Now if Democrats were politically savvy, which they aren’t, and could actually understand the average American, they’d be hammering this point about Republicans not bringing down prices until the next century.
I guess I should have been more specific. The US government should have been forced to sue to shut it down at some point on behalf of American interests. Then all of that should have been public.
The problem is that Dems are beholden to the truth. They probably couldn’t *bring down grocery prices either because it doesn’t work like that, so they can’t hold the other party to it either.
Dems say “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He lied.” It really doesn’t accomplish much.
The message people want is “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He lied. We would have brought them down.” Dems can’t say that because they know bringing prices down is hard af, prices are sticky, and there’s a good chance they wouldn’t have been successful. They may have, but there’s no guarantee and they know it. Because that’s how economics work. Dems can’t say that message because they are beholden to the truth.
What they are left with is the much weaker message of: “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He was unsuccessful. We would have tried to resolve the supply chain issues, and would pushed for higher wages indexed to cost of living, oh and investigate price fixing by companies.” It’s weak, wordy, and relies on mechanisms that people don’t care to hear about. They have to tip toe around what they can say because they are beholden to the truth.
They are beholden to the truth. To word it differently if it helps: they have to tell the truth, they have to be accurate, they have to explain reality, they have to explain how things work and why things don’t work. It’s the same reason left media doesn’t hold a candle to right wing media. The right wing media can twist, misportray, and outright lie. But the left media can’t, they are beholden to the truth.
I mean look at your reply. No offence, but it’s the exact wordy reply to jump though all the hoops in order to be accurate that I’m talking about. It that doesn’t hit. “We are trying” doesn’t hit, people don’t want that weak talk. “Republicans are blocking”, guess what people don’t want explanations, they want results. “Because they like…” holy cow you’ve lost everyone because they don’t want to know about mechanisms, they want elementary speak like Trump does. Congress and how it works? Holy cow. People. do. not. care. People. do. not. understand. Add it all up and everyone has tuned it out. You are grossly overestimating how much people know and think. This is why Dem messaging sucks, they have to jump through all this just like you did (because they are beholden to the truth and being accurate) and the message doesn’t hit.
I think I’ve said everything I can, it’s just repeating.
Now if Democrats were politically savvy, which they aren’t, and could actually understand the average American, they’d be hammering this point about Republicans not bringing down prices until the next century.
That would require the help of the media, and we all know that’s not going to happen.
Doesn’t really matter. Republican voters won’t hear it from any of their info sources.
The sad fact that we let a propoganda outlet fester for 3 decades without so much as even calling it out.
Where’ve you been? It’s been called out since its inception, and ramping up in intensity as time goes on and it gets worse.
It literally just makes them watch harder because “if they hate it so much it must be true!”
I guess I should have been more specific. The US government should have been forced to sue to shut it down at some point on behalf of American interests. Then all of that should have been public.
Yup. They are coddled in a media system that won’t let them know any real facts.
So you’re telling me the Democrats have a messaging problem?
The problem is that Dems are beholden to the truth. They probably couldn’t *bring down grocery prices either because it doesn’t work like that, so they can’t hold the other party to it either.
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Ok let’s play this out.
Dems say “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He lied.” It really doesn’t accomplish much.
The message people want is “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He lied. We would have brought them down.” Dems can’t say that because they know bringing prices down is hard af, prices are sticky, and there’s a good chance they wouldn’t have been successful. They may have, but there’s no guarantee and they know it. Because that’s how economics work. Dems can’t say that message because they are beholden to the truth.
What they are left with is the much weaker message of: “Trump didn’t bring down grocery prices. He was unsuccessful. We would have tried to resolve the supply chain issues, and would pushed for higher wages indexed to cost of living, oh and investigate price fixing by companies.” It’s weak, wordy, and relies on mechanisms that people don’t care to hear about. They have to tip toe around what they can say because they are beholden to the truth.
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They are beholden to the truth. To word it differently if it helps: they have to tell the truth, they have to be accurate, they have to explain reality, they have to explain how things work and why things don’t work. It’s the same reason left media doesn’t hold a candle to right wing media. The right wing media can twist, misportray, and outright lie. But the left media can’t, they are beholden to the truth.
I mean look at your reply. No offence, but it’s the exact wordy reply to jump though all the hoops in order to be accurate that I’m talking about. It that doesn’t hit. “We are trying” doesn’t hit, people don’t want that weak talk. “Republicans are blocking”, guess what people don’t want explanations, they want results. “Because they like…” holy cow you’ve lost everyone because they don’t want to know about mechanisms, they want elementary speak like Trump does. Congress and how it works? Holy cow. People. do. not. care. People. do. not. understand. Add it all up and everyone has tuned it out. You are grossly overestimating how much people know and think. This is why Dem messaging sucks, they have to jump through all this just like you did (because they are beholden to the truth and being accurate) and the message doesn’t hit.
I think I’ve said everything I can, it’s just repeating.
Iono… after the NYT op-ed, does it matter? There’s no bullhorn. I guess social media?