Democrats need a winning message. We propose: 'Workers, wages and weed.'

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

Joe Biden, in defeating Donald Trump, won more votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history. But as we saw with several ballot initiatives from this past election cycle, a handful of issues outperformed Biden in red and blue states — and may offer Democrats both a popular message and a slate of wedge issues to take to voters.

We’ve dubbed these “workers, wages and weed.”

Legislation supporting workers, improving wages and legalizing marijuana are progressive, Democratic policies. But they’re also extremely popular among Republicans and moderates.

According to the Pew Research Center, 91 percent of Americans say marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use. A Reuters/Ipsos poll from February found that roughly 6 out of 10 voters supported a $15 minimum wage. And other recent polls found that more than 80 percent of likely voters supported paid leave programs for workers.

Julie Oliver and Mike Siegel, former Democratic congressional candidates, are co-founders of Ground Game Texas.

[Walleye]

1. I'm still willin'

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. Defund the Republicans

Is my personal one

[vercetti2021]

3. And voting rights

All these need to be the message

[LaMouffette]

4. I have a better one: "They go low, we get high!"

Heh, heh. Been waiting for the opportunity to use that one for a while now!

[iemanja]

5. Not weed.

It's fine to legalize weed, but making it a major slogan is not a good idea.
Perhaps families, workers, and wages?

[leftstreet]

7. They need to drop the "families" thing

It's so 90s, but uh, aging politicians don't realize the Norman Rockwellesque picture they're conjuring doesn't match with current demographics. The worst is "working families." Ugh, so many singles, so many retired, disabled, unemployed, etc

Just "people" is fine

[iemanja]

10. I hear you

And it excludes single people, which is a wide swath of the population. Still, families is very politician-like.

[GoodRaisin]

9. We need to leverage weed if it has 91% support.

Not necessarily part of a slogan (I don't care for slogans anyway), but we need to drive the message home to the 91% that only the ignorant, outdated, old white republican and fascist authoritarians are blocking it - and they must be taken out of the way for the country to move forward on this way overdue issue. Once again, another issue where the minority is trying to exercise authoritarian control over what the vast majority of people have clearly said we want.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. It is a winning message when, not if, the Voter Rights Act passes,

The John Lewis Act passes, and both Infrastructure legislation passes..

THAT, right there, will put the nail in the coffin of the thugs (and they know it!)..giterdone..

[hookaleft]

8. www.thatisit.com nt

[BlueCheeseAgain]

11. I completely support legalizing weed...

But I don't think it should be one of only three items in a slogan.