#politics #election2024 #democrats
What many Dems - especially in big cities - often don't realize is much of the election is won where they don't see it.
In certain neighborhoods of larger cities and in small to medium towns & cities, Dems need to be there. Always there. Not just ahead of elections, not necessarily campaigning, but being a distinct and crucial part of the area. Time to get some low key T-shirts and get to it.
Organizing food drives, being the bunch that
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shows up after a storm to help put things/ lives back together, tutoring, mowing old ladies' lawns, reading to kids at the library, etc, etc, etc.
De-demonizing the word Democrat.
We're not hiding away plotting to steal elections and force all your children to change gender whether they want to or not. We're your neighbors.
PS In *many* places, the GOP has been doing this for decades. They do a hell of a ground game, building the
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@BrazenlyLiberal "We" are not Democrats. We are humans who want progress and justice. If Democrats would like to get on board with that, good!
The club is not the same thing as the issues and movements. The party exists to get people to vote for their party. I vote for people I think will do a good job.
Just because I will not vote for a Republican does not make me a Democrat. I vote on issues, not membership.
kind of local trust that has people willing to believe them when they are "just trying to help you out by letting you know what those guys are up to."
The rabid magaloonies are not the problem - they're a distraction. There aren't enough of them to turn the election. The people who just don't know us and have no personal experience telling them what to believe about us are the problem.