I'm afraid too many in power positions in the party are either blind to what is happening or complicit.

hm...

It is my belief that most minds are made up before election, and the tons of money thrown at election ads often is just “because the other guy did it and we can’t look weak”.

The time for getting the word out is RIGHT NOW.

Elections are fought over issues other than the one that brings people together, the parasite that destroys jobs, wages, health, climate and the air and water — the entire country.

Some people are overweight, maybe because they're stressed out and eat bad food. It doesn't make them stupid or bad.

We are losing the immigrant vote and the minority vote. Drilling down into precinct level the areas that are heavily immigrant are where the biggest shifts to the right occured. Similarly with Hispanic and Asian votes, and Black men. Polling shows support for gay people across the board, it's guys in the bathrooms of high school girls that rankles. I'd forget about calling people racist or the finger pointing will be at us.

Like it or not our party is viewed as the party of the highly paid elites. We get a lot more big donations from wealthy people and blow it on TV nobody watches and overpaid consultants.

The working class is interested in a good job, not money for trade schools or teachers unions but a six figure job today, like union coal miners get. So far our plans for immigration are to give visas low wage workers, that doesn't cut it. What are our plans for the millions already here? Until we have an alternative that is obviously beneficial to workers, we lose. Remember Hispanic voters aren't Mexicans, they are Americans.

I voted for Bernie Sanders twice, and I love his shtick, and he's right we don't need tax breaks for the wealthy, but right now people are looking at that little box over on the right hand side of the paycheck and the number is too low. $21 is the new 15, we don't need more workers we need more money.

I’ll set aside time to make a graphic of my own.

The original had some generic rich fatcat instead of Elon.

That’s what a great guy I am.

And it’s easy. What do you suggest?

I’d rather be creating than bitchin.

That’s what a great guy I am.

Oh, and I’m collecting ideas for a new party platform (not the milquetoast variety.)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/13244055

Get on board.

you can ignore the times, although it is better to watch and see the facial expressions of voters.

For those who do not want to watch the video, you can read the transcript by clicking more in the description and then transcript at the bottom.

"12:53
It’s not only $1 trillion in tax breaks
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to the top 1%.
12:58
It's a huge tax break
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for large corporations as well.
13:01
So why do they need to have a tax break?
13:04
I could use a tax break.
13:06
I mean, I'm being real.
13:07
I know, I pay like 26% taxes.
13:10
Like, I could use that money.
13:12
[Bernie] Look, these people on top
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are not nice people.
13:16
They want more and more.
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They don't have $1 million.
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That's chump change.
13:22
I mean, we’re talking about hundreds
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of billions of dollars in some cases.
13:26
When you live here,
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it feels like a poor country.
13:29
[Bernie] Yeah, that's a good point.
13:31
I mean, when you say we're the wealthiest,
13:32
like you said that several times yesterday.
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And I was like,
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is it true, though, because, like —
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That’s a very good point.
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In aggregate, that's what, look —
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if we're sitting here,
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and I'm worth $1 billion
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and all of you are broke,
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you add it all together, you divide it,
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we're very wealthy.
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Right? We’re all worth $100 million.
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But I got a billion and you got nothing.
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That's America.
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And if I say that I think
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the United States should do what
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every other major country on earth does,
14:01
guarantee health care to all
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people as a human right,
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are you gonna think I'm a communist
14:05
and a terrible person?
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I think if people listen,
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if you talk the way that you did,
14:11
and you're so reasonable,
14:12
like they've painted you in a bad light,
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and it actually makes me very angry,
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because, you know,
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you see things and you believe it.
14:20
I'll just be honest.
14:21
I haven't really seen you talk before.
14:23
I haven't really, like, follow —
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I don't follow politics that much.
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And so the last couple days before this,
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I started watching some of your speeches.
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And I started like,
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watching your interviews,
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and I was shocked.
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I was like, “Oh.”
14:35
Not as bad as they had told you, huh?
14:37
This is not how he's portrayed
14:38
in the media, right?
14:41
[John] We’re told that the biggest divide in America
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is between left and right.
14:47
But Bernie came here
14:48
to flip that story on its head.
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[Bernie] I think that whether you're in rural
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West Virginia or in Burlington, Vermont,
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you got the same exact issues.
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And I think we don't let people
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divide us up.
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We got to come together
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to fight for all of us."

Yes, the peoples’ reactions are great.
Making that hidden elephant appear.