08-10-2021, 10:09 AM
(08-09-2021, 09:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The above seems a less controversial, less confrontational version of the blue narrative. I guess we do need a resolution, but I doubt it will come by just ignoring our differences.
Rachel Maddows came back from vacation this week, and basically asked (with tongue carefully in cheek) how dare they have news on the big issues while she was away? Her three leading segments were on the Covid response, the Big Lie and fighting global warming in time. My thought as she presented her segments, and rather convincingly with Dr Fauci and a senator on the relevant committee as guests, was that she was preaching to the choir. The people watching her show were blue. The people that need to save lives, reject the Big Lie and preserve the environment are not watching her show. They are going to custom red media that will tell them what they want to hear.
Now the above isn't wrong, but we can't just sidestep the key issues. The big meme of the crisis to be hammered home in the high is that we can't accept lies. I don't care if it is some media wannabe or as S&H suggested the civic generation that reinforces the point, but it has to become basic and central. We cannot live on the assumption that because it would be nice if something were so that it must be so.
If anythiing, I'm even less convinced. The soft-squishy message has been a Democratic hallmark for decades. That's what isn't working. The message doesn't have to be far to the left, but it has to be strong and pointed. Even more to the point, the Dems need to take the fight to the enemy (sorry to have to use that designator, but the truth is the truth). They need to worry less about offending and more aboujt supporting their own vision.
Noonefollowsaleader whoasks, "Where should we go now?" It'sthe leader'sjobto supply that.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.