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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Whip James Clyburn: 'Defund the police' cost Democrats seats [View all]Scrivener7
(58,454 posts)of which cause massive and visible suffering.
RepubliQans manage to flood the media with CRT, which really, no one understands and no one outside of academica had heard about before a few months ago. They managed to deluge us with myths about voter fraud and caravans, etc, which are never effectively rebutted. They always get away with it.
Democrats, on the other hand, can't get any traction with things like, "THEY WANT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. HERE ARE A THOUSAND VIDEOS PROVING IT!" or "They want to take away your vote!" or "They are, frankly, using COVID to kill you. Intentionally!" or "You have done all the work and billionaires are getting all the money and you are helping them!" or " Missouri wants to ban birth control!" or "You are about to run out of water, and republiQans refuse to do anything about it." Or any of a thousand other things.
That is partly our own fault. Seriously. We should sequentially pick republiQan atrocities and talk about nothing else to the media for two weeks. Make it get the same volume as their nonsense.
I have said it before and I will say it again, though I usually take heat for it: We need to get a good PR firm and learn how to fight back against the republiQan manipulation of media, and make our own message heard.