Okay, I'll go into the lion's den... [View all]

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because I think things are likely to get more and more tense here after the events of yesterday.

Whenever people post complaints, borne of frustration, about the Democrats in Congress and Dem leaders, they are often met with "What do you want them to DO??? They have no power right now. The GOP controls the narrative and the media."

I don't know what I want them to do other than, somehow, hold a daily press conference. Alternate AOC and Jasmine Crockett and other strong progressives. Every day, like clockwork. People will start to look forward knowing it's coming and tune in. Address everything that happened in the previous 24 hours. And use language that will get attention every single day. Use every social media platform consistently to get that daily message out. More and more are tuning out traditional media; we want to hear directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak. I think that's especially true of young people. AOC and Jasmine and others know how to create content that will spread on social media. Fuck MSM. Get the friggin podcasters and "influencers" (ugh, I loathe that term) to cover them religiously because they're visibly fighting hard. Every day. Loudly. They're creating reliable, consistent content, addressing the barrage of BS. In unison versus everyone's individual social media content.

There is white noise everywhere. They need to come together to break through with clarity and that will require consistency. Not all of them have to get on board; there are probably only a handful or so who can do this effectively.

LET THEM. The rest can amplify the message, or at the very least don't shit on it.

I don't know what I want them to do beyond becoming much, much more visible, with clear, unified messaging in the face of authoritarian chaos, and I/WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT. We elect the best and brightest among us and, together, THEY are the ones who should be figuring this shit out. It's not on us to come up with a gameplan for them and we have every right to express frustration, regardless of the obstacles they face. Let them speak out loudly about that too, and why they're having to take a different approach.

I don't care if NYC doesn't represent the whole country. The Mamdani template should be used. There is an alleged POTUS who is demented and deranged and floods the zone every day through his own platform. Newsome is combatting this most effectively and consistently (key) thus far.

BE VISIBLE. BE LOUD. BE CONSISTENT. BE HUMOROUS and ENGAGING when possible. Even if it's only a relative handful doing it. When they get reliable attention, others will want to be part of it. We desperately need that.

And until they figure out what to do, our frustration is understandable and it's not always going to be expressed rationally after a huge event like yesterday, nor calmly. No one is cheering for them harder than we here at DU.

Only my 2 cents, of course.