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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdea for midterms: Democrats should straight-up steal republican branding.
"Democrats: We are the Law&Order party. We don't bash the FBI."
"Democrats: We are the Family-Values party. We think that mothers deserve paid pregnancy-leave and that children belong with their parents."
"Democrats: We are the National-Security party. We demand stronger protections for our elections against foreign manipulation."
"Democrats: We are the party of Fiscal Responsibility. We think it's wrong to explode the deficit."
"Democrats: Care for the least among us. Love your neighbor. We are the party of christian values."
Leith
(7,809 posts)per your examples.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Use their tactics against them.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)wonkwest
(463 posts)We really do need to start stealing the mantles they've somehow claimed over time.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Response to DetlefK (Original post)
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certainot
(9,090 posts)else that looks like it might work just gets redone, distorted, branded over by 1500 coordinated radio stationsworking for the cons for free all day. the think tanks are just waiting for anything that looks like it favors dems then their PR guys develop a campaign and start it with limbaugh and hannity etc.
democrats liberals were branded socialists and communists a long time ago, the media became liberal a long time ago, and if dems want tto do any branding they need to destroy the talk radio monopoly first with monitoring, boycotts and protests.
it is absurd that dems are not pointing out that most of the russian trolling is based on talk radio memes. trump team studied talk radio in 2014 and limbaugh and sons may as well be working for puitn.
to monitor talk radio and point that out will brand the branders and then dems can start their own branding.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Prosperity and Security.
This is a 'key phrase' in the NJ 7th.
randr
(12,412 posts)They stole them to begin with.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)It also mirrors their constant projection of behavior and actions. Steal a page from their book. Beat em at their own game.
Left-over
(234 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I hope you go ahead and send this to higher-ups at the party headquarters.
I mean this - we DUers would all support you.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Forward your ideas to your local reps.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)yonder
(9,667 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Auggie
(31,174 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)The religion part isn't needed for care, empathy, and love.
NBachers
(17,122 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)With your permission, I will pass it around to those I know.
Send it to Rachel Maddow, the DNC, all of MSNBC, etc.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)And it's all true.
bucolic_frolic
(43,192 posts)are frequently swapped. The party in power doesn't quite articulate well enough what it stands for, because they haven't had to - for a rather long time.
trickyguy
(769 posts)Can't argue with the rest of it and I wouldn't worry about Vannity and Limberger.
They will just dilute your message. Go for it big time. Get the biggest stick you can and
go after those Repub thieves. They need a good thrashing for what they are doing
to Democrats and our country. And don't call them Americans. They don't deserve it.
msongs
(67,420 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)No question. As the Jesuits have started to say forcefully.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)We don't trash talk the White House or let Putin steal elections.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)lastlib
(23,250 posts)WE aren't the ones talking about shutting down the government.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)lancelyons
(988 posts)In here it's safe comfy democratic talk. Send that to tom Perez. Post those thought in forums Facebook comment areas. Get the narrative going.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)Try adding that, how many elections do the GOP win with promises of tax cuts for everyone and then just reward the 1%.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)They won't do it, though. They'll come up with a single yawn slogan, like A Better Deal, and leave it at that. They've let the right frame the debate on every issue for almost 40 years.
raging moderate
(4,306 posts)WE should be shouting that! WE are the party that is loyal to the USA! THEY are the party that flies to Russia to conspire secretly with a brutal murderous dictator and his criminal mobsters (and on the Fourth of July, too!)
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Whenever they are out in public
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Co-opt everything the GOP used to stand for. All they stand for now is greed, lawlessness, and fascism.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,204 posts)Democrats: We don't believe in adding to the deficit by giving tax cuts to the weathy.
spanone
(135,846 posts)K&R...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)That strategy is ripe for the picking.
Hell, why not even make blue caps with Make America Great Again. I know there's other words we could use like "decent" etc. But using "great" would drive them bonkers.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)with someone who I know has friends in high places. I think this is great!