I don't understand how Republicans can block the 9/11 first responders bill, and NOT ONE DEM ORG can run ONE G.D. advertisement relentlessly chastising the Republicans for hating 9/11 responders!
Is this political advertising 101? Why does it always seem like the DNC and all people running the Democratic party are too stupid to understand how to sway political opinion in this country?
If corporations have a problem with ANYTHING the FIRST THING THEY DO is run ads on TV telling people one side of the story, and always auto-magically people start to believe in that one side of the story. I've seen it happen with BP, prop 8, APSCU, and everything else. If corporations and the RNC do this all the time, why don't Democrats ever DO THIS? It drives me up the wall!
I'm not very active on DKos, (mostly because people kept complaining my diaries were too short (I don't care)) but I just have to vent on this because I always like to assume smart people are trying to fight Republicans, but then I always see the dumbest strategies being used by the strategists in charge. You have to play the politics game if you WANT TO WIN.
We don't even have to lie! We're right about this stuff! Our job is 10X easier than lying! It's telling the truth with style!
I hear rumors George Soros is planning a Democratic rapid response organization to fight Repub smear before they happen. Now THAT GUY is a smart man. The rest of the people just hoping Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC will for no reason stop believing every Repub talking point are living in a dream world.
You cannot just stand in the middle of 1930's Germany and just assume propaganda will just disappear on its own. I'm with Bill Maher: there are simply too many stupid people in this country who will believe anything told to them by their TV's and radios. We cannot count on the truth just rising to the surface like oil and water separating. That slow process is the default. We need ACTIVE PUSHBACK to speed progress along before conservative radicals destroy our country.
I'm done. For now...