“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
Focus on your corruption problem. Insider trading and money from Israel
He looks very oddly orange in that thumbnail.
Is orange the new meta?
What about irreconcilable fundamental differences in how we think government should serve the public?
Funny how the comments are doing exactly what he advised not to do.
Good job everyone. This is how the Nazis keep winning.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Leftytown.
Democrats bad, let republicans win.
Nice strawman. Republicans win BECAUSE Democrats keep pushing milquetoast candidates that are uninspiring and hostile to their own base.
Sure, sure and with three years still left to go you think the so-called-left can even begin to field a national candidate? For any office?
Nope.
FYI they either can’t understand that, won’t accept it or are just here to ragebait
Why should we be concerned about neoliberal ghoul#3011’s “advice?” The Nazis keep winning because they, unlike neoliberal ghouls, actually get shit done.
You assume the other branches will listen to the house or that democrats won’t continue to be out maneuvered or betrayed by their own party members.
He’s actually encouraging that. His messaging here is, don’t be picky about who the candidate is…just vote for them. In theory, that means gaining as many seats as possible. In practice, it means many of those seats won’t be representing their constituents…only their corporate donors.
Democrats need to start being pickier about who they elect. If there’s even a whiff of corporate money on them, they need to be primaried.
He’s actually encouraging that.
Is he? Wow he’s a sly one.
Blue no matter who didn’t work last time either.
It wasn’t the slogan last time either. Except in leftie and right wing circles.
Wahhhh Democrats trying to win an election!1! They’re trying things!!1. Thisis why we must smash the state i.e. hand everything to the republiQans.
Or you know policies…
Thats right DNC/Establishment: hold your nose and stand by support the Mandamnis taking over, time to actually produce something of value and benefit to the People or get off the damn pot
I agree with your sentiment, but that’s not what I got from the article.
They tried it their way, now they need to start learning from their mistakes. I know what Obama’s saying but that logic applies entirely to Mandamni’s case and theres zero reason why it always needs to be red Democrats
Whats a red Democrat
Corporate Democrats
DINO’s like Jefferies, and Schumer.
Or Manchin or fetterman or the anti abortion representative Nancy threw her weight behind when a progressive dared primary the Dino
aka throw more trans and marginalised people under the bus.
also here’s a bari weiss free link: https://archive.ph/hyR1L
My good person, have thou seenest the news this year? Democrats winning is not your great threat. And in a two party state, it’s insane to support their defeat.
We said this last year (and, coincidentally, you said this last year). And the resulting political changes have been the worst most trans and marginalized people have ever seen. Why are you doing this again.
it also doesn’t help when democrats are helping to pass a federal ban into law.
Because they’re totally doing great and thriving under the current regime right? I’m not disagreeing that the Democrats need to go through substantial change, but the simple fact is that they are still the better choice compared to the dumpster fire that’s going on right now.
At least there’s still time to get good candidates on the ballot, and Mamdani has shown that a truly popular progressive has a chance to get past the establishment and win, hopefully more will follow that lead.
Wtf does that have to do with anything that was said here.
because he’s basically saying stop criticizing dems who vote for republican culture wars.
I don’t think that’s what he’s saying at all… Jesus what a biased take that is.
then you better tell the 25 or so dems that helped republicans pass step 1 of the NDAA in the senate which includes the anti trans riders (which wouldn’t have passed without the dems help)
https://bsky.app/profile/fascistdemtracker.bsky.social/post/3m7qftqvhuc2t
That, again, has almost nothing to do with what was said in this article.
it has literally everything to do with the article which is about dems refusing to stand for anything.
Do yourself a favor and ignore or block that person, trust me, talking to them is always a spiral and you just lose braincells.
Ah shit, thanks for the warning
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to “meet the moment” at a Los Angeles fundraiser with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
There are a couple of things that I have issue with here. Fundraisers in general, with regard to politics. The old guard saying what should be done. Hakeem Jeffries who didn’t have the morality or values to endorce Mamdani. Unless people not invested in the status quo vote in the primaries, nothing will change and the machine will keep chewing us up.
The Centrist Democrat is saying we should support centrist Democrats?
I… uh… think we should… uh… focus on… winning elections. Just like I… uh… did in 2008.
Please don’t ask how I did in any subsequent year. Thank you all for coming. Vote Blue No Matter Who. I’m going to fuck back off to Martha’s Vineyard to… uh… hook up with Jennifer Aniston.
Good luck out there, losers. Obama out.
uh what do you mean we uh need a plan on how to move away from the right instead of uh completely embracing it
You either die in the primary or live long enough to become Hilary Clinton
Then blamed for dems losing after running gop lite campaign
And this is why it’ll never happen.
There’s far too much divide amongst the left and It seems rampant fascism isn’t even enough for these people to get with the program and shut it down.
They’ve been “working on messaging” since Hilary lost in 2016.
Maybe, I don’t know, have a platform and message that helps everyday people instead of telling people everything’s fine, stop complaining.
And Dems should stop with “voting for lesser evil”. Are they saying they’re still evil? I mean, sure, on presidential elections, do that if there are no better alternatives to neoliberal Democrats running. But in the meanwhile, there should be grassroots attempt to primary progressives in local elections and then work their way up to federal level. The left used to be good at organising. And now modern day Americans will have their ancestors, who ended the gilded age and elected the two Roosevelts, rolling in their graves for passivity and being brainwashed by corporate media to accept breadcrumbs because “perfect is the enemy of good” thought terminating cliché that most Americans accept.
Actual positions piss off donors, messaging* is free.
*Read: “lies”
The message never really evolved past, at least we aren’t trump. The working class and hard leftists are fucking pissed with milquetoast centrist democrats. They spend all their time trying to win over republicans than holding on to their core fucking base. I voted for Hillary and Kamala because, at least they weren’t trump, but I wasn’t fucking happy that those were my choices.
They’re also absolute liars. They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
They expect progressives’ votes but won’t throw us the smallest fucking bone while in office — instead they pass legislation written by The Heritage Institute and tell us to eat our vegetables.
Socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the poor.
And they’re doubling down on THE SAME BROKEN GAMEPLAN AGAIN.
Liberals gave us Donald.
They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
Yes, but Mamdani did something that liberals are still scratching their heads on how to use to their advantage-- social media. The right managed to successfully exploit the new digital machinery to brainwash people. But the actual progressives and left are learning from their previous mistakes and using social media to gain attention and improve their messaging. It is gradually working as more and more progressives are getting elected on the local level.
Possibly, but I think the problem is more the message than the medium.
Plenty of right-wingers have been radicalized by old-fashioned cable news.
And the democrats haven’t struggled to get their message heard — they’re the less openly racist center-right party. But no one wants to vote for Diet Republicans™️.
They’re also absolute liars. They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.
100% agree with you on this. Let’s not forget how the fucked over Bernie Sanders too. At this point, they’re controlled opposition to give us the illusion of choice.
They won’t help us. It’s up to us to save ourselves. And that means a tea-party style takeover of the Democratic Party via major grass roots effort.
Edit: I just remembered, we didn’t even get a god damned primary for president because Biden dropped out and we just had to Swallow Kamala.
Why do the people have to compromise with the democrats? How about the democrats REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
Why would they do that? There’s no money in it
They needed a catastrophic loss and they needed it in 2016.
Because the same 5 votes keep getting tossed around no one cares to do anything in either party.
Obama & Biden should shut the fuck up. Their dedication to kicking real problems down the road is half the reason we are in this position to start with.
The man in the high castle that coordinated all the candidates to drop out behind Biden in order to crush Bernie says this huh
Obama LovEs Gen0siDee!1!1
Well yeah he does support it unironically.
There ya go
man in the high castle
Lol I immediately thought of Man in the High Castle the TV Show about nazis taking over America…
When did that happen? Have a link?
I didn’t try to say anyone should forget or ignore anything, I literally wasn’t aware of this
They’re talking about 2020. Bernie was winning primaries until all moderate dems dropped out to back Biden. Elizabeth Warren stayed in to split progressive vote.
What’s crazy is many had delegates in the table and their home states hadn’t voted yet. This was all right before Super Tuesday they dropped. Normally you stay in and you barter with all the delegates. At least through Super Tuesday.
work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
I think focusing on the message isn’t going to help all that much. I think most voters have become desensitized to political messaging. Obama’s own “hope and change,” message helped with that desensitizing, after people felt that in the end they had neither.
I think most Americans are now looking more for a real, material plan for improving things. And I don’t think the problem is that no one has a plan, plenty of politicians do, but I think Americans just aren’t sure which plan will work. It’s the perfect environment for political grifters who are able to convince people they have a plan to help them, even though they have no such thing. One thing I think most Americans were pretty confident about was that the plan that establishment Democrats put forward of “nothing will fundamentally change,” was not appealing. When the people are absolutely desperate for positive change, that’s the last thing they want to hear.
but I think Americans just aren’t sure which plan will work.
I don’t even think it’s that complicated. Look at the overlap between Trump voters and AOC or Mamdani voters, or Obama->Bernie->Trump guys. From my perspective, it seems like there are a lot of people who want massive change in how things operate in the US, and a good number of them are willing to vote for whoever says they’ll really shake things up in office, regardless of the details of said shaking or the candidate’s political affiliation.
The Democrats’ problem isn’t messaging, it’s their message. They destroy their credibility with voters when they claim they’ll be able to fix things and make life better on the campaign trail, yet once in office, they work tirelessly to maintain the status quo voters are already so unhappy with. And when they do have a candidate come along who promises the sort of change people are looking for, who people actually believe are being sincere when they say they’ll change things and deliver for the working class, the Democrats and DNC have shown they’ll do everything they can to prevent that person from actually winning and sideline them as much as possible in the event they do win. The politically engaged are tired of busting their asses to get people elected or promote their policies, only to see the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot, rolling over and watering down their goals in the name of bipartisanship, often before the Republicans even ask for it. If a Democratic Senator told me they were campaigning on free ice cream for everyone, I’d expect to be brought down to “One cup of skim milk for everyone at or below the federal poverty line, provided they can complete 20 pages of paperwork to prove they really deserve it, and submit this documentation on a website that’s only operating between 1-3pm on February 29th, but closed every other day during leap years and completely inoperable in regular calendar years,” by the time a draft materializes, much less after Republican obstruction and pushback.
It’s no wonder people have soured on them.
100%. I think Biden’s “status quo” messaging only worked because of the chaos that was Trump’s first term and COVID. That is not a platform to run on when Trump pushed the country into full-blown fascism. The pendulum needs to swing in the other direction. The only thing I fear is that those in charge of the DNC have proven they are not interested in supporting social democrats or democratic socialists for the presidency. We sorely need a third party that is taken seriously.
It’s hard to explain a real plan when most people are only semi literate, with no attention span, and no real knowledge of how government works.
What percentage of people believe the president writes laws, do you think?
That didn’t stop us from the New Deal
