"We are listening now": Democrats' path forward leads back to the economy

[drray23]

1. I think the economy is a red herring

It is the convenient excuse advanced by people who voted for Trump. This occurred because of disinformation, apathy or plain hypocrisy.

We can see it developing in real time right now.

The inflation is rising, the informal benchmark "price of eggs" is no longer talked about in the media, especially right-wing media. Instead, the conversation has shifted to the so-called waste in government and how Trump and Musk are combating it when in reality, they are destroying the federal infrastructure while securing a hold on the all the institutions to guarantee they won't be unseated.

If our message is to discuss all the wonderful policies, we will institute to help the economy we will lose again. I believe we should instead focus on combating disinformation, building up a presence on social media where most of the information circulates and get away from the old way of campaigning which consisted in running ads on network TV, this is no longer how you spread the message.

Pointing out the MAGA attacks on social security, Medicare and all the social safety net is definitely something we should do but it goes hand to hand with developing the means to push the message.