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The left has a communication problem, all around the world. Right/conservative types seem very good at breaking their ideas down to very simple messages, and progressive types just don't seem to be able to communicate in that way.
Well, that is easier to do when their news dont need to follow reality, and their solutions don't need to work or make sense
Well, the truth itself has a communicability problem whensoever it doesn’t amount to a very simple message.
Why have things seemed to be getting worse for you despite you working hard and doing everything you were told you were supposed to do?
It takes about half a second to say “flavor of the year minority group is attacking your freedoms!”.
Now if you actually care about the truth? Is there something as simple to present?
Yes? "Rich people are robbing you blind" takes about as long to say. It's just that liberals don't like this message and the left is hesitant to break with them, so you end up in a weird limbo where the left's most important message is suppressed rather than blasted 24/7.
Yeah, now we're talking.
60+ years of conservative polcies have removed social safety nets, supressed wages, irresponsibly deregulated key industries, and funneled money to the ultra rich. These policies are largely responsible for the decline of the middle class, lack of accessible medical care, and decline if upward economic mobility. In this essay we will only be reviewing the 5,897 polcies enacted since George H. W. Bush that have directly affected these key socioeconomic systems for the middle and working class...
Yeah that doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "brown people did it" does it?
The right do a lot of culture war bullshit. Left wingers will need to be on the defensive constantly because too many people listen to right wing talking bs.
It's not a communication problem, it's a money problem. The wealthy have an incentive to fund the right, not the left.
That's not the entire story, you even see it in the far left commenters here, they're notorious for writing an essay in response to a relatively short comment.
Money can be used to buy a lot of marketers, sloganeers, and focus testers. When you're trying to craft an effective way to deliver your message, it helps to be able to hire buildings full of professional spin doctors.