Three things the Dems need to take head on with the GOP and our messaging needs to be clear.
1. Inflation: These new rate hikes WILL NOT stop inflation. The main thing driving inflation right now is corporate GREED. We have ha WAGE controls since forever. We need PRICE and PROFIT controls now if we really want to stop inflation or cut inflation. Raising interest rates mostly helps the already wealthy who aren't working for a living. It fattens their wallets on the backs of working men and women. It is insane, to me, that prices are allowed to climb so high while corporations' PROFITS have been and are still at record levels. If raising interest rates were going to stop inflation it would have but it never has. People with power stop inflation just as they cause it to rise.
Big business already has all the tax breaks and many do not even pay taxes. Workers pay taxes to build the roads and infrastructure for big business to gouge the living hell out of us. WHERE THE HELL IS THE DEM MESSAGING ON THIS??!!l People need to understand at some basic level what is happening and why. Big business continues to scare the American population with threats to move out of the country or to move out of a state. The little secret is they really need us consumers to make their obscene profits and they need ignorant voters to keep voting against their own interests and keep voting Republicans into office to continue their raping of civilization.
2. The BORDER. The recent stunts by Abbot and DeSantis are working because they are able to scare voters about "those others." VP Harris was attacked for saying that our borders are secure. They are not fully secure but they are more secure than when the orange Jesus was in office. All the people DeSantis and Abbot are transporting are here under our laws of asylum. And, the Biden administration has been deporting those here undocumented and illegally at record numbers. The media is working hand in hand with DeSantis and Abbott on this issue by not explaining to viewers what is actually going on. Dem need to admit up front that immigration is still a problem but the problem it is being made out to be. We are not cruelly separating families and snatching babies from their mothers as has happened in the past. VP Harris needs to step it up and visit the border and become more vocal about what the administration is doing and ferociously talk about what the Republican governors and the rest of the GOP are doing. Especially talk about how the GOP has refused to try to resolve the issue but would rather make the situation worse to be able to use it as a political tool to get votes SINCE ROE WAS OVERTURNED. Make it plain. We can do much to solve our immigration issues but the GOP is obstructing us on every turn. Just like they did on HEALTHCARE, BANKING REGULATION, VOTING RIGHTS, CONSUMER SAFETY, INFRASTRUCTURE, JOBS CREATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, etc.
3. Our DEMOCRACY and THE RULE OF LAW. Need I say more than ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION? All that is going on right now by the GOP to plan to spread more lies, put people in office that will help steal the next election and all that goes along with this. And Dems must continue to paint Trump and all the GOP who go along with his lies and fascism as the greatest threat to our country.
The media is not going to help us, they are only going to continue to repeat GOP talking points. But every chance Dems get, they need to speak to these three main issues with truth and facts and take no prisoners. Be loud, be unruly with interviewers. Make it plain.
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