Strategic messaging guidance for countering Republican talking points.

[Nevilledog]

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INDIVISIBLE UNPACKED
Strategic messaging guidance for countering Republican talking points.

ABORTION

Conservative activists have spent almost 50 years focused on one goal above all others: overturning Roe v. Wade, and making forced birth the law of the land. To achieve that goal, they’ve waged a decades-long campaign to pack the federal judiciary with hundreds of far-right extremist judges.

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GAS PRICES

If you’ve had to fill up your gas tank in recent months, you know the price of gas is substantial right now, to say the least. With energy experts warning that the upward trend may continue through summer, Indivisible is going in-depth on the cost of oil.

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THE GOP’S “GROOMING” OBSESSION

Last year, the Republican operatives made critical race theory into their go-to bogeyman in order to push their agenda into our schools. Now, we’re seeing an increase in perverted homophobic and anti-trans smears being deployed by the right in a similar pattern.

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[Moostache]

1. Cliff's Notes version?

1) GOP lies constantly.
2) GOP projects EVERYTHING they do.
3) Call them out on anything and they go straight to victim mode.

[Nevilledog]

2. It's a little more detailed than that...lol

[GoodRaisin]

5. "Call them out"

The million dollar question is how to do that, if so many of the people voting don’t read or watch anything other than Netflix.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Solution for gasoline prices: don't buy any

Ok, some non-hermit folks have to. Transitioning to ZEVs (Zero Emission Vehicles) is necessary.

[TheRealNorth]

4. That can be pretty hard for people that don't make a lot of money....

EV's and hybrids cost more, and there are not a lot on the used car market.

Not saying people couldn't do better by buying more fuel-efficient 4-cylinders, but we have a culture of people wanting bigger cars (partly for safety purposes because of everyone else driving big vehicles).

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Don't compare apples to watermelons

"EV's and hybrids cost more, and there are not a lot on the used car market."
That's a marketing assertion that has too few facts to be refuted as stated.

Let's see what's going on.

The average price tag for a used vehicle is $33,341, a 0.5% increase from May and just $172 below the peak in March, the CoPilot research shows. If depreciation forecasts had held true, the average price would be $23,295, according to CoPilot’s index.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/21/consumers-paying-average-10000-above-normal-prices-for-used-cars.html

Ok, that's crazy.

Looking at https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/cheapest-electric-cars/
we can see the MSRP (which nobody in their right mind pays) for 7 NEW electric cars, in that "cheapest" category range from 27,400 to 41,995.

That's crazy to me, too.

But, considering an EV costs about half as much to operate over its lifespan, I think I'd spring for the new EV over the average used gasoline vehicle.

When I check edmunds for used EVs, between 15,000 and 35,000, and 2017 (because of an improvement in lithium batteries around that time) - 2022, it shows 21 vehicles all clustered around 22,000.