Cognitive Messaging within the Democratic Party

[Writer]

After yet another message about how Democrats are spineless, are weak, have no backbone, are anything less than okay, I must wonder if - after constantly training ourselves to think this way - that we've now created a cognitive narrative in our mind that we need to work to break.

Because if you've been told your entire childhood that you're not good enough, that you suck, that you'll never measure up, then you grow into someone who doesn't believe in yourself.

Does the Democratic Party believe in itself? Can it actually believe in itself enough to maturely accept its positives while acknowledging, and handling, its negatives? Or is the party so psychically damaged that it can only see the negative?

:shrug:

Edit to add: This is just as much about Democratic identity as it is about the Democratic psyche.

[msongs]

1. umm its not us democrats in the sticks, it is the leadership in DC

just about every dem I know thinks Obama should quit kissing repubs. then again, here in CA we practice that already and look how OUR election turned out lol

[WhiteTara]

3. the problem is that he has been kissing them

from the beginning. He always has the money men on the platform with him, not the people who are the for the little people.

[treestar]

2. I have to wonder about all those posts

Who would go around saying that about themselves?

[The Uncola]

4. I have a spine, I'd even loan it ..

.. to a Dem in DC, but they wouldn't know what to do with it.

[patrice]

5. Something that puzzles me about all of this is how often everything is couched in terms that displac

e the responsibility.

Yeah, the President should stand up for our issues more, but what exactly and precisely can YOU do about that? What can you do about that that is actually effective?

Why should the President or Congress listen to a bunch of people who are doing nothing but throwing a fit and either threatening not to vote or actually not voting. This situation is: People are yelling for SOMETHING FOR NOTHING and if the Pres/Congress acquiesce to you they get EXACTLY the same thing from the other side, demands and threats, and quite possibly more of it, so WHAT IS THE PURPOSE of giving in to you? If they do SOME of your shit for you, they get attacked from the other side and then are thrown out of office and WHERE ARE ALL OF YOUR ISSUES THEN??????

GONE.

The ONLY answer to this problem under current circumstances is NUMBERS.

The most effective things you can do about the President & Congress is for you yourself to stand up for yourself AND NOT JUST ON THE INTERNET.

There is work that needs to be done in our communities. That work not only meets certain needs, it COULD create the numbers that you need in order to demand to be taken seriously by Congress and by the President. Doing the work is offering SOMETHING FOR SOMETHING.

There's a price. Identify it and either pay it or not, but yelling for something for nothing is just stupid and counter-productive for you, though quite possibly VERY productive for others who have little interest in, and no real intention of doing anything about, the issues that are of priority to you.