There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America

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5. OK! Got the whole thing and thanks for the gifted article! This line, I think, tells the story:

I believe that people across the country want to be asked to join an opposition where they can be part of the solution.

I think this is what can save us.

I disagree with Rhodes when he says the Democratic party has to reinvent itself. He lists a bunch of policies that he wants to see, but they are all already policies that define the Democratic party.

He falls into the trap that I think most have been doing lately. (And many on DU have always hated me for saying this, but whatever.) The Democratic party does not need to redefine itself.

What we need is to stop sucking at messaging.

There are some here who like to point out the many press releases and the hundreds of congress members' individual websites and say, "See? They're messaging just fine! You just have to do the work and go find it!" This is a ridiculous misunderstanding about what messaging is and how it works.

In the meantime, since before 2016, the republican party has been LITERALLY using psyops on EVERY Facebook account via Cambridge Analytica to mold public opinion. They have bots dominating every other social media platform. They disseminate their misinformation before our guys ever get their press releases off the mimeograph machine.

The argument that usually gets raised here is, "But the republicans own all the media outlets." Yes, that's true. But that's been true for at least 30 years, and we still don't have a plan on how to get around that.

30 years. We need to stop making that excuse.

Chris Murphy gets it. And there are others who are beginning to sound the alarm, beginning to experiment in ways to break through that republican misinformation wall. This is great. But until we start listening to Murphy and people like him, we will continue to hurtle faster and faster toward a fascism that will ruin our lives and our country.

We DO need leaders. Anyone who says different is delusional. This needs to be coordinated. "Be the change you want to see" is a lovely plaque, but my efforts, though multiple and sincere, don't amount to much at all.

But I sincerely believe the moment the people like us see a sensible, coordinated plan from our leaders, a list of things we can do that won't amount to spitting into the wind, there will be a groundswell that will not be able to be stopped.