Beto O'Rourke calling for Reparations is a big mostake

[mr_lebowski]

43. This ... exactly. Calling for 'Reparations' is a LOSER for Democrats, period

We should champion programs that will help ALL the disadvantaged, regardless of race. This is a much easier sell. And because PoC's tend to be disadvantaged at a higher %, they will inherently be 'helped more' by such plans than the average white person.

You know for every 1 black person out there that would say to themselves 'Hell yes, I want reparations!', I'd bet there's 2 that would just like a leg up by virtue of the fact that they're struggling, and the system is set up against poor people, and DON'T want such a program to ONLY be offered to AA's, out of some sense of White Guilt over what a bunch of long dead people did.

IOW, it's not even going to be a particularly winning issue among AA voters, I don't think.

OTOH, it'll hurt us electorally ... with considerably more people. And especially in States we'll really need to win.

Here, Dem Leaders who may be reading ... here are terms that actually WORK:

Tuition Reform
Help with Vocational Training (you don't want it to sound like only 'elitist' college kids will be helped)
Student Debt Restructuring
Fixing the ACA with the Public Option it was always meant to have
Medicare BUY IN
A Jobs & Education Program to Help Lift Folks out of Poverty
A 21st Century Energy Program (not 'end fossil fuel use' by 2030 or whatever ... even though that should be the goal).

People like hearing of things that sound positive, and even more, that sound FAIR.

As the post I'm responding to points out:
Medicare For All (easy to spin as wildly unfair to Seniors who paid in all their lives)
Free College (easy to spin as unfair to non-elite kids who want vocational training and/or don't have the grades to get into college)
and for the love of Dog, Reparations? (it polls TERRIBLY)

Simply put ... these are ALL LOSERS.