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In reply to the discussion: Biggest Gaslighting Campaign Ever: Democrats Are Out of Touch [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)"but many of our behind the scenes people, just plain suck at their jobs and are more interested in personal power or "being right" than in winning elections."
Atrios at eschatonblog.com keeps harping on this. Too many if not all of those behind the scenes folks clearly seem to glean their worldview and political perspective from having cable news on all goddamn day and start to internalize that bullshit themselves and find it more important and critical to respond to those narratives and those accusations more than they feel the need to get out there do some ground work and figure out what people want and what they want to hear.
We won big in 2008 by Dean in charge of the DNC getting lots of outsiders and lots of actual workers and volunteers who were on the ground to do as much as they could. Then once we were in, the reigns were handed over again to all of the supposedly brilliant insiders and everything went to shit.