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emulatorloo

(44,096 posts)
8. Our job as Democrats is to cut through that kind of bullshit.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:23 PM
Jul 2017

Our Candidate did articulate a vision, and as you know voters who were most concerned with the economy and jobs voted for her.

Unfortunately it is very difficult to get our vision past a cable news media that's fixated on conflict/melodrama rather than policy.

I remember in '04 how they showed Bush's best soundbytes and left his idiocy on the cutting room floor. Meantime they'd show footage of Kerry with no sound, while they inaccurately summarized what he said.

This year was worse because of the devolution of social media like twitter and Facebook, which had a sewage pipe of fake news filling them with anti-Democratic and Pro-Trump propaganda from around the world.

The typical strategies we used to have to get the truth out to people, like letters to the editor of newspapers seem so antiquated after 2016. I'm frustrated so much, have no idea how to move ahead

Nonetheless I do have optimism about 2018, and I'm looking forward to a strong charismatic Dem nominee in 2020.

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