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[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

No, it really doesn't. I can think them up by the dozens. If they're not going to pass, there's no reason to lay all the groundwork. But they're still good for rhetorical purposes.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 6 points 6 months ago
[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

How? Or, why does it matter? It's not going to pass the House.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because any president doing this immediately comes across as a 5 year old pretending to have a magic wand.

I'm looking at the list of a dozen items you made - you can't just say "I want this" and not have a detailed plan for how it's meant to be executed - where the money comes from, what effects it's expected to have, etc.

When you are proposing legislation that you know won't be able to be made into law, you're just virtue signaling since even you believe there's no real-world impact. People are even frustrated with Bidens attempts as they are - I've definitely read frustrated comments here talking about how Bidens approach to relieving student debt is so poorly thought out that nobody will actually benefit.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

We're very close to having one of those 5-year-olds with a magic wand get elected soon.

It's time for you to realize that the dynamics that you think are in place aren't, or don't work the way you expect them to. Maybe you should listen to some of the people you dismiss so easily.

Or maybe you and others on this thread should just go ahead and downvote anything that doesn't agree with you... and lose again.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can't believe asking for how we'd pay for proposed policy changes and what they think the long term effects of their proposed policies will be is now controversial.

What a time to be alive.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

I'll note that in 2016 the U.S. elected a petulant 5-year-old pretending to have a magic wand, so...

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago

So we should do the same again?

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Sure you can think up the tag line line liner title for each item but what about all the details? How will they work the restrictions the requirements the funding. How much of that requires large amounts of work just to be shutdown and tossed by the Republicans

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

This is why Democrats struggle so badly, so I'll say it straight up: It's about sales. Reich is complaining that the public doesn't lose its shit over arcane policy details. Yeah, sit down for this truth bomb (/s): That's human nature. It's not fair. It's not right. It's not good. It's just the way it is. Complaining about it won't help, or change the content of headlines.

So somebody asks for examples of what can Biden do when he's blocked by Congress? I say: Sell, sell, sell. Get in the PR game. Put on a show that the people in the cheap seats can enjoy. (That is a metaphor for a rhetorical spectacle that even politically unengaged citizens will hear about.) Show everybody that the problem is in Congress.

What do the details matter? The headline is all that people will hear, and Republicans will block it, anyway. He needs to sell the perception that Democrats are trying. The details can come later, after they get the votes.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Dozens? Off the top of your head? Name a dozen, for science.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago
  • Build a giant net on the border with Canada to keep geese out.
  • Make Friday part of the weekend.
  • Give every new baby a chocolate eclair.
  • Issue bulletproof vests to all citizens to help survive mass shootings.
  • No more speed limits in Interstate highways. (Okay, absurd ones are harder to think of than real issues that people care about.)
  • Cheaper health care.
  • Cheaper housing.
  • Cheaper groceries.
  • Cheaper fuel.
  • Codify reproductive freedom in law.
  • Hold the media accountable to the truth.
  • Ban insider trading in Congress.
  • Ensure that people have secure jobs, with dignity.

Details, schmetails. The post is a complaint by Robert Reich that voters aren't paying attention to details. And ITT, plenty of Lemmings pointing out that Biden can't pass very many policy proposals, anyway. The idea is to sell the perception that Democrats understand and care about issues facing Americans.

The big picture comes first to get Democrats elected, then get down to the details.

The president doesn't have the power to do any of that.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

None of these were serious policy proposals, but intentionally glib, tossed-off ideas. The idea is that most non-political-nerds (I am one, no insult intended) don't pay attention to policy details. Tossing out hollow policy proposals that nevertheless excite people is only one possible tactic to address the important truth: Democrats need to get better at big-picture messaging, because they're failing to inspire people.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago

That's the thing though, you tossed out ideas that should matter to the American people if Democrats proposed them only to be opposed by Republicans, but we see that already has happened, and as far as I can tell, folks don't care.

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