While MAGA stays lockstep on lies, the DNC drifts leaderless, voiceless, and message-less. With democracy on life support, where’s the plan, the fight, the urgency? This silence is surrender.
You are absolutely right, Michael. Why are there no marching orders? This week, there should have been an organized, all-out effort to call vulnerable House Repubs to vote no on the big, bs budget bill that'll cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Didn't happen. The $400 million plane shouild have been questioned. What about the men who were sent to Sudan in spite of the fact that the Court said no one can be shipped out to a third country? And, it's been more than 2 months since Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the 250 other men were kidnapped to El Salvador and there's no plan to return them to the US. Why is there no organized effort to get the people involved as well as Congress? Where are Ken Martin, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries? Is anyone in charge? David Hogg has a pretty compelling argument. Maybe he needs to be in charge. His group, Leaders We Deserve, will support candidates that WILL do something. Maybe that's what the Democrats are afraid of: doing something. Democrats are guilty of not doing anything. I just don't know if it's because of apathy or fear.
This is the MOST IMPORTANT message you have ever delivered Michael. I am a faithful reader but, as of today, I am also a subscriber. EXACTLY the plan you have articulated MUST happen, and soon, or all will be lost. I feel so helpless like I am watching a sinking ship. WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES but we peons cannot make it happen. We can help but the coalesce must come from leadership. WHERE ARE THEY???!!! PLEASE HELP US SAVE THIS COUNTRY!! Putting the brilliant minds together as you have suggested and getting a "911 Plan" created, documented and implemented MUST happen now. Thank you Michael for you perseverance. We are here with you as you are with us!
Hi, for one, I am in total agreement. My suggestion is that on the 14th you get people like Taylor, Swift and Bruce Springsteen to do a mega concert we have to get young people involved and music is the way to do it. We have to do something spectacular rhetoric will not change youth. But music will.
Then have the talking in between very short very clipped with one message.
I'm so glad you suggested that, Reba! I can't imagine that those people couldn't set that up. And you're right; music is a universal language and it would be a helluva lot more fun than watching a boring parade!
Thank you , Michael. I agree with you completely and vehemently. Where is he? My friends and I keep saying that we need the Democrats to get their act together. I hope he and others hear you. You are amazing and I’m very happy you are helping us.
This post has made me a paid subscriber. This is what I have been saying since the election. The Dems have no message and the DNC is a waste of time. Whether you like it or not, the Republicans stay on message every single day on all of their propaganda outlets. And it works. Otherwise Trump wouldn't be President.
Dems need one message. KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. At election time it will be about the economy - as it always is. Right now, the message should be the lies about the economy. Don't believe the lies about gas prices. They're not down. They're the same as they were a month ago. What do your eyes tell you. Make people see that. And wait until tariffs hit on the things we don't even grow or manufacture here - coffee, tea, cocoa, bananas to name a few. These are your talking points that will hit home to voters.
We need to keep harping on this. Someone once told me it takes at 7 times until something gets traction. There's 500+ or so days until the mid-terms. We have plenty of time to drive home our main points. But it's 1-3 of them, not hundreds. KISS ! ! !
We should impeach him now but that’s not going to happen. Not sure if what happened to Nixon can happen to Trump where the evidence of crime and corruption was so great they came to him and told him resign or be impeached. Trump will never give in and the Republicans are too spineless to do anything. Protest, voice your displeasure and then vote these foos out in 2026. I’m open to other ideas
Honestly Michael I totally forgot the Democratic Party even had anyone representing us !
Plus I had to look up Ken Martin to even remember what he looks like.
I’m emailing and texting my local news station and complaining at their reporting and that they need to start getting real on their reporting to wake up more folks of what is really going on.
I wish even 10% of the Democratic Party could be as urgently honest as you're being, Michael. Your dedication & courage are appreciated and contagious! 💪🏻🙏🏻🩵💙
"I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore..." These are the words of an old Helen Reddy song. We sang this at our high school graduation. Today, I can rephrase that, "We the People, hear us roar, in numbers too big to ignore...". Look up the whole lyrics to see how those words apply to THIS movement. "You can bend but never break me (us!), for it only serves to make me (us!) more determined to achieve my (our!) final goal." We the People!
Michael, your message and imagery are powerful, clear, and loud, so much so that I just became a subscriber. You are not mincing words, and neither are we! Our styles may differ slightly, but I stand with your message and goal 100%! Dems need messaging that resounds with their Party and those looking for a political home. Their messaging needs to unite the cause, resist illegal changes, and make a plan forward. Dems need to listen to dissenting voices out there to discover what is missing, who is missing, and what seekers want to find. Dems, get us onboard! It's time to save the ship before we are all looking for the life boats!
Exactly. The didactic effectiveness of repetition is proven. The Democratic response has been so sporadic and disparate, despite the high notes from a few. Why they haven't coordinated a daily short response to the Trump/Doge attacks on our democracy is beyond frustrating and inexplicable. The public under siege desperately needs a kind of daily mini-fireside message to put all the GOP assault in context and to reassure ordinary citizens that the Democratic Party as a whole is paying attention and organizing to defend us.
Absolutely right. Since March, I’ve been urging my pathetic NY senators to hold a weekly press conference “We the People”, that opens with reciting the Constitution’s Preamble short, history making. And where are my recently re-elected Senators? Schumer is lying down on a track somewhere, and Gillibrand is hiding under her desk.
The Dems are stuck in thinking (or stupid or scared) mode. They need to move into feeling/action mode but their paid strategists are as clueless in this crisis as the representatives are.
As Proust wrote: Instinct dictates one’s duty, and intelligence provides the pretext for avoiding it.
How do we get your message out? How do we get to the low information voters? How do we build a communication hub that is the core of messaging for Democrats? How do we coalesce the separate subscribers from various podcasts that communicate for our cause into one voice (not one opinion but one voice)? On a daily basis, I receive 5-10 requests for donations to a candidate or cause. I want to support them but feel there is no coordination and therefore my donation loses its impact. We are all running in our own circles rather than a single marathon route with a common finish line … that is the only way to stop MAGA. I hope you can help us get to the finish line.
Absolutely correct! I’ve been saying this forever to anyone that will listen. They need to kick out the old guard and get the younger and/or free thinkers in charge. Maybe their slogan is “America is for ALL.” It could be anything that says America is for everyone not just a few. Everyone has life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Or maybe revive the quote on the Statue of Liberty with an upbeat spin. I don’t know but we need fresh blood that is willing to fight down and dirty if necessary.
I hear you loud and clear,Michael ! Your message is getting out to the people, and they are listening. Thank you, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
You are absolutely right, Michael. Why are there no marching orders? This week, there should have been an organized, all-out effort to call vulnerable House Repubs to vote no on the big, bs budget bill that'll cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Didn't happen. The $400 million plane shouild have been questioned. What about the men who were sent to Sudan in spite of the fact that the Court said no one can be shipped out to a third country? And, it's been more than 2 months since Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the 250 other men were kidnapped to El Salvador and there's no plan to return them to the US. Why is there no organized effort to get the people involved as well as Congress? Where are Ken Martin, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries? Is anyone in charge? David Hogg has a pretty compelling argument. Maybe he needs to be in charge. His group, Leaders We Deserve, will support candidates that WILL do something. Maybe that's what the Democrats are afraid of: doing something. Democrats are guilty of not doing anything. I just don't know if it's because of apathy or fear.
This is the MOST IMPORTANT message you have ever delivered Michael. I am a faithful reader but, as of today, I am also a subscriber. EXACTLY the plan you have articulated MUST happen, and soon, or all will be lost. I feel so helpless like I am watching a sinking ship. WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES but we peons cannot make it happen. We can help but the coalesce must come from leadership. WHERE ARE THEY???!!! PLEASE HELP US SAVE THIS COUNTRY!! Putting the brilliant minds together as you have suggested and getting a "911 Plan" created, documented and implemented MUST happen now. Thank you Michael for you perseverance. We are here with you as you are with us!
Hi, for one, I am in total agreement. My suggestion is that on the 14th you get people like Taylor, Swift and Bruce Springsteen to do a mega concert we have to get young people involved and music is the way to do it. We have to do something spectacular rhetoric will not change youth. But music will.
Then have the talking in between very short very clipped with one message.
I'm so glad you suggested that, Reba! I can't imagine that those people couldn't set that up. And you're right; music is a universal language and it would be a helluva lot more fun than watching a boring parade!
And have it live streamed on Meidas
touch network.
Exactly!
Thank you , Michael. I agree with you completely and vehemently. Where is he? My friends and I keep saying that we need the Democrats to get their act together. I hope he and others hear you. You are amazing and I’m very happy you are helping us.
This post has made me a paid subscriber. This is what I have been saying since the election. The Dems have no message and the DNC is a waste of time. Whether you like it or not, the Republicans stay on message every single day on all of their propaganda outlets. And it works. Otherwise Trump wouldn't be President.
Dems need one message. KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. At election time it will be about the economy - as it always is. Right now, the message should be the lies about the economy. Don't believe the lies about gas prices. They're not down. They're the same as they were a month ago. What do your eyes tell you. Make people see that. And wait until tariffs hit on the things we don't even grow or manufacture here - coffee, tea, cocoa, bananas to name a few. These are your talking points that will hit home to voters.
We need to keep harping on this. Someone once told me it takes at 7 times until something gets traction. There's 500+ or so days until the mid-terms. We have plenty of time to drive home our main points. But it's 1-3 of them, not hundreds. KISS ! ! !
The midterms are too far away. And besides, do we have a guarantee of free and fair elections? Something must be done NOW.
We should impeach him now but that’s not going to happen. Not sure if what happened to Nixon can happen to Trump where the evidence of crime and corruption was so great they came to him and told him resign or be impeached. Trump will never give in and the Republicans are too spineless to do anything. Protest, voice your displeasure and then vote these foos out in 2026. I’m open to other ideas
Honestly Michael I totally forgot the Democratic Party even had anyone representing us !
Plus I had to look up Ken Martin to even remember what he looks like.
I’m emailing and texting my local news station and complaining at their reporting and that they need to start getting real on their reporting to wake up more folks of what is really going on.
MAKA Make America Kind Again. I have made yard signs with this slogan and getting ready to make bumper stickers and t shirts.
I wish even 10% of the Democratic Party could be as urgently honest as you're being, Michael. Your dedication & courage are appreciated and contagious! 💪🏻🙏🏻🩵💙
Thank you for your clear and concise message to Democrats . We need it . The people who represent us are , in fact , hiding out.
This necessary action is not a difficult rebuttal . There is nothing good or equitable or reasonable in Maga land or from its marauding leaders.
Their behavior is atrocious .
I know their need to keep the chaos going is also a factor.
The bottom line for these people is cruelty, it energizes them .
There is nothing arbitrary about speaking out against their horrific actions .
Nor should there be about Netanyahus cold attack on Palestinian women and children . But…. Nothing from people that know this is wrong .
Start leading, Democrats .
Or it will be too late.
"I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore..." These are the words of an old Helen Reddy song. We sang this at our high school graduation. Today, I can rephrase that, "We the People, hear us roar, in numbers too big to ignore...". Look up the whole lyrics to see how those words apply to THIS movement. "You can bend but never break me (us!), for it only serves to make me (us!) more determined to achieve my (our!) final goal." We the People!
Michael, your message and imagery are powerful, clear, and loud, so much so that I just became a subscriber. You are not mincing words, and neither are we! Our styles may differ slightly, but I stand with your message and goal 100%! Dems need messaging that resounds with their Party and those looking for a political home. Their messaging needs to unite the cause, resist illegal changes, and make a plan forward. Dems need to listen to dissenting voices out there to discover what is missing, who is missing, and what seekers want to find. Dems, get us onboard! It's time to save the ship before we are all looking for the life boats!
Exactly. The didactic effectiveness of repetition is proven. The Democratic response has been so sporadic and disparate, despite the high notes from a few. Why they haven't coordinated a daily short response to the Trump/Doge attacks on our democracy is beyond frustrating and inexplicable. The public under siege desperately needs a kind of daily mini-fireside message to put all the GOP assault in context and to reassure ordinary citizens that the Democratic Party as a whole is paying attention and organizing to defend us.
Absolutely right. Since March, I’ve been urging my pathetic NY senators to hold a weekly press conference “We the People”, that opens with reciting the Constitution’s Preamble short, history making. And where are my recently re-elected Senators? Schumer is lying down on a track somewhere, and Gillibrand is hiding under her desk.
The Dems are stuck in thinking (or stupid or scared) mode. They need to move into feeling/action mode but their paid strategists are as clueless in this crisis as the representatives are.
As Proust wrote: Instinct dictates one’s duty, and intelligence provides the pretext for avoiding it.
How do we get your message out? How do we get to the low information voters? How do we build a communication hub that is the core of messaging for Democrats? How do we coalesce the separate subscribers from various podcasts that communicate for our cause into one voice (not one opinion but one voice)? On a daily basis, I receive 5-10 requests for donations to a candidate or cause. I want to support them but feel there is no coordination and therefore my donation loses its impact. We are all running in our own circles rather than a single marathon route with a common finish line … that is the only way to stop MAGA. I hope you can help us get to the finish line.
Agreed, they need to pitch like their hair’s on fire before cynicism and pessimism start settling in with the masses.
Absolutely correct! I’ve been saying this forever to anyone that will listen. They need to kick out the old guard and get the younger and/or free thinkers in charge. Maybe their slogan is “America is for ALL.” It could be anything that says America is for everyone not just a few. Everyone has life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Or maybe revive the quote on the Statue of Liberty with an upbeat spin. I don’t know but we need fresh blood that is willing to fight down and dirty if necessary.