Posted on Aug 10, 2017
Democrats try to co-opt populist rage. Hilarity ensues.
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Look, I'll be the first person to call it straight down the line and frankly, this "Better Deal" slogan that the Democrats have come up with is stupid. It's not just about jobs, trade or monopoly busting. For me, it's about closing gaps in education, wages and skills to have all Americans be competitive in this global economy and about "promises" kept.
And before my Right-leaning Brothers and Sisters get their rocks and slings prepped, keep in mind your politicians haven't been solid on their word either.
And before my Right-leaning Brothers and Sisters get their rocks and slings prepped, keep in mind your politicians haven't been solid on their word either.
Democrats try to co-opt populist rage. Hilarity ensues.
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The Democrats seem to be falling apart. The mid term elections are heavily biased against Democrats. Now they are coming up with a slogan from the 1940's to define themselves. The biggest number the Democrats have to worry about is the lowest unemployment rate in 8 years.
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LTC David Brown - That's not factually correct. Case in point- numerous economies in the same recession recovered slower than ours. In fact, our economy rebounded faster than almost any major economy from said recession. The reality is, this was the first major recession in the new global economy. There wasn't much understood theory in how to "really" handle it, yet we did, much better than our European peers. Also, usually, the larger the economy, the harder it is to turn around. That goes both ways.
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Austin Hocutt
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Well, if you exclude Russia, then I'd say yeah we bounced back faster than any nation. But it's not hard being the worlds reserve currency. :P
Well, if you exclude Russia, then I'd say yeah we bounced back faster than any nation. But it's not hard being the worlds reserve currency. :P
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A "Better Deal" will never work as a national slogan, it is passive and just plain wishy washy. A better deal than what? The New Deal? Trumps America? or God forbid Obama's America? The reason President Trump's "Make America Great Again" and President Obama's “Hope” and “Change We Can Believe In”, worked is that they are both positive and active. Americans want to be "the best" and "to win". You don't win elections by telling voters that we can be a just little bit better, but we don't want to make the rest of the world look inferior or make them feel bad about themselves.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
It also sets itself up to be easily lampooned. Sticking with the "deal" theme means opponents can recast it as a bad deal, raw deal, etc.
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The DNC is delusional to think that a new slogan will change anything in Middle America. Voters in these flyover states have been maligned and their values disregarded by the DNC. So once again 2018 and 2020 will come down to Middle America where millions of voters have not forgotten nor forgiven Hillary and the DNC for labeling them sub human deplorable racists and will vote accordingly.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
Like I said also, Republicans track record for keeping their promises are just as bad if not worst than Democrats and as much as calling a group of people "deplorable" hurt Hillary, saying that 47% percent of the population were never going to vote for him and wasn't going to worry about them and "I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives" hurt Romney.
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LTC Orlando Illi
SSG Michael Hartsfield - Mike we can agree on one thing - both parties use hyperbole and vitriol to make their cases. The test in 2018 and 2020 will be which party mobilizes its base because now, more than ever, Political Discourse at the Local, State and National level is a contact sport and no quarter is asked for nor given
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