We almost lost on Prop B partly because the urban voters in KC and St. L didn’t even bother to vote. Look at the voting totals and then at the % that voted yes on Prop B.
Agribusiness will use those numbers, you can be sure, to hammer away at their message that most voters didn’t know what they were doing. I talked to a woman yesterday who is very smart, has several dogs that have been rescued, and she told me why she voted no on Prop B. She believes the bad puppy mills won’t be affected because they are in parts of the state “where even law enforcement officers are afraid to go.” and the good ones will be hounded (no pun intended) out of business.
Regardless of whether or not this is true (and it is not,) the point is that the Corpublicans are way better at selling their message than Dems (or, in this case, kind-hearted people who want puppy mills cleaned up) are.
It’s time for all of you who are so clever at posting snarky remarks about Repugs to start using your talent to help shape the Dem/progressive message. A few of us Dem activists in the St. L area are meeting Saturday to discuss how we can get through to the party leaders who seem to be stone deaf when it comes to new ideas. They couldn’t sell their message in this election. Why? Because they don’t have a clear message articulated in simple, understandable terms that are repeated ad nauseum.
If a shoe store can’t sell shoes, the owner can’t just blame customers for shopping elsewhere. He/She has to find a new product, a new way of advertising, or close up shop.
The Corps spend millions on PR think tanks and it works. They take what Dems are best at and make it their product. E.g, Dems are the REAL party of the people, but tons of money was spent establishing “grassroots” tea party type organizations. So they can now claim that “the American people have spoken.” They started vilifying Nancy Pelosi two years ago in order to lay the groundwork for selling the “black man, white woman” subconscious message to the millions of American voters to whom that is still anathema. (Unless the black man happens to be a Supreme Court justice and very conservative.)
It is not a matter of how many “ad buys” or “mailers.” If we have nothing to sell, we’re wasting our money. Some of us on the eastern side of the state are going to, as a group, tell party leaders and elected officials that we are no longer going to donate money or canvass until they get their act together.
I get the impression from Blue Girl that the western side of the state is much better organized and further along than we are in pushing our progressive ideas. Maybe we can catch up altho, given who runs the party in St. L City and St. L County, I think it may be mission impossible.
Michael Bersin said:
…are telling us that it’s raining?
Bob Yates said:
This is the meaning of a trickle-down economy.
sarah jo said:
We almost lost on Prop B partly because the urban voters in KC and St. L didn’t even bother to vote. Look at the voting totals and then at the % that voted yes on Prop B.
Agribusiness will use those numbers, you can be sure, to hammer away at their message that most voters didn’t know what they were doing. I talked to a woman yesterday who is very smart, has several dogs that have been rescued, and she told me why she voted no on Prop B. She believes the bad puppy mills won’t be affected because they are in parts of the state “where even law enforcement officers are afraid to go.” and the good ones will be hounded (no pun intended) out of business.
Regardless of whether or not this is true (and it is not,) the point is that the Corpublicans are way better at selling their message than Dems (or, in this case, kind-hearted people who want puppy mills cleaned up) are.
It’s time for all of you who are so clever at posting snarky remarks about Repugs to start using your talent to help shape the Dem/progressive message. A few of us Dem activists in the St. L area are meeting Saturday to discuss how we can get through to the party leaders who seem to be stone deaf when it comes to new ideas. They couldn’t sell their message in this election. Why? Because they don’t have a clear message articulated in simple, understandable terms that are repeated ad nauseum.
If a shoe store can’t sell shoes, the owner can’t just blame customers for shopping elsewhere. He/She has to find a new product, a new way of advertising, or close up shop.
The Corps spend millions on PR think tanks and it works. They take what Dems are best at and make it their product. E.g, Dems are the REAL party of the people, but tons of money was spent establishing “grassroots” tea party type organizations. So they can now claim that “the American people have spoken.” They started vilifying Nancy Pelosi two years ago in order to lay the groundwork for selling the “black man, white woman” subconscious message to the millions of American voters to whom that is still anathema. (Unless the black man happens to be a Supreme Court justice and very conservative.)
It is not a matter of how many “ad buys” or “mailers.” If we have nothing to sell, we’re wasting our money. Some of us on the eastern side of the state are going to, as a group, tell party leaders and elected officials that we are no longer going to donate money or canvass until they get their act together.
I get the impression from Blue Girl that the western side of the state is much better organized and further along than we are in pushing our progressive ideas. Maybe we can catch up altho, given who runs the party in St. L City and St. L County, I think it may be mission impossible.