Tip for Dem candidates: stop trying, as many prominent Dems have, to offer audiences the “right” answers, the ones you think they want to hear or ones consultants have tested, and start speaking from the heart, from what you really feel. It is what the moment requires. You can’t fake authenticity.
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And for God's sake show some outrage... Some true anger and call out the lies, go on the offensive! FIGHT!
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Tell us what you believe in and how you will bring it into reality. You are much more believable with a solid plan for 3 or 4 things you have real plans for than trying to solve it all. Have a solid opinion on other issues but have a way to success planned for 3 or 4.
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Exactly! 👍
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Like this shithead.
"I'm a zionist."
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YES!!!!!
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They have no heart, only ambition
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Absolutely - the hedging has lost a lot of folks
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Yes, thank you! The consultants/handlers totally got it wrong and did not allow Kamala Harris to be Kamala Harris.
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I don’t buy this. Maybe it works if certain factions already support you, but I have seen many more instances of reps being maligned for not yelling, screaming & providing clapback when it would not be at all authentic for them. Way too many want bread and circuses with optics, not authenticity.
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And start collecting the data , cost, to fix the issues make effort like Mr. Sanders , Elizabeth Warren did ! Bullshitting pulling from the hip like Republicons dont work on coherent voters !
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Calling Bill Clinton.
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From what I have seen from the actions of most of the Senate so far this year, if they spoke from the heart, their words would be, "we don't give a fuck what you want, we're going to keep confirming more of Trump's cabinet picks". And Booker would still vote to confirm Kushner's old man.
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Every establishment dem:
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Tell the voters that they have sinned and are being punished by Providence for their misdeeds.
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🎯 💯 💥T🔨
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What about listening to their constituents. I don’t want my reps doing anything other than what I voted for.
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What if they don’t “really feel” anything anymore though?
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Yep, stop accepting the Republican frame and stand on your convictions.
Republicans scream about immigrants getting health care. Don’t try to rationalize it simply state every human being deserves to get the healthcare they need and move on. Stop fighting on the oppositions terms all the time.
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I think that's what's so frustrating about the Democrats. They try to mouth some words sometimes but their actions (and inaction) gives the game away.
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Couldn’t agree more.
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Absolutely - no cohesion or coherence or repetition. Just do like my man Zohran Mandani and speak in long, disjointed, from-the-heart monologues
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New bumper sticker for 2026 election...
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Let’s just call being authentic “Going Beto”!
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Also get real adversarial interviews not ass kissing sessions. If you are like Elissa Slotkin and can't handle going on Breaking Points you don't belong in politics
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Amen!
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In fact, stop SPEAKING and start DOING.
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☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
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stand for something, have some courage
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Unfortunately career politicians on all sides don’t know the meaning of the word ‘authenticity.’ It’s as old school as honour & respectability, next we’ll be asking them to keep their ‘word,’ heads would explode 🤯 at that point!
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Also: have other methods of participation that aren't giving money through ActBlue. And also, leaving your comfort zone of large cities. Poor people can still knock, hand out flyers, and show up at small town meets.
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A million times this
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Back up there.
Step one: Listen.
Too many of these out of touch assholes truly believe the shit they are shoveling. Spend a week--a real week--in neighborhoods that don't look like you. Visit a cancer ward or ER. Get a job not in an office.
Then spend some time thinking about it all.
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We can tell it's fake
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I am 68 and quite frankly if the democrat running for office is over 50, has been a insert office here for more than three consecutive terms and is not a socialist, I will have problems voting for them.
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They'll still just be telling you what they think you want to feel, because not a single democrat politician is living, worried where their next pay check is coming from or deciding if they buy groceries or pay the power bill this month. It's just more rich people telling you they can fix your life
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Exactly.
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Yes yes yes.
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but then how will all of the Dem's corporate PR firms make 100s of millions of dollars in consultant fees???
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It’s rigged because republicans aren’t trying anymore to convince their base. They’ve already been stealing elections. Who tf likes turd cruz, Abbott didn’t lift a finger against Beto. Texas is rigged for republicans.
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Unfortunately, American elites have spent their entire lives acing the tests. They don't even know who they are, let alone what they believe.
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“I love America and I know you do too. But what Trump is doing is against all we all knew and loved about our treasured country. You know it. He has to be stopped. Now. I call on all of us to save America.”
Something like that?
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This! 100%. We can see through the “fake”.
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And don't fucking apologize for anything you say! Ever!
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Newsom is the only Dem. that seemingly gets it. He’s held press conferences shortly after rulings against Trump’s Executive Orders , which is exactly how to effectively counter this admin.
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Be real and be mad!
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They’ve all been acting for so many years that they forgotten how to be true to themselves.
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No more talk-action!talk is easy! Look at Booker great talker but then he votes for Trumps son’s father- in -law to be ambassador! How many other Trump buddies does Booker owe favors for CAN’t trust him anymore!
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Unfortunately too many,as evidence from perusing this site,expect "Purity" and loud full throated support for whatever particular issue or else. Insanity.
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They don't even know their authentic voices any more, if they had them to begin with.
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Yeah… but some authentically want to give their donors what they want because it makes them money.
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Amen!
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That’s it, speak from your heart what is meaningful to you. The people will know.
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I can’t believe more democrats aren’t looking at Zohran and learning this lesson
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I don't vote 💙. I vote for the candidate that I think will do the best thing for my country. Usually that happens to be 💙, but not always.
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Easy check, if the candidate isn't of or from a working-class upbringing, they're probably full of crap.
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I'm reminded of the intensive self-examination that Dems did of their failures in the election, which examination did not cover the choice of candidates nor the way they conducted their campaigns.
