What are the top issues the Democrats should be discussing?

[kentuck]

Hopefully, they can be more focused than all of us posters here on DU?

Try to choose the one you consider the most important.

33 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Inflation and kitchen table issues?
	18 (55%)
	The war in Ukraine?
	1 (3%)
	The future of democracy?
	6 (18%)
	The January 6th insurrection?
	3 (9%)
	The cost of college education?
	0 (0%)
	The continuing threat of Covid?
	0 (0%)
	The failure of the American media to inform?
	0 (0%)
	The danger of a second Trump presidency?
	1 (3%)
	Other?
	4 (12%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. As someone once wrote on a sign, "it's the economy, stupid." I'm not referring to you. NT

[FSogol]

6. +1. n/t

[Auggie]

2. No-brainer: inflation and kitchen table issues

[kentuck]

4. Isn't it a political "loser" to discuss inflation at this time of high inflation?

For no other reason, wouldn't it be wise to try and change the subject?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. You don't have a choice. NT

[Auggie]

18. +1. If Democrats don't control this conversation, Republicans will.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Economy/kitchen table issues.

Unfortunately many Americans don’t care about minor inconveniences such as the erosion of democracy.

[jalan48]

5. Inflation with an emphasis on corporate price gouging.

[pwb]

7. Republicans love of Comrade little man Putin?

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[Marius25]

9. Most Americans don't seem to care about the future of Democracy

People would rather live in a dictatorship run by Republicans than pay an extra $1 per gallon in gas.

[Beautiful Disaster]

12. It's been that way for years.

People like to point to Iraq and Katrina, and then the Great Recession as reasons Bush's approval tanked in his second term, and while they certainly didn't help, his approval was more tied to gas prices than anything else.

Pretty much from the start of his second term, to the end, gas prices rose year over year and each year, he finished with a worse approval than the year before.

It'll always come back to the economy and gas prices. It sucks but that's the reality.

[dwayneb]

26. Either don't care, or live in a fantasy world

One problem is that Americans are under-educated and uninformed and only have a superficial knowledge of history.

So many imagine that "it can't happen here" - that Fascism and Authoritarianism can only take place somewhere far, far away in another time and place.

They really don't comprehend that "kitchen table issues" mean absolutely zero when the rule of law has been tossed in the trash and their Constitutional freedoms are a dim and distant memory.

[SoonerPride]

10. Economy, jobs, healthcare, drug prices, jobs, inflation, jobs, climate change, jobs

It's the economy, stupid.

Basically blow off all the side show cultural issues the Republicans want to drag us into.

Fights over race theory, trans persons in sports, etc are distractions from what 99% people care about.

Jobs, healthcare, jobs, jobs, jobs.

[kentuck]

11. Most folks only care about "jobs" when they don't have one...

We are near full employment at this time.

[electric_blue68]

27. (for white people)

[IngridsLittleAngel]

23. Oh, we passed "trans people in sports" weeks ago..

Now it's stopping them from transitioning. Give it another month or two, and the QOP will be declaring breathing while trans to be a crime.

I'm still waiting for someone here to explain to me how open hatred, bigotry and cruelty is a "culture war".

[Hoyt]

13. All that, with Jan 6th at the very bottom.

[kentuck]

15. I would agree that all the issues are important...

...but we need to prioritize them in importance to the American people. I think if we lose our democracy, none of the other issues are really that important in comparison.

[dwayneb]

28. Kentuck is always dead on point

KY is my favorite state (commonwealth), even though I am a Buckeye.

Your point is short and to the point. Americans THINK that "kitchen table" issues are important, but what they cannot comprehend is how close we are to the precipice of the destruction of American democracy, which will make those "issues" completely irrelevant.

We are 2 elections away. If the Republicans gain control of Congress in 2022, and if Trump or neo-Trump gain power in 2024, the Fascist Right will immediately move to finish the job they started in 2016.

[MissMillie]

14. Winning issues are kitchen table issues, but

the most important, IMHO is the future of democracy

[MontanaMama]

16. If kitchen table issues includes

access to affordable health care…then I’d go with that. Access to health care got sidelined by Jan 6th and Covid. Americans are still going bankrupt over medical bills and unaffordable prescriptions.

[area51]

20. +1 n/t

[treestar]

17. Are we sure people care about the kitchen table issues?

The media doesn't. Unless they can be used for attack mode.

The Republicans don't, and they win a lot of elections.

It seems people care most about how entertained they are, and their emotional satisfaction. Obviously Republicans would gladly pay more for gas if TFG were president. They'd pay more for everything and pay more taxes while the rich pay less.

There are plenty of voters who take it all as an entertainment. Perhaps the Democrats needs to talk about dumber things. Make fun of the Republican candidates and exaggerate their personal faults.

[dwayneb]

30. Maybe - but point is that current strategy is not working

Unfortunately the dumbing down of the American people began many decades ago.

Until now, many people think that this is all a game, a reality TV show - and that bad things can't ever happen here. Fascism and Authoritarianism can only violate people in some far off time and place.

[Xoan]

19. "Eight years left to turn the ship":

Scientists share how climate change could change daily life.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-climate-change-could-change-daily-life/

[LonePirate]

21. This question needs to be asked again once Roe is overturned and people see how democracy is dying.

[dwayneb]

32. Yes - but will that be too late?

Republican takeover of Congress in 2022 and the election of a Fascist like Trump or DeSantis in 2024 will seal the deal.

This question should have been asked 30 or 40 years ago when it became clear that the Radical Right had a path secure ultimate Power and to destroy our representative democracy.

[Takket]

22. I voted inflation but...

Rather than discussing they need to be legislating. Or at the very least forcing rethugs to vote against those kitchen table issues. But it needs to happen in September and October because votes have a 15 second attention span.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

24. Other: Human rights

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Because if the QOP regains power, "a human" will be defined as white, cisgender, straight, male, and conservative. No one else will be declared a human, and therefore, will lose their human rights.

See the fun the trans community has had in 2022? Coming soon to another group of the population near you...

[hamsterjill]

25. Wow. Roe v Wade didn't even make the poll.

Democrats have a lot to be discussing.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. I would add climate change/climate immigration and global economic/social inequality.

KY.......

[electric_blue68]

31. Economy and there's room for some attention on...

Democracy (including the War on Ukraine), Climate Change, Roe v Wade, Racism for goodness sakes!
Each candidate measures our which ones they will pick besides The Economy.


Hopefully Biden can (?) decide to either halve, or cancel student debt.

[Emile]

33. I would vote for inflation if they would point their finger at

the Predatory Capitalists that caused it.