Republicans are not afraid of Critical Race Theory... They're afraid of...

[demmiblue]

[TheFarseer]

1. I kept seeing

Focus groups in VA saying they weren’t mad about CRT. They were mad the schools were closed forever and they had to scramble for child care and the children lost alot of learning. I said pretty early that if Dems were the party of Covid shutdowns, we were going to get massacred at the polls.

[Silent3]

2. So, do you accept that as a necessary political price...

...or do you suggest Democrats should have joined the death cult mentality for political gain?

[TheFarseer]

6. I never said there was an easy answer nt

[heckles65]

23. Thank you, Farseer.

I think you made a good point. Unfortunately "don't make us keep our kids at home, teach them at the school, and oh yes -keep them safe from COVID" - is a contradiction.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Schools were first shut down under Trump.

The shutdowns lasted longer than necessary because Trump, Republicans, and Fox politicized the virus and caused it to go on far longer than necessary. People need to be reminded of that fact. Evidence that it’s politics and not fear of the vaccine is that people in red states are dying at a much higher percentage than people in blue states.

That said, Republicans are always looking for ways to demonize Democrats. They’ve latched on to CRT and parental rights now, and it will most likely be the major campaign issue of 2022. I hope Democratic candidates are preparing a better message than McAuliffe had.

[Volaris]

13. The response should be, it's not dems fault the schools are closed...

Blame your covidit neighbor that wont go get their damn shots (and who wants to vote for Younkin).

[JudyM]

3. On the nose, demmiblue.

This would be great messaging for us, but likely too confrontational for our leadership to use.

[2naSalit]

17. I hate to say it, but I will...

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This nonconfrontationalism reminds me of the absolute frustration of being a government employee who has to engage with the general public on a daily basis as an outreach and ed tech.

You are required to be cordial, nonthreatening all while complying with regulations in threatening situations. I am glad I'm retired now because the hostility has only increased exponentially since I retired. These hostile folks cannot be reasoned with and they don't accept or respect the social contract.

But we have to play by the rules or we would demonstrate that we are the same. It's a tough place to be. How do you argue for better conditions to someone who can't listen yet you need their consent?

[JudyM]

21. Your great Linus cartoon holds the answer, IMO

We can both be civil and still keep the truth in front of the public, keep hammering it in.

Sorry you weren’t treated with kindness and respect, those are tough job conditions. The more social fabric breakdown we accept, the more there will be, and it is no doubt escalating.

What can we bring to the table? The truth, over and over, communicated succinctly and with words and imagery that stick. We desperately need a communications reboot, we need every available means to take charge of the narrative in whatever venues we have. We need a seriously excellent communications czar.

[Beartracks]

24. Succinctly is key. Too many words and it gets tuned out and the other side attacks your "nuance."

[JudyM]

31. Nuance is *completely* lost on low information voters. Rethugs hit hard with lies; we must hit hard

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with truth.

[Upthevibe]

4. Kick. N/T

[Wounded Bear]

5. K & R...nt

[Fla Dem]

7. Yep, truth!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Yes! That is the finger-pointing, lookee-over-there game they play! More Americans

need to become aware of it!

[Martin Eden]

9. EXACTLY

Except the racism deserving of criticism is fact, not theory.

[mountain grammy]

11. Yep!

[Hotler]

12. It's simple to me. If CRT bothers you, you are a racist. nt.

[PufPuf23]

14. Darn concise. Thank you. kr

[gulliver]

15. Critical race theory is, of course, just another "defund the police"

It's something that has a reasonable explanation that no one will listen to.

[Jon King]

16. Wrong, Repugs could care less about CRT.

When will we learn, maybe from VA? It has zero to do with an actual issue. Defund the police, CRT, book banning in Texas.

Its about eliciting emotions from their base and giving suburban voters a reason to come on over. Remember, Trump only lost because of Covid. No Covid, Trump finally wins the popular vote and a landslide in 2020. Suburban voters would have voted on the economy pre Covid, appearing tough on crime and borders, standing up to China.

The Repugs have the perfect game plan for 2022 midterms. And inflating gas and food prices will give them guaranteed victories. People do not look at cause, only their own bottom lines. Dems in power, prices high, bye Dem

Repugs will hammer away at suburban voters on crime, borders, and radical lefties telling their kids and grandkids being white is bad, they have no gender, and making them read a library full of books on elicit stuff.

Its all about emotion and perception and messaging. CRT is just another tool.

And somehow Dems have completely lost momentum on even the easy issues for them like abortion. As reproductive rights are being hammered, very little messaging to women and the young.

Goodness, anyone that can not see this 2022 massacre coming is paying to much attention to the 1-6 stuff that swing voters could care less about and not enough to Repug messaging on schools, crime, borders, inflation.

[FakeNoose]

18. Dems need to realize that the name "Critical Race Theory" is the worst possible title

Why are we calling it that? Repukes don't care what it is, they oppose it because we're FOR it. That's the only reason. Faux Noise is telling them to hate it, that's all.

It needs to be re-branded as "The Bible Theory" or how about "Love Thy Neighbor Theory." Make it something they cannot oppose and they can't make a meme out of it.

[Tommymac]

19. We Dems almost always seem to over 'intellectualize' our messaging.

I know Dems are smart folks, but Joe & Jane Sixpack don't always relate well to smart folks.

Sometimes getting a message totally intellectually precise instead of popularizing it is the wrong approach.

See TLP and MeidasTouch...those people are getting it right.

[Beartracks]

25. EXACTLY!!! It's not enough that we are right, we have to win elections! n/t

[Beartracks]

26. And another thought: if you have to explain the messaging, YOU DID IT WRONG.

[AZProgressive]

30. How about Republicans are against free speech?

This is what their policies relating to education are all about.

[AZProgressive]

28. This isn't Democrats coming up with the course

I actually wouldn’t trust Democrats to teach the course but not everything is the Democrats and it isn’t worth reacting to reactionaries. That actually alienates key parts of the Dem party base.

[AZProgressive]

29. Because the Democratic Party doesn't teach the course

Nor would I want them too. Democrats are almost as unfamiliar with it as much as Republicans.

[AverageOldGuy]

20. I read this somewhere . . .

The people who threw stones at Ruby Bridges at Little Rock Central High School, and the people who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four little girls in Sunday School, and the deputy sheriff Klansmen who tortured and murdered Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman don't want their grandchildren to learn that their grandparents threw stones at Ruby Bridges at Little Rock Central High School, bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four little girls in Sunday School, and tortured and murdered Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman

[jaysunb]

35. Bingo ! Nt

[dchill]

22. Critical Snowflake Theory.

[SergeStorms]

27. It isn't a theory. The racists exist.

And they're no longer ashamed of acting out their racist tendencies. In fact, they seem quite proud of themselves.

[AZProgressive]

32. I don't want Republicans in control of our education

Nor do I want Democrats worried about losing to start banning courses to make them happy.

[Oneironaut]

33. "Critical Race Theory" is just a euphemism for "black people" for them.

A lot of them have cognitive dissonance from knowing racism is bad while at the same time being racist.

[cstanleytech]

34. What it comes down to is its new the Benghazi or in other words they are using it to rally their

voting base for the next election and it could work as their base is composed largely of sheeple.