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Meredith's avatar

I agree and am simultaneously uncertain as to how/who to improve the messaging and create the storylines. In my opinion -- and I don't know that this is useful because I spend a lot of time on national-level political viewing, not state and local because: Texas and I'm still reeling from my neighbor's saying how she "hates Beto O'Rourke" -- we either need to clone our few really excellent messengers and/or deputize others in their image and send them out far and wide. Thinking of: Pete Buttigieg, Jamie Raskin, John Fetterman, and others. I cannot for the life of me bring to mind a really stand-out female messenger other than AOC, who I adore, but who's considered 'too radical' for way too many people; Elizabeth Warren, and Katie Porter. There are many others who are uniquely gifted to do this kind of work; these people are all blunt, nimble on their feet speech-wise, accessible emotionally, and whip-smart. They need to somehow just all get on a train and start traveling around the U.S. and speak at local meetings. May I suggest Llano, Texas, as a potential destination? The smallish town on the Texas border whose citizens recently voted to try to prevent anyone travelling through their town out of state to get an abortion? Or, some of the Texas border cities where the Latinos aren't necessarily sure that Democrat is the way to go this time around ... Maybe each state's Democrat Party could create this kind of cadre suited to their needs. We need to get out more is what I'm trying to say ... and I don't mean online or in paywalled publications that many many voters never see or read.

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Kent Dills's avatar

Your observation that "it means politics is more about information warfare and less about governing excellence" seems to be truer than I/we would like. But, just because we don't like it doesn't mean that it's not true.

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