretty good point to reiterate to this audience:
Dems need to diversify their telling of their victories. They are a political party that involves everyone, but to pronounce all their victories to everyone out there will not work because the party has a lot of critics: "doesn't impact me so it's useless", "that doesn't go far enough", "it's not 100% of what I want so it's a problem", "it helps both sides so it's bad"... etc.
What they need to do is hire writers from Sesame Street and other low-level educational/children's programming, and really show how progressive ideas can help specific groups but not impact others at all. Show the benefit of good policies for some groups and *really* show the lack of negative impact to those it won't help or hurt. And if you have to show the incremental successes in different demographics and show/discuss them differently with one voting block versus another, get on it!
Or good ad writers...they could hire some of those and give them an honest living...
That shirt is the biggest understatement I've seen in a while ,dude .
I need that shirt. And I ain’t even a dude - just a gal in a garage.
Speak to the constituents - then follow thru
Beau, many of us are thankful several times per day for "just" you.
*Extremely* fine talk, Beau!!!
I'm a progressive. And nothing that you said I can dispute.
That bit about the "feeding in to toxic masculinity..." I watched that up close and personal in my social circles when Greta Thunberg called out Andrew Tate on Twitter in December. The sheer number of posts and arguments I saw about how she shouldn't have mocked his *ahem* "endowment" because that would reflect poorly on the trans-male population and it just enhances the values of toxic masculinity and on and on! Which, yes, those are conversations to be had and things to consider. But when the critiques include how what she _should_ have done was attack his atrocious record and his whatever all else, that wouldn't have hurt him at all. The bully needed to be bullied, because that WOULD affect him.
"When they go low, we go high" is lovely, positive rhetoric, but it makes sure that we can't make an offensive play against these very bad players for fear of looking bad. And, frankly, I'd love it if the Democratic Party started to throw some elbows...
Well put
Definitely - And another way of saying "When they go low, we go high" is "When we go high they cut us off at the knees."
If you hit them with their own values, they may start to question their values.
As a lifelong (now over 65) Democrat I couldn't agree more!✅️ Beau IS better with messaging! Thank you sir!🙏
But Beau...they are getting better. Democrats are pushing back, calling out Republican's poor ideas, working to show how the ideas which help average citizens. P. S. You manage to appeal to people across the spectrum, so wide messaging can be done. 😉👍💙🇺🇸🕊
Oh they're getting way better than say 5 years ago
2016, I think, was the electoral equivalent of that old saying about war--you learn how to perfectly fight the last war just in time for the next one. Looks like we're finally learning 2016's war... luckily, 2024 is just the tail end of that war.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn while I can't prove it, I think someone on the messaging committee is a fan. 😉👍💙🇺🇸🕊
I am in Texas and while I would really like to have seen not abbott win (Beto was his competition but I would have taken a doorknob) one of my biggest and consistent complaints is messaging and presence. Outside of a few key moments (Uvalde was a big one where he had the whole gop press table yelling at him) most of Betos campaign was just above wallpaper on presence. Recent events had some very solid fodder to throw too, Uvalde/mass shootings/gun control - he could have said he would push for more cooling off period and background checks, stress he is not trying to take guns away. Brought up the hard freeze and how cancun cruz ran and abbott wrote a "sternly worded letter" to the power board and neither did anything useful for us residents.
Defund the police is a huge example of a failure on left policy (and I really hate that name for the changes desired and this is a case that messaging not only got botched but really took a wrong turn) could stress we don't want less cops, but rather more diverse services. Mental health, people trained to deal with disabilities, the purpose isn't to take cops off the beat but instead to use the funds for military grade gear that sees the light of day on a rare level and instead use it for a more well rounded staff to deal with issues more appropriately. There are times and places for different needs and cops are not a one size fits all solution as they are now.
Fetterman ran a campaign vrs oz where he tore him to shreds repeatedly. Then on the other end of the spectrum you had Colorado where bobert nearly lost her seat not because "I am not nanci pelosi" ran a better campaign but because more people voted against her and that was a district that she was supposed to have a significant lead. In general he blended in with the wallpaper on his campaign other then that 1 debate.
@@jbone665 - IMO if Beto went stealth on gun control he might have been elected. LOTS of single-issue voters in that region, I am told.
I must say Beau, you have just done a PERFECT job of explaining the situation there! I hate the fact that some people find "hypocrisy" 'high minded' but that doesn't change the fact. You really did find a good way to explain the situation to a broad audience. Thank you 😊
Agreed! The problem isn’t that being called a hypocrite is insulting, it’s that it indicates either their reasoning has huge inconsistencies, and/or they are lying about their motivations or goals. Those are worth unpacking.
@@voltijuice8576 I think that you maybe misunderstood what I was trying to say. I meant that the fact that some people are not bothered by BEING hypocrites, maga Retrumplicans, but that by calling them out on it some people don't find their hypocrisy offensive but what they seem to take from it is that the person calling it out is 'high minded' as Beau put it. 🤔
The Democratic party tries to play fair in a game with no ref and no rules and then doesn't retaliate when the other team throws an elbow.
You may not be talking about text messages, but I get at least, five text messages a day with "The world is on fire" messages that are asking for donations. It is self defeating because it plays on emotions instead of issues. They all begin to say the same things day after day.
Would it help if Biden got a whiteboard or should he go stronger on Dark Brandon? Maybe all the Dems should wear dark glasses and a whiteboard?
He needs glasses. His press secretary needs a whiteboard
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn😂 😆👍👊
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Hi Beau. There are lots of problems to fix. We Need More mechanics and Less Lawyers and Bankers In charge. Stay safe and Keep Educating
Beau, you are a national treasure!! Thanks for all you do. 🤩
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn I've really lost confidence in the current press secretary. She just doesn't seem to be able to put people in their place when they ask stupid questions.
Had an insight in the late sixties from a Catholic priest in my early 20's. I was generally peed off by the church and it’s silly teachings to harness the faithful. He sat down at lunch with me and explained that there are various factions and even teachings within the “church”. Great guy. Honest and straightforward. He later married my wife and I, and then left the priesthood later to get married himself.
👋
Once again, my scrambled thoughts are put into coherent words. Such a teacher!
Thanks Beau 😊
That was my gripe in 2016 and in 2020. In Texas, the ads only talked about what trump said, and never talked about what they were going to do for us.
This video should be required watching for every current and aspiring Democratic politician in the country.
I feel like there is also a lot of times where reactionary messaging general just doesn’t need any explanation. “Be afraid of those people who look different than you!” is pretty intuitive. Explaining that the US budget needs to increase at a rate greater than inflation or the federal government will reduce it’s ability to govern takes a minute to explain.
" the federal government will reduce it’s ability to govern " Some people, me for instance, might view that positively.
Correct, it's really the bullshit asymmetry principle in action, takes ~10x the time and effort to explain actual policy vs fear based bullshit.
Yes, forget the details. Simply say, "GOP WANTS TO CUT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY," and shut up.
@@quintrankid8045 in some ways, I agree. But the alternative in that scenario is that things that help regular Americans are gutted even more than normal. Spending wouldn’t be reduced in the places we would want it to be.
@@samweber7728 Yes. Much like the law of supply and demand, the law of unintended consequences cannot be repealed or even mitigated.
The Dems all need to start dressing like the Agents in a Men in Black movie. Keep mum and the Rs would go mad trying to figure out what you're up to.
Oh god, if they did things to actually make the conspiracy theorists go nuts that could backfire on the GOP..... hang on, no, it could backfire on the whole lot of us.
Dang, the idea is good ...until you remember their gun-addiction.
A uniform would seriously freak out the MAGAts, but uniform clothes lead to uniform thinking, and that's what we're trying to avoid.
This particular message should be shared with DNC leadership.
Beau, please keep explaining to politicians what their job actually is. I sincerely believe that it makes the world a better place.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been doing awesome in committee and network
The lady who recently won the Jacksonville mayoral race [bad with names, apologies] had outstanding messaging. Should be used as a template.
I agree with you.. Sometimes I get so frustrated with the party and feel they just sit around and do nothing !
Then you aren't paying attention. A lot is getting done. The other problem is the media is against the Democratic party.
Vote blue no matter who
To be very clear, don't call republican figures hypocrites, that is a STRENGTH. I know it's not to us, but from their side, it is. It means, "They can do whatever they need to do to win, and when the liberals call them names, they won't break." And above all, they want to win.
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Maybe wishy-washy would be a better call out. Or flip-flopper.
That's why a much better insult is to challenge their manhood by pointing out how scared they are. Such fraidy-cats that when they see a man in a dress they want to call some big strong cops to protect them from the scawy dwag queen.
So, one thing I'm not quite sure I get here: Would pointing at the same contradictions as a matter of, say, cowardice, have a better effect, or would that it just be same shit, different packaging?
@@Neuttah If you could really sell the cowardice angle, it might work, but I'd consider it risky, especially if right-wing media outlets are giving them cover.
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I think there is also an element of laziness. Politicians that have been around for years sitting atop their patronage networks who are all comfortable stamping out a single message from a favored operative. The leadership doesn’t have to work for their seat.
This is one of my all time FAVORITE 👕!
I'm a white board mom of a social media young adult. We are both unaffiliated. It's been interesting to see how we come together for ALL humans.
😊 thanks for the analysis
Democrats need to lock their pr groups in a room with Beau.
Unkind to Beau
(and he could get out of the locked room with his cheap chainsaw)
@@JimHolder-pk2kk He can take it. And he seems like the kind of person who's glad to do a public service.
Thanks for this reality check about strategic thinking.
You can't expect to play a fair game when the opponent doesn't believe in playing by actual rules!
Or even recognizing the same reality...
I do applaud the Democratic Party for trying to work with the conservatives in good faith for as long as they have, they've more patience than I lol! It's now past time to understand they are dealing with insincere people and to really diversify their outreach tactics. The gop has abandoned so many Independents that if they can learn what is important to the people in all these different walks of life, we can finally make some real progress and safeguard more people and groups of people. ✌️
Watch out for the fake independents, though. I hear so many people saying they are independent, but they support 45 and what he stands for and other such drivel. Supporting someone in this context is literally the very opposite of being independent. The cognitive dissonance still amazes me.
Bingo!
There are some lines where working in good faith turns into playing good cop to the republicans bad cop as policies slide further and further right.
Democracy in itself is on the line.. we really don't need nice people who play nice, we really need fighters who aren't afraid to fight to the death. Otherwise every one of those soldiers who gave their lives for democracy did so in vain.
@@forestpagan4813 The downside to that, though, is if the Democrats also abandon the ideals of democracy in order to save democracy...I think you can see the problem. Killing the village in order to save it never went over too well, especially not to the people in the village. Democrats have to learn to walk the line between maintaining people's faith in the system, while challenging their faith in the GOP and its headfirst slide into fascism.
You are amazing at breaking down the issues. You are amazing at explaining what is happening and how each thinks, moves and motivations.
I wish with all my heart I could send this to every Democrat in office and be certain they watched it. Dang, but you nailed it like a big dog.
Right on ❤
One of your best videos, thank you. I would like to add two more factors: 1- I am a Democrat, and I have observed a real reluctance to focus on the FACT that in order to do any good, you must win elections. I'm not advocating totally illegal and immoral conduct, but yea...come off the saintly pedestal somewhat and try to win (negative ads do work); and 2- Part of winning elections and getting policy enacted into law involves PROPAGANDA. Yes, many have an instantly negative reaction to that word, but the best propaganda happens to be honest propaganda. The Republicans, to their damnation, are far far better at propaganda than the Demcrats and as a result, they can get their way more often. Too many Americans are not good at dissecting propaganda or even have the time, energy or desire to do so, after working all day, etc. Keep up the good work, Beau.
I’d love to see the US use proportional representation for two decades
The reason most people don't vote is due to mixed messaging from the Democratic Party. You still have to offer something for the people to come to the polls.
Then what do you think explains the turnout for Biden?
@@quintrankid8045 he wasn't Trump nothing more
He wasn't the orange traitor.
People didn't vote FOR Biden. They voted AGAINST the dementia addled fascist orange loser.
2020 showed, pretty clearly, that non voters demographics and political party affiliation are about the same as the voting breakdown.
@@quintrankid8045 Antitrump explains it all. Biden was #4 on my top 3 list, but we elected him to drive a bus of children back from the circus, not thrill us by reenacting high wire act.
I'm a Californian, and I want Katie Porter to get Feinstein's Senate seat so much. I've never donated to a politician in my life, but I gave money to her
The Democratic party would be better off without the establishment politicians. The establishment politicians are basically Classic Republican Lite.
Then why don't the different coalitions do their own messaging?
They should. That's actually the solution and an agreement not to attack each other over small differences.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Teamwork makes the dream work.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Until progressives in the Democratic party realize that "purity testing" everyone for 100% conformity on all major issues only weakens and divides support, they're standing in their own way.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn but they don’t because the dem party won’t let them???
Agree. But someone has to send killer messages.
moving to Mexico from FL 2 years ago really helped my mental health
Yes! And its SO obvious to us “commoners.” Frustrating!!
A lot of time it seems like the Democratic party is Ned Stark and the Repubs are Cersei Lannister.
I would think ramsay bolton just because if they had their way they would feed people to dogs. Republicans hate blowing up churches.
Except the walk of shame will never happen.
I love the shirt 👌
"Will it play in Peoria?" is a question Dems should ask before issuing statements. As Beau points out, knowing the target audience is crucial when trying to get the point across.
I wish all Democrats were like Katie Porter. She's incredibly intelligent, a fantastic communicator AND a regular minivan-driving Mom. We need more like her!
Well, howdy there late night (And earlymorning) Internet people!
Thank you Beau! Great topic.
the advantage conservative messaging has over progressive messaging is that conservatives can fit what they need to say on a bumper sticker while progressives require a 90 minute video essay. Not to say they're wrong, it's just to say "change is scary" is an easy message to convey, while explaining why something can or should be improved comes off as this massive self important 'well actually' monologue that makes people tune out
Dems could use bumper sticker messaging, but it would devolve into attacks. "Trump gave your money to Bezos" would be a good start.
And that anti intellectualism you note at the end comes straight from the conservative bullshit machine. Personally I doubt they can be deprogrammed without first stopping the root of the problem, most wont walk away from the outrage machine if it still works.
Real leadership brings knowledge to ignorance rather than exploiting it.
One of the best pieces of advice/life lesson I received, was in college from one of my best friends (who went on to law school and is now a judge). He said, "Your common mistake is assuming everyone is as smart as you are....they're not." So I learned to quit expecting everyone to understand or already know what I was trying to communicate without explanation. Helped me tremendously when I began to manage businesses later in life. Clear communication is the key.
You are spot on with regards to Democrats trying to be so high-minded that they forget to explain the real human benefit.
I was doing volunteer work for a pro-LGBT campaign in the mid 2000's, in the era of all the state anti-gay-marriage referendums. I remember how frustrating it was when all of those campaigns, mostly led by Democratic strategists, were so TERRIFIED to just... show gay people in their ads, being families, being relatable, being happy. They wanted to promote abstract ideals without showing real human families. And they were SHOCKED when the one thing that actually finally worked was when one of the state campaigns leaned into the human angle instead of esoteric virtues.
That was infuriating to me as a gay man as well. I'm glad those days are over. Ang Lee *made a goddamn feature film with gay sex in it in 2005* and those consultants were too afraid to put two men holding hands or hugging on a leaflet a year later.
Well done.
"I do not belong to an organized political party; I'm a Democrat." Will Rogers
What is a "dirt road democrat"? Never heard that term before. Am assuming it is a more rural democrat vs an urban democrat (so would have different local concerns) but would like to be corrected if I'm wrong.
Nope that's right.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn thank you!
I could be categorized as a dirt road democrat, as I'm in a very rural red area, even though I originate from a large urban area and have a more progressive stance. 😁👍
I grew up on a dirt road in a town where every home had a portrait of President Kennedy on the wall.
Now I live in a SoCal suburb. Do I still count? I think I do.
@@BC25citizen Me too though I'm now in Denver for a year and a half. Quite interesting when my family popped us into SoCal after small town PA, though I suddenly had some terrific teachers.
I remember Steve Bannon saying something that stuck with me in an interview a few years ago. Something to the effect that "Democrats want to have a pillow fight, while Republicans are going for head-shots"
Thanks again Beau for the information. And I am a new Democrat in a Red state with few Democrats running for office. The last who ran for Governor was running as average Democrat.
People like Jamie Raskin, Katie Porter, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Dan Goldman and Jasmine Crockett, to name a few, can deliver on the floor everyday, but Nancy and Chuck are still coming out with the same ineffective platitudes that people are sick of. They need to retire for the party to get anywhere.
I was grateful for what Pelosi did during the Trump admin, but I agree. And there needs to be some kind of physical and mental competency tests for lawmakers: Dianne Feinstein has turned from someone I at least kind of admired to someone who strikes me as selfishly clinging to a role she can no longer play, hasn't been able to for years. An embarrassment to the Democratic party.
I'm still mad at Democrats pushing Al Franken to resign just so they wouldn't be hypocritical. One of our best senators out just so they could look good.
We need to dry our tears about that now. Franken's life was not destroyed by resigning -- he looks happier than ever on TV. Even if I didn't believe the allegations about him, even if it was some Tara Reade - like stuff, at the end of the day he was replaced by Tina Smith, a very competent Democrat.
You're right, Beau is not a Democrat, he is a progressive
We need to put some educators in those positions
For years the Democratic Party is in dire need of a marketing/PR team!
Messaging, may not matter. Those hearing don’t want to hear logical arguments. They tune you out. 😱😡
Nah. That's just post hoc rationalization for previous failures to try, setting up future failures to try.
For every whack-a-loo nut job who refuses to listen there are 3 or 4 rational folks only being told the GOPs side of things...
Yep, messages only reach the reachable.
And a lot of people are very unreachable.
They sure do! Another daft effort by somebody that sits in a studio, making videos..Another silo falling on dead ears! And Beau thinks he's so smart, and reaching those that need to hear it! He lives in one of the biggest racist states, and stays in a studio making videos! 🤢 Acting Ike he doing something important, all he's doing is barking into his echo chamber..Oh, isn't he great!'😒 No, he isn't! Anyone can do what Beau does! 😏
@@Skeloric you dont need to reach the unreachable, just the people in the middle. be within reaching distance of those who can change their mind.
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I think we have reached all the reachable.
Messaging does not even seem to have any value at all anymore.
Even as a Democrat, I have tuned out our own messaging, because I am going to "vote Blue no matter who."
That is me becoming a one issue voter for the Democrats.
I slow down single payer health care discussions with the question "Is it fair that your health care usually ends less than 30 days after you get laid off or fired, but the average job search takes more than 60 days?"
Could not have said it better. Beau literally said everything i was thinking.
Makes me have to always be aware of confirmation bias.
Katie porter my queen.
Could you just run for president?
I know the answer is No because only a potential war criminal would want that job.
But you’re still the most qualified person I’ve ever seen in my 47 years.
I concur! Would definitely vote for Beau, IF he were to run for president! 💯❣️👍
He'd be able to win the Florida Governorship
I'd rather him be an advisor who doesn't have to do as many public appearances. Think tank type position
Beau would not, and I can tell you why. He's good here, and he's doing good work here. If he took his unique skillset to a venue where it is less-effective, who knows what would actually happen. You can have all the right ideas and messaging in the world and still get your ass handed to you in an unfamiliar arena. It's a bad idea, but I know it comes from a place of good intention. Beau might make a good drop-out candidate who could throw his support behind another, though. I doubt that will ever materialize, but if there's a tactic to be had here to make a specific difference in that space, I'd wager that's the one.
We can't use Beau as President without first having Beaus in local and state governments and in both houses of Congress. We could use a bunch of Beaus on the bench, too. There are no shortcuts.