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Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
9. We need to do better outreach
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 08:48 PM
Dec 2021

Our party’s leadership should be working on selling the idea that we are the party that not only supports upward social mobility and keeps middle class folks in the middle class, unlike the Republicans, who cut student aid, allowed public university tuition to skyrocket, and are cutting more social assistance funding to keep their ideologues happy and to support further tax giveaways to their billionaire campaign donors.

Furthermore, we shoulld expose the Republicans’ ties to white nationalists. These people regularly use code speak words like “illegals” not only to refer to undocumented immigrants, but Hispanics who have been here in the US for generations. (And sometimes decades longer than the forebears of certain white nationalists).

As for Florida… I’ve lost a lot of sympathy I once had for Republicans of Cuban origin. If they wish to continue their love affair with Trump, Democrats ought to remind Florida voters about the passive reactions of many Cuban politicians when Fulgencio Batista overthrew the last freely-elected Cuban government in a coup in 1952.

Marco Rubio and others of his sort lacked the guts to impeach Donald Trump this year just as his forebears lacked the guts to oppose Batista.

Biden rso Dec 2021 #1
I live in a suburb on the fringe of Chicagoland. 45% Hispanic. Very few are GOP. nt Progressive Jones Dec 2021 #18
Dems need to teach how BBB is all paid for and will grow applegrove Dec 2021 #2
GQP cries of "socialism" and "communism" moondust Dec 2021 #3
It definitely swayed the Colombian wife of a friend of mine. nt Progressive Jones Dec 2021 #19
RW is spending lots of $ on Spanish radio propaganda. Liberal In Texas Dec 2021 #4
Abortion and evangelical outreach AZSkiffyGeek Dec 2021 #5
1- Voting against own interests, 2- shifting to Fundie-ism (not that fundie-Catholicism is better) UTUSN Dec 2021 #6
How accurate is this? And what's the extent of this alleged shift? brush Dec 2021 #7
It look like numbers that shifted jimfields33 Dec 2021 #8
In south Texas Hispanics have shifted towards Trump and the Republicans in 2020. former9thward Dec 2021 #14
Some might consider themselves white but do racist whites consider them white? brush Dec 2021 #17
We need to do better outreach Vogon_Glory Dec 2021 #9
All good points. applegrove Dec 2021 #10
We should also remind voters that families are economic units Vogon_Glory Dec 2021 #15
Outreach was limited in 2020 due to the pandemic. W_HAMILTON Dec 2021 #12
Many Hispanic voters are also Roman Catholics FakeNoose Dec 2021 #11
And for those, we need to have plenty of video and audio of evengelicals saying... JHB Dec 2021 #13
True, but Vogon_Glory Dec 2021 #16
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