Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to “American Men,” who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report.
Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.
The plan, code-named SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” promises to use the funds to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces,” according to the report.
As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”
The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.
Imagine finishing an online Match or beating a boss and getting this cutscene
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"im once asking for your financial support”
“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the plan urges.
Democrats have “lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues,” McCrary added.
“we gotta get more racist”
Democrats blow millions
Idk what y’all are talking about this sounds great
Giving every American man a blowjob has a bigger chance of electoral succes for them than any of their other hopeless plans to try and appeal to chuds.
I personally do not want a blowjob from Joe Biden, aka a “joejob”.
Who wouldnt want a little sloppy Joe
As long as we get ice cream afterward.
Can you imagine if he had ice cream right before? It would be so cold
Nothing says appealing to the working class man like spending millions at luxury hotels.
Will you give me the universal healthcare I’ve been pleading to get for the last like 10+ years?
No, but I can do blue colored racism though!
10+? Youngin’ we pleading for it back in the 60’s so much that Ronald Reagan, the actor, was hired to put out an LP about the evils of socialized medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine
Ya see… and LP was a “long playing” record this is what we had before your “CDs” and “iPods” and they were better too because…
Am I understanding correctly that there a full length albums that were pressed that were just Ronald Reagan talking about the evils of communism? Like I could theoretically buy one on eBay?
Nothing on ebay currently, but according to Discogs they go from anywhere between $20 - $115.
Yep
Ronald Reagan did a Let’s Play? Back in the 60s?
Damn that’s wild.
jesse jackson just not existing in the mind space of americans
Jesus Christ. The floor is actual leftism, and the democrats are in fucking space trying to out conservative the conservatives.
“How do we win voters back?”
“I know, we’ll just copy what the republicans are doing”
“Isn’t that what we’ve been doing since 1992? Doesn’t that coincide with the long road of people having less faith in us to actually get anything done?”
“Well, yeah, but it’s bound to work this time”
Dems can’t go left because going left alienates their donors and donor-serving geriatric leadership. At most they only want strategies that pander vaguely left without following through and even the pandering is a bridge too far for most of them.
Dems are fine with losing. They don’t really believe in anything aside from neoliberal warkhawkishness that would make Reagan blush, so they feel no psychological damage from being unable to enact policy. And they are personally economically just fine with lossrs, they can use them to solicit money and positions by being the "lesser evil’.
We need a tea party style hostile takeover.
The tea party was absorbed into the GOP having achieved nothing threatening to capital. All it spawned was a new brand of pandering, i.e. being more crass.
Neither major party is reformable. There is literally no mechanism to make it happen. The people at the top of the parties can change their own rules whenever they want to so even if a group fought a hard-won battle, they would be kneecapped at their moment of “success”. For example, DSA libs essentially took over the NV Dems in 2016 and were rewarded for it with complete defunding and were then undermined until out of power.
A party must be internally healthy and driven by an educated and committed membership to be resilient against capital. It must be a fundamentally different beast than Dems or the GOP.
DSA libs essentially took over the NV Dems in 2016
Those were the Berniecrats not the DSA. Many of those Berniecrats would’ve fled to the DSA by 2017 though. One of those 2016 NV bernie delegates even joined my chapter. Perfectly nice socdem church lady but was forever pissed at the democrats.
Edit: actually I think your year is wrong, 2021 would’ve been the takeover and was DSA+libs. 2016 was the primary delegate ratfucking.
Ah yes you are correct I was mixing a few things together.
Jesus Christ, yikes, wow. Do you have more reading on the NV DSA thing?
The take over was in 2021: https://pdamerica.org/bernie-activists-take-over-nevada-democratic-party/
2016 was when the party ratfucked berniecrats delegates at a convention. In 2021, berniecrats the progressives took over the state party:
Whitmer and her team are in the process of reorganizing the state party apparatus. The party moderates, anticipating their loss, moved $450,000 out of the party’s treasury and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account. The former party staff resigned en masse on March 8th.
Unbelievable. I mean, I can believe it, but I’m still surprised for some reason.
The democratic party has been developing multiple internal layers of protection from progressives since before the red scare. Anyone hoping to change the DNC from within should at least read up on every failed attempt for the past +50 years.
Yeah I thought they were still in place?
I was slightly misremembering, it was Bernie libs + DSA peeps in 2021. This comment provides more info: https://hexbear.net/comment/6189731
This is one article I had bookmarked from when it started going down. Haven’t reread it. Not only did the moderates all mass quit, but they found every legal way to rapidly spend as much funding the state party had and refused to hand over logins for social media accounts.
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/
Thing is the major bribers agreed with the tea party. They were allowed vs the Bernie failed insurgency which was allowed to be sheepdogged and then smothered with CIA-DSArsinic sauce.
At most they only want strategies that pander vaguely left without following through and even the pandering is a bridge too far for most of them.
Absolutely. The people in charge of the Democratic party today were part of the Obama administration and campaign apparatus and internalized the strategy that helped Obama win, and somehow think that the strategy of soaring rhetoric and peacemeal reform that immediately gets rolled back by the next Republican president is how they win and keep winning
That’s true although I think they only follow it piecemeal. Obama was very charismatic. I think the Dem rug pull strategy could still work if they didn’t keep installing obvious ghouls as candidates. The Dems think that they can graft elements of Obama’s PR strategy onto obvious sociopaths like Clinton or Biden. Buttigieg is basically trying to be Obama but he isn’t likable and his charisma comes across as rehearsed. And his strategy is running up against the “wait your turn kid we are running an old ghoul they are the sure bet and we owe them” strategy.
Basically, they want Obama’s campaign but refuse to build it or have a similar candidate. Their seniority-based grifter network gets in the way and so do donors who balk at even making cynical promises. All Harris had to do to win was lie about Israel needing to withdraw from Gaza, that she would “talk tough” with Neyanyahu, and bring on some token Palestinians to condemn Hamas and ask for a ceasefire. The Dem appararus avoided this, deliberately, because signaling unconditional support for the settler entity’s genocide was a very high priority for donors and campaign staff.
Excellent analysis
Thanks comrade
since 1992
huh I wonder what happened around that time
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but … But it might work for us.
This is the DNC, and, honestly, US politics at large for all of living memory holy shit
Democrats have “lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues,” McCrary added.
The issue isn’t that the democrats are “alien on cultural issues”.
The issue is that the cultural issues are elevated above the issues of general everyday survival facing the majority of people. Bernie never really opposed any of the cultural or identity issues of the left, he even vocally supported them, but he remained widely popular because he prioritised the issues of everyday survival that all working people have.
You don’t become alien by caring about cultural or identity things. You become alien by behaving like there is nothing else at all of any importance or value besides those things. It makes you look like an out of touch sheltered bourgeois alien from another planet that knows nothing of struggle faced by the average person every day.
well fixing the everyday issues is a nonstarter so clearly the only thing to do is find the right mix of racist dogwhistles
How do I get in on this grift?
Gain minor cred by doing some PMC Dem bullshit (work for a campaign, be a liberal in a union and shmooze with politicians, etc) and start a consultancy. Or work for an existing PMC Dem consultancy and steal clients to start your own.
The Democratic Party is 90% consultancies like this keeping its “thought leaders” well-paid through a combination of party funds and direct donor funds, funds directed to carry out “strategic” work in the directiom defined by donors.
I met some people like this for my job a few months ago. On their coffee table in their house was a novel written by Jake Tapper 😑
They might be the actual worst people out there. Their reason to exist is to put a friendly face on genocidal imperialism and to ensure common people with hearts are focused on their con and not people with whom they would otherwise empathize. And they’re aware of their position, they are confronted by those on the left and their response is to do some version of calling the cops. They then do a little self-soothing dance like, say, reading Jay Tapper’s book and patting themselves on the back.
Was it the new Tappee book about Biden’s obvious decline and the media coverup that makes no mention of his participation in that coverup? Because peak liberal is reading that book and never asking that question, lol.
Edit: oh it was a novel. But I hate-listened to NPR uncritically talking about his new book so I still feel vindicated.
I don’t know how you can listen to NPR. It just crushes me. I was in the house belonging to these ghouls before the presidential election; it was a novel.
It’s kind of like exercising a muscle to listen to them. I just heard then interview a CEO about movie theaters. That CEO dropped a ton of cisnormativity, complained about COVID lockdowns and the writers’ strike, and talked about going to the movies with his wife as if he were a king being among commoners. The host praised him and provided zero pushback.
The premise of even having him on the air is its own media critical topic. With the option of talking about literally anything, they decided to do a puff piece on the “movie industry” by only talking to a CEO. Not even an industry rep, just some egotistical jackass. Several people sat down and planned this. Amazing.
I worked for a newspaper for a few months and got fired because they wanted to publish an article about trans issues at the high school without interviewing a single trans person or student, and I refused to approve it. The article only interviewed the principal, who of course maintained that everything was perfect at the high school. I offered to get in touch with students or just do anything to make the article better but the reporter and editor refused. Corporate media is such a fucking joke.
In my experience this is liberal careerists rationalizing reactionary approaches because it keeps their “connections” alive and avoids rocking the boat. Is that what was happening at your newspaper?
Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan
Okay first of all this is not SAM, it’s SWAMASP. Use all the letters, you cowards.
In this vein, a superior acronym is very accessible: Speaking With American Men: Planning Action Strategies Synergistically
if they had the instinct to make the acronym into a poop joke they wouldn’t need to convene a libmoot to discuss how to reach american men.
“libmoot”
I’ll just pop an invoice in the mail for 'em, then.
SWAMASP
I dub it, “Project Swampass.”
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Bruh, you dont have to spend millions. I know it will probably blow their minds, but they can try going to places where working class men are to learn how to win them over.
But of course the democrats are a fundraising org. They cant do anything that doesnt require raising and spending millions.
I have to imagine “spending millions” for them isn’t the same as “spending millions” for us. For us, you spend the money and get a product and in so doing no longer have the money. For them, when they first have the money, it’s the democratic party’s money, but they personally want the money. Therefore they have to spend it on consulting themselves and their friends for putting ads in video games (an agency that they and their friends probably run) and still being racist (a pastime). Then the donations cease to be cookies in the cookie jar and cookies in their hands, as it were. That’s when they spend it on renovating summer homes (for airbnb), some kind of slop that’s covered in gold leaf, and a big useless bland green lawn.
Why don’t they just use their AIPAC money and pre-cognition stocks to do that? Why didn’t Van Gogh just ask ChatGPT to make a Ghibli style picture of the night sky? The love of the game.
Why don’t they just use their AIPAC money and pre-cognition stocks to do that? Why didn’t Van Gogh just ask ChatGPT to make a ghibli style picture of the night sky? The love of the game.
I dont think its love of the game but to (pretend to) show people they are doing something, otherwise those donos will dry up. Of course what they are doing is mostly bullshit and like you said paying to consult themselves.
When Bernie Sanders had popular support from working class men the democrats denigrated his entire base of support as berniebros.
healthcare please
with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men
Two paragraphs in and theyre already tone deaf.
Theyre quite literally handing working class jackasses to republicans. Weaponized incompetence or what?
The Democratic Party is 100% cooked
Both parties are cooked. They ere just ingredients. The dish is fascism.
Only WW3 and the shutdown of Oxygen Production from our oceans await us now. And thank goodness, there are worse ways to go extinct.
And thank goodness, there are worse ways to go extinct.
foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these
once there were democrats in the streams in the mountains
And 3/4 of the time was spent theorizing on how to get men to donate, the Democratic Party’s only concern.
they would have had better luck giving the brokest 200,000 MFs $100.
always be condescending
abc of politics
