“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
Obama & Biden should shut the fuck up. Their dedication to kicking real problems down the road is half the reason we are in this position to start with.
So from now on, I’ll remember to say “Well, the candidate and I have a tactical difference because they support genocide and I don’t, but that won’t change my vote.”
It all makes sense if you remember that centrists have no principles, only tactics.
What about irreconcilable fundamental differences in how we think government should serve the public?
The Centrist Democrat is saying we should support centrist Democrats?
I… uh… think we should… uh… focus on… winning elections. Just like I… uh… did in 2008.
Please don’t ask how I did in any subsequent year. Thank you all for coming. Vote Blue No Matter Who. I’m going to fuck back off to Martha’s Vineyard to… uh… hook up with Jennifer Aniston.
Good luck out there, losers. Obama out.
uh what do you mean we uh need a plan on how to move away from the right instead of uh completely embracing it
You either die in the primary or live long enough to become Hilary Clinton
Then blamed for dems losing after running gop lite campaign
And this is why it’ll never happen.
There’s far too much divide amongst the left and It seems rampant fascism isn’t even enough for these people to get with the program and shut it down.
Appeasement is a tactic I’ll never stop opposing.
Drive the invertebrates out.
Amazing stuff, never question what the people you are voting for actually support, always compromise with fascists, eventually you’ll be able to enact the fascist policy yourself!
I totally agree with this strategy. However if the democrats are unwilling to do anything about it does it even matter? Checks and balances require the checks part.
Get the majority and then START using it. Be aggressive to fix this shit and start actually doing something.
There is no amount of democratic supermajorities that will be able to fix anything in this country. They have neither the vision, willpower, nor permission from their donors. The only thing that will improve material conditions for the working class in this country is not discussable on platforms like this.
Donors being the key word. Or if you really wanna get technical, owners. Yep… totally agree.
Why do the people have to compromise with the democrats? How about the democrats REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
Why would they do that? There’s no money in it
They needed a catastrophic loss and they needed it in 2016.
Because the same 5 votes keep getting tossed around no one cares to do anything in either party.
And the comments here illustrate exactly why it’ll never work.
The far left seems to be totally fine with status quo while they arrogantly wait for their perfect candidate to white-knight themselves into our political system.
It must be nice to be entitled to such an extent so as to risk other people’s lives and freedoms while they hold out for Mr/Mrs. Perfect.
News flash: Politics isn’t defined as issuing the most perfect policy. It never was! It’s about making the best compromises you can. It’s about making difficult decisions, but the best ones you can given the options you have.
You people make up this perfect world where everything should be so easy with ZERO understanding of how it works. And when those things don’t happen- you throw a shit-fit online to complete strangers and fold your arms, refusing to stand on the line drawn against fascism- all while complaining about how much fascism sucks.
Hate to break it to you- but you don’t fight against those that work forces with funny memes.
Seems like a faster resolution would be to hold people accountable for their crimes and treason. That’d eliminate most of the big problems.
I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.
They’ve been “working on messaging” since Hilary lost in 2016.
Maybe, I don’t know, have a platform and message that helps everyday people instead of telling people everything’s fine, stop complaining.
Actual positions piss off donors, messaging* is free.
*Read: “lies”
And Dems should stop with “voting for lesser evil”. Are they saying they’re still evil? I mean, sure, on presidential elections, do that if there are no better alternatives to neoliberal Democrats running. But in the meanwhile, there should be grassroots attempt to primary progressives in local elections and then work their way up to federal level. The left used to be good at organising. And now modern day Americans will have their ancestors, who ended the gilded age and elected the two Roosevelts, rolling in their graves for passivity and being brainwashed by corporate media to accept breadcrumbs because “perfect is the enemy of good” thought terminating cliché that most Americans accept.
The message never really evolved past, at least we aren’t trump. The working class and hard leftists are fucking pissed with milquetoast centrist democrats. They spend all their time trying to win over republicans than holding on to their core fucking base. I voted for Hillary and Kamala because, at least they weren’t trump, but I wasn’t fucking happy that those were my choices.
They’re also absolute liars. They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
They expect progressives’ votes but won’t throw us the smallest fucking bone while in office — instead they pass legislation written by The Heritage Institute and tell us to eat our vegetables.
Socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the poor.
And they’re doubling down on THE SAME BROKEN GAMEPLAN AGAIN.
Liberals gave us Donald.
They’re also absolute liars. They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
100% agree with you on this. Let’s not forget how the fucked over Bernie Sanders too. At this point, they’re controlled opposition to give us the illusion of choice.
They won’t help us. It’s up to us to save ourselves. And that means a tea-party style takeover of the Democratic Party via major grass roots effort.
Edit: I just remembered, we didn’t even get a god damned primary for president because Biden dropped out and we just had to Swallow Kamala.
They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
Yes, but Mamdani did something that liberals are still scratching their heads on how to use to their advantage-- social media. The right managed to successfully exploit the new digital machinery to brainwash people. But the actual progressives and left are learning from their previous mistakes and using social media to gain attention and improve their messaging. It is gradually working as more and more progressives are getting elected on the local level.
Possibly, but I think the problem is more the message than the medium.
Plenty of right-wingers have been radicalized by old-fashioned cable news.
And the democrats haven’t struggled to get their message heard — they’re the less openly racist center-right party. But no one wants to vote for Diet Republicans™️.
Again with the messaging. The problem isn’t “messaging” it’s that you and your ilk insist on leaving the working class out to dry you capitalist ghoul.
It doesn’t matter what they say because I know they’re not gonna do it and make excuses.
But it’s not like I have anyone else I can vote for.
Never vote for a capitalist party. But do literally everything else you can think of.
Political power is not something that can be given in a ballot box, it must be taken. Too many people believe that their only political outlet is voting. Join a community organization and start fixing the problems you see instead of listening to politicians who tell you to wait for 4 more years until the “good guys” get back in power.
BRB, headed to Sunbelt to rent some cones and a road painting kit.
I’ll finally get that bike lane!
Honestly, guerrilla infrastructure construction might just be what we need.
Biden did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. There are just too many “freethinking” conspiratard clowns who are easily scammed by republican lies. Unlucky
I never said anything about Trump. Biden did something, which is rare for his type, but it’s certainly not enough, and as long as it’s not enough people will keep flocking to the right because the right actually does things (bad things, to be clear, but that’s irrelevant).
Tbf Obama also did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. ACA alone covers that. The issue is brainlets getting brainwashed by rightwing propaganda.
ACA was a gift to insurance companies. It was cowritten by the heritage foundation ffs.
It still managed to help a hell of a lot of working class people. It’s a net positive in my book.
As a working class person, my rates doubled every year for the first 4 years I was on ACA. When they got to $800 a month I cancelled my insurance and decided to take the tax penalty instead.
That happened to all plans during that time period, not just ACA plans.
Tell me how many people are getting hurt by republicans cutting it, then cry about “gift to insurance companies” again. The kind of take that only people too privileged to not need it would have.
He had the opportunity to give everyone universal health care and instead he chose to give us the half-baked “solution” that is utterly dependent on republican good will while also driving up health insurance profits, leaving us more reliant on middlemen insurance companies than ever before.
So yeah, people are hurting without it, but don’t pretend like it was some nice gift. It was a token that was tossed our way so we wouldn’t ask for more.
Obama had the opportunity to “give us universal health care”? When?
It was Congress that killed the public option btw.
Both things are true. It was obviously a gift to the insurance industry, but it doesn’t mean that it didn’t help millions of people.
I thought you guys didn’t like the Heritage Foundation?
You probably love bump stocks because Trump banned them huh. Even if there are better alternatives to ACA, until the political climate in the US allows for that, it’s still better than nothing.
Even ACA, the hEriTaGe CrEaTioN, is constantly being successfully shot down by conservatives. What chance in hell do you think there is of implementing and sustaining a socialist alternative? Until the country stops being braindead enough to elect MAGA-level candidates, it won’t happen.
Yeah you’re right, those people are way better off being required by law to purchase a product from a private company that doubles its rates every year. Who needs a public option?
The man in the high castle that coordinated all the candidates to drop out behind Biden in order to crush Bernie says this huh
man in the high castle
Lol I immediately thought of Man in the High Castle the TV Show about nazis taking over America…
When did that happen? Have a link?
They’re talking about 2020. Bernie was winning primaries until all moderate dems dropped out to back Biden. Elizabeth Warren stayed in to split progressive vote.
What’s crazy is many had delegates in the table and their home states hadn’t voted yet. This was all right before Super Tuesday they dropped. Normally you stay in and you barter with all the delegates. At least through Super Tuesday.
I didn’t try to say anyone should forget or ignore anything, I literally wasn’t aware of this
Obama LovEs Gen0siDee!1!1
Well yeah he does support it unironically.
There ya go
Focus on your corruption problem. Insider trading and money from Israel
This motherfucker is one of the last nails in democracy. History will not be kind to Barrack Obama, if anyone is left to write it.
I don’t think public opinion of him is great today. The right hates him for a number or valid and invalid reasons, and the left hate him for his war crimes and not pushing for universal healthcare instead of obamacare, as well as trying to browbeat people into voting democrat last election.
I guess I could be out of touch on him though.
Extrajudicial killings, ramping up the drone war, prosecuting whistleblowers using the espionage act. The man is a psychopath, but you have to be to be allowed to be president.
