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How did Harris try that exactly? By calling them weird? Oh she didn't go as far as standing up for American citizens with crazy out-there ideas? Oh all her ideas were starting from a position of compromise with Republicans to begin with?
What the fuck are you talking about? The most "outrageous" she got was calling them weird. She wasn't demanding billionaires in shackles. Give me a break.
They're not going to demand billionaires in shackles, that's the issue.
Your idea is just as outrageous.
My point is the only proven successes for Dems in the last election is for candidates that separate themselves from monied interests and focus on what's best for the common man. It doesn't matter what national paper covers their campaign.
We need more Guzofskis, not some Trump analog in the DNC https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-triumphs-republican-stronghold-warning-sign-trump-1828406
And I think you're really overrating the success of folks like Guzofski, especially considering this article viewed him as a "warning" to Trump a year before Trump was re-elected and Republicans won all three houses of government.
Like, what fucking crack are you even smoking to still be playing such a losing fucking game. Get angry, get wild, make unreasonable demands, make the media cover you. That's what Trump does and it fucking works.
He's out here threatening to annex Canada, and people won't shut the fuck up about it because it's so unhinged. You can't argue, this dumb shit dominates the news cycles.
The reason people stay home is because Democrats aren't fighting tooth and nail for us, instead always starting from positions of compromise and then compromising further. Separating yourself from monied interests isn't enough, you have to put your money where your mouth is and take fucking risks for your citizens. If that means saying something risky just so the media will pay attention, so be it.
The news cycle is a distraction. My argument is all politics are local and that's where the GOP is eating the DNCs lunch. Fed judge appointments, groups like Moms for Liberty, local news channels parroting GOP talking points. National reporting is a distraction as all the papers are owned by billionaires. They'll report on whatever new shiny that passes by. Apparently it's working well because you're proposing to feed directly into it and give them more power.
https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-donors-revenue-gop-schools-70d733e024d81f7ad054b0f321e67647
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
https://www.investopedia.com/billionaires-who-bought-publishers-5270187
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-propaganda-infiltrates-local-news-220756559.html
https://chomsky.info/consent01/
Dude the time to give a shit about media consolidation was 40 fucking years ago, when Manufacturing Consent was god damned published. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is calling and wants to remind you that media consolidation was kickstarted under Bill Clinton. Oh yeah he signed off on the Copyright Term Extension Act to give Disney a break, too. The Clinton's literally pioneered the act of shooing protestors out of the picture frame so everything looked better on TV. The 1995 film Spin covers it in great detail.
That window of opportunity has long past, and the Democrats embraced media consolidation 30 years ago, get over it. We play by the rules of the system we live in, not by the rules we wish them to be. The rules of this ecosystem demand angry, bombastic, over-the-top to catch clicks.
Further, we are literally on a site no one will go to because it's too janky because it's all open source and volunteer, but the corporate funded Bluesky is massively popular, despite owing tons of money to Blockchain Capital. People talk big but are generally too pussy to go with anti-corporate options.
Electoral reality doesn't align with your loud shouting unfortunately
“So voters in some places are making real distinctions to say this is not somebody who is aligned with Trump or represents him in the same way, or this is someone who has the state’s interest in mind in a way that other candidates don’t,” he said. “And that really is a different story from one state to the next.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/09/ticket-splitting-2024-election/76098631007/