Some involve communications, some involve policy, all of this political moment. [See also Washington Post, Bill Moyers, and Chomksy in TruthOut.]
Read what I'm saying here, Dems — this will help you. It's written in an eighth-grade level.
In no order:
Jill Biden has to drop the 'Dr' and educator title from all references.
This need to vest honorary and Doctorate of Education degrees with reverence is the wrong message to voters whether the degree comes from Concordia University or the University of Delaware.
Consider that Gov Tony Evers (D-Wisconsin) does not parade his Doctorate of Education degree and identify himself as Dr. Tony Evers. Despite several degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Evers mentions his doctorate in the last graf on his official bio page because he knows folks in small-town Wisconsin, which is to say Wisconsin, retain a revulsion of cant and sticks up rectums, features of Evers that are, anyway, already costing him politically.
Had Evers campaigned as Dr. Tony Evers, we would be suffering the third term of Scott Walker bequeathed to us by Democrat incompetence.
Most Americans do not have college degrees, and associate education (unfairly) with the imbecilic identity politics popular with corporatist Democrats who have labored over the last 40 years to enslave as many black and brown people as possible into a prison "leviathan unmatched in human history," as noted by Glenn C. Loury in Boston Review. (See also Race, Incarceration, and American Values. Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Loïc Wacquant and Tommie Shelby.)
So, don't show me your resume, CV or degrees.
Do generalize from this Jill Biden imperative and connect with people living in the world.
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Drop the word "conservative" from your vocabulary.
It's a semantical coincidence, but right now and for the near future, the term conservative has positive connotations.
So, stop branding Republicans with positive impressions. Stop saying 'conservatives on the Supreme Court ...,' 'conservatives are ... .'
You know why Frank Luntz, Republican language maven, convinced Republicans to refer to the Democrat Party as the Democrat Party? Because Frank Luntz knows what the hell he's doing.
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Treat all liberty claims as sacred. Some white Republican makes a liberty claim, listen to what the hell he's saying. Listen. Then many Republican-voting countrymen will not hate you so much.
The same goes double for minority folks whom the Democrat Party works assiduously to appear to be helping while screwing us over.
As Noam Chomsky writes:
A careful study by political scientist Larry Bartels reveals that Republicans feel that 'the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it, and more than 40 percent agree that 'a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.'
Trump has also skillfully tapped reservoirs of anger and economic resentment among the working and middle classes who have been subjected to the bipartisan neoliberal assault of the last 40 years. If they feel that they have been robbed, they have good reason. The Rand Corporation recently estimated transfer of wealth from the lower 90 percent to the very rich during the four neoliberal decades: $47 trillion, not small change. Looking more closely, the transfer was primarily to a small fraction of the very rich.
Many Republican-voting Americans know corporations are screwing them, and they also believe the Democrat Party is helping.
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Economic populism. Do this. Do economic populism, and as often as practical tell the Democrat donor class to go fuck itself.
Listen to Bernie Sanders and the Squad.
Dems, realize you are kind-of stupid about policy and politics. It's okay. My wife knows little about the complexities of the blitz in football, but she is really brilliant and knowledgeable about just about everything else.
So, know your weaknesses and learn. Economic industrial policy has to be more than policy recommendations, it must be your mission.
Economic, social, racial and environmental justice? These are good things. Do these things.
Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their historic win. In this incredibly difficult moment in American history, I wish them the best as they attempt to bring our nation together around an agenda of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 7, 2020
Just a few more. South American rightwing dictators bad. Democracy good. War bad. Peace good. Classical liberalism good. Oligarchy bad. Bars and restaurants good. Small-business devastation bad.
I'll be in touch.
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| Photo from Milwaukee Independent |
And listen to Krystal Ball:
Resistance liberalism and its fixation on cultural elite obsessions like Russiagate, impeachment and identity politics is one of the most off-putting parts of the Democratic Party. @SpanbergerVA07 and co may want to think that over in their election post mortems.
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) November 8, 2020
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