Why have some decided the only way to improve the party

[JCanete]

140. A triangulating party tries to cater to white republican votes. Our party has a history of doing

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that, from "super predators" to "don't ask don't tell."

And don't worry, I already know, you aren't going to read this. You can spare the ink that you would have used to tell me so.

Liberals who are frustrated with our party want us to win those voters with a message that gets through to a chunk of them in spite of their bubbles of misconception and alternate reality, not by pandering to those misconceptions.

I guess this can get confusing when the media takes populist messaging about how we need to reach these groups of voters and turns that into us needing to cater to their worst instincts. That's them doing the job they are paid to do, being intellectually dishonest or lazy.But nobody who is a liberal is saying what you think they are saying.

You are right, voter suppression is fucking huge. For that matter, continued erosion of quality education is HUGE. Why aren't we nagging the fuck out of our so-called fourth estate to do their job and cover it like a responsible media would? Why are we letting this happen? Sure, we try to draw attention to it, "please media please...don't you see?" but that is not the same as embarrassing the media for the horrible job it is doing. We never seem to want to take on the forces that benefit from all of this, and that is why we can't break off voters. We never seem to want to find a galvanizing war-cry that puts the middle class on the side of the poor, rather than allowing the GOP and the media to manipulate our message into it being about taking money from the middle class.