Moving Forward Together or Splintering and Going Nowhere

[guillaumeb]

1. Interestingly enough, posts similar to this were being written about the GOP

a few months ago. There was much talk about a splintered party, about never being able to win on a national level, and talk about the GOP splitting into two factions, a Tea Party GOP and a mainstream GOP.

All that speculation vanished of course in the wake of the Trump victory. I italicized victory because between the suppression, and voting list scrubbing, and machine malfunctions, and FBI machinations, I feel that to call it a victory is deceptive.

The Democratic message was completely dismissed and ignored by a sensationalistic corporate media that focused on the optics of the Trump campaign and also on the issue of emails. All else was ignored by the media and much of the electorate.

As to mid-term electoral turnout, that has been a huge problem for years. So in my view, motivation and effective messaging must be the twin foci. Perhaps the Democrats must do more on social media and less on releasing elaborate position papers that many voters ignore.