The Women's March Rebranded and Reorganized. Now They're Ready for 2025

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47. This might take a couple of responses and

Please know I'm not a strategist. I'm a simple voter with a GED and a little college.
There's a big difference in my eyes, between a 92 page document that outlines everything the party stands for and reads more like a promotional prospectus than what a lot of us face in real life.
It mentions working families and lowering costs, what it doesn't address at all is how many working families are in fact in poverty because all the things our party stands for hardly address the real life pain that many families feel.
It's one thing to celebrate incremental steps towards any given goal, it's a whole other thing to ask me to enthusiastically jump for joy when it's the poor whose needs are the greatest that get left on the cutting room floor during final negotiations on this bill. Or how about all the goals for immigration that we've been talking about since Clinton was President, and yet, DACA recipients are just as afraid of the fragility of their status today as they were eight years ago.
I am a Democrat through and through. I want a party that is fighting for the little guy, somehow that means people earning less than $400,000 per year.
I stated in an earlier post that no one in the Democratic Party in Illinois has reached out to any Democrats that I know here in Fayette County IL.
The problem with bad messaging is that we've been discussing all of our major issues on the Republican parties terms for 40 years now.
When was the last time Democratic messaging controlled the water cooler conversation?
Even here, in a place as supportive and issues driven as DU is, the insensitivity on display towards the poor or health challenged can be stunning.
We need to simplify our messaging to focus on three or four primary issues and learn to bring everything back to them again and again and again.
Very few mothers or fathers are sitting at home tonight hoping they will have the time to read those 92 pages and where exactly it speaks to them. If that's where I'm supposed to find how the party represents me, we have a HUGE problem.

Please let this be seen as part of a conversation, not a condemnation. I think we have to start really looking at who we want to be and share that with one another.