1/ Democrats Agree on One Thing: They’re Very, Very Nervous nyti.ms/2YKFs2H // If you are a Democrat or Independent who does not believe you are in a political war with the fate of the Constitution and the Republic at stake, you are very much mistaken. Under the disguise
2/ of just asking questions, the Times engages in this article in doing Trump's moral conflict business. In moral conflict, you want to create, exploit, & magnify menace, uncertainty, & mistrust to surface fear, anxiety, & alienation. This article focuses on the uncertainty to
3/ highlight anxiety. When the Times interviews Trumpers in some bumfuck diner, the amplify certainty: I'm still going to vote for Trump, he's my guy, blah blah blah. Interview Democrats and it's: I'm afraid, I'm anxious, I don't know what will happen. FFS. Part of this is that
4/ there are too many Democrats running and not one goddamn Democrat anywhere can do anything about that--except for the running dead who are still running. FFS, drop out already. Steyer, Bloomberg, & Yang have zero probability of winning the nomination. Klobuchar & Booker are
5/ hoping for miracles. Wall Street Pete is hoping nobody notices that his resume qualifies him to be mayor and his record qualifies him for nothing outside of Indiana. And Biden wants to pretend that before Trump everything was good. Which leaves us down to Warren & Sanders.
6/ I think Warren has the best shot, but Sanders is clearly better than the rest. I also think the Democrats have to think long and hard about immigration and come up with a coherent policy that you can sell in no more than three sentences--about the attention span of the average
7/ voter and shorter than the time they give you in a gameshow debate. Since Trump is going to make his "Camp of the Saints" worldview the centerpiece of his re-election, Democrats have to have an alternative narrative, meme, the whole package for digital communication warfare
8/ fought at the moral level of conflict. To win at that level, Democrats need to pump up initiative, adaptability & harmony to surface courage, confidence, & esprit. Democrats have to maintain the moral bonds of a more inclusive society. Every policy the Democrats pursue has to
9/keep in mind that this conflict as at the moral level of 4GW. So, whether you support Warren or Sanders or somebody else, the question is: is your candidate ready to fight a 4GW moral conflict? If not, abandon that candidate.
