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In reply to the discussion: Another thing Democrats need to learn from The Lincoln Project [View all]PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)people are in fact quite skilled at when and how to release damaging, even devastating, ads about political opponents. These are the same people who did it to us over the last decade or two.
But PR is like a trade. If you're good at what you do, it looks easy, but it took you years to learn how to do it. Just anybody can't. Our message, for instance, is difficult to get down to a catchy message that brings people on board. Unfortunately, high schools don't teach civics anymore, really. Or geography. Or the real (not watered down by the 'christians' on the TX School Board) history. They don't learn rhetoric or debate. They do not learn logic. High schools don't even teach keyboarding anymore. People have to learn that on their own if they want a decent job.
So like me, instead of talking about getting rid of the current shareholder primacy model by expanding the fiduciary responsibility of C-Suite officers in publicly held companies to a wider group of stakeholders, we need a better message. Because people stare like deer in the lights.
When I talk about monetary and fiscal policy, people stare like deer in the lights.
Fortunately, Biden's people know this, and they have condensed his message into a three-word slogan, "Build Back Better."
That's good messaging.
But back to the LP people. Right now they are on our side because they want to scrape the crazy base away, or at least make them crawl back under their rocks so the Wall Street neocon/neolib people can take back over and try to stabilize the current end-stage capitalist model so it can last just a bit longer. After all, our treasury isn't quite empty yet, and the oligarchs are hungry for more stimulus, while victims are just hungry and sick.