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8. An emphasis on educating voters and officially coining the terms the Roosevelt Party and...
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 07:21 PM
Nov 2014

Roosevelt Democrats. Through mass e-mails, calls, and I think some form of regular Public Service Announcement (PSA) that informs Americans about things like:

Social Security is solvent.

The Affordable Healthcare Act was a conservative idea and we want single payer, which will cover everyone (and explain how everyone pays into a fund, which then can be used by citizens when they get sick so people are no longer losing their homes and going into financials ruin just because they get sick)

On the whole, Red States benefit more from federal social programs.

Foreign Aid is a small fraction of the budget.

Making contrasts between daily military spending and what we are failing to do socially at home.

ETC.

The GOP thinks it owns morality when it is the least socially responsible. It is well beyond time we call them out for that. The CBO can be our best friend in a lot of these PSAs, which can be renamed to better suit our goals. We need to come up with how and what form we get our information out there, and then we can expect people to want to sign on or tell us to go screw.

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