What can we do beside watching the train wreck coming straight at us in slow motion?

[skip fox]

The only thing I can think of, and which is in my power, is to advertise the stakes of the 2024 Presidential Election.

What are the best ways to do this?

I was thinking that if we could get 2024 called The Year of Democracy and encourage a series of Marches for Democracy, that might be useful.

What are your ideas?

[Voltaire2]

1. Other people have survived a fascist regime.

We should look to them, to their histories, to learn how to survive, and more importantly, how to successfully resist and end these regimes.

[Elessar Zappa]

14. How about we focus on defeating fascism before it takes power?

The election is still a year away, this is no time to give up.

[Voltaire2]

16. I'm not giving up, but I am also not putting blinders on.

The threat of a fascist takeover of the government is very real. Pretending otherwise is not helpful. That doesn't mean it is inevitable. Certainly voting for and promoting the democratic alternative to fascism needs to be done. But we also need to think about how to proceed if we fail in 2024. Now. Not a year from now. And as I said, we can learn from how others survived and defeated these regimes.

[Elessar Zappa]

20. Agreed.

It’ll be a close election definitely.

[The Blue Flower]

2. I wanted to ask DUers to develop an 'elevator speech'

If you have five minutes to educate a voter about the danger of the R frontrunner, what's the concise message you could say?

[yardwork]

7. That's a good idea!

[Vogon_Glory]

9. If he/she has relatives dependent on expensive medications, remind

them that Republican politicians are likely as not to oppose keeping the price of their medications within reach.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. If your audience has relatives dependent on expensive

medications, remind them that Republican politicians are likely as not to oppose keeping the price of their medications within reach.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

13. I can't think of a single lift ride that takes that long

And I don't get in one at all if I'll be the only woman in the lift.

I also don't like people, especially strangers, approaching me in public to harangue me about even political views I agree with, so I extend the same courtesy to others. If a stranger brings up such things to me, I cut them short and get as far away from them as possible. Because if I find it intolerably rude., and borderline menacing.

I don't think I'm alone in this.

If you must push your views in public, at least have the courtesy to set up a table or booth making it clear what you're on about, so nobody has to talk to you if they don't want.

Otherwise, please leave strangers alone in public. Is that really too bloody much to ask?

[skip fox]

18. I take it an "elevator speech" is one that doesn't necessarily mean one to be literarily delivered

in an elevator, but a series of short. quietly persuasive , sentences to say at appropriate times, like noting Trump's willingness to suspend the Constitution, or to commandeer the Justice Department, or to shoot shoplifters, etc.

[skip fox]

17. Great idea! But since I live in Trump country, mine

will have to be milder, more diplomatic to be effective.

[Aepps22]

3. The Following

1. Help GOTV efforts in your local community
2. Donate to Dem Candidates and the DNC

3. Push back against people spreading lies against Joe on your own life


Lots of stuff for us to do

[ck4829]

4. It's time to start working against the very legitimacy of the Republican Party

[Vogon_Glory]

5. A republic, if you can keep it

We Democrats are the party committed to keeping the United States of America as a healthy, functional representative republic governed by representatives responsible to the wishes of the majority of its citizens. Club Pachyderm has cast aside those values to become an authoritarian cult dedicated to one-man rule with no respect for the wishes or desires of its citizens.

We should hammer home the idea that our party is the guardian of democracy, a role the other party has capitulated to its devotion to Orange Julius.

[roamer65]

15. So what is the alternative if the representative republic cannot be preserved?

IMO, it is dissolution.

If the GQP and Dump steal the election again, we are definitely on the precipice.

[pwb]

6. My election priorities are:

Restoring the freedoms Women lost.
Burning earth? The young have to live on for a long time. Will pukes fix it for them? NO.
Minimum wage states with $7.25 rates. They need to change their legislators to get that raised.
Vote The Red Out in Blue States.

[former9thward]

22. The federal minimum wage is $7.25

Congress could change that and it would apply to all 50 states as a minimum.

[Basic LA]

8. We should be the party of Employees.

No one identifies themselves as Workers or Labor or Proletariat. We're Employees (also self Employed) and need a party that represents us by name. That's how we get the big numbers behind us. Banish those antiquated terms so the vast majority can identify with us and know which side their bread is buttered. Employees, working stiffs, clock punchers. Let's get all Johnny Paycheck up in here.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

11. Marches are a waste of time

Better to spend the time with GOTV or phone banking, or even painting your fingernails.

[qwlauren35]

12. Get clips of his worst speeches.

Make a TV ad and say - Do You Really Want THIS Man for President?

And then "A Vote for Joe Biden is a Vote Against Trump". There's no other way.

[Silent3]

19. What's depressing is how you can't even tell most people about the danger we face...

...without facing the automatic assumption that any talk of democracy itself being in peril just couldn't be anything other than partisan scaremongering, which they will "sensibly" discount.

[Kaleva]

21. I'm concentrating on the mother of all train wrecks. Climate change.

[liberalmediaaddict]

23. It's not up to us to stop Trump... yet

The Republican primaries haven't even started yet.
Republicans and anyone eligible to vote in a Republican primary can pick another candidate.

If Trump wins the nomination then it's on us Democrats and
Never-Trumper/Pro-Democracy Americans to do everything possible to help GOTV and win next November.

We'll have to remind people what happened in Trump’s first term and what he has planned for a second. And to show how far Trump has deteriorated mentally in the last 3 years and how extreme his speeches have become.

Of course the 2 most important actions are turn out and vote overwhelmingly for President Biden in the primary and general election.

A year is a lifetime in politics. Hopefully Americans will wake up and realize whatever their problems are with government... re-electing Trump ISN'T the answer.