UGH. I can't see this as anything but a strategic -failure-. It's tactical, reactionary... necessary? Sure, fine, whatever, but there should have been contingencies planned, prepped and enacted LONG BEFORE we got to this point.
This whole term, Harris should have been out there, in the news, an active part of the Biden administration, sharing in the wins, linking her name with doing her part in this administration and developing a record of her own, to shore up her side of the ticket. She needed to look more presidential considering that many of us are very aware that Biden's deterioration may force him to step down if he gets re-elected or 25th'd out of his current term.
But instead, I guess out of fear of her getting publicly "Hillaried", they went the quiet route, keeping her irrelevant and out of the limelight. A "no news is good news" default position which comes across cowardly, weak and entirely defensive.
Maybe Joe gave them marching orders, demanded singular/solitary party focus on him and his presidential record. Someone should have been able to get the point across that that just isn't enough.
Whoever's responsible... should go. If Harris doesn't win this election, those 'DNC strategists' should be sacked and blacklisted. The way things have been handled makes me think they may actually be infiltrators sabotaging our party.
There's too many think tanks, too much money and media ownership on the other side. We can't afford to play defensively, they'll overwhelm us with an endless barrage of petty lies and barbaric populism. We've got to hammer the point that the republicans have abdicated their platform priorities.
- WE'RE the law and order party... they're the party of tyrannical police brutality.
- WE'RE moral/ethical/christ-like party... they're the party of false prophets, greed and selfish adultery.
- WE'RE the guard against the Russian Threat... and they've allied with and become the Red Menace.
- WE'RE for accountabiliity. Liberty and justice for all... they're for putting their wealthy white conservatives above the law and minorities in jail.
- WE'RE for FREEDOM... they're against worker's, women's and LGBTQ rights.
- WE'RE the new Big Tent Party... they're the party of white hoods.
- WE'RE the party of respect, manners and civility... they're crass, classless, loud, rude, unmannered thugs.
- WE'RE for Education... they're for stupid and dangerously dishonest conspiracy theories.
- WE'RE for strong foreign policy to keep the U.S. an economic power... they're for tariffs, isolationism and passively letting the EU, China and Russia control the political climate around the world.
But we can't get that message out because the so-called "liberal bias" in media is an effing myth. Local papers, local news are bought and paid for by conservative interests like the Sinclair group and local oligarchs out to influence public policy for their own benefit.
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