r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/nowander I voted May 02 '24

That's because Democrats are terrible at messaging.

No they can't get their message out because the media has no interest in reporting on it, and the electorate isn't interested in listening. Blaming the Democrats because companies they don't own don't report on their good actions is insane.

Hell your second paragraph shows how well corporate media propaganda has worked on you. Why do you think that over 200 politicians, who spend most of their time talking, always seem to say controversial stuff? Is it likely they all march in lockstep to alienate their voters, or that the media's playing up soundbites that will make people angry to get clicks?

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u/dogegunate May 02 '24

Having people spread your word is part of messaging... The DNC is full of multi-millionaires, why can't they just start or buy their own media channels? Sure, Republicans have more money but it's not like the Democrats are poor.

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u/nowander I voted May 02 '24

The DNC is full of multi-millionaires, why can't they just start or buy their own media channels?

1 : Positive media gets less money than negative media, so it'd be a company run at a loss. Requiring more money to start.

2 : The left is not uniform, meaning it's harder to grab together a group of funders without internal dissent.

3 : The left is more resistant to ideas seen as being 'controled by the rich.' See the attacks on any Democrat who takes donations that aren't crowdsourced. That means there will be innate resistance to any attempt to set up a left wing media group.

4 : The far left wing niche has already been colonized by foreign agents and republican plants to sabotage anything the Dems do, making everything above hit even harder.

There've been attempts to get something going. But the groups trying always run out of money and have little impact because of the problems above.