How well do we communicate our ideas?

In the final analysis, it is our ideas and our ability to persuade voters with those ideas, that will determine if we win or lose as a Party. It makes no difference how much money we have to sell an idea if that idea is not superior to those of our opponents. If we are unable to communicate what we stand for and what we believe, we cannot compete with the other Party with money alone. They will outspend us every time and money does not conflict with their Party philosophy in the same manner it might conflict with our Party's philosophy. After all, they are the money Party. We have to be the people Party. We have to be the human rights Party. We have to be the equal rights Party. We have to be the Party that fights for those that are unable to fight for themselves. Our strength is in our ideas and our ability to communicate them.

Regardless of what we stand for, it's our failure to get our message to stick that's going to kill us. Democrats have done a terrible job in making easily digestible slogans to represent their ideas. Same thing with Kerry.

The time has come for trite, meaningless, oversimplified slogans. How many times did we hear "Medicare, Medicaid, Education, and the Environment" in 1996? Repetition of a meme, ad nauseum, WORKS. It can define a candidate and an entire party.

Please add your slogans here. I'll start:
"New Opportunity for Every American."
"Responsible Leadership for the 21st Century."
"Strength. Focus. Vision."

Any others?

a communicator, a messag, and a recipient.

Unfortunately, many of our recipeints are not all that receptive. Political and social ideas are complex at best and most people seem to want easy, black and white solutions to problems that are anything but black and white.

Our communication is okay, but the problem, or a problem, is that the public's attention span is on par with that of a gnat. We tend not to do soundbites, because we understand that a complex problem deserves a complex answer. There really is no simple way to fix problems right, since they all have a myriad of sources. Republicans don't really care, so long as they get elected. They have catchy little soundbites and slogans that usually have nothing to do with the problem, or solution, and usually nothing to do with reality. I think that with this climate, we need to come with soundbites, memes, talking points, etc to get our point across, and then start working on the public's attention span and critical thinking skills--because that's the beginning of every rational decision.