Grassroots Joe
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I penned the following in reply to an email earlier today from Markos at DailyKos.com about our need to keep fighting. I expect I'll be repeating it a lot in the coming days and weeks:
FWIW, I believe there were 4 major contributors to yesterday’s debacle:
1. The RW echo chamber that has poisoned the minds of 30-40% of the country.
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Grassroots Joe
Not until we change the narrative of who is to blame and how they are dividing us to keep us from coming together to create a government and society that works for us and not the reactionary, regressive-right elites will we have a fighting chance at building the country we all deserve.
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Grassroots Joe
If we all were to employ the race-class-gender narrative and the messaging framework built on it in our every day discourse, in framing every important issue so that the majority of Americans come to believe in their gut that it is the oligarchs, not the “others” among us who are wholly responsible for our not having what we deserve and could have.
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Grassroots Joe
3. The top echelon of the Democratic Party yet again thinking that there are more voters in the middle than in our base, spending far too much time & money chasing the smaller piece of the pie and alienating the larger well of base voters by failing to relentlessly standing up for all of our values.
4. Most importantly, that we do not speak with one voice from one hymnal and that ASO Communications/The Research Collaborative/Way to Win/We Make the Future must be the authors of that hymnal.
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Grassroots Joe
2. The for-profit (and big non-profit) media that failed yet again to report the truth day-in and day-out making it possible for more than ½ of the voting public to believe lies about the current state of America, that inflation is not going up, crime is not going up, undocumented immigrants are neither a serious threat to nor damaging their well-being, and the US economy is not a basket case.
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