Reply #37: There is a huge difference between "giving feedback" and ... [View All]

[JoePhilly]

tying an anchor to some one's legs.

Its the difference between placing what we did not get as a GOAL that we have, or as something lost forever.

As an example. We on the left tend to spend all our focus on what we did not get, and very little focus on what we actually did get. Which the low info Dems hear, and they conclude, "well ... Obama sucks".

A smarter approach would go like this ... whenever we get ANY THING, we start by cheering it, but we don't just cheer blindly ... and we don't BITCH about what we did not get ... we take the thing we did not get and PLACE IT, as one of the next goals. We make it one of the next targets. We say "this was a great step forward, and we are happy about it, but we still have more work to do for the American people, and lets work to get it". That's a motivating approach.

And you do this because those low info Dems need some encouragement. Now, when presented with the right wing "Obama sucks" message, they have an alternative "Obama made progress and wants more" message. Now, you can start to talk to them about what we actually got this time, and also what we want to get NEXT time.