We should heed Bill Clinton's advice for the midterms.

[KS Toronado]

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OK, it wasn't advice pre-se in this clip but I'm sure he was hinting at it and we should pay attention to what
he says. I've always felt the Rs revolving door Willie Horton ad cost Michael Dukakis his election. And Bill
is correct, Rs always have some "big fear" thing they push right before elections.

We need a "big fear" factor to hit the independent voters with and unlike Rs we'll use truths.

I've always said we need to attack them as a group and was delighted when Biden called them semi-FASCISTS.
Let's help Biden finish attacking MAGAts to save our Democracy, our grandchildren need it.

Below are a few ideas every one of us can spread on social media and hopefully some PACs with video
capabilities might make some killer TV ads.

WE NEED TO SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF SWING VOTERS

"They're going to outlaw birth control!"

"They're coming for your Social Security checks"

"They'll kill the Jan 6th committee & PARDON all the insurrectionists in JAIL"

"The FASCISTS will overturn our Government if given the chance"

"They'll de-fund the FBI because they think Rs are above the LAW"

"Aren't you tired of Putler's puppets in the Oval Office?"

"You want MAGAts in charge talking about evil Black Mermaids?"

Anybody have a good one to add?


Here are the races that will decide the House majority. Please Help if you can any way you can.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217164656

[hamsterjill]

1. Absolutely!

No one understands politics like Clinton. He is the master, and we would do WELL to take heed.

[Bobstandard]

2. They're going to outlaw birth control!

“They’ve already outlawed abortions even to save the life of the mother. They’re going to outlaw control next. Supreme Court Justice Thomas and Republican governors are saying so right out loud.” (This is the most potent fear based argument we can make to women of all ages and to the ‘youth vote’ in general

“They’re going to take away Social Security and Medicare. It’s right there in Rick Scott’s Republican platform plan and Linsey Graham has said the same thing.” (That will scare the shit out of seniors and their families).

Betwee those two we’ve got a winning fear-based late season campaign push.

[KS Toronado]

6. Excellent, will add above so nobody misses this one.

[mitch96]

19. THIS!! "They're going to take away Social Security and Medicare".

Us "people of a certain age" VOTE!!
bang on this and put up billboards with tricky ricky scotts ugly puss on it..

Find someting that is near and dear "Z-llenials (abortion?) and bang on that.
Over and over Over and over Over and over Over and over again...
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[MissMillie]

3. They'll over-turn any election they don't like (n/t)

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[Butterflylady]

33. Not if the turnout is huge

GOTV.

[FakeNoose]

4. It's time to take off the gloves

If we don't secure the vote, we won't have it for much longer.

[Joinfortmill]

23. Amen

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Yep

[underpants]

5. That guy knows more politics than anyone else you see on TV

👍

[skylucy]

7. I agree! And the truths to scare the independents with are

"They are coming after your social security" and "They are coming after your birth control". And also remind them that the
Republicans also want a national abortion ban (even though most of them are lying about that right now).

[CTyankee]

8. "They are coming for you, your Medicare, your Social Security, your privacy rights, "

"They've already erased your right to choose with their justices on the Supreme Court. Who is next?"

"They govern with fear, not with hope. With hate, not with good will to all. DON'T LET THEM!"

[WinstonSmith4740]

9. Well, they won't believe us on this one.

"They're coming after your guns!"

But we all know it's true. Despots can not have an armed constituency.

[wnylib]

10. The idea of scaring voters with the truth

is good. But it has to be a truth that they care enough about, or understand enough, to make them vote Democratic.

Social Security, birth control, and abortion will scare and motivate people. Fascism overturning the government motivates only people who actually understand what the names of political groups mean. A fascist takeover is very important, but, unfortunately, does not motivate people to action except those already on the left and aware enough to vote the fascists out.

[KS Toronado]

13. Good point my friend

So, Social Security, birth control, and abortion are trending as our top 3

[Texin]

11. Some of the examples of super sinister "threats" are actually ones being

propounded by the rethugs themselves, i.e., "coming for your social security" (along with Medicare); "de-funding the FBI", etc. have been cheered on by the Rs in the lead-up to the mid-terms, and MORE.

[Haggard Celine]

12. They'll overturn Biden's student loan forgiveness.

They're trying to do it now, and they will if given control of Congress.

[oldsoftie]

37. I think the courts will do that anyway. A President can't circumvent Congress.

I could be wrong, but thats what I think the courts will rule at some point. Congress controls the purse. The Speaker even said as much when this was first brought up

[dalton99a]

15. Kick

[HUAJIAO]

16. It is obviously good advice, but heck, anybody who has been paying

even the slightest attention could have given this advice. I've been wondering for years , and of course especially now, what gives with Dems general inability to communicate what is going on, to messege?

[G2theD]

17. For the first time in American history a right was taken away.

A right women had for 50 years to guarantee their freedom of privacy to control their own bodies was taken away by 5 radical Republican Justices.

If 5 Republican men who never have and never will be pregnant can take away such an important right from millions of wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters across this country,
what freedom is next on the block?

Birth control, interracial or LGBT marriages may be the next rights to be taken.

Republicans are a danger to the freedoms we have long enjoyed and could take us back to a dark place none of us want to revisit.

[Pepsidog]

18. Exactly! Stay on message. Don't get distracted and sewn into CRT and Trans athletes and other

distractions. Clinton is one of the first Dems to clearly say CRT isn’t even taught in schools.

[JI7]

20. Refer to Jan 6 Rioters as Cop Killers

and Trump wanting to pardon Those that attacked and killed Cops.

[Joinfortmill]

21. We have our big scary thing: forced pregnancy.

[JI7]

22. It was done in Kansas . The ads such opposed restrictions on abortion rights

made it seem like same thing could be done to people with other health concerns if that passed the anti choice laws.

[edhopper]

24. Not a threat of what they will do

Your Daughters, Sisters and Wives will die because of what they are doing! You have the power to stop them, use it!

[lees1975]

25. They're going to take away your social security and medicare

That does it for me.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. This x 1 million

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. "Abbot and De Santis are bussing people they don't like out. Are you next in your state?"

If they can bus undesirables where do they stop?

Are they going to bus trans? Gay? LGBTQ2?

Homeless?

Blacks? Spanish sounding surnames? Mrs. Singh?

Welfare recipients?

[StevieM]

28. Remember the Ebola scare right before the 2014 midterms? (eom)

[soldierant]

29. I've always voted on fear.

The difference is, the things I fear are real. Everything in this post is a real fear, not a made up one. They don't even have to be deduced from Republicans' prior actions (although they certainly could be with no stretching.) The Republicans are promising to do them.

Incidentally, has anyone else noticed that "small government" conservatives are for small government because they don't want the government to be able to tell them to act like decent human beings?

[littlemissmartypants]

30. ❤️

[musclecar6]

31. All good ideas

That said, what we need to do is not talk about the Republicans being fascist, but talk about the republicans wanting to be led by a totalitarian dictator. And then go on to explain what that means. Totalitarian dictator means, a ruthless evil psychopath. Examples are Putin, Saddam, Kim, Hitler, Stalin, etc.

Present it just like that. If you make it any more complicated than that the dunces will not understand it and blow right by it. But if you make it stark then you have a chance they will pay attention. And not just one voice like Joe’s, there must be as many voices as we can get to be saying the same message. Just like those fucking Republicans do every time they come up with some thing to scare the shit out of the independents, moderate republicans, and all democrats, to vote for their worthless candidates.

The difference is our approach is to tell the truth not those endless lies the other side always uses.

[wolfie001]

34. I'm so happy he outlived that.....

....scummy POS Ken Starr.

[Sky Jewels]

35. They'll ban books and destroy your children's educations!

[Beautiful Disaster]

36. Bill is right about that (see caravans coming to the border) but wrong about one thing...

It's not the parties pulling to the extreme. The Democratic Party is not a left version of the Republican Party. One party is grounded in conventional politics and the other is teetering with fascism.

It does no one any good to pretend the Democrats are just as ideologically extreme as the Republicans - but from the left.

[lark]

38. The end of womens ability to get contraceptives, the end of gay & interracial marriage.

The end of Social Security
the end of Medicare
the end of Medicaid
the end of free education
the elimination of all labor laws
the elimination of EMTALA and HIPPA

[Skittles]

39. correct, the repuke base is easily manipulated

repukes are motivated by fear and ignorance, whereas Dems are motivated by hope and facts