I know this is an old subject but I just want to ask

[TheWraith]

4. Honestly? Because we're bad strategists.

We're really good at the circular firing squad, and really bad at the kind of prompt, ruthless blowback operations that the right-wing excels at. Wisconsin was such a big deal because it was well executed in a way that's rare for us.

On edit: Take a comparison for instance to those financed astroturf rallies mentioned upthread. The counter on our side was house parties organized by MoveOn, to quietly try and get people educated on the nuances of healthcare reform, whereas the right-wing's response was to take a very simple message and hammer it through every available bit of media.

A really effective response would have been mass rallies with every single person hammering home simple points like medical decisions by doctors not bureaucrats, your life is worth more than their stock price, simple understandable points that would sound good to the low-information public.