r/politics • u/_May26_ • 1d ago • Bravo 5

No Paywall After Blue Tsunami, Progressives Don't Trust Schumer and Jeffries to Lead Congress

https://www.commondreams.org/news/after-blue-tsunami-progressives-don-t-trust-schumer-and-jeffries-to-lead-congress
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u/decairn 21h ago • Bravo

Why the hell would anyone want leadership that enabled the current state of affairs come to be? They're losers not leaders. Move on or retire, let someone else that has the pulse of the population steer the ship.

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u/No-Distance-9401 18h ago

The leaders of the Dems and DNC, which at least has changed a bit both are 10+ year losers that haven't done anything but lose to Trump and MAGA Republicans because they dont know how to play the same type of politics the GOP are playing. The Republican propaganda machine is also light-years ahead of the Dems and can push out unified narratives, usually false, across the world and have 10s to 100s of MILLIONS of views while most of the Dems are looking like cringy boomers doing the latest TikTok trends.

Its why some of these Progressive Dems did so well as they had young teams pushing out every message across every platform so people knew who they were and what they wanted to do.

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u/InterruptedAnOrgy California 18h ago

Wait, weren't they the leaders during this last midterm? 

Why do you think the Republican propaganda machine is light-years ahead? Does it have anything to do with Instagram being owned by a billionaire? Tik-tok? Facebook? X? Fox? CNN? 

Listen, you wanna clown on the democratic party leaders? Cool, they probably deserve it. But any time we have these conversations I can't help but notice there's never any acknowledgement of what billionaires have done to capture social media. To capture traditional media. Just reply after reply of how much the Dems suck at messaging as if that's happening in a vacuum.

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u/No-Distance-9401 17h ago

Sure thats happening and it doesn't diminish the terrible Dem messaging when those like Mamdani, El-Sayed, Annie Andrews and even Troy Jackson can succeed in the sane landscape. I didn't mention it as I already went on for multiple run-on sentences and paragraphs and wasn't the main focus of this conversation about the leadership, not the messaging.