Everything we toss out is viewed by the voters as a smoke screen. They figure either we don't know the economy is bad, or that we don't care. All of this nonsense we keep tossing out. The asinine little images where we tell people how awful the Rethugs are is useless. We are ignoring the proverbial elephant in the room, and the party of that elephant isn't.
Do you want to know why we are even in danger of losing the Senate in November? It's not because some people called the ACA Obamacare. It's not because Snowden leaked the material. It's not because the Rethugs have a good image control. It's because we are ignoring the issues that matter to the voters, and thereby ignoring the voters.
Let's say you have a significant other. A man or woman who you are interested in. You ask them to meet you for some time dancing. You don't show up. You don't return their calls, and you don't care that their birthday comes and goes without so much as a word. Can you be surprised when they go out with someone else? Even if that guy/girl they go out with after you is a complete loser by comparison, they are paying attention to the former significant other.
Voters are the same. You have to pay attention to them. You can't ignore their issues, and expect them to fawn all over you. It's a partnership. A relationship that you have to work to maintain. By shouting GOTV or else this kind of SC decision will be handed down, and ignoring their issues, which the Democrats are doing above and beyond the wildest dreams of Rethugs, you are insulting them.
They can and do care about other issues. I care about the SC, slightly. I care about the NSA more. I care about the militarization of the police and brutality/abuses by the police more than the NSA. But like the majority, the economy is my biggest issue. So if you asked me in a poll what the biggest issue was facing this nation, my answer would be the economy. Because even my big pet peeve of police abuses pales in comparison to people living in storm drains. Because I've felt the despair of knowing I can't pay all the bills at the end of the month. I've watered down the milk, and I've looked at the instructions on the box of macaroni and cheese wishing I could afford to put milk and butter in it. I'm no longer that desperate, but I have not forgotten the feelings. I've looked at a bowl of ramen and a handful of saltine crackers and known this was the best hot meal I could manage for the day, and felt lucky then that I could have that.
All of it. The NSA, the Police. All of it is not a bad second line, but it must be coupled with the first line, and that first line must be the economy. We see the President Pivot to the economy, but even then he just takes credit for the great shape it is in. It isn't in great shape for far too many of our fellow citizens. They are desperate for some relief, a little help, and all we can offer them is silence becaue recognizing how desperate they are means we can't take credit for the economic recovery. Silence on this issue won't get them to the voting booth, and if it does, they'll vote for the Republicans. At least the Republicans recognize that things are not wonderful in the world, because the Republicans are fighting to stop the "Job killing" postage stamp selection procedure while we're telling the world that the CBO's assessment that the Minimum wage hike losing half a million jobs is either erronious, or a good thing for those stuck in such jobs. We actually said that the people would be better off unemployed. We couldn't appear more callous unless we were literally walking on the backs of the poor ala Count de Money in History of the World Part 1.
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