Tired of losing the Rust Belt, new Democratic group has strategy to un-Pelosi the party

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154. Or how about we....you know.....find politicians who can sell progressive policies

I'm sick and fucking tired of the goddamned, "I give up" laziness of far too many on our side.

Why is the solution always "Let's find MORE conservative candidates!" rather than "Let's find candidates who can clearly and concisely articulate progressive policies and show people how and why they are good for them!".

It's like with Obamacare. Once it was clear that people weren't going to magically have all the details and information and reasons why it was good for them planted directly into their brains, Democrats scattered and were essentially useless. Rather than going out there and explaining why it was good and pushing back on horrible, inaccurate narratives on the legislation, they hid. And the narrative was conceded.

Our biggest problem as a party is that we've conceded the framing of too many issues to the right and Republicans. At what point did we stop expecting our candidates to be able to....you know.....campaign in any way beyond "What is it you want to hear? I'll tell you that!".

And then when these same candidates vote against the party and undermine the agenda that a majority of the party agree on, we're supposed to just shrug our shoulders and thank these same people.

Yeah, we've been trying this approach for 25 years now and it fucking sucks and it's gotten us nowhere.