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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (378346)	7/24/2018 8:40:17 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 541055

>>>These are not platforms that GOP can easily argue with WTF, are you serious? wow, how naive the GOP is only interested in tax cuts for their corporate overlord base and red meat racist religious dumbfuckery for their dumbfuckery voter base the only "platform" the current GOP has is "fuck the people, and own the libs... hahaha! we are in power and what we say goes... to hell with the rule of law"

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (378346)	7/24/2018 9:00:30 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 541055

Oh, and I forgot to add - make protecting elections from foreign meddling another one of the national platforms.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (378346)	7/24/2018 9:57:04 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541055

On your list, by and large a lot of voters don't connect to that list. They are interested in matters that directly improve their life circumstances. And their children/family/etc. Your list is a good list and one I like. But it doesn't connect to the bulk of voters. Healthcare is a prime ingredient for them. If they get it through work, they worry about losing their job and having to pay for healthcare on their own. Jobs with full benefits are a prime thing--thus healthcare again and either pension benefits or some sort of 401(k) payment sharing. Any and all policies which, concretely, promise to help there will get their attention. Our gig economy is a terrible hazard for them. More support for education, public education at all levels k through 16, and some concrete policy that would help incomes (something of a black box here). Gerrymandering issues are abstract to most citizens. Bankruptcy protections are not on their list; just ways to stay out of bankruptcy. Affordable day care for single parents doesn't connect to most. And so on. The Dems can address the policy items I've enumerated but good candidates have to convince voters they care about them and give them hope (something Obama did). On that latter score, I think the place to look is at voters who voted for Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016.