• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I’ve heard a few democrats responding in more broad news with a very simple message: we are fighting for the healthcare of millions, millions are going to lose their health care or see huge increases. They seem to, at least for this one, be keeping it to a simple single digestable bullet point.

    So they got the message out there, and maybe it won’t stick, but it lays the foundation for “I told you so” and a chance that the people will be reminded.

    Now if they are eyeballs deep in the GOP propaganda and will only accept the stuff filtered through their circlejerk social media communities and fox nows and newsmax, well, there’s not much possibly done by the democrats to be heard. However there are enough people that might actually look for deeper answers, because their view will be “The republicans are in control of everything and still my health care got screwed, why?”. Sure some might still go for the ‘somehow Obama is at fault’ or ‘the dems are to blame’, but some will say “how? we won, we got them out of power and all the news had Trump famously purging those liberals that we were told screwed things behind the scenes, why are things even more expensive my taxes are still as high as ever and I’m losing benefits?”

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      5 hours ago

      Trump is some emotional Schrödinger’s cat, where he is simultaneously the strongest most verile muscle man ever birthed on this planet, and the victim of every sniveling wimp bureaucrat ever.

      Meaning that Democratic rebuttals that don’t short circuit that binary situation, like Gavin Newsome’s recent twitter brilliance, are the way it works. Only a Strongman shuts down a Strongman.

      Whining about healthcare is for elitists with jobs.