In your opinion what should the Democratic party do?

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40 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Time expired
	Move toward the right
	2 (5%)
	Move towards the progressive left
	34 (85%)
	Stay right where it is
	2 (5%)
	OTHER
	2 (5%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Elessar Zappa]

1. Other.

I don’t think moving right, left or staying the same matters much. We need to start building up a similar media ecosystem like the right has. We need armies of trolls and bots pounding our message on social media. We need many more popular podcasters, YouTubers, and TikTokers.

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3. OK, but what is the content of our message?

We're not them?

[Initech]

9. We also need conferences and conventions.

Come on, the Democrats have celebrity backers... why can't we enlist them to help get the message out?

[Horse with no Name]

2. Sit back and watch the R's tear it apart

And be ready to pick up the pieces

[Initech]

11. Seriously, who wants to head to the Winchester with me?

[Skittles]

12. in other words

business as usual

[yardwork]

4. I chose "move left" but we need to improve messaging, too.

I understand that we're badly outspent by the billionaires, who hire clever people who know how to get into the heads of people to confuse and misinform. Still, if we're going to be on the side of the angels, we have to fight, and those fights between good and evil are always one-sided.

I think we can do better at messaging. Short sentences. Big promises. Stay out of the weeds. Fight back - immediately and hard - against GOP messaging.

[Initech]

14. Yeah we got to rebuild the media.

Shit, the republicans control nearly all the networks, podcasts, and social media. They have a monopoly on nearly all talk radio stations and broadcast TV (not satellite). They have three 24/7 continuously operating "news" channels that broadcast their propaganda. They also have a monopoly on the churches and political conventions. Like I keep saying, we're bringing kitchen knives to a war that's being fought with rocket launchers and sub machine guns. We have to do something to combat this.

[Seeking Serenity]

5. Where was the "Screw it. French Revolution" choice?

[TheProle]

15. The one that devolved into the Reign of Terror

claimed the heads of its own revolutionaries and paved the way for Napoleon to crown himself emperor? No thanks.

[boston bean]

6. We need to create a liberal media.

And we need to start to listen and I am sorry but triangulate on some issues to win elections.

[gay texan]

7. Other

Learn how to fight back and stop being polite.

[milestogo]

8. When they go low

we fight back.

[Meowmee]

10. Stop calling for orange psycho to be pardoned

and start fighting. Stop lecturing your constituents who put you in office about things like this.

[ecstatic]

13. it doesn't matter. The issue has always been communication

We keep letting rethugs dictate the terms of the conversation.

[Sympthsical]

16. Simple. Talk to people instead of talking at them.

Which should be really fucking easy. But apparently not if the past month has been any indication. Feels like everyone's on a double or nothin streak for the past decade with this stuff.

And it seems like the current favored political strategy is, "Maybe if Republicans really screw up, they'll vote for us again!" Which is actually a reasonable expectation. Our party taking Congress in '26 and the Presidency in '28 are realistic consequences of people watching Trump in action.

It's just depressing that that seems to be the entire measure of the strategy. "Change nothing. Wait until something really bad happens. Profit."

What a hopeful, inspiring vision.