Too much emphasis on survival of the species.

Did not evolve to handle this kind of problem.

Solving the climate problem means everyone will feel a little pain. Our brains are not really equipped to ignore that for a greater good that we may not see until after we die.

A democratic political system with relatively short election cycles means that if everyone is feeling a little pain, it is very easy for an opposition party to sweep in with a promise to end that pain.

Unfortunately, the climate message isn't really working. We're probably past rhe point of prevention at this point anyway. Better to get into power and build trust on other issues first, then maybe we'll have the leeway to make some changes.

However, its more likely we'll end up having to just deal with the problems as they come up. This may be providing plans to help move populations and agriculture further north, or some real sci-fi stuff like building solar shades in orbit to relieve some of the heat.

"If we just close our eyes, we can't see the train barreling right at us."

Sheer genius.

Like The Onion, the NYT Pitchbot has reached critical irony overload.

Maybe find some groups championing those issues

Great.

It’s a shame that he doesn’t understand most Americans do not have the luxury of deprioritizing basic rights or ignoring climate change.

And I think the strategy sucks.

(I say this as a self-described moderate.)

Wikipedia:

Jentleson began his career as a policy researcher and speechwriter for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign.[7] He then served as Manager of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, speechwriter for the 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards.

Jentleson served as communications director and, later, deputy chief of staff for United States Senator Harry Reid from 2010 to 2016. The New York Times published his essay The Side of Harry Reid Most People Never Saw the day after Senator Reid's passing on December 28, 2021.

Jentleson is a columnist for GQ. Jentleson has also contributed commentary to Politico Magazine and The Washington Post. His 2021 debut book, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, provides an extensive critique of the United States Senate, particularly the rise of the filibuster during the 19th century and 20th century to slow the advancement of civil rights legislation for American minorities, particularly African Americans.

In 2021, Jentelson co-founded the political consultancy Battle Born Collective with Rebecca Kirzner Katz, also a former communications director for Reid. In 2022, Jentleson chaired a political action committee financed by Dustin Moskovitz in a failed attempt to oust Montgomery County executive Marc Elrich.

In mid-November 2022, Pennsylvania's newly elected U.S. Senator John Fetterman announced the appointment of Jentleson as transition committee co-chair and, a few weeks later, in early December, named Jentleson as his chief of staff.[8][16] Jentleson resigned from Sen. Fetterman's office in the spring of 2024 and wrote a letter expressing his concerns about Fetterman's mental health to Fetterman's doctor in May 2024. Jentleson has been described as a centrist and has stated that "The [liberal] backlash that happens online is actually the sign that you’re doing something right".

telling us to become them.

Sure, that will work out.

But, I get where they are coming from. This is most likely funded by wealthy donors who don't want to pay taxes.

I say it often - the professional strategists and consultants are (often) a detriment to the Democratic party, and to the politicians who listen to them.

IMHO, these think tank strategists create their internal feedback loop, and don't see past their imagined perception of how things should be, rather than working in a pragmatic and practical reality. Their scope is limited by their perceived premises.

The Democratic party is a "big tent" party. It will suffer if factions of it are cleaved off. I would speculate that the "liberal" faction is a large faction. I would speculate that the "liberal" faction is the source of much of the donations to the party and candidates.

I hope the DNC is not falling for this "think tank" strategy. They don't need to make any more mistakes.

listen too much to political operatives. Except him, of course, because he never lies, and is always right.

The Biden administration was the most progressive in decades, but what did that get us? A lot of progressives saying it wasn't good enough and then blame for a war waged by another sovereign nation that we ultimately have no control over.

If enough progressives are fickle enough to let Trump, OF ALL PEOPLE, and his Republicans win rather than support all the good that the Biden administration was able to do and a Harris administration would have continued to build upon, how are you ever going to win over these people and count on them as reliable Democratic voters? And if you can't count on that segment of the left, where else do you turn, other than the opposite direction?

As a policy researcher and speechwriter for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign He then served as Manager of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, speechwriter for the 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards.

Just.. fucking.. wrong.

"Hey, we can win elections by alienating whole swaths of our base."

+ the Trump worshippers will sure switch to Democrat if we say we're just like them.

They live for that shit. It’s how they get regular working class people to vote for ruling class policies. What’s the matter with Kansas? This is what the matter is with Kansas.

This is a class war. That should be the message and the emphasis. If you work for a living, we’re the party for you. Black, white, gay, straight, cis, trans…..none of that matters, it’s all about workers vs. owners.

The dependence on big money donors makes it impossible to advocate for the working class. We have to come to terms with that.

Somehow, I don’t think that is what these advisors are suggesting. Though I’m not sure because this article is behind a paywall.

I may or may not agree with it. 🤷🏾‍♂️