Democrats must learn to use the media and control the narrative to simply explain, not change, effective policies.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/11/democrats-must-learn-to-control.html

Recovery came in the form of the Biden Administration. Steps were taken to resolve supply chain issues, distribute vaccines, and provide resources to businesses, saving literally millions of jobs that would have been lost otherwise. More jobs were lost under Trump than any previous Presidential administration since Hoover. The recovery, something which required, and got, leadership from Joe Biden, saved most of those jobs, and his economic expansion, including the infrastructure bill, added even more.

On top of that, when global inflation affected the American economy, we had a leader who stepped up and took action against that as well. As a result, the effects of inflation were not nearly as bad in the United States as they were in most other places.

And as another result, few Americans are aware of any of this. They are either self-isolated in their own information bubble, or they are bored with politics, economics and "all that stuff," and pay little attention. And even if they really had wanted to find out what was going on, their limited attention span wouldn't have allowed them to stay tuned in long enough to get past all the Trump news they were hearing and seeing every day.

If an honest survey could be conducted and reported, it would find that Trump, as an ex-President, got ten times the coverage that the sitting President of the United States got in the mainstream media. I counted, one night, back in 2021, during the Congressional investigation into Trump's incitement of the insurrection against the Capitol and against Congress and the American people, during the one hour broadcast of one of my favorite commentators, Lawrence O'Donnell. He's not Trump-friendly by any means. The name "Trump" or "Donald Trump" came out of his lips 34 times in that one hour broadcast, about once every two minutes.

In resigning ourselves to the fact that we have lost our free press, Democrats must figure out not only how to simplify the narrative so people actually understand how it works for them, but they must do things to get enough attention to make media outlets turn their cameras off the orange headed buffoon onto Democratic party candidates. I know it's not in our nature, but the only way we're going to be able to do any kind of mass saturation of the media with a clear, easy to understand message, is to do things to get the kind of attention Trump gets.

We must consider the mainstream media propaganda, not journalism, and use it that way and not feel guilty about it. Only then will we be able to explain, in the simplest of terms, how much more we have to offer the American people by making government work well, than they do, by destroying it.