Reply #70: I think there has to be a tasteful mix [View All]

[ZombieGak]

I think there has to be a tasteful mix of a positive message and one where the Dems contrast themselves with the Right.

I don't know if you heard Kos on NPR today. He kept claiming the Democratic message was OK... the REAL problem was the Dems needed infrastructure. I disagree. I believe that a compelling message can bypass infrastructure. But I just don't see the Dems having one yet.

They can claim values like equality, opportunity, democracy etc... but what we often see is the terms are used for window-dressing. For example there's nothing democratic about our system... yet the Dems refuse to ever talk what democracy means or about reforming our system... even as a majority of the voting age population sits out most elections. The Dems could have indexed the minimum wage to inflation 40 years ago. Why didn't they? They could have opposed NAFTA yet Clinton embraced it... insuring that there'd be downward wage pressures in the US. Dems can't even be honest about the deficits. Why? Because sometimes being less than honest works in their favor. We saw that with Kerry's deficit reduction plan in 04. It concealed a trillion in borrowing over 5 years.

What I want to see from the Dems is HONESTY... not spin. But I'm not holding my breath. And even if they win this November... it's sure to be an anti-GOP vote rather than an endorsement of the Dems.