The ONLY things Republicans have left to run on is BS culture war crap and lies and Democrats need to state that unequivocally. Their policies as far as they have them are hugely unpopular. Ignoring the lies and hatred or taking the high road is just not an option.
Call a lie a lie, not “nor true” or a “falsehood”, a lie. And usually they’re pretty stupid lies. Like the anti Talarico ad, it’s obviously a lie, they think you’re stupid and it’s creepy that they always want to talk about children’s genitalia.
No one is coming to help Dems make facts or the truth matter again. They need to confront Republicans and their henchmen head on. They should also be confronting the medias right wing bias head in but I digress.
Taking the high road and ignoring these disgusting attacks leaves a vacuum, which the Republicans rush to fill with the same repeated lies or more, different lies. And we all know that lies repeated over and over become truth. I think Democrats should use AI in Texas to show the truth about Paxton AND to call out the lies they’ve made about Talarico. Traditional attack ads don’t work because they’re “old style” politics. Fight fire with fire or at least with water. The worst thing Dems can do is ignore the lies. People decide their views emotionally and facts won’t change their minds. So counter with the fact that they lie and show how corrupt and part of the rot Paxton is.
Under the covers, the fight is between mind and emotions. Neither can win against the other, as they don't use the same "language."
The left has always been intellectual and nuanced, which communicates well with the mind.
Ideas are also from the mind.
As long as the right was discussing ideas and values, and reaching consensus, emotions were ignored, and emotion-based people felt dissed.
The current republican party is operating entirely from emotion, and these emotion-based people love it, connect with it, and feel empowered. Ideas and logos can't counter this approach.
The left must find a way to connect ideas to emotion. There's no other way, IMO, to stop this juggernaut.
Talarico is going to lose no matter what he does, because it’s TX, so he might as well use the opportunity to get the message out to the broader public about what the GOP has become. Notable that both you and Waldman wrote very similar columns today about how Dems need to fight back to start changing the perception of them as weak (I agree!).
How about AI images that show Paxton doing some of the gross things we know he did. Cheating on his wife, taking bribes or whatever. Not quite a lie to show images of things we know to be true but cant get images of.
Along these lines, please see Paul Waldman’s post on Substack today , “They Think You’re Stupid.” Makes similar points about how Democrats spend no time defining Republicans (to be clear, the party and the policies, not the voters). They don’t have to get in the gutter to do it - just tell the truth. So hard for them, it seems.
What we’re seeing is a bit more complicated - sneer and smear by surrogates. The attacks are launched by what are ostensibly 3rd parties, often otherwise respected people. It means they can get down in the mud to dirty up the Democrat without getting it splashed on their candidate. The answer to that is fighting fire with fire. Democrats need dark money PACs too, to attack Republican candidates in explicitly personal, lizard brain terms too. And, those surrogates must be attacked. Name the funders and planners. In an alley fight, kicking the opponent when they’re down is required. The Marquis de Queensbury should not be our guide.
When you act like terrible things are not happening when they are, they are getting infinitely worse if you do not address them. This is one of the cardinal sins of all Democratic presidential/congressional campaigns from the past 15 years. Case in point, the Kamala is for They/Them ad.
This interview from The Lever from Dave Sirotta with writer, Dan Brooks about what the Dems should pivot to is rather interesting and could benefit them if they weren’t so beholden to their big donors.
The ONLY things Republicans have left to run on is BS culture war crap and lies and Democrats need to state that unequivocally. Their policies as far as they have them are hugely unpopular. Ignoring the lies and hatred or taking the high road is just not an option.
Call a lie a lie, not “nor true” or a “falsehood”, a lie. And usually they’re pretty stupid lies. Like the anti Talarico ad, it’s obviously a lie, they think you’re stupid and it’s creepy that they always want to talk about children’s genitalia.
No one is coming to help Dems make facts or the truth matter again. They need to confront Republicans and their henchmen head on. They should also be confronting the medias right wing bias head in but I digress.
Jasmine Crocket did a great job defining MTG..."bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body".
Wouldn't she be a great communicator helping Talarico get elected? I suspect she will be a team player, and Paxton gives her so much material.
Taking the high road and ignoring these disgusting attacks leaves a vacuum, which the Republicans rush to fill with the same repeated lies or more, different lies. And we all know that lies repeated over and over become truth. I think Democrats should use AI in Texas to show the truth about Paxton AND to call out the lies they’ve made about Talarico. Traditional attack ads don’t work because they’re “old style” politics. Fight fire with fire or at least with water. The worst thing Dems can do is ignore the lies. People decide their views emotionally and facts won’t change their minds. So counter with the fact that they lie and show how corrupt and part of the rot Paxton is.
Under the covers, the fight is between mind and emotions. Neither can win against the other, as they don't use the same "language."
The left has always been intellectual and nuanced, which communicates well with the mind.
Ideas are also from the mind.
As long as the right was discussing ideas and values, and reaching consensus, emotions were ignored, and emotion-based people felt dissed.
The current republican party is operating entirely from emotion, and these emotion-based people love it, connect with it, and feel empowered. Ideas and logos can't counter this approach.
The left must find a way to connect ideas to emotion. There's no other way, IMO, to stop this juggernaut.
Republican rhetoric is powerful. People still believe in welfare queens driving around in Cadillacs.
I'd take an ethnograpy of their degenerate culture, btw.
Talarico is going to lose no matter what he does, because it’s TX, so he might as well use the opportunity to get the message out to the broader public about what the GOP has become. Notable that both you and Waldman wrote very similar columns today about how Dems need to fight back to start changing the perception of them as weak (I agree!).
How about AI images that show Paxton doing some of the gross things we know he did. Cheating on his wife, taking bribes or whatever. Not quite a lie to show images of things we know to be true but cant get images of.
Along these lines, please see Paul Waldman’s post on Substack today , “They Think You’re Stupid.” Makes similar points about how Democrats spend no time defining Republicans (to be clear, the party and the policies, not the voters). They don’t have to get in the gutter to do it - just tell the truth. So hard for them, it seems.
What we’re seeing is a bit more complicated - sneer and smear by surrogates. The attacks are launched by what are ostensibly 3rd parties, often otherwise respected people. It means they can get down in the mud to dirty up the Democrat without getting it splashed on their candidate. The answer to that is fighting fire with fire. Democrats need dark money PACs too, to attack Republican candidates in explicitly personal, lizard brain terms too. And, those surrogates must be attacked. Name the funders and planners. In an alley fight, kicking the opponent when they’re down is required. The Marquis de Queensbury should not be our guide.
When you act like terrible things are not happening when they are, they are getting infinitely worse if you do not address them. This is one of the cardinal sins of all Democratic presidential/congressional campaigns from the past 15 years. Case in point, the Kamala is for They/Them ad.
This interview from The Lever from Dave Sirotta with writer, Dan Brooks about what the Dems should pivot to is rather interesting and could benefit them if they weren’t so beholden to their big donors.
https://youtu.be/AJHDPzoc6Dw?is=llAQzAOSDpwSzN6Z