A thing that Republicans do that Democrats need to do

[Proud liberal 80]

Since I have been following politics (early 90’s) Republicans have always created the Democratic boogey man....it’s currently the squad, Pelosi and Schumer....this past decade it was Obama, Pelosi and Reid ....in the early 2000’s it was Pelosi....the 90’s it was Clinton and Ted Kennedy....and every Democrat running for office (senator, congress, mayor, governor, school board, dog catcher) is the tied the boogeyman....We never go after Republican candidates like that, other then maybe tying them to Trump.

[StarfishSaver]

1. Because we don't base our politics on demonizing people and scaring our voters

[LizBeth]

2. One of the ways to stop it is quit calling something Biden did stupid, before we know if or

what he did.

[Walleye]

3. Because we are not depraved assholes.

They are having kind of a hard time demonizing Joe, though.

[Mike 03]

4. This is a conversation we should have. This, as best as I can tell, is the

unspoken thesis of Ezra Klein's controversial book Why are we Polarized? I just made a post about this in another thread and even making that post, I felt then and feel now tremendous ambivalence.

But decades of political science studies and more recent developments in Game Theory, and the example of the Republicans, show us what we need to do to play the long game better and use anger to motivate more effective and dependable voting.

I haven't been prepared to go there before, but everything is at stake now, and I'm deeply considering this question.

I'll leave it at that.

[samsingh]

5. agreed

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. Hard to tar someone as Satanic

when Conservatives worship Satan.

[spanone]

7. fuck the republicans

[JHB]

8. It's not the boogeyman-making that's effective, it's the thousands of outlets...

...blanketing the country repeating it.

Get that, or even a portion of it, for Democratic messaging and there is no "need" to create boogeymen.

[stillcool]

9. false equivalency...of the 'we'

it isn't the Republicans elected to office that blow up Democrats through lies and innuendo. They tow the party line, but the real bull-horn is controlled by those they serve. If the Democrats went with the 'Third Way' and attempted to woo some of the real money in politics, perhaps it would be a different story. They too might have their own network, and plenty of money for shenanigans to take down any perceived threat.