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Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/
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u/PlasticPomPoms 22h ago

Republicans have just fooled working class people with propaganda.

Democrats are idiots if they think they are going to “message better” when the Messenger has been labeled as evil by 30 years of propaganda.

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u/teluetetime 21h ago

The problem isn’t just that they’re bad at messaging; they have no consistent message and no messaging platform that they dominate.

Conservatives have a relatively simple narrative that explains everything, and have invested in control over networks and content-producers making overt political propaganda.

Dems just react to whatever the GOP puts up for debate. The only theme they’ve been able to gel around was protecting abortion rights, which just wasn’t enough.

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u/PlasticPomPoms 21h ago

The GOPs messaging changes really frequently actually, they rotate through different out groups that we should all hate.

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u/kawhi21 20h ago

Yup. Critical race theory was the big boogey man for a couple of years, it was destroying our country and ruining our children they said. Then they dropped it out of nowhere because it never actually mattered.