Let’s keep these in the range of the plausible. But I am curious what a “solution” based conversation on this will produce. I think there’s enough intelligence and creativity in this group to come up with some solid answers.
Let’s keep these in the range of the plausible. But I am curious what a “solution” based conversation on this will produce. I think there’s enough intelligence and creativity in this group to come up with some solid answers.
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Let’s keep these in the range of the plausible. But I am curious what a "solution" based conversation on this will produce. I think there’s enough intelligence and creativity in this group to come up with some solid answers.
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Return to Bill Clinton style triangulation to the center. Get rid of the left.
I wish it would choose two or three big popular policies to run on. Not "here’s our Build Back Better agenda, please read these twenty bullet points of what that includes" or "we want to build an Opportunity Economy." A lot of voters don’t care about the details. Keep it simple and overpromise.
Stop it with the goddamn purity tests, the infighting, the circular firing squads.
Unite against the common enemy of all: the 1% and their Republican foot soldiers.
Instead of focusing on flashy unwinnable Senate races like Texas or Kentucky, use all that money to fund the heck out of uber-local Dem-affiliated organizations, and local races like school board, city council, state legislature, etc…
Because, at least in my state, the local Democratic organizations are anemic. They’re unorganized, and you would have no way of knowing they exist unless you go looking for them. And I live in a state that could swing blue if we had a competent Democratic party presence.
Analyze, identify, synthesize what exactly the few democrats who DO win competitive elections are doing/saying to win (i.e. Gov Gretchen Whitmer, Rep Marcy Kaptur, Sen Raphael Warnock, Sen Tammy Baldwin, Gov Roy Cooper, Rep Marie Glumsenkamp Perez, Gov Laura Kelly) and implement that messaging/strategy nationally.
continue to grow the state houses and elected officials. Cultivate great men and women to lead. Get a coherent ideology to match the moment. Be loud and strident. Cultivate non-legacy media talent.
Get more energized talent into the coalition. The Chuck Schumer approach of wishing for middle ground and remaining henpecked is self immolating.
Take a more strict stance on Israel. Their government has a clear preference between the parties. We should respond to that accordingly.
Economic Populism,platforming the proposal of M4A and updating the minimum wage seem like easy policies that should be favorable amongst the masses.
Stop listening to billionaire donors and elitist consulting firms and start listening instead to voters, particularly voters in swing states. End the culture of failing upward within Democratic campaign circles and the party apparatus. How was anyone expected to believe that Jaime Harrison could deliver wins for the national Democratic Party, when he’s done nothing but lose his entire life? He lost seats as a state party chair and personally lost as a Senate candidate. Frankly, we need to tell the career losers and those who haven’t been involved with a successful campaign since 1996 (*cough* James Carville, the Clintons *cough*) to get in the back seat and shut the fuck up.
Secondly, stop reflexively defending the status quo at every turn. Drop the coastal elites (Schumer, Jeffries, Harris, Pelosi, etc.) from leadership and from being spokespeople for the party in the media.
Most importantly, we need to understand that every election since 2008 has shown that Americans – and particularly swing state voters – want bold, drastic, fundamental change and that they will take it in whichever flavor it’s offered. If Republicans are the only ones offering it, Democrats will lose every single time.
This is by no means a cure onto itself.
But I believe the Democratic party would be better served if they abandoned the "big government" approach to governess and spent more time working and leading on more local levels.
The truth of the matter is different parts of the country have different ideals and needs and the one size fits all approach doesn’t work. At the federal scale, no mater which direction you go you’re going turn people off.
But if local Democrats were able to push to the left starting where the local people are and at a pace the local people can move… Not all corners of the country will be in the same place socially… but many more locations would be moving to the left at their own pace.
At the federal level stick to economics and disaster relief.
Put forth a policy focusing on labor rights.
It sounds obvious, but we need to push our popular policies and rhetoric and distance ourselves from our deeply unpopular policies and rhetoric. Examples of popular policies:
Popular policies:
Examples of unpopular policies where we need to be careful or back away from entirely:
Make state-funded elections one of the top goals of the party so that it wouldn’t be overrun with limousine liberals.
Find a way to reverse Citizens United so we could get that level of corporate money out of politics. The Dems are clearly held hostage by the whims of the wealthy donor class right now and it causes them to avoid common sense policies that could appeal to struggling Americans.
Endow the entire right of this county with a college education.
Get rid of anyone over 65
Fight the fascists in every theater: Congress, the courts, social media, on the streets with protests. Every week
Continuous and persistent grassroots outreach and organizing, civic education, and engagement. State by state, town by town, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, house by house.
People need to be informed and understand what is at stake, once every election is nowhere close to enough.
Push for UBI, Universal Healthcare, higher minimum wage. Do not cater to the right.
If I was a strategist for the Dem party. First thing first is remove climate change, LGBTQ issues and Gun Control. Majority of ppl don’t give a crap about climate change. LGBTQ and Gun Control should be left to the state. It shouldn’t be a federal issues.
I’d make democrats vote.
Get them to all support building a ton more housing in Democratic cities.
The "Abundance" thing has been going viral online. I’m a big fan of that general idea. A positive vision of the future where we can build things like high speed rail as fast as China or Japan or France does.
Appealing to parents would be our top priority. Parents vote more.
i am probably in the minority that I don’t think big changes are necessary.
Maybe stop the gerontocracy? Biden’s age really fucked us.
But Kamala came within 1.5% after a too-short campaign. She was a good, not great candidate.
Democrat positions on everything but trans rights are popular. We do pretty well in midterms. (2026 is gonna be LIT, I think.) The republicans have gotten a majority of the popular vote ONE TIME since 1988.
The country is getting more educated. Education kills republicanism. As income rises in red states, they get better educated and they turn purple.
No idea why Ohio has turned MAGA. (Okay, I have some ideas). But georgia is a legit swing state, now and north carolina is coming along.
We face an uphill path because of the senate, but I don’t think the democrats need to change much.
Trump is uniquely charismatic to the nation’s stupidest people. There’s a good chance that when he’s done, they won’t even vote again.
I say stay the course.
And don’t get in the way of republicans when they’re imploding. And god damn, they’re imploding. Only the true kool-aid drinkers can deny that they’re a party for the stupidest and most vile assholes in the country.
Stop chasing the center and losing
Pivot towards populism and broad economic issues and away from identity politics. But Dems won’t do this because they care more about appeasing their donors than winning elections.
Spinal implants for everybody.
Have them grow a pair of balls
Take credit for shit and stop letting Republicans lie about everything. The Biden administration oversaw a lot of good policies… good luck getting anyone to notice. There is way too much "Good policy speaks for itself" in a country where the overwhelming majority of the population barely pays attention to politics, has an underwater approval of politicians, and gets most of their political news from glancing at a TV playing Fox at a restaurant.
Biden’s FTC went after junk fees on credit cards and made cancelling gym memberships easier, two easy "We’re fighting for the average American" layups that most Americans think are utter horseshit and they barely made a peep about it!
Get rid of their reliance on corporate donations. That one thing is preventing them from being the true left wing opposition. Democrats are only as left wing as their corporate donors allow them.
Eliminate super delegates
Embrace Liberalism as a political ideology again. Cut loose the pseudo-Socialists, Social Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Progressives and all the other collectivists. Next, embrace policies that actually work. Embrace Capitalism and market economies again.
They need to be meaner.
Local networking.
The phrase: “Let Me. Be. Clear.” Never be said again.
Focus more on winning people over through psychological profiles rather than demographic profiles. I’m more than just a white male working class 25-35 year old located in the southwest.
Ditch the labels for yourselves and go after the billionaires.
“Socialist” is not going to win you an election – not even if you put “democratic” in front of it.
But even Ben Shapiro’s fans enjoyed Luigi.
Lawyer quota. No more than 40 percent of the party’s slate for federal or state legislature can have ever attended law school.
Tiny party hats
Embrace redistributive economic policies and send a clear message about their benefits to the average person.
Grow some balls. We need Bill Burr energy.
I am a Republican mind you but here are my two cents.
Instead of a 7 point plan to fix the economy
Or comprehensive immigration reform
You need to simplify things dramatically like Bernie Sanders, Medicare for all. Healthcare is a right
$15 minimum wage.
Etc etc
Stop pushing gun control, you alienate so many moderates.