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Cary

(11,746 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2019, 06:17 PM Jul 2019

Everyone read this Twitter thread

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Everyone read this Twitter thread (Original Post) Cary Jul 2019 OP

Tim Wise is correct; Drive up turnout by pointing to Trumps evils & acting as a team to defeat it .. uponit7771 Jul 2019 #1

Read it yesterday and have been forwarding to others since then. nt in2herbs Jul 2019 #2

Thanks. Also here... nilram Jul 2019 #3

Thanks Cary Jul 2019 #6

Been reading it and passing it around... TreasonousBastard Jul 2019 #4

I have been saying that we should forget the authoritarians Cary Jul 2019 #7

Wow!!!! secondwind Jul 2019 #5

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)

1. Tim Wise is correct; Drive up turnout by pointing to Trumps evils & acting as a team to defeat it ..

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 06:18 PM

Jul 2019

... make that part of the policy push.

in2herbs

(4,531 posts)

2. Read it yesterday and have been forwarding to others since then. nt

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 06:53 PM

Jul 2019

nilram

(3,563 posts)

3. Thanks. Also here...

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:18 PM

Jul 2019

With the complete thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212301582

Cary

(11,746 posts)

6. Thanks

Reply to nilram (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 07:09 AM

Jul 2019

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

4. Been reading it and passing it around...

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:22 PM

Jul 2019

He is absolutely right. Elections are like marriage, buying a car, and other major choices that we insist on believing are rational, but rarely are.

We voted for Ike because he saved the world. For JFK because Nixon didn't shave before a TV appearance, for Carter because he was the "not Nixon", for Reagan because he was a better actor than anyone thought...

Go out and find a hundred people and ask them about policy positions. I doubt you could find a dozen who could actually name a policy screamed about by policy wonks.

I ran into a 20-something who had never heard of the Census.

Local cable news runs a feature where a features reporter goes to a mall or busy streetcorner and asks basic questions-- "How many Colors in the Flag" would be a typical one. No idea how many people she asks, but they do show a lot of the clueless.

Cary

(11,746 posts)

7. I have been saying that we should forget the authoritarians

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 07:11 AM

Jul 2019

And motivate our base.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

5. Wow!!!!

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 02:52 AM

Jul 2019

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