Now thatâs some simple, effective messaging - this is encouraging to see. Too often Demâs public messaging gets bogged down in policy details that arenât easily consumed by the public, or they get put on the defensive by constantly responding to Republican attacks and lies.
The secret to left/moderate political success is simple: clear, easy-to-digest messaging and consistent, constant reinforcement of this messaging. This applies to criticism of the GOP as well as pushing their own policies.
- Trumpcare: 23 million losing insurance, secrecy, tax cuts for the rich, gutting medicare and medicaid. The GOP own it.
- Obamacare: 20+ million gained insurance, benefits for the poor and elderly, strengthened medicare and medicaid.
Those are the nails. So very glad to see them being hammered.
Indeed why to the wealthy deserve a tax cut at the expense of health care for the poor, elderly, and disabled. Letâs not forget the caps on employer based insurance. If you get cancer or have a catastrophic medical event, you will get to the cap very quickly.
People will die under the Republican bill, who would not have under Obamacare. People will get serious illnesses under the Republican bill who would not haveâor would have had them curedâwith Obamacare. People who will be able to keep their health insurance will get sick or die under this bill, because they will catch diseases from people who lose their health insurance under the Republican bill.
More questions?
Oh pleaseâŚafter the Democrats lost FOUR special elections and there is hardly any coverage of people hitting the town halls in rage, the GOPâs answer is a long, loud laugh/
Hey, Chuck, do you really think that the same people who voted for Drumpf will give a ratâs ass about your poster that says the bill is âmeanâ? Drumpf voters and the GOP are entirely unconcerned with anyone but themselves. In fact, theyâd love to see poor people and people of color die in the streets; donât think Iâm kidding. These are not good people. If the bill is cruel to poor people, thatâs a feature, not a bug. But a bigger issue is the fact that Democrats somehow LOST THE FUCKING ELECTION to someone as horrible, as unqualified and as unhinged as DONALD FUCKING TRUMP. Go figure that one out, Chuck, and maybe we progressives/liberals will feel like thereâs someone with balls leading the Democratic Party.
The media should really be investigating the crap out of this, but they have other priorities.
However, after the Conservative Appalling Care Plan (CACA) passes, many Red State voters will have to learn to not eat.
Rs wonât own it. Theyâll blame Ds and their followers will believe that.
I disagree. Republicans will own it. Their followers are a dwindling minority and being concerned about what they believe is futile. They are not the majority of this country and our majority is growing.
Iâll go one step further. After AHCA, Republicans own both Obamacare and Trumpcare.
Any remaining complaints about Obamacare should have been dealt with in AHCA.
Liked x infinity.
Man I canât tell you how sick I am of people constantly saying that itâs all futile.
I just heard from another commenter that NBCâs coverage of this bill is killing the Repugs.
Thanks, tena.
I am sick of all the doom sayers popping up lately. This is a long fight and we have to stay in it to win it. Trite as that sounds it is true. Too many Dems give up the minute the GOP puts out their talking points. We can never stop fighting to save our democracy.
Sometimes I think of the stories here as teasers, the stories that are easy to access but donât provide any real understanding of the issues. This is one of them. Schumer and a sign and a pic of it. However, I do like the teasers coming from this guy on Twitter.
No we canât because this isnât one of those fights that ends. This one never does.
So it behooves us to recognize and glorify our victories and weâve had some since Trump took over. And we will take Congress back.
I know we can - I went to sleep the day of the mid term election in '06 in a Repug county and woke up the next morning in a wall to wall Democratic county and weâve held it ever since and itâs expanding.
SURPRISE! Hereâs your new health care plan! Enjoy the cake, cookies and balloons. You now have âBetter Careâ - so how does that compare with YOUR âBestâ care GOP leadership? I know you wonât ask, as you already know the answer.
GOP to Americans: May your lives be nasty, brutish, and short.
Unless youâre rich, very, very, very rich. In which case, we are at your service!
Iâd like to see Democrats start hammering Republicans on âtrickle downâ - and get people associating good business with Dems and incompetent and destructive wealth with Republicans.
Point out that 30+ years of trickle-down economics has produced a crop of republican millionaires and billionaires that are either so incompetent or so greedy that they act like they will curl up and die if they donât receive even more tax cuts year after year after year. Millionaires and billionaires that pay a lower % of their wealth in taxes than middle class Americans even though they hoard most of Americaâs wealth. Millionaires and billionaires that have failed miserably in producing any prosperity for anyone but themselves. Millionaires and billionaires willing to let millions of Americans suffer and die a premature death just to get yet another tax cut.
Millionaires and billionaires that even want to link food stamps to employment - which would let Americans starve if the so-called âjob creatorsâ fail to create enough jobs for everyone.
Democrats should then go on to say - Perhaps itâs time to let real Americans to make a stand - if these wealthy republicans canât deal with paying a truely fair share of taxes, then itâs time to let the free market replace them with competant business people that can.
The words âPRE-EXISTING CONDITIONâ should be on every Democratâs lips every hour until the Senate votes. Americans with savings, homes, and families who arenât absolutely certain of their job security hear those words with terror, because they know that they are a few steps away from being sick without insurance.
We should be recalling the horror stories from the before the ACA, when people who had a hangnail when they were 7 could be denied insurance. We should recall the public appeals to fund treatment for young cancer patients refused insurance, or whose insurance companies refused to pay for treatment because the child had had an ear infection at 3.
Say it often, say it loud: open the door to PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, and your friendly local insurance company is going to deny you coverage up front, or else deny payment when you get sick! Thatâs what insurance companies do⌠not because theyâre existentially evil, but because under capitalism, thatâs the economically rational way for them to behave.
The only possible reason for the republicans to do this wealthcare bill, and all the other things theyâre destroying right out in public, is the fact that they know theyâll be reelected with help from Kris Kobach and the Russians, among plentiful other,less-publicized thieves among them,no matter how much the voters hate them and what they do. Theyâre all obviously dirty, won in November because of Putin, et al, theyâre unpopular, but still winning. The only way for any fair elections is by hand-counted ballots, which the todayâs dirty GOP will fight every step of the way (âcosts too muchâ,âthere isnât timeâ,etc.) This has got to happen NOW. If we had a real president, heâd be fired up and firing up the public about the theft of our election system by a foreign rival, but he obviously canât. How obvious does it have to get? Iâm retired but have contacted my union about this. Weâre undoing our new Putin-installed governorâs (Greitens) RTW law with petitions for a referendum, and this has to be done in the case of these purpose-built easily-hackable election systems that everyone knows about. The time for shaking our heads in disbelief over it is past.