As to why the messaging is all just anti-Republican instead of being proactive, I suspect perhaps Democrats don't believe there is really anything they can do about abortion rights anytime soon, because it would take the presidency and both houses of congress, particularly 50 in the senate and changing the filibuster. That would require …
As to why the messaging is all just anti-Republican instead of being proactive, I suspect perhaps Democrats don't believe there is really anything they can do about abortion rights anytime soon, because it would take the presidency and both houses of congress, particularly 50 in the senate and changing the filibuster. That would require a much bigger election win next year than seems possible right now. If they don't believe they can achieve that they should probably be replaced with people who do.
I agree, but the reality is their lens needs to adopt the attitude that every step closer we can get in elections for pro-choice candidates is positive. 1. Pro-choice Dems need to run in EVERY election, for EVERY office. Nationally, the organizational complex to promote that has made strides, but still is behind & must improve, from high school age on up. 2. MUCH MUCH more attention needs to be paid to attorney general elections. DAGA should be much better about promotion, fundraising, advertising. We should all be increasing our support and discussion of atty gen races, which get very little publicity or mention, relative to other state wide races. These races essentially get grouped in with Gov & Lt Gov. Yet, these electors wield an enormous amount of power, as we are seeing, and if we can peel off some of those races due to that it will help.
Ultimately we need to convince pro-choice voters who vote Republican for other reasons to defect in at least some partisan races, not just to vote our way in referendums. To your point, every office helps. I'm not sure if we can do this in a vacuum though; that is, only with abortion. The Democratic party needs to win larger shares of the vote everywhere, because of the structure of our system of government, and it's probably worth examining if not our positions at least our rhetoric on other issues. I don't know what we would need to do to get our share of the national vote up to 54 or 55 percent, but we need to figure it out. Unless we're going to replace our constitution or something, which might be what ultimately happens if the Republicans install a dictatorship in 2025 and we have to dislodge it.
Plus, there is a lot of material these rogue R atty generals have provided to use in D elections. The electorate needs better educated on atty general government roles and how many of them are making life worse, not better, for families.
As to why the messaging is all just anti-Republican instead of being proactive, I suspect perhaps Democrats don't believe there is really anything they can do about abortion rights anytime soon, because it would take the presidency and both houses of congress, particularly 50 in the senate and changing the filibuster. That would require a much bigger election win next year than seems possible right now. If they don't believe they can achieve that they should probably be replaced with people who do.
I agree, but the reality is their lens needs to adopt the attitude that every step closer we can get in elections for pro-choice candidates is positive. 1. Pro-choice Dems need to run in EVERY election, for EVERY office. Nationally, the organizational complex to promote that has made strides, but still is behind & must improve, from high school age on up. 2. MUCH MUCH more attention needs to be paid to attorney general elections. DAGA should be much better about promotion, fundraising, advertising. We should all be increasing our support and discussion of atty gen races, which get very little publicity or mention, relative to other state wide races. These races essentially get grouped in with Gov & Lt Gov. Yet, these electors wield an enormous amount of power, as we are seeing, and if we can peel off some of those races due to that it will help.
Ultimately we need to convince pro-choice voters who vote Republican for other reasons to defect in at least some partisan races, not just to vote our way in referendums. To your point, every office helps. I'm not sure if we can do this in a vacuum though; that is, only with abortion. The Democratic party needs to win larger shares of the vote everywhere, because of the structure of our system of government, and it's probably worth examining if not our positions at least our rhetoric on other issues. I don't know what we would need to do to get our share of the national vote up to 54 or 55 percent, but we need to figure it out. Unless we're going to replace our constitution or something, which might be what ultimately happens if the Republicans install a dictatorship in 2025 and we have to dislodge it.
Plus, there is a lot of material these rogue R atty generals have provided to use in D elections. The electorate needs better educated on atty general government roles and how many of them are making life worse, not better, for families.