That sounds like sour grapes. You can just hear party insiders dismissing those voters with "Look how stupid they are. They can't tell the difference between parties. You can't possibly hate both."
This is the kind of attitude that will just keep us from connecting with voters. OK, obviously there are differences between the parties, at least in terms of rhetoric and intentions. But for many voters, they look and what they see is that our health care continues at the highest in the world with either party in charge. The national debt keeps going up with either party in charge. We keep losing jobs overseas with both parties in charge. We keep ending up in wars. We keep losing our privacy. The oil companies keep ripping us off. And the richest corporations and individuals just keep getting richer under both parties.
We can certainly make the argument that we have better intentions than the Republicans do. But for many people, they ignore the rhetoric and judge that the results work out about the same. And in that sense, they aren't haters. They simply think they are screwed either way and intentions just don't matter to them.
We will be more successful if we stop blaming voters for not being able to tell that we are trying, and concentrate on getting into position where we really can make major changes to how our society works. That what all these voters are begging for.
I think the Affordability Agenda put out this week is an excellent step in the right direction because it says SPECIFIC things that Democrats will do. But the problem is that this is only the progressive caucus. Half the party won't join us unless we can either replace them of make them understand the whole party is doomed if we can't bother to get off our asses and fight.
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