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In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular [View all]Maximus Decimus Meri
(5 posts)The Democrats need to be running a non-stop charm campaign for the next couple of years (and hopefully permanently) to win as much support as they can from as many groups as they can , and try to avoid alienating any supporters they already have.
They need to play cleaner than the Republicans and be seen to be doing so. And they need to create a movement , Trump has his centipedes (this is what trump supporters call themselves on reddit) , and the democrats need a similar movement. And it needs to be a positive movement that makes people feel good about themselves, people respond more to the carrot than to the stick and if one side is promising a massive pile of carrots while the other side has a great big stick that they wallop all and sundry with then it doesn't take a genius to work out which side people will go to. And this is part of the not so big secret of why Trump got elected, he was able to make people feel good and have hope (even if it was only an illusion). It is also why Obama was elected (what was one of his campaign slogans again? it was the iconic hope poster, that made people feel good)