A friend, deeply frustrated after talking to clueless Republicans, wonders why Democrats can’t get their message out. She says: What’s so darn hard about spreading the word, and repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, like Republicans do? Indeed, it should be the easiest thing in the world. And yet it’s not, for all the reasons we already know: the media is not liberal, the left doesn’t have the “talking-point-factories-disguised-as-think-tanks” infrastructure, Democrats by nature are not authoritarian and aren’t in the habit of falling in line, etc. etc. As a result we get narratives like this: This is elitist … Continue reading Move On Dot Everyone?

A friend, deeply frustrated after talking to clueless Republicans, wonders why Democrats can’t get their message out. She says: What’s so darn hard about spreading the word, and repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, like Republicans do? Indeed, it should be the easiest thing in the world. And yet it’s not, for all the reasons we already know: the media is not liberal, the left doesn’t have the “talking-point-factories-disguised-as-think-tanks” infrastructure, Democrats by nature are not authoritarian and aren’t in the habit of falling in line, etc. etc. As a result we get narratives like this: This is elitist … Continue reading Move On Dot Everyone?