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Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)I think that is a fucking horrible thing to say here on DU.
Me.
(35,454 posts)If she is going to spend the day tweeting
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)Maybe that doesn't exist anymore. Comparing one of OUR Democratic politicians "like tRump" is just wrong.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)BLM is not the Democratic Party, and they're not the strategic-messaging hive-mind of DU. Neither are the authors and academics who coined the phrase.
I guess if I wasn't such a dick I might have made some headway...
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)and tactics. Too bad too many are blinded by their personal dislike of her to see it.
Bettie
(15,998 posts)Seriously, some people are obsessed with their hatred of her.
She could say "I don't like pickles" and there would be a huge outcry over her anti-pickle stance and how it would hurt us in some pro-pickle right wing counties.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)Communities differ geographically across the country.
Not every district, locality or state is like NY-14. Painting all politicians with a broad brush (some of whom have been practising the craft for decades) and lecturing them after just two years in office from a deep blue district is bad optics.
This kind of divisive rhetoric must stop. AOC has ample opportunity to discuss and debate things within the caucus unless the goal is to rule the news cycle on twitter.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Are you saying that Dem Politicians CAN control activist messaging?
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)BLM is a largely Democratic group and there is a symbiotic relationship between Democratic politicians and the activists. They can certainly work together to hone the messaging.
Look at the rethug activist groups - they never do anything that would hurt their party. The rethugs work with their terrorists and vice versa.
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)and am following many in the community. you could say they are democrats to an extent, but the search is on for another alternative. 2 party system completely blows and some real representation of all the various identity groups who are working together for true change is sought. mostly young and motivated to shake shit up. the mutual aid that has occurred here has been a beautiful thing to see and will only expand. BLM as an org may be Dem but the marchers are a big question mark.
get the big money out of our politics and there would be a groundswell of young forward thinkers running and changing our society for the better.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)BLM can get more of its agenda through by working with Democrats because their positions are synergistic to the Democratic party.
They could also message more effectively by taking advice from a large party's media section.
"Reform the police" would have had broad support. "Defund the police" was scary to many and we may have lost independents because of that slogan. I grant you that in the heat of passion, that slogan was a great catharsis. However, if Democrats don't win, BLM will have little power to effect change. Activism should have pragmatic goals of achieving most of the agenda and not insist on all of it at once.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)lapucelle
(18,039 posts)When politicians do not develop a message beyond sloganeering and then amplify the slogan with Steinese redundancy by way of explanation, it is the politician who owns the failure.