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  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

    "Democrat Party" is literally a focus-grouped Republican smear. We can criticize Democrats without using reactionary propaganda.

    M4A has overwhelmingly positive reception

    And most people weren't voting on that issue alone, because "dang cheeto in the White House" centrist messaging was more effective than the messaging coming out of the left. We have to actually convince people to vote for leftist candidates; we can't just point to a poll that says something is popular and hope.

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        4 years ago

        they're referring to Frank Luntz's advice to the GOP to use "democrat" instead of "democratic" as if that kind of wizardry is why dems lose and not because their job is to fight the left and they haven't delivered material benefits for four decades

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          as if that kind of wizardry is why dems lose

          That type of advertising bullshit absolutely makes a difference in close races. And because Democrats' "job is to fight for the left and they haven’t delivered material benefits for four decades," they're always in close races.

      • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        No dude, he's right. Its technical name is the Democratic Party.

        This is a 1990s Republican troll move. They started calling it the Democrat Party.

        When Democrats went to correct them, they'd call them out for being elitists. So they eventually just gave up on it, because they lose either way.

          • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Oh yeah for sure.

            I mean fuck that, even. There isn't time to replace them with a working class party, either.

            People don't understand how fucked the electoral project is at this juncture. You'd need like 65 Senate seats, the entire house, and then to fire and pack the entire judiciary just to get started.

            At which point the CIA or DoD would merk you without a second thought, if it could even get that far.

            There is no electoral path forward for the left with the time that's left. There just isn't.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        So it’s a Republican smear to actually call the party by their name?

        It's not the party's name, that's the whole point.