The problem is when you have to explain, you lose.
Campaigning is explaining. That’s a cute saying, but it isn’t actually true. Trump did a lot of explaining and won. Obama explained stuff all the time and won. And so on.
ShivaX
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Someone got shot in Seattle.
He drove his car at a crowd and when they stopped him with a barricade and tried to get him out from behind the wheel he shot someone and ran.
Was on a live stream. Victim reported to be okay and ambulances have arrived for him.
Shooter reportedly in police custody.
Then don’t say defund the police.
Or, you know, listen to the explanation. The argument that ‘defund the police’ is a loser isn’t substantially different than the argument that ‘black lives matter’ was a loser. That turned out to be wrong, didn’t it?
Tman
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Thanks Nesrie. I’m going to do what Fred asks. I also shared this on my timeline.
Wish me luck.
He’s not saying it makes him uncomfortable, he’s saying it’s lousy branding. I agree with him on that, too. It makes their position sound much more extreme than it actually is.
Could saying “repeal and replace” police be a good alternative?
That’s much clearer, yes.
ShivaX
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Someone suggested New Blue, which isn’t bad either.
That seems like great branding. I love that.
I don’t think we need to worry over branding during these early days of high intensity in the movement. I’m trying to embrace all these feelings of discomfort.
We talk a lot about the Overton window… isn’t it beneficial right now to get these extreme ideas into the marketplace of ideas so we can shift things toward progressive change?
What? Did you watch different debates?
This is what needs to happen- this is the best opportunity in our lifetime to get real change, especially if we get downballot landslides. We need to take advantage, though I think electoral reform is first priority.
Make sure Republicans can’t rig elections for a long time- that will make every other reform a lot easier.
I didn’t say his explanations were good, or that they even made sense. But he explained all the damned time. That’s what campaigning is.
This is vital, because the next fascist they nominate for president won’t be as incompetent as this one.
I feel like you’re twisting things to fit a very trite saying. Yelling, blustering, and insulting isn’t explaining, especially if it doesn’t make sense. “Campaigning is explaining” sounds nice, but I think Trump is the candidate that explicitly showed that you can win without explaining anything. You can just be a loud asshole, and if enough people in the right areas like that, you win.
Nesrie
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Trump is a special kind of vague with his “explaining”. This is how he gets a bunch of angry people who feel like they are threatened by whatever he tells him to be afraid of in such a way that they truly believe he’s talking to them with some secret code. Seriously sit in a room and see if you can get any of his base to explain to you what he really means. It’s going to be some super secret message “those” people don’t understand but none of them can actually explain either.
Trump Code is like secret messages everyone just makes up and decides he designed it just for them to say exactly what they want it to say… but he explains nothing. He can’t or that illusion will be broken.
Good luck. Be careful, and remember… just one an entire lifetime can still make a difference.
This was an interesting commentary on police, and potential past historical comparisons, and why we need to root out the system.
