Scripting News podcast

Dems must campaign 365 days every year


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This is my permanent political rant, podcast-style.

The Repubs figured it out via Trump in 2016, use Twitter to campaign every day of every year.

The Dems campaign intensely for a few months every four years.

The rest of the time it's as if the Dems don't even take the field.

They don't know what to say when they get interviewed, they mumble they don't make eye contact. It's creepy. There are a few who can do it. AOC gets a big shout out here. They should have a conference where she's on stage teaching and they're in the audience listening.

It's so simple, we need to market, to sell, to position the opposition and ourselves. Kamala Harris was doing it, it was great. When we lost the election all communication stops. That's when you need to ramp it up. We have no leadership, no coaching, no simple ideas to bring it home. That's the main reason we continue to lose and now we're not just losing elections, we're losing our world.

In this podcast I start with a story of how I was recruited to lead a rally on a bus from NYC to DC in 1971 as very small part of a march against the Vietnam war. That's where I learned that in a country where the people rule, we have to be part of the government. We can't wait for the Dems to lead us, they never will. Instead we have to lead them. That will work, when we do it.

All we need is campaign and money management, and people who do great advertising. We have to bring the war home, be a source of good information for our voters. Right now the Repubs are the only ones speaking, with predictable results.

21 minutes.

PS: I mention Natural Born Blogger in this podcast.

PPS: There's a transcript.

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