The Nazis are already back in power, and this time they were smart enough to distribute their people among multiple parties. Even the highest ranking Green Party member was enthusiastically defending the genocide in Palestine, and pushing against calls for restraint against children.
I wish that too. Sadly the people are stupid.
Over 16 years of doing nothing, corruption and stopping investments into the country, have already been forgotten because now with the last government of SPD and Greens that wanted to reform and invest, and the everything blocking FDP, the effect of that mismanagement are shown and they are being blamed for. Not the once at fault…
Progressives need better social media managers and to not be above playing dirty. They should be spamming their ideologies over all social media, being loud about mistakes the others made, being low-brow and making memes, phrases and shit that even monkeys on the right can understand. Give the media something to talk about - all publicity is good publicity. The nazis and right-wingers learned it, when will the progressives?
The greens also need to grow a pair.
Bring threw what they stand for and yell it from the roof tops!
Not what they have always been doing, being so passiv and only feel good words
Yes but we are also going to have to compromise on issues where a big part of the electorate does not hold doctrinaire progressive values (in Europe this means one thing: immigration). It won’t be enough to spam the “stupid” voters with low-brow memes and make fun of “nazis” and hope that non-progressives suddenly become enlightened and see that their values are wrong. There will have to be substantive concessions on policy. Even “stupid” voters know when they’re being manipulated.
The big thing to me is helping the “opposition” (that I put in quotes) clarify their values. Many of them say they oppose illegal immigration to get violent criminals out of America. (Many others are racists) We can focus on details that show Republicans don’t care about violent offenders, ignoring them to focus on nonviolent immigrants, and that Democratic organization successfully removes them.
A big point in favor of this is showcasing how many people were deported under Obama. It was more than Trump! The reason it’s not highlighted because it was “business as usual” going after violent offenders, not to mention scaling down operations from prior admins, and because the organization didn’t receive direct interference to make big shows of hurting innocent people.
People can get more done, more effectively, when their boss isn’t trying to make news headlines about it.
In a modern world where Indiana voted for Obama and where brown people of all shades are now flocking to Trump, I don’t think there’s any hard evidence for this tired (and by definition unfalsifiable) line and I think that throwing it around casually is now serving mostly to make the left toxic, both in the USA and here in Europe. That’s my view.
On the rest, sure. Mastering the media narrative is as important as ever.
Germans better not vote right-wing or “Christian” again, otherwise they can say bye bye to public transportation funding for the next 4 years.
The Nazis are already back in power, and this time they were smart enough to distribute their people among multiple parties. Even the highest ranking Green Party member was enthusiastically defending the genocide in Palestine, and pushing against calls for restraint against children.
I wish that too. Sadly the people are stupid. Over 16 years of doing nothing, corruption and stopping investments into the country, have already been forgotten because now with the last government of SPD and Greens that wanted to reform and invest, and the everything blocking FDP, the effect of that mismanagement are shown and they are being blamed for. Not the once at fault…
Progressives need better social media managers and to not be above playing dirty. They should be spamming their ideologies over all social media, being loud about mistakes the others made, being low-brow and making memes, phrases and shit that even monkeys on the right can understand. Give the media something to talk about - all publicity is good publicity. The nazis and right-wingers learned it, when will the progressives?
The greens also need to grow a pair. Bring threw what they stand for and yell it from the roof tops! Not what they have always been doing, being so passiv and only feel good words
Yes but we are also going to have to compromise on issues where a big part of the electorate does not hold doctrinaire progressive values (in Europe this means one thing: immigration). It won’t be enough to spam the “stupid” voters with low-brow memes and make fun of “nazis” and hope that non-progressives suddenly become enlightened and see that their values are wrong. There will have to be substantive concessions on policy. Even “stupid” voters know when they’re being manipulated.
The big thing to me is helping the “opposition” (that I put in quotes) clarify their values. Many of them say they oppose illegal immigration to get violent criminals out of America. (Many others are racists) We can focus on details that show Republicans don’t care about violent offenders, ignoring them to focus on nonviolent immigrants, and that Democratic organization successfully removes them.
A big point in favor of this is showcasing how many people were deported under Obama. It was more than Trump! The reason it’s not highlighted because it was “business as usual” going after violent offenders, not to mention scaling down operations from prior admins, and because the organization didn’t receive direct interference to make big shows of hurting innocent people.
People can get more done, more effectively, when their boss isn’t trying to make news headlines about it.
In a modern world where Indiana voted for Obama and where brown people of all shades are now flocking to Trump, I don’t think there’s any hard evidence for this tired (and by definition unfalsifiable) line and I think that throwing it around casually is now serving mostly to make the left toxic, both in the USA and here in Europe. That’s my view.
On the rest, sure. Mastering the media narrative is as important as ever.
If you want to make the argument that “there are no racists” in America, that is a starkly uphill claim to make.
I acknowledge a huge number of voters are not like that. Which is why I talked about them first and regarded Others as being racist. Which is true.