James, Gene, you guys are not wrong. But I'm not sure you fully understand your adversary. When you speak of the GOP as being ruthless and corrupt, what you say in admonition is received by the right with pride and triumph, as well as scorn for the defeated bleeding heart liberals. As personally invested as people are in their beliefs, it's going to take something other than identifying the other party's faults to heal the rift. And that's what the Democratic party is lacking, is a strong message and a ruthless network with which to deploy it.
Right or not, Repubs have borders to secure, jobs to bring back from overseas, taxes to cut, zygotes to save, guns to hoard, and a child sex trading, nuclear materials selling, Benghazi botching grandmother to lock up. They have a clear message that resonates with the commoners. They have angry people feigning righteous indignation at conspiracies on Fox & Friends, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Breitbart, and so on, wall-to-damn-wall, and they use small words and endless repetition to preach their propaganda. They even have your rural relatives forwarding conspiracy emails reinforcing this network. What do the Dems have? Rachel Maddow? Amy Goodman? Michael Moore? Celebs at awards shows? They're all either not righteously angry enough, neutered by ridicule from the Right, or too whiny to sway any Fox News fans. And the Dems' unified messages of "the other side cheated", "stop mistreating brown people", and "yeah, but what if we're right about science" just come across as sour grapes.
Honestly, I have no idea how to fix this. I'll just keep voting for the centrists and keep watching my votes cancelled by the truckers and the ladies in mumus.
