I have a plan to embarrass liberalism
SoreShoulder
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First, we read the center-to-far-left social media to find what the left really wants when they are talking to one another, instead of putting on a responsible face for the masses. Then we create a platform that they really resonate with.
If you just said "everyone gets paid $30 not $15 and work is optional" and "white males have to change jobs with the minorities they've been oppressing as soon as we can pay them to go to college" people wouldn't take you seriously. Even if they literally want that, they know we're not there yet. And, you'd offend the moderate Liberals if you went too extreme. You would need someone who could put together a deal that works for the majority of their side.
Then you wait for a time when conservatives have been in power for a few years and liberals are angry and conservatives are complacent, and get your guy elected.
What kind of candidate do you run? Liberals won't feel he believes in his platform if you ran a true conservative who felt deep down inside he was faking them out. But let's say there's someone who wants to be our leader but is wrong for the job because he's too privileged and never learned to play well with others, You could get him to defect and run for president as a liberal candidate for the Democrat or Green or Socialist party just to break our hearts. You could also pick someone who had proven too proud or brain damaged to do a good careful job listening to his lawyers and staying within his bounds.
If he got elected, he would get precious little legislation passed or executive orders enacted which would garner enough respect to not be quickly defeated when he left office. Plus, the measures he became associated with would forever be associated with the memory of a petty tyrant.
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Yup, a rather thinly veiled dig at our current president. Kinda sounds like something a never Trumper would say. Bob
Yeah well read this guy's other posts. He's a libby of the highest order.
If I was a liberal I would not think his platform had merit but he screwed it up by poorly executing his job.
He's the anti-Reagan. The Crummy Communicator.
I don't get what's wrong or complicated about that. The platform was good, but he did such a crummy job making it all happen that it can be concluded he just wanted to show all those liberals who thought he was not right for the presidency. So he switched teams.
You haven't heard the last of it, either. If a president leaves office with little bipartisan respect and people associate his platform with fascist dictatorship, any law he helped pass will soon be defeated. Conservatives will have a much harder time in the future getting elected to the presidency because people will figure they have to keep the fascist dictators from getting in there because they might try to stay longer than they should. And, think of how hard it would be to get bipartisan support for, say, the wall or reasonable curbs on the abuse of refugee status.
Platform good, execution bad.
Why is that complicated?
Trump does have a problem with communication, no argument there. However he could have had the combined skills of Reagan, Douglass and Churchill and the outcome would have been the same. With the media stoking the fires of hyper partisan politics there was no way for him to be re-elected. Bob
I've heard it said more than once. They're not after Trump, they are after US regular folks, Trump is just in the way. I believe that is true.....